Bannermans surplus megastore

>>34885119
I have never heard of this
Gib moar history please

>>34885134
Dude bought a fucking castle, then sold MilSurp out of it.
Pretty sure they still advertise in Firearms News.

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>>34885134

largest surplus dealer the world has ever known, had a castle and warehouse build on a island on the hudson outside NYC, often bought out entire goverments surplus, had a retail store on 504th avenue in NYC

>>34885119
My uncle has an inherited old Swiss Vetterli that was sold as bubba'd by Bammerman I believe.

Stupid lore in my family has it that a great uncle during the battle of the bulge found it in a barn he took cover in, but that's super improbable.

they have a website?

Bannerman was one of the first arms dealers, in the modern sense.

>>34885160
>largest surplus dealer the world has ever known,
He was no Sam Cummings.

>>34885134
Francis Bannerman started to buy up military surplus in 1872 and reselling it to the general public. He eventually set-up shop in New York City and stored his inventory in a building.

Eventually he couldn't fit all of his surplus into the building so he bought Pollepel Island, built a castle on it and moved his entire inventory into it, and called it Bannerman's Island--his castle also doubled as a giant billboard to advertise his company.

>>34885499
That is really cool.

>>34885704
Yea, it's a shame what happened to his castle tho. In 1920 200 tons of shells blew up and destroyed a portion of the castle. Then in 1969 a huge fire broke out in the castle that destroyed the roof and all floors.

So all that's left is the outside. There's no more interior or roof so it's basically a skeleton.

>>34885739
Fuckin hell, sounds like a cool place to camp and explore