Is there a good book that showcases engraved firearms? Not a how-to or a single mfr but just some eye-candy?

(BTW, there is an engraving of a elephant bluff-charging on (presumably) a DGR in my faintest memory but I can't remember the engraver's name or where I saw it. Ring a bell to anyone?)

Sorry for posting this here but but thought more might see it than in BOOKS...

Steel Canvas by (I think) Robert Wilson.

Steve

I also like Best Guns by Michael MacIntosh and Spanish Best by Terry Wieland, but those are more about makers and history, and just happen to be full of eye candy.

Steve

Custom Firearms Engraving by Tom Turpin(tsquare on this forum) is an outstanding book. I highly recomend it. It covers many great engravers and is dedicated and written in memory of two of the greatest. While you are at it get Modern Custom Guns by the same author also. I doubt they will spend much time on the coffee table though as you will be looking at them constantly.



There tsquare, was that a good enough plug?



Seriously, I meant every word I said about those two books. The colored photos in them are just simply awesome. The only thing I wish is that this great author would get his next book published soon. Any new updates on one yet tsquare?

I second Custom Firearms Engraving by Tom Turpin. Published by Krause. Another good one, although not as many photographs, is "The Italian Gun" by Smith and Morrow.

I think the Charging Elephant you are referring to may be the one done by Lisa Tomlin on a John Bolinger Rifle for Safari Club International. There is a photo of that Rifle on page 121-122 of the book entitled Modern Custom Guns, also by Tom Turpin.





Blue

Fine European Gunmakers by Marco Nobili published by Safari Press is outstanding.