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Militaria & Curiosa · 3 shops, the best first
10533 82 Avenue, Edmonton
Open since 1978 on 82 Avenue, The Edmonton Book Store deals in rare and out-of-print titles, with over 80,000 volumes strong on Western Canada, the Arctic, philosophy and literature. It is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada.
Best for Open since 1978 on 82 Avenue
Charlottenburg (Knesebeckstrasse)
Trading since 1934, Berliner Zinnfiguren on Knesebeckstrasse is a vast dealer in tin and pewter miniatures, holding tens of thousands of flat figures, model kits and military-history books. The Charlottenburg shop also runs the Preussisches Bucherkabinett, a Prussian-history bookshop under the same roof.
Best for Tin and pewter miniatures
Töltéstava / Hungary
Hand-made HEMA training swords, feders, and historical blade replicas from a legally registered Hungarian armory.
Best for HEMA swords, feders and rapiers from a Hungarian armory
Regenyei Armory Kft. is a legally registered Hungarian company (Győri Törvényszék Cégbírósága, registration no. 08-09-020928), based at Iskola utca 1 in Töltéstava, with Péter Regenyei listed as its representative on the company's own impressum page. It is not a kitchen-cutlery house but a dedicated bladesmith and armory serving the Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) community, under the site's own tagline "From fencers – to fencers."
The workshop's stated output covers feders (blunted training longswords), longswords, arming swords, sideswords, two-handed swords, rapiers, daggers, langes messers, and sabers, all described on the site as "made by hand." The company states it has "15+ years" of experience in the field and ships to resellers worldwide, according to the company.
Because Regenyei's business is training and replica swords rather than table cutlery, it fits this category on the strength of being a dedicated, verifiable blade/sword maker rather than a knife brand — squarely within a knife/blade/cutler scope even though its products are swords, not kitchen knives. The site's own service commitments include a stated response window of "7 working days" for customer inquiries, consistent with a workshop fulfilling custom and small-batch orders rather than running high-volume retail.
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