Bandolier
The Prince Electors of Saxony, Dresden, Germany;
Acquired from the Sächsischen Staatsammlungen, Dresden by the dealer Arthur Sambon (1867-1947), Paris, by the early 1930s [1];
Purchased from Sambon by the dealers Leopold and Ruth Blumka, Vienna, early 1930s;
Purchased from Leopold and Ruth Blumka by Joe Kindig, Jr. (1898-1971), York, PA;
Purchased from Kindig, Jr. by Raymond Petry, Newton Square, PA;
Henk L. Visser (1923-2006), by July 3, 1990;
His sale, The Visser Collection of Fine, Rare and Important Arms, the Property of a Visser Family Trust , Sotheby’s, London, July 3, 1990, lot 5;
George Apter, Taplow, England, by July 19, 2001;
His sale, Antique Arms and Armour and Books, Christie’s South Kensington, London, July 19, 2001, lot 83;
With Peter Finer, London, by 2015-2016;
Purchased from Peter Finer by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
NOTES:
[1] Provenance from Arthur Sambon through Henk L. Visser is according to Stuart Pyhrr, Distinguished Research Curator, Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in an email to Stefanie Kae Dlugosz-Acton, Assistant Curator, March 21, 2017, NAMA curatorial files.
