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Chats on Military Curios

Chapter 5: ACKNOWLEDGMENT
By Stanley C. Johnson
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A practical handbook for collectors outlines how to seek, select, and preserve military curios, offering criteria for specialization and warnings about undesirable or counterfeit items. It surveys regimental nomenclature and crests, the evolution and features of uniforms, and twelve chronological armour periods with a glossary. Chapters cover weapons and their care, early and minted campaign medals, and decorations awarded for special service, plus a discussion of medallions and production methods. The text emphasizes arrangement, factors affecting value, storage, and sources including public collections, illustrated throughout with plates and examples to guide identification and valuation.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to Dr. Philip Nelson for the loan of the valuable coins which figure in the illustrations on pages 265, 271, and 277; to Mr. Tom Satterthwaite for the loan of many of the medals depicted in these pages; to Mr. Leonard Baggott for the loan of arms; to Messrs. Henry Sotheran for permission to reproduce three Cruikshank prints; to Messrs. Spink & Son for permission to reproduce the Royalist Badge; also to Mr. Edwin Johnson, B.Sc., and Mr. James Pryor for the loan of various curios included in the following pages.

The Author also wishes to state that in forming his own collection of military curios he has gained much helpful assistance from "The Connoisseur"; from C. H. Ashdown's "British and Foreign Arms and Armour"; from J. H. Mayo's "Medals and Decorations of the British Army and Navy"; from D. H. Irwin's "War Medals and Decorations"; from Ralph Nevill's "British Military Prints"; from Edward Beaumont's works dealing with Brasses; and from the authorities of the Royal United Service Museum.