Description
Offered is a complete consecutive 10-issue run of Tradition: The Journal of the International Society of Military Collectors, Numbers 50 through 59. This is an especially appealing section of the original 76-issue series, combining detailed military-uniform research, historic campaigns, military art, miniature soldiers and traditional wargaming. The official Tradition Index documents the original publication as a 76-issue series.
Issues included:
* No. 50
* No. 51
* No. 52
* No. 53
* No. 54
* No. 55
* No. 56
* No. 57
* No. 58
* No. 59
A major highlight is No. 50, the Special Indian Cavalry Issue, with its outstanding illustrated cover depicting Indian cavalry uniforms. Tradition of London continues to recognize No. 50 specifically as the Special Indian Cavalry Issue, and even reproduces the issue for today’s military-uniform collectors.
The ten-issue run offers an impressive range of military subjects, including:
* Indian Cavalry and historic Indian Army uniforms
* Governor-General’s Bodyguards and famous cavalry regiments
* Napoleonic and Waterloo campaign subjects
* British, French, Russian and European military uniforms
* Cossacks and cavalry
* Bengal Lancers
* British Army history
* The Defence of Rorke’s Drift
* American military subjects
* Military headgear, equipment and insignia
* Military miniatures, model soldiers and related collecting
* Numerous black-and-white and color illustrations and uniform plates
The official Tradition Index specifically records the Defence of Rorke’s Drift feature in No. 55, while Tradition’s surviving catalog describes the magazine as extensively illustrated and devoted to military uniforms and related subjects.
The magazines make an impressive visual group with their distinctive illustrated military covers. Overall they present well as vintage collector magazines, with expected age-related handling, cover, edge and spine wear varying somewhat by issue.
The principal advantage here is completeness: rather than assembling these issues individually, the collector receives the entire uninterrupted #50-59 sequence at once, including the desirable Special Indian Cavalry No. 50.
An excellent reference collection for enthusiasts of military history, historic uniforms, Indian cavalry, Napoleonic warfare, the Anglo-Zulu War, toy soldiers, military miniatures and traditional wargaming.
Please view all the photos carefully for the individual covers, condition and details of all 10 magazines included.
