USED GUN COLLECTOR’S HANDBOOK OF VALUES

Description

“The Gun Collector’s Handbook of Values, 4th Revised Edition” by Charles Edward Chapel. Pub: Coward-McCann 1958. Hardcover. Good condition. No dust jacket.

This book contains pictures of rare, strange and unusual guns, firearms and other weapons. Lewis Winant was a major dealer and collector of firearms. He assembled here more than 300 pieces. The many strange and freakish gun fabrications shown in this book are a tribute to man’s inventive energy as applied to the development of arms. From days just past and from days long gone, Lewis Winant has selected over 300 pieces as representative of the oddities had been constructed to utilize the propelling force of gunpowder. There are pistols in knives and canes; pistols in flashlights, purses, plows, whips, bicycle handlebars, stirrups, keys, pipes, belts, sundials, and other contrivances. In addition, other types are classified as oddities, such as squeezers, knuckle-dusters, alarms and traps. There are combination weapons, turret, chain and harmonica pistols, guns using superposed loads and other variations from the norm. These remarkable firearms come from more than fifty collections.

Features:

• 398 pages total
• Hardcover