Collections and collectors

German entrepreneur and banker Karl Kolb, known as Baron Karl von Kolb, was born in 1800. He lived in Rome, at the age of 27 he opened his own trading and forwarding company. He was acquainted with King William I, corresponded with him, and it was...

The connoisseur and collector of jewelry Ann Louise Luthi was a member of the Society of Historians of Jewelry Art, lectured on antique jewelry, and also wrote several works on this topic. Since 2001, she has been a volunteer at the British Museum. She...

An American banker and arms dealer during the American Civil War, John Pierpont Morgan I collected a variety of rarities: books, paintings, coins. He was not only fond of collecting, but also helped the Metropolitan Museum of Art by financing a cultural...

Courtney Adrian Ilbert is a civil engineer who was fond of horology and collected one of the largest collections of antique watches in his time. After his death in 1958, the entire collection, numbering hundreds of rare copies, ended up in the British...

Board games are one of the oldest entertainments - seven thousand years ago people spent time playing dice. Archaeologists have repeatedly found bone and wooden cubes at the excavation site, and even if they were primitive, irregular in shape, they...

The English translator of the XIX century, Charlotte Guest, who is known in her homeland primarily due to the translation into English of Mabinogion, an important work of Welsh literature written in Middle Welsh. In her youth, she went against her...

The British Royal Collection contains not only works of art by world-famous masters acquired by monarchs, but also items related to members of the royal family. For example, dozens of dolls that belonged to Queen Victoria. As a child, the Queen had a...

From the end of the XIX century to the 20s of the XX century, an ornament rooted in Eastern culture, the egret, was widespread in Europe. Turkish and Indian rich men decorated their turbans with similar objects. At the same time, such decorative...

The very first brooches, which appeared in ancient times, were of extremely practical value. These were simple, unremarkable products that performed the function of a fastener. Ancient brooches, or fibulae, were common in the period of antiquity and...

Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode was one of those who made a significant contribution to the development of numismatics thanks to the collected collection of ancient coins. Born in 1730, he held the post of priest for some time, but his church career stalled...