NICE COPY OF “CONFEDERATE BUCKLES & PLATES” BY MULLINAX FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE ARTIST AND SCULPTOR RON TUNISON

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Nice, clean hardcover copy of “CONFEDERATE BELT BUCKLES & PLATES” by Steve E. Muillinax. Volume meas. approx. 8.75 x 11.25 inches and runs 224 pages. This is a first edition copy published in 1991 and is profusely illustrated.

Interior is very clean. Inside front cover is an inscription that reads “RON TUNISON, GETTYSBURG, PA. 1992”

Dustjacket is in excellent condition.

Ron Tunison (1947 – 2013) was born in Richmond Hill, N.Y., and was a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. He was a scholarship student at the NYC National Academy where he continued his sculpting studies. He went on to become an internationally acclaimed sculptor of nine heroic bronze monuments: "General W. Crawford," near Little Round Top on the Gettysburg Battlefield, the “Friend to Friend Masonic Memorial" on Steinwehr Ave., the bas-relief "Delaware State Memorial" on Taneytown Road, and "The Gettysburg Civil War Women's Memorial" at Evergreen Cemetery. On the Antietam National Battlefield is Tunison's "Irish Brigade Monument." "The Bivouac" is at the entrance to the Civil War Soldier's Museum at Pamplin Historical Park near Petersburg, Va. "The Delaware Continentals" heroic size bronze of three advancing Revolutionary War soldiers stands atop a twenty-five-foot granite pedestal in front of Legislative Hall at Dover, Delaware. At Ringgold Gap in Atlanta, Ga., is Ron's life-size General Patrick Cleburne. Dedication ceremonies for “General John Barry, U.S. Naval Commander”, took place May 10th, 2014 at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD.  Ron was the entrepreneur behind his own company Historical Sculptures, where he sculpted smaller statues.  [ad] [ph:L]

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