Director of Collections and Conservation Michael Lavin, Conservator Dr. Chris Wilkins, and Assistant Curator Janene Johnston of Jamestown Rediscovery are the guests for this episode of the High Caliber History podcast. We chat about the tremendous amount of history and historic objects at Jamestown, including a 400-year-old roman lock pistol found at the bottom of a well.
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Kolby Lanham, History Researcher at The Alamo, is the guest for this episode of the High Caliber History podcast. We chat about a hugely ambitious project involving casting new cannons as well as an unlikely Alamo collector's big donation.
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Danny Michael, curator of the Cody Firearms Museum, is the guest for this episode of the High Caliber History podcast. We chat about how he got started in museums, what it's like to do a complete renovation, and how curators get possessive and competitive with other curators.
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This week's guest on the High Caliber History podcast is Jack Lewis, Director of Firearms for Lewis & Grant Auctions. Jack brings over 50 years of experience as a firearms and militaria historian, collector, researcher, and author. He is 2nd generation in this business and his son Bill is 3rd generation. Jack has been involved in some of the most important and high-profile sales in recent memory. For more information, visit www.lewisandgrant.com.
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A lot of inventions flop, and firearms aren't immune to this. Find out about 16 failed revolver designs in this episode of the High Caliber History podcast!
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If you were to guess about the background and professional life of the man who is credited with inventing the percussion ignition system, it's highly unlikely that you'd get it right. Find out what he did for a living and why he branched out into arms design in this episode of the High Caliber History podcast!
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This week's guest on the High Caliber History podcast is Martin K.A. Morgan, an author and historian who specializes in American and military history. He leads battlefield tours around the world, is the author of two World War II books, contributes to more than half a dozen magazines, has served as Historical Consultant & Technical Advisor on the game series Call of Duty, and has been on TV shows on a dozen different networks.
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This week's guest on the High Caliber History podcast is Bill Harriman, an arms consultant whose career of 35+ years has included working with the Antiques Roadshow, the British Association of Shooting & Conservation, the Royal Armouries, and as an author of multiple books.
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This week's guest on the High Caliber History podcast is Lisa Traynor, the Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. We talk about historic types of bulletproof vests, their durability, testing them, and seeing if they could have prevented WWI. For more information, visit http://www.royalarmouries.org.
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So you found a machine gun in granddad's WWII, Korea, or Vietnam footlocker in the attic. Now what? We'll talk about what you can and cannot do with it in this episode.
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The search for winners of the first NRA Gun Collectors Committee “Best Weapons” awards from 1960 is the topic of this week's episode. There’s a special little twist to the story, so make sure you stay tuned for the whole thing!
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The epic breakup between John Moses Browning and the Winchester Repeating Arms Company is the topic of this week's episode. We take a look at what caused the breakup, how the two moved on, and if they remained civil with one another when in public.
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This week's guest on the High Caliber History podcast is Paul Szymaszek of the Colt Archives. For more information, visit http://www.coltarchives.com.
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This week's guest on the High Caliber History podcast is Rich Fisher of the Vickers MG Collection and Research Association. For more information on the museum, visit https://www.vickersmg.blog.
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This episode will take a look at the relationship between museum curators and private collectors. How they can best work together, what they need to know about each other, how their respective fields are changing, and what they need to do in order to ensure that both move forward in the most positive way possible.
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The High Caliber History podcast is happy to welcome Joel Kolander, the Interactive Production Manager at the Rock Island Auction Company in Rock Island, Illinois, to this episode of the show. For more information on RIAC, visit https://www.rockislandauction.com.
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This week's episode is about Confederate revolver manufacturers such as Thomas Cofer, J.H. Dance & Bros., Griswold & Gunnison, Spiller & Burr, Columbus Firearms Manufacturing, Augusta Machine Works, Leech & Rigdon, and Rigdon, Ansley & Co.
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Today's guest on the HCH podcast is David Kennedy, the Curator of Collections and Exhibits at the United States Marshals Museum in Fort Smith, Arkansas. For more information on the museum, visit https://www.usmmuseum.org.
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Today's guest on the HCH podcast is Jason Schubert, the Curator of the J.M. Davis Arms & Historical Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma. For more information on the museum, visit https://www.thegunmuseum.com.
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