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.
I've always had a hankering for a "Barbeque Gun"....you know, the one you take to show off at the neighborhood BBQ....but this one is prolly too nice for even that occasion.
craftsmanship brings to mind the Japanese art of "kumiko" - precision woodworking & more so joinery
ReplyDeleteBack strap with the helmet & rifle is kinda macabre.
ReplyDeleteI took it to mean "This was a soldiers pistol." that is no longer with us.
DeleteJpaul
Some gave all.
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ReplyDeleteI've always had a hankering for a "Barbeque Gun"....you know, the one you take to show off at the neighborhood BBQ....but this one is prolly too nice for even that occasion.
azlibertarian
Beautiful 1911
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