Apr 5 2013

New CD-ROM – British Military Swords Price Guide – Over 1500 Full Colour Photos

BRAND NEW FULL COLOUR CD-ROM

British Military Swords – 1786-1912 – The Regulation Patterns

An Illustrated Price Guide for Collectors

by

Harvey J S Withers

Published by Harvey Withers Military Publishing

PRICE: £10.95 + £2.95 P&P (Worldwide)

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Only available on CD-ROM and from www.antiqueswordsonline.com

Fully updated PDF for both Windows and Mac.

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With Over 1500 full colour detailed photographs of the swords including period llustrations

Containing over 1500 unpublished full colour photographs and illustrations, this CD-ROM is the first and only full colour price guide for collectors of British military swords in the market. The CD-ROM also contains detailed photographs of all the British regulation military sword patterns from 1786 – 1912.

The CD-ROM includes:

Fully Updated Price Guide
Infantry Swords
Cavalry Swords
Scottish Swords
General Officers’ Swords
Naval Swords
Departmental Swords
British Sword Maker/Retailer Index
Close-up shots of Blade & Hilt
Sword Markings
Wilkinson Sword Serial Number Index
Sword Knots

Wilkinson Sword serial number date index for the Collector

This exciting CD-ROM also contains a short and detailed history of the Wilkinson Sword Company, including a detailed examination of how a Wilkinson Sword was manufactured during the lifetime of the company and shows how little had changed since the mid-19th Century. The Wilkinson Sword serial number date index from 1854 has also been reproduced to enable british military sword collectors to accurately date their own Wilkinson swords.

Collecting Antique British Military Swords in the Market Today

There are also illustrated excerpts from the 1796 Sword Exercise for Cavalry by Napoleonic British cavalry officer, Gaspard Le Marchant and a comprehensive sections on collecting antique swords in today’s marketplace, culminating with a chapter on the the care and preservation of antique swords. A comprehensive bibliography also aids the British swords collector.

The Foreword to the book is written by the renowned and prolific edged weapons author, Mr Frederick Wilkinson.

The CD-ROM contains 176 pages and comprises one disk.