Author: Various
Title: Francis Bannerman Sons, 85th Anniversary Military Goods Catalog, January 1950
Description: New York: Francis Bannerman Sons, 1950. Softcover. First edition; 11 1/4 x 8 1/2; pp. 12; bright yellow, illustrated wraps; a bit of foxing and spotting to margins; two punch holes along spine; several penciled notations to pages; illustrated with numerous photographs and woodcuts; good to very good condition. One of the most prolific militaria and arms dealers in the second half of the 19th and throughout the 20th centuries was the firm of Francis Bannerman and Sons. He immigrated with his family from Scotland to the US in 1854 and set up business buying surplus goods from navy stores and auctions. He would become one of the largest militaria dealers in the world and his store at 501 Broadway in New York City would take an entire city block. Bannerman began publishing his catalog sometime in the 1870 and it was printed regularly until the 1960s. It had everything in it - from uniforms to weapons and from knapsacks to gun parts and appendages. Ill.: 0. 2.

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