As I've mentioned before, Emil had produced a gun for Ras Tafari in the 1920's. The Buffalo Newspaper reported that the gun cost over $3000 and "there isn't a spot on the barrels that can be touched with a pin that isn't covered in relief gold carvings of raised lions"...sounds over the top to me...and I doubt that Kornbrath engraved it, but who knows...I've yet to see a photo of the Selassie gun...I've yet to receive a reply from letters that I've written to the cultural museum in Addis Ababa...Maybe one day they'll be online...a university history professor, who was also an acquaintance of Selassie, once suggested that perhaps the gun is in Italy, as the Etheopeans were overran by the Italians who looted the palace where Selassie lived..
I was later told that Selassie's Biblical name is "The Lion of Juddah", but I don't know what that means...I only know him as Haille Selassie...Even though Selassie was not American, his many visits to the US are considered an important chapter in African American history...making that historic gun perhaps the most important gun in African American history

Last edited by Robert Chambers; 10/07/07 10:13 PM.