Bullet artwork

[coylh]

http://www.phillipsdepury.com/aucti...000407&lotnum=669&search=burroughs&p=&order=1

At this price, I've got a couple million in "Art" sitting around the house.

 

[Rembrandt]

I know bullet artwork when I see it.....and that's not bullet artwork. Ad Topperwine was the most noted bullet artist. World renoun for his famous Indian head creations.

http://www.traphof.org/topperwein-bio.htm

"Drawing pictures with bullets was one of Ad's most popular stunts. While his art may not be as impressive as his 72,500 wooden block aerial target score that was 99.9875872% perfect, the keen-eyed Texan's bullet drawings of Uncle Sam, Sioux Indians in full war dress, Popeye, Jiggs, cowboys and ducks with 300 rapidly fired shots are prized possessions of gun clubs throughout the country. This remarkable gunsman made famous the Indian-head bullet drawing. With approximately 450 exceedingly well placed shots, the whole of them delivered in the space of a dozen minutes, he drew the perfect likeness of an Indian chieftain in full war bonnet regalia. In his heyday, Toepperwein had many contemporaries, some of whom tried to emulate his Indian, but their efforts were crude indeed compared to his bullet work. Our Texan had been a cartoonist for a San Antonio newspaper before he took up his guns in the Winchester cause. This artistic background stood him in good stead when bullets replaced his pens and brushes."