A Catalogue Of A Most Unique Valuable And Highly Interesting Collection Of Ancient Armour

Author : American Art Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528401180
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of the Important Collection of Ancient Arms and Weapons and Accoutrements, Collected by Mr. Theodore Offerman, of New York written by American Art Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Important Collection of Ancient Arms and Weapons and Accoutrements, Collected by Mr. Theodore Offerman, of New York: To Which Have Been Added Other Valuable Specimens Contributed by Several Well Known Collectors MY dear mr. Kirby: You have asked me to 'say a few words about the present collection of Arms and Armor, on the ground that 'i had long been a collector and that I might there fore comment helpfully upon the text of this. Catalogue and upon the nice things: which are soon to be sold.' Be this help even a little, I am glad to send you these lines. For while one can claim to be at least an 'old local collector, whose practical memories of sales, go back to the Cogniat (1877) and Carleton Gates (about 1880) Collections, he need. Hardly maintain that he knows a/u, fond the ins! And outs of a subject as extended and difficult as ancient arms and armor. Experience in collect ing, however, certainly does aid one not a little (at great initial cost) in separating the good objects from the bad. The fact of the matter is, that most of our earlier collectors had to depend for their expert knowledge upon the arms which they purchased, or failed to purchase, at public sales; and you will, of course, recall thatit is only within very recent years that arms. And armor appeared in American museums. Before this, he who had the taste for collecting these beautiful and-very rare objects had either to go abroad for his training or to glean what information he could - unsatisfactory at the best for his purpose - from the shelves of libraries. As to the present collection: Mr. Offerman's cabinet is like good wine - it needs no bush. Many of our amateurs know various pieces in it, and many, like myself, have bid in vain for some of its numbers at earlier sales. In general, its piece-s were chosen because they appealed individually to their collector - who Chose because he fancied the lines of an object, or its decoration, and who was not, like some of us, trying to fill in the spaces: in a pre arranged sequence of types - when as Mr. Ambrose Monell re marks, collecting becomes a disease. I might note only that Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.