Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria

Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria

Date: 4th Dec, 2024 12:00

SELL YOUR FINE ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOUR AND MILITARIA NOW 

Contact the Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria Department for free and confidential valuations armsandarmour@olympiaauctions.com | +44  (0)20 7602 4805 or upload images onto our Online Valuations page. 

Our friendly and helpful staff are here to assist and will answer any questions you may have. Our sales feature single consignments as well as entire collections.

Sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.

Our auctions include a broad range of lots from relatively modest prices to the highest level. A number of distinguished ancestral and institutional collections have been sold from Britain, Europe and the United States, including:
  • John Woodman Higgins Armoury Collection, Worcester Massachusetts, United States of America, sold for £3,104,343
  • Warwick Castle, England, sold for £836,947
  • The Armoury of the Princely House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Germany, sold for £713,100
The staff include the former Sotheby's department that oversaw the dispersal of the Hanoverian Royal Gunroom and the Brunswick Ducal Armoury in 2005, which continues to stand as a World Auction Record for an ancestral collection. In addition to holding regular auctions the department has published Tobias Capwell’s acclaimed series of books ‘Armour of the English Knights' as well as ‘Tournaments: A Thousand Years of Chivalry’, published in association with Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.  

Name: Simeon Beever
Email: simeon.beever@olympiaauctions.com

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