Item BP01
This Item was Sold on 16 January
2019 for $38
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This beautiful right handed lap joint boomerang was made out of Black Walnut hardwood boards that overlap at the elbow and are reinforced with 6 small dowel rods that are pressed into small drilled holes in the elbow. The angle between the blades is 90 degrees. The underside of the dingle arm is signed and it has " handcrafted from Black Walnut by Rusty Harding ; Vero Beach, Florida USA : October 1, 1982 ; #185 " neatly written in black ink. This boomerang was recently found near the ocean in Oregon. The man who found it is not a boomerang thrower and he doesn't know how it could have made it's way to the brush on his property which he has owned since the early 1980s. This boomerang is in remarkably good condition for something that has been exposed to the elements for 30+ years. There are no dings or cracks or other major damage, but there is light wear throughout from handling and the dingle arm tip may have been sanded lightly to remove a ding? The surfaces still have a gloss finish and it looks great. I did not test throw it, but it looks like it would work just fine. A wonderful and very nice collectable. Rusty Harding is one of America's best known boomerang manufacturers. I first met Rusty in 1979 when Rusty and I lived in Florida only 30 miles apart. Rusty was already an experienced boomerang thrower and manufacturer. I had been throwing longer than Rusty, but Rusty put a lot more effort into making premium boomerang products. The quality products that I made and sold in the 1980s and 1990s was highly influenced by my association with Rusty. Rusty was left handed and his lefty booms were exceptional. He made a large number of sporting and competition boomerang models. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Rusty made boomerangs from his home in Vero Beach, Florida. In the early 1980s, Rusty moved to Lebanon, Tennessee where he continued to make boomerangs until the late 1990s. Rusty's old classics, especially those from Vero Beach, have become valuable collectibles. The boomerangs that have the highest collectable value are the Concept models that were made out of lapped hardwood boards and with angles of 70 or 90 degrees. These were sometimes weighted. His Hurricane Hook and Contender [omega] designs are the most popular sporting models. Rusty died in November 2010 after a lengthy battle with coronary disease, so his models continue to grow in demand. |
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