page_title: Henk Visser (collector)
hierarchical_section_title: Henk Visser (collector)
caption_attribution_description: English: Weapons in the Legermuseum, Delft - July 2011
context_page_description: Henk Visser was a Dutch arms and armory collector, philanthropist and Dutch businessman.
  The collection is centered around the ivory-stocked pistols. His collection was documented by the curator Jan Piet Puype who discovered that he had all of the very rare and important examples of ivory pistols in his collection. The H.L. Visser collection is the largest collection of arms and armory. The Family collection is worth about $150 - $200 million and resides in the Rijksmuseum and the Hermitage Museum.
context_section_description: Henk Visser (5 August 1923 – 11 June 2006) was a Dutch arms and armory collector, philanthropist and Dutch businessman.
  The collection is centered around the ivory-stocked pistols. His collection was documented by the curator Jan Piet Puype who discovered that he had all of the very rare and important examples of ivory pistols in his collection (there were only 52 worldwide). The H.L. Visser collection is the largest collection of arms and armory. The Family collection is worth about $150 - $200 million and resides in the Rijksmuseum and the Hermitage Museum.
caption: Ivory pistol head from the Visser collection, Legermuseum, Delft
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