Category: Flintlock
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Arms and Armour
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ANILLUSTRATED HISTORYOFARMS AND ARMOUEFROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THEPRESENT TIME.BY AUGUSTE DEMMIN. WITH NEARLY 2000 ILLUSTRATIONS.TRANSLATED BY C. C. BLACK, M.A..ASSISTANT KEEPER, SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. “Quum prorepserunt primls anlmalia tenis, Mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter Unguibus et pugnis, dein fastibus, atque ita porro Pugnabant armis quae post fabiicaverat csus.” Horace, Sat. I.…
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Hermann Historica – The Karsten Klingbeil Collection
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ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR Tuesday December 13, 2011 – 3.00 pm THE KARSTEN KLINGBEIL COLLECTION THOSE WHO HAVE MET KARSTEN KLINGBEIL WILL AGREE THAT HE CAN BE RATED AMONGST THE FOREMOST COLLECTOR PERSONALITIES OF OUR TIMES, ALWAYS PURSUING HIS INTERESTS WITH GREAT VIGOUR AND PASSION. An artist at heart, he nonetheless felt compelled towards a…
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Williamsburg – GateWay to the Past
James W. Wright American Tradition • The Journal of the Contemporary Longrifle Association • January 2010
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A Description of Indian and Oriental Armour
Illustrated from the collection formerly in the India Office, Now Exhibited at South Kensington, and the Author’s Private Collection. With a map, Twenty-Three Full-page Plates (Two Colored), and Numerous Woodcuts with An Introductory Sketch of the Military History of India by The Right Hon. Lord Egerton of Tatton, M.A., 1896 As the catalogue originally drawn…
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Pattern Books by Gilles and Joseph Demar
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Firearms Decoration in the French Rococo Style D O N A L D J . L A R O C C ACurator, Department of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art