SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams & Butterfields is proud to announce that its November 14, 2011 Antique Arms and Armor and Modern Sporting Guns sale in San Francisco will feature a single-owner collection of more than 400 lots of American militaria, including military headgear, uniforms, edged weapons, firearms and accoutrements, illustrating all facets of military life, from the Federal Period through the Civil War. Highlighting the auction will be a number of uniform ensembles from the early Federal Period and Civil War, as well as a historic, Paris-made Confederate artillery officer’s frock coat of Lt. Col. Richard Snowden Andrews. The sale will also feature more than 30 examples of rare headgear, many from the prestigious William H. Guthman Collection, including early Federal period dragoon helmets, elegant bell-topped shakos of the 1820s and 1830s, kepis and Hardee hats of the Civil War and elegant chapeau-de-bras