Mary V.R. Hand drawings of the Sir Henry Pellatt Collection of Arms and Armour (Fonds SC119)

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Mary V.R. Hand drawings of the Sir Henry Pellatt Collection of Arms and Armour (Fonds SC119)

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This item consists of 66 pages of hand-drawn images by Mary V.R. Hand of items in the Sir Henry Pellatt Collection of Arms and Armour. Most pages have multiple drawings of different items in the collection. Generally, each drawing is labeled with information about item depicted, including origins and dates where they were known. The title page of this volume indicates that this is volume 1, but there is no mention of how many volumes in total there may be. Items depicted include swords, rapiers and sabres, pikes, spears, daggers and stilettos, helmets and war hats, lobster-tails and morions, morningstars, halberds, axes, voulges, bills, scythes, spontoons, a war fork, partisans, suits of armour, various early guns (blunderbuss, wheel-lock, pistol), a flint-lock machine gun, various rifles (match-lock, flint-lock, wheel-lock), and hand cannons. These items cover a large time span, from the 15th century to the 19th century, and come from various countries; England, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, China, Egypt, Poland, Bavaria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Syria, Scotland, Turkey, and Albania.

1 volume of graphic material : 66 graphite drawings, 25.5 x 31.2 cm, or smaller

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Henry Mill Pellatt, 1859-1939

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Born in 1859, Henry Pellatt was educated at the Model School of Upper Canada in Toronto. He attended Upper Canada College for three months, and then quit to join his father's stockbroker's firm Pellatt and Osler, as a junior accounting clerk. He was known as a athlete at school, and in the years 1878-79 won many running races in the one mile category, setting a record which stood for seventy-five years until broken by Roger Bannister at the Empire Games. In 1882 he became a full member of the...