More Fabulous & Rare Pieces Added Every Day, & Some to Be Added, Including A Very Impressive Antique Samurai Suit of Armour, To The Lanes Armoury Website, Fresh From Our Conservation Workshop & Another Collection From the Conservation workshop Early This

Latest News!!.. Arriving this week, a beautiful suit of Edo samurai armour, all matching, with multi plate kabuto and memo face armour, plus many more of around twenty fine and early beautiful antique samurai swords, and also, several shingunto WW2 officers swords, and a very fine signed samurai tanegashima musket, that arrived last week. Plus, this week, a most rare Imperial German WW1 sniper’s trench armour, a wonderful collection of museum grade antique, early, samurai sword tsubas, also, a superb pair of rare Anglo American War of 1812 officers swords, and two more very good British sea-service pistols from Admiral Nelson’s navy, our last exceptional 1805 dated examples, that arrived two weeks ago, both sold 10 days ago.

Our MK I 1940 Bren gun was added last weekend and sold Wednesday, but another MK 1 of 1942 has been added this week.

Another, fabulous, late original 16th to 17th century Nuremberg Renaissance iron strongbox cum bullion and treasure chest, was added to our site this week as well, to be alongside the other fine example we added two weeks ago. The second amazing example, however, has its stunning decorative naieve paintwork still present, which is very rare indeed to survive, but this second example of the two is still locked, with no original key present. The decorated examples you now only usually see are in their original locations of medieval castle armouries, cathedrals or fine museum armoury collections. See photos in the gallery of the treasure chest in the workshop prior to light cleaning.

The collection that arrived before the bank holiday,, included some stunning, ancient Chinese Chou Dynasty swords, and a fabulous Brown Bess Tower of London musket and bayonet, all just added to our site this past week, and, we show here, {pre-conservation and light cleaning} a fantastic, large museum grade collection of original French Ist Empire Napoleonic sabres, from a collection accumulated over the past several decades, including, a very rare, deluxe grade General's sword, an Imperial Garde Light Cavalry officer's sword, a very rare Grenadier a Cheval De La Garde Imperial sword, a General Staff of Light Cavalry officer's Sword, several Cuirassier other ranks and officer's swords, a dragoon sabre, an incredibly rare French Naval, Sabre D'Officier De Marine Model Prairelle An XII {1804 Trafalger } Officer's sword, Light Cavalry officer's sabres, of cheval leger lancers, hussars and cheval chasseurs {some with fabulous ‘blue and gilt’ blades}, a rare Sabre D'Officier De Cavalrie Legere, with the Marengo pattern hilt, and a really very rare officer of the Carabiniers shell guard sword, plus several others. Some examples you can now only see in Les Invalides, Musee de l'Armee in Paris. Some were added to our site this week, and some of those are now just sold to collectors in the UK and around the world, but many more have yet to be finished cleaning, and are yet to be added to the site next week.
In the photo here, of most of the Imperial French sword collection {and others} that arrived just before the bank holiday, the fabulous sea service pistol and the Luftwaffe dagger were just sold, as well as some of the French swords, however two more 1801 finest sea-service pistols just like it are arriving after the weekend.

Our amazing and rarest of pieces, the WW2 SOE secret operative’s clandestine transceiver suitcase, potentially the rarest complete, original, and untouched example surviving in the world today, has now been sold and leaves for its new home this week. Warmest congratulations to its most fortunate new owner, who will be able to thoroughly enjoy it, alongside its companion SOE generator and clam mine.

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