Hermann Historica

Hermann Historica began in Nuremberg as the firm of Count Erich Klenau von Klenova, which sold coins and medals before turning to orders and militaria; the house puts its start more than fifty years ago⁵. Wolfgang Hermann joined Graf Klenau oHG in the early 1970s and added arms and armour and antiquities⁵. In 1982 Hermann and Ernst-Ludwig Wagner took the firm over, renamed it Hermann Historica oHG and held its first sale on 6 March of that year⁵. Franz Hermann and Thomas Rief later became partners, and Forum Arte GmbH acquired the majority at the end of 2017⁵. The company is registered as Hermann HISTORICA GmbH at Grasbrunn, near Munich⁷.

According to the house, it had about 40 staff and held two auctions a year until 2018; from 2019 it has held up to six, with online-only sales added in that year⁵. Antiquities is one of its departments, with arms and armour, firearms and militaria⁵.

Cypriot pieces appear as small lots in the general antiquities sales. A one-handled jug sold on 12 April 2010 as lot 66 for EUR 200². Three vessels were lot 7588 on 22 June 2020, also at EUR 200¹. On 30 January 2023 a statuette of a tympanon player sold with a Boeotian figure as lot 6048 for EUR 400³.