This book is a first edition written by Jack Melton, Josh Phillips and John Sexton, published in 2012, the narrative is 279 pages and is illustrated with color and black and white photos. This book features 856 full color photographs illustrating more than 350 of the finest Southern Bowies in existence. It contains full historical and collector details on all known types of knives made in Confederate arsenals, including unidentified types and Alabama and Georgia contract knives. All your favorite makers, from Boyle & Gamble and Louis Froelich to Nashville Plow Works and Thomas Leech and Company. Extensive, valuable coverage of locally made southern knives, including many of the identified makers as well as those whose origins are still unclear. New research and freshly discovered makers and previously unpublished information available nowhere else but here! A full discussion of dug relic knives, with a large selection of intriguing examples shown and explained. The book contains perhaps the largest album of historical Confederate soldiers holding Bowie knives ever assembled. If you're going to collect Confederate Bowies, this book is a must have reference! This hardback book is in very good condition, with a dust jacket in good condition.

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