ArmHis Encyclopædic listings and works

it can be difficult to find even basic info on a person, and challenging to find an exhaustive description.
There are, however, a small number of well-known encyclopaedic works, but they are out of print years ago
and have not been digitized in online searchable formats.
This page tries to give an insight into some well-known works.
"Der Neue Stockel" in German language.
"Le Qui est qui dans l'Armurerie Francaise" in French
"Norske Børsemakere" in Norwegian language.

The well-known Wikipedia does have a category for gunsmiths, and when this is written there are about 210 names entered.

Anybody can register as a contributor, - Category:Gunsmiths

LokalhistorieWiki is a web service owned and organized by a Norwegian government-funded service to open up for participative editing of all kinds of local Norwegian history. An increasing number of Norwegian gunsmiths have been entered, and the number is growing.

Lokalhistoriewiki skriver selv på sin startside:
Lokalhistoriewiki drives av Norsk Lokalhistorisk institutt (NLI) ved Nasjonalbiblioteket.
Wikien hadde 2,6 millioner besøk i 2023, og akkurat nå har vi 81 489 artikler og 226 079 bilder.
Om du vil bidra med å skrive, redigere eller laste opp bilder, er det bare å registrere seg som bruker!
Hvis du trenger starthjelp, kan du ta en titt på hjelpesidene våre.
Og om du ikke finner ut av ting, ta gjerne direkte kontakt med oss på NLI.

Most of these web pages have a layout for reading in landscape format to better show long weapons.
ArmHis.com is a work in progress, and my intention is that it shall be interesting along the way.
ArmHis is a non-profit site documenting my interests in a few sectors of arms collecting and related history.
I very much welcome corrections and suggestions.

Please mail comments to flint @ armhis.com

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