About Us

PETER FINER was established in 1967. 

Today we are specialists in antique Arms and Armour from cultures worldwide, Bronze Age to the 19th century, with a London gallery on historic Duke Street, St James's. With a hard-earned reputation for handling the rarest and highest-quality pieces of antique Arms and Armour, we help to build superb private and institutional collections.

We maintain excellent relationships with museums across the globe, and are honoured to count The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The Royal Armouries of the United Kingdom among our clients.We have a discerning eye for quality and condition, and work with leading independent scholars and curators in the field to comprehensively research the works of art we handle. Armed with this expertise, we guarantee the authenticity of the objects we sell.The gallery conducts business with discretion and strives to establish long-term relationships, built on trust, with our clients.

 

WE NUMBER THESE MUSEUMS AND FOUNDATIONS AMONG OUR VALUED CLIENTS:

 

GREAT BRITAIN
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Aberdeen Art Gallery
The Royal Armouries, Leeds
The National Army Museum, London
The Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth
The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
The Royal Scots Regimental Museum, Edinburgh

IRELAND
The National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

EUROPE
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Deutsches Klingenmuseum, Solingen
Rüstkammer, Dresden
Landesmuseum für Kultur- und Landesgeschichte, Schloss Tirol
Stedelijke Musea Kortrijk

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

CANADA
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary

ASIA
Chi Mei Culture Foundation, Taiwan

 

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