And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wow, that is pretty ! Anon 10:35, that Patton habit is the correct information. I believe he also thought pearl grips were too efiiminate. Ivory (as shown above) got the nod from him.
John Browning's best enhanced to the max.
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grip safety- neatly done.
ReplyDeleteWow. That engraving is something else.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Patton carry one of these in his off hand pocket?
ReplyDeleteWow, that is pretty ! Anon 10:35, that Patton habit is the correct information. I believe he also thought pearl grips were too efiiminate. Ivory (as shown above) got the nod from him.
ReplyDeleteNot effeminate; simply garish, gaudy, and cheap.
Delete"They're ivory! Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol!"
1903. Same year I was born (one of many).
ReplyDeleteyou're 120 years old?
DeleteWish mine looked that good.
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