2,500 Years of European Helmets, 800 B.C.-1700 A.D.By the Late Howard Curtis - $80 - (Springfield, PA)

Compiled by the late Howard Curtis, 2500 Years of European Helmets is the most comprehensive work on european helmets. Each helmet has a detailed text description and photos you will not find anywhere. No other known publication has been found that is comparable to this book. Museums and Universities have bought this book. There are 346 pages in this 9 x 7 1/2 inch hardcover book. The dustjacket covers the brown leather-like cover that has gold lettering. The information in this book is very detailed, and is an asset to museums, collectors and history buffs. Thanks for looking! Back ground on Howard Curtis: He was a well paid Hollywood stunt man that amassed one of the finest private collections of European arms & armor. This book is the first reference work on this subject written in english in 100 years. As a stuntman in "The Great Race" he bailed out of a collapsing balloon doubling as Tony Curtis. In "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" he leaped off a cliff into a river. In the "Great Waldo Pepper" it was Curtis who walked out on the wing of a biplane & put his foot through the wing.

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