A few months ago, we were contacted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and asked to take photographs of a sword that had just been donated...but we were sworn to secrecy about what it was! Well, now we are allowed to…
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…
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…
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…
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the US Army's adoption of the M1 Garand Rifle, produced at Springfield Armory, and a major contribution to United States’ victory in World War II. BUY THE BOOK The Armory was the birthplace…