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Lord Warwick was also a great collector of arms and armour, most of which was purchased through the legendary New Bond Street dealer and forger Samuel Luke Pratt (1805–1878). Many of the greatest pieces were acquired by Pratt from the dispersed collection of Samuel Rush Meyrick and later sold to Greville. Alongside original pieces Pratt sold ...
George Cameron Stone (August 6, 1859 – November 18, 1935) was a well-known American arms collector and author as well as an American mining engineer and metallurgist.He authored a glossary of the antique weapons of the world that remains one of the most comprehensive works ever written on the subject.
It is one of the largest and most well-documented historical collections of arms and armour in the world. First published in 1601, the Armamentarium Heroicum —an illustrated inventory of the Ambras "Armoury of Heroes" that forms the core of the Imperial Armoury—is the oldest museum catalogue in the world.
Bonhams was set up in 1793 when Thomas Dodd, an antique print dealer, joined with the book specialist Walter Bonham.The company expanded and by the 1850s was handling all categories of antiques including jewellery, porcelain, furniture, arms and armour, and wine.
Among the antiques he collects for personal interest are arms and armour, Georgian glassware, Georgian silver, and watches. [1]
Baddely serves as managing director of Bonhams, Knightsbridge and is responsible for auctions of jewellery, silver, paintings, furniture and works of art, specialist sales of portrait miniatures, arms and armour, sporting guns, coins and medals, science and technology, toys and dolls, and entertainment memorabilia.
International Military Antiques, Inc is an American seller of military collectibles and memorabilia, based in Gillette, New Jersey. It was founded in 1981 by Christian Cranmer. His son Alex joined him in 2004. [1] The National Geographic Channel has created a television series about the company titled Family Guns. [2]
The museum continues the collection's educational programs on medieval history and arms and armor, ranging from school workshops and teacher education to scholarly lectures. The Olive Higgins Prouty Research Library, founded in 1997 with an initial collection of "several thousand books on arms and armor" also remains in the collection. [4]