American Handgunner – March / April 1985

Alvin A. White engraved firearms for every U.S. President from Kennedy through Reagan—and here’s the kicker: during the Cold War, both the American president and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev owned pieces by the same American engraver. The guy took hunks of metal and turned them into museum-quality art, earning the title “Dean of American Arms Engravers” through sheer technical mastery and work so consistently gorgeous it transcended politics.