Featured Collection of 1000 antique cannons

Rumor among cannon collectors has it that a collection of about 1000 antique cannons was sold out of an estate in Germany to a US party about a year ago. We know that collection existed because a reliable former employee of Christie’s has seen it but won’t give further info. I’m somewhat interested in an academic sense if anyone has any who/where info.

 

Spring,

In the world of Cannon collecting. Is this considered a large collection?

 

Yes, I collected them for 40 years and only had about 225 when I sent them all to auctions. An individual could only have accumulated 1000 if he started collecting say in the 1940’s I’d guess.

 

I figured as much but one never knows.

 

Hi,
A friend took me to a cannon collector in NY. He had a special three story garage and elevator built to help his cannons to different floors. he had thousands of muskets and other Revolutionary War items. I knew he had at least 600 cannons. They were all in just an ordinary house on an ordinary street. It was staggering to see what all he collected.
greg

 

Yes Denny’s a friend, but he wouldn’t have 600 cannons, maybe 60 but that still sounds high to me. Did you see any of his sculptures? He’s a very talented artist. He was crew chief of a B-36 bomber in the 50’s.

 

Here’s an article about him-he has a website where you can see his current offerings.

http://blog.silive.com/inside_out_column/2010/12/island_sculptor_enjoys_making_art_imitate_life.html

 

Hi Spring,
That is him. I was just blown away with his collection. I only saw 20 or 30 cannons on the floor of the storage area. His wife says he has them all over the place. She was laughing but I could tell she was serious. I never knew about his sculptors. My friend said he was a very quiet person and was afraid of the neighbors reactions to his collections. I see now that he is really opened up. You have to remember this was 25 years ago that I met him. Thank you for the websites.
greg

 

If u didn’t already find his website, take a look, the lady dolls he does are quite good. IMO

http://www.dennydolls.com/

 

I love this forum, for that kind of information.
I used to work for a guy who has a collection of printing presses. I mean the big ones!
I had a customer who collected safes (again big heavy stuff!).
And just reading a book about WW I U boats, in witch they state that a (still fully working) diesel engine was recently sold (by Hermann Historica)to a old engines collector. Those engines weight over 15 ton...
BTW, a old cannon tube was presented to me a few months ago, price was 25.000 euro, don't know if it is still there....

 

Cannons and dolls. Quite an interesting pairing.

 

his dolls are really nice!!
http://www.dennydolls.com/thinking.htm

 

Phaik, what a coincidence! I’m taking a wild guess that since the price matches, we may be discussing the same item, a rather small but elaborate model. If so just as a matter of my habits I’m checking into the offeror’s credentials and reputation. If it is one L.K., do you know him? He’s Dutch but I don’t know where he lives. And he doesn’t possess the item, he’s selling it for a person in another country, so any deal would be a bit convoluted.

 

Probably the same one.
I see the owner('s) every friday.