ANTIQUE WEAPONS WANTED

Why pay up to 35% of your money to auctioneers in commission fees, so they can auction your antique weapons and sell them to buyers just like us at the many auction houses where we buy Antique Weapons ?

Auctioneers will normally pay you nothing at all for your items upfront.
They rely on people just like us, to buy your antique weapons, and you will then get paid later.


Why not come direct to us and you almost certainly will get a
better price for your items, and you do not have to wait to be paid.


We have been in this business since 1968. Old Guns Wanted. Old Swords Wanted.
We will buy your items and you will get paid the same day. 
Please phone or email to discuss any object you might be thinking of selling.

We are currently looking to purchase the following items for clients:

All antique weapons and especially the following items;


Wanted Guns and pistols made in Maastricht. Spanish, German or Dutch cup-hilt and swept-hilt Rapiers. Dutch flintlock pistols & Dutch wheel-lock rifles.
Bronze cannon barrels. Any flintlock or percussion pistols made in Berlin or Dusseldorf. German pistols and rifles made by Tanner, Stormer, Krause, Mantz, Drechsler.
Weapons marked E.I.G. or E.I.C.

Wanted all cased pistols, especially cased Flintlock duelling pistols. French military weapons. German percussion and flintlock rifles.

Matching European breast plate and back plates.

Wanted Cased pairs of flintlock & percussion pistols.

Knife pistols marked "Unwin and Rodgers" Sheffield. Silver mounted oriental daggers.

Any "Kerrs patent" revolvers, cased or uncased. All revolvers in .577 calibre. Any fine quality Indian, Balkan, Turkish or Russian  weapons.

Wanted any revolvers manufactured by Le-Mat. Any Miquelet or Snaphaunce pistols.
All multi-shot pistols.

All Chinese weapons especially swords from the Boxer rebellion.

Any combination weapons especially sword-pistols.

Early Scottish dirks and wooden shields. Scottish basket hilt swords. Double barrelled flintlock sporting guns by Mortimer, Joseph Egg, John Manton & Joseph Manton. etc.

"Webley Longspur" revolvers.  All miniature arms. Any profusely decorated weapons especially pistols inlaid with Gold & silver.

.451 calibre rifles made by any British maker but especially marked Thomas Turner, / The Whitworth Rifle Company.

Wanted Brown- Bess musket with a 39, 42 or 46 inch barrel.

Jade hilted oriental weapons.


Native American Indian items including any quill work or bead-work items ie. head-dress, knife scabbards, Tomahawk, quiver, shield, moccasins, etc.

Scottish all steel Flintlock belt pistols.

All Danish and Norwegian weapons.

Any unusual African clubs, swords, shields daggers & artefacts.

Mail-Coach blunderbuss. British military Flintlock Napoleonic era Padget carbine.  

South Sea wooden clubs. 


Fijian weapons and ancient carved wooden tribal objects.

Japanese Matchlock rifles swords and pistols. Any Swiss weapons. Helmets and armour.


All Bowie knives especially knives engraved  by Joseph Rodgers & Price of San Francisco, Will & Fink.


World War I and II - German & Japanese souvenirs brought back by allied service-men.

Spanish Ripoll belt pistols. Naval swords especially with Silver hilts.

British 1796 pattern Heavy cavalry sabre (disc hilt).

Napoleonic era Baker flintlock rifles.

North American Indian trade weapons, peace pipes, tomahawks. 18th century American powder horns engraved with maps.

1805 Napoleonic naval boarding cutlasses.  Any Albanian, Greek, Turkish weapons especially with silver mounts.

All Napoleonic period weapons.

Any unusual Naval weapons
especially if named to known officers.

Ottoman/ Persian steel re-curved bows. Turkish armour, shields 
& Quivers.

Any genuine Roman or Greek weapon, armour, etc.

Good quality English sporting guns especially guns made by William, Charles and Samuel Smith.

Revolvers made by Samuel Colt, Nathan Starr, Smith & Wesson and Remington
in either Percussion system or Rim-fire.

ALL OTHER ANTIQUE WEAPONS WANTED.

Old Swords Wanted. Old Guns wanted.

Office telephone; 01484-685234
From overseas tel + 44 1484 - 685234
Mobile telephone in the UK; 07770 - 398 270
Mobile telephone from overseas tel + 44 - 7770 - 398 270
Or email asbottomley@yahoo.com
Established since 1968