Stuart Mowbray, editor-in-chief of Man at Arms for the Gun and Sword Collector, recently took up the issue of fakery and fraud in gun collecting in his editorial column in the magazine, and it is an important topic to consider for both novices and experts alike. The two sections reproduced from the article below give you suggestions […]
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This excerpt is taken from the famous Holt-Owen Report (the Commission on Ordnance and Ordnance Stores Report) of 1862, one of the most important arms-related documents of the Civil War. Here we have sampled the correspondence and negotiations between the Commission and the Starr Arms Company. A reprint of the entire report (more than 600
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Here at the offices of Man at Arms for the Gun and Sword Collector, we often get asked by beginning collectors, “How can I get started as an antique weapons collector?” Antique weapons collecting is a great hobby, but lots of folks just don’t know where to begin. They don’t want to make an expensive mistake
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