Description
Offered is a complete consecutive seven-issue run of Tradition, Numbers 33 through 39, the Journal of the International Society of Military Collectors. Rather than a random assortment, this group provides an uninterrupted sequence from the original 76-issue Tradition series, making it especially appealing to collectors building or completing a run.
These issues are filled with detailed military-history, uniform, weapons, campaign-medal, miniature-soldier and early wargaming material spanning the Napoleonic Wars through the early 20th century. The official Tradition catalog documents an unusually broad range of subjects across Nos. 33-39.
Highlights throughout the seven issues include:
* Peninsular Papers, Parts III-VII
* The 19th Hussars in the Sudan
* Dress of the French Infantry
* German Army field-service uniforms, 1914-1915
* German Uhlans
* Marshal Ney’s charges at Waterloo
* 21st Lancers and the Dervish Army at Omdurman
* Omdurman campaign medals
* Russian colors and standards of the Napoleonic period
* Marshal Murat’s cavalry charge at Eylau
* British Cavalry of the East India Company
* Crimean War campaign medals
* Japanese Army uniforms of 1904-1905
* Royal Scots Greys
* 21st Lancers uniforms
* Zulu War infantry officers
* Prussian Landwehr, 1813-1815
* Seventh New York National Guard, 1861
* Fourth Texas Volunteer Infantry, 1861
* Napoleon as First Consul and Colonel of the 9th Dragoons
* British Staff Uniforms of 1897
* Prussian Army uniforms circa 1770
* American War of Independence subjects
* Period firearms including German handguns, Peacemaker, Adams and Tranter revolvers
* Continuing The War Game articles
* Numerous illustrated and color military-uniform plates
The combination of Napoleonic warfare, Waterloo, Omdurman, the Crimean War, Zulu War, American Civil War, British cavalry, Prussian uniforms, military miniatures and wargaming gives this run considerable crossover appeal beyond collectors of the magazine itself.
The magazines display attractively as a group with colorful illustrated military covers. Overall condition is presentable vintage condition with expected age-related handling, edge and cover wear varying somewhat from issue to issue.
A substantial seven-issue reference collection for collectors of historic military uniforms, toy soldiers, miniature figures, militaria, military art and traditional wargaming.
Please view all the photos carefully for the individual covers, condition and contents of the seven magazines included.
