This is a bit off-topic, but you gentlemen offer opinions freely on many things other than double guns so I'm curious as to how many of you are aficionadoes of Sporting art as well as of double guns? Do any of you collect prints or own a couple that grace your library walls? And who are your favorite artists? Since my own pockets are neither deep nor wide (taste may run to Chablis but my budget to root beer) I cannot afford original works, but have managed to accrue some limited ed., signed prints by Ogden Pleissner, Brett Smith, Lassell Ripley along with several others -- and a host of old magazine covers from the 20's, 30's, 40's that are both evocative and beautiful in their own right -- and in many cases by well known artists like Hunt, Foster, Kuhn,Hastings, Watson, etc. These are my poor man's masterpieces, available on-line through E-bay auction or in musty corners of used book stores. In the next life, when I'm rich, infamous and dashing -- but mainly just exorbitantly rich -- I will have an impressive library, comprising three wings: Center wing for the written word: all the Buckinghams, Babcocks, Evans', Spillers, Boothrods, Hills and on ... (perhaps even a McIntosh -- what do you think David T., is he worthy?) all 1st editions, of course, and signed where possible. The left wing reserved for things that go Bang!: Purdeys & Bosses & McKay Browns & Sauers & Francottes & Lefevers, Foxes, Parkers (but not, thank you very much, RBLs). The right wing housing Sporting Art: original oils by Abbett, Hardy, Rosseau, Ripley and Rungius. Watercolors by Pleissner, Reneson, Corbin, Smith, Golden, Shilstone, Shaldach and Lane to name only a few. You have your dream, I'm entitled to mine.
So my question is, who and what graces your walls -- besides Aunt Martha and Poppa John and the triad of graduation photos and the separate category of 4,000 school photos of grand-children?
