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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 11975055, member: 20148&quot;]Wow, those are simply awesome! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; All mine are far simpler and more modern by comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amongst the books in my arms and armour library is a 1996 reprint of the catalogues from Castle Churburg in the Tyrol, which houses an extraordinary and unique collection of early armour. However, I have seen a copy of the original 1929 edition, signed by both Count Graf von Trapp and Sir James Mann, which is a signature that I have been after for years, unfortunately to no avail. Unfortunately, the website is down and I cannot get in touch with the seller at present, which is a pity as it is a tome I would dearly love to have, and the presentation copy is one of only eleven examples and this is the only one in private hands.</p><p>Another tome that I sadly missed out on wasa copy of a catalogue from Windsor Castle in 1907. The book was presented to the chaplain at Windsor Castle by King Edward VII at christmas 1907 and has personally signed and presented by him.&nbsp; That would have been amazing to have in the collection, but alas, wasn&#039;t to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>A book that I do however have in my collection is a copy of a Metropolitan Museum publication from 1937. One of only 500 copies, this one is signed by the author, who was the keeper of the arms and armour Dept. at the museum, and presented to the noted collector Edwin M. Berolzheimer, a noted collector and benefactor of the museum, and a contemporary of W. R. Hearst. I love the beautiful hand writing if the author!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]550763[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]550764[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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