[mrerick]

I edited this book for Mauro and Gerben. The archive they worked from has some remarkable detail through which a number of new facts concerning Mauser and his inventive genius are shown.

This was a very interesting period in the history of the industrial revolution and European gun making. It's also the period of development just before World War I.

Mauro and Gerben had access to a number of newly discovered glass plate photographs and remarkable examples of rare Mauser handguns made available from private collections.

We're working now to publish the documentary. More on that as the work progresses.

Marc