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In Next Issue: Childhood Cannon Memories

In Next Issue: Childhood Cannon Memories

  • September 28, 2017
  • Miranda Nahmias
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How many memories do you have from your childhood? Not ones that can be brought back to mind by photos, but solid chunks of recollection that live with you day in and day out for the rest of your life?…

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Robert Gould Shaw Civil War Battle Sword

Robert Gould Shaw Civil War Battle Sword

  • August 17, 2017
  • Miranda Nahmias
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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…

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How To Avoid Fakery And Fraud In Gun Collecting

How to Avoid Fakery and Fraud in Gun Collecting

  • June 8, 2017
  • Miranda Nahmias
  • Collectors Guides
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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…

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On Ordnance And Ordnance Stores: The Starr Arms Company

On Ordnance and Ordnance Stores: The Starr Arms Company

  • June 8, 2017
  • Miranda Nahmias
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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…

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How To Get Started As An Antique Weapons Collector

How to Get Started as an Antique Weapons Collector

  • June 8, 2017
  • Miranda Nahmias
  • Collectors Guides
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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…

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The M1 Garand Rifle’s 80th Anniversary Celebration

The M1 Garand Rifle’s 80th Anniversary Celebration

  • September 1, 2016
  • Miranda Nahmias
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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…

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