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While traveling around Northern Alabama, I stopped in at the Berman Museum of World History in Anniston and were blown away.
In 1992, Farley and Germaine Berman began loaning their extensive personal art collection built over a lifetime to the city of Anniston. The two were made for each other it seems — Farley was an Army colonel who worked in military intelligence during World War II while Germaine was in French intelligence.
“I was spying on her, and she was spying on me,” Farley once said. After marrying and returning to the states, the two traveled extensively, reportedly filling up four passports. In 1999, after their death, the 6,000-piece collection was bequeathed to the city, who now has it on display in a two-story complex.
And there is a tremendous amount or rare, martial, curious and unique guns on display.
For example:
And:
Take two of these and call me in the morning…
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