Item TB120
This Item was Sold on 21 March
2007 for $100
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Bunny Read was one of Australia's best boomerang throwers
and craftsmen for many years. He is the father of Leanne
Read and the grandfather of the famous Baby Ben Loveland who
won an accuracy tournament when he was only 2 years old.
Bunny made an assortment of really nice hooks and
traditional models out of Coachwood plywood. He would paint
beautiful Australian art scenes on the elbow in less than 60
seconds using a unique brush and finger painting technique.
Some of the traditional boomerangs that Bunny made were very
large and there is a very famous video of Bunny throwing and
catching an 8 foot boomerang on the television show "You
Asked For it". Bunny's daughter, Leanne, is still producing
quality boomerang products for the Boomerang Man. This Bunny Read traditional boomerang is a commercial
product that was made in the early 1980s out of beautiful
Coachwood plywood. The artwork on the elbow consists of a
kangaroo and an emu in an outback bush scene. The reverse
side has the Wycheproof stamp lightly applied to the elbow.
This boomerang was made specially for Brain Thomas to take
to Japan on a promotional tour in 1983. There is an
Australian flag on the dingle arm and a Japanese flag on the
lift arm. The original packaging is included, but the
boomerang is not sealed in the plastic.