Who is Hank?
Hank Reinhardt has been a serious student of arms and armor for about 50 years. The first books he read were tales of King Arthur and at the age of 6 he was drawing knights and castles. At age 16 he started haunting libraries for books on arms and armor and started a tentative collection, which began with a few exotic knives such as the kukri and the jambiya. At age 22 he was inducted in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany. This allowed him to visit many of the museums in Europe, and inflamed his interest even more. It also allowed him to collect on a serious level and expand into European swords and polearms. Over the years, his study and collection of weapons continued, and in 1985, along with Bill Adams, he started a mail order company by the name of Museum Replicas, Ltd. The company was an immediate success, doing almost one million dollars in sales the first year. Hank has visited most all of the major museums in Europe, and has made replicas for the Tower of London, the Cl
