Tel: (441) 292-2482 Fax:
(441) 295-5416
Email: apettit@northrock.bm
P.O. Box FL 318 Flatts FL BX Bermuda
Anthony
Pettit is a dealer in most types of antiquities relating to Bermuda (otherwise
called the Somers Isles), particularly maps, books, prints, paintings and ephemera.Categories
include charts and guides, manuscripts, pamphlets, letters, documents, ships’
logs, newspapers and magazines, albums and scrapbooks, incunabula, local imprints,
almanacs, histories, railway effects, novels, descriptions, memoirs, parliamentary
acts and bills, poetry, catalogues, bibliographies, genealogies, diaries, travel
and cruising stories, works on flora and fauna, papers on geology, geography,
race relations, reports and memoirs on the Dockyard, maritime and military
publications.
Engravings, lithographs, views and woodcuts
are offered as are sketches, oils, watercolours, portraits and other art work.
Among the ephemera are postcards, posters,
brochures, photographs, bookplates, tourist printings, hotel menus, programmes,
theatre promotions and stereographs.
From the sea are old bottles, flasks, marine artifacts , bells, lights, anchors
as well as coins, silver, medals and badges.
Carvings from Boer War and German prisoners include picture frames, toys, cutlery,
letter openers, napkin rings, pen holders, pipes, boots, walking sticks and
cedar boxes.
Anthony Pettit began collecting Bermuda
related material soon after his arrival on the island in 1965 as a teacher of
classics in local secondary schools. His hobby continued for some twenty years
until the stimulation of others led him to begin building up the collections
of fellow enthusiasts. Thus began a business which has now been in existence
for the last eighteen years. During this time international articles have been
written, four catalogues have been produced, many important and often unique
pieces of Bermudiana have been unearthed, leading to the latest venture the
construction of his specialist web site for the subject.