Thomas del Mar Ltd - Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria 30th July 2020

Thomas Del Mar Ltd ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOUR & MILITARIA THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN PROPERTY FROM A CENTRAL EUROPEAN COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PATRICK KELLY AND VARIOUS OWNERS

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION AT Thomas Del Mar Ltd 25 Blythe Road London W14 0PD

PUBLIC EXHIBITION Sunday 26th July 12 noon to 4pm Monday 27th July 10am to 7pm Tuesday 28th July 10am to 5pm Wednesday 29th July 10am to 5pm Please note that viewing will be by appointment

DAY OF SALE

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Select Bibliography Ariès 1966

Christian Ariès, Armes Blanches Militaires Françaises 4, fascicule VI, 1967

Ariès 1969

Christian Ariès, Armes Blanches Militaires Françaises 3, fascicule XIII, 1969

Bailey 2002

De Witt Bailey, British Military Flintlock Rifles 1740 - 1840, 2002

Bedford & Grancsay 1971

Clay P. Bedford and Stephen V. Grancsay, Early Firearms of Great Britain and Ireland from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford, exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1971

Blackmore 1961

Howard L. Blackmore, British Military Firearms, London 1961

Blackmore 1986

Howard L. Blackmore, A Dictionary of London Gunmakers 1350-1850, London 1986

Blackmore 1999

Howard L. Blackmore, Gunmakers of London: Supplement 1350-1850, 1999

Breiding 2013

Dirk H. Breiding, A Deadly Art: European Crossbows, 1250–1850, New York 2013

Brown 2002

Shaun Brown, “Samuel Staudenmayer, Gun Maker, Cockspur Street, London” in The Canadian Society of Arms Collecting, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2002

di Carpegna 1997

Nolfo di Carpegna, Brescian Firearms from matchlock to flintlock, Rome 1997

Dickens 1999

Bernard Dickens, “”M.B.” - The Gunmakers’ Silversmith. A Question of Attribution” in The Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, vol. XVI, No. 2, March 1999

Dufty & Reid 1968

A. R. Dufty & W. Reid, European Armour in the Tower of London, London 1968

Elgood 1995

Robert Elgood, Firearms of the Islamic world in the Tareq Rajab museum, Kuwait, London 1995

ffoulkes 1915

Charles ffoulkes, Authorised Guide to the Tower of London with Description of the Armoury, London 1915

ffoulkes 1916

C. J. ffoulkes, Inventory and Survey of the Armouries of the Tower of London, Vol. 1, London 1916

Gamber & Beaufort 1990

Otwin Gamber & Christian Beaufort, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Wien, Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer. Katalog der Liebrüstkammer, II. Teil-Der Zeitrum von 1530-1560, 1990

Godoy 1993

José-A. Godoy, Armes a feu XVe-XVIIe Siecle, Geneva 1993

Harding 1997

D. Harding, Smallarms of the East India Company, London 1997

Hawkins 1973

Peter Hawkins, The Price Guide to Antique Guns & Pistols, Suffolk, 1973

Hayward 1963

John F Hayward, The Art of the Gunmaker Volume II 1660-1830, Chatham 1963

Hayward 1964

J. F. Hayward, “The Armoury of the First Earl of Pembroke” in The Connoisseur, Vol. CLV, April 1964

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Heer 1978-1982

Eugene Heer, Der Neue Støckel, 1978-1982

Karcheski Jr 1995

Walter J. Karcheski Jr, Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1995

Kinman 2014

Steffan Kinman, Edged weapons in Sweden, 2014

Laking 1920

Sir Guy Francis Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms through Seven Centuries, London 1920

Larrañaga 1984

Larrañaga, Ramiro, Museo de Armas: Eibar, 1984

Lewerken & Karpinski 1989

H. Lewerken & J. Karpinski, Kombinations Waffen Des 15-19 Jahrhunderts, Berlin 1989

Mann 1932

Mann, J.G., “Sir John Smythe’s Armour in Portraiture“ in The Connoisseur, Vol. XC, August 1932

Mann 1951

Mann, J.G. (ed.), Armour Made in the Royal Workshops at Greenwich, London, 1951

Mann 1962

J. G. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour, Vol. I, London 1962

Meier 1982

Jürg Meier, “Sempacher Halbarten - Die schweizerische Halbartenrenaissance im 17. Jahrhundert“ in Karl Stüber & Hans Wetter, Blankwaffen, Zürich 1982

Müller & Kölling 1990

H. Müller & H. Kölling, Europaische Hieb- und Stichwaffen aus der Sammlung des Museums fur Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin 1990

Munson 1992

H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, Rhode Island 1992

Neal & Back 1984

William Keith Neal and David H. L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1540-1740, Norwich 1984

O’Sullivan & Bailey 2019

John O’Sullivan & De Witt Bailey, Robert Wogdon, Wogdon & Barton, John Barton: London Gunmakers 1764-1819, London 2019

Puype 1996

Jan Piet Puype, The Visser Collection: Arms of the Netherlands in the Collection of H. L. Visser, Vol. I, Part 3, Amsterdam 1996

Riling 1953

Ray Riling, The Powder-flask book, New York 1953

Robinson 1973

Henry Russell Robinson, Il Museo Stibbert a Firenze, Vol. 1, 1973

Schalkhauser 1988

Erwin Schalkhauser, Handfeuerwaffen Jagdgewehre Schneibenbüchsen Pistolen, Munich 1988

Schedelmann 1972

Schedelmann 1972, Die Grossen Büchsenmacher, Braunschweig 1972

Southwick 2001

Leslie Southwick, London Silver-Hilted Swords, Leeds 2001

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Eastern Arms and Armour THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 1 A FINE ITO-MAKI-TACHI in kin-nashiji saya (faded in places) with all metal mounts in shakudo with leafy branches carved in Karafusa style (ishi-zuki missing). Complete with sageo tied tachio-musubi. All ito on both the tsuka and saya are a light green colour. The large menuki are of gold dragons.

The shinogi-zukuri blade is tori-zori with a wide mi-haba and a chu-kissaki.

The koto blade has a wide suguha hamon which has a gentle midare and is in nioi. The boshi has a short kaeri. There appears to be a faint bo-usturi but condition prevents absolute certainty. On the omote there is a finely cut, but ato-bori, horimono of a dragon chasing the tama whilst on the ura there are several widely spaced bonji. The nakago is o-suriage and kiri with two mekugi-ana. There are yoko-yasuri and a degree of machi-okuri.

The nakago is mumei. Accompanying the sword is a collapsible tachi-kake that has been finely lacquered in the past but now has some discolouration and fading. All parts are contained in a large plain wooden storage or transport box that also contains the previous owner’s sword cleaning kit in a small cardboard box (uichiko, abura and kami); Nagasa: 71.0 cm; Moto-haba: 3.1 cm; Saki-haba: 1.9 cm Provenance From the descendant family of Major-General Francis Piggott (1910-1996), by tradition presented to him by his friend Yoshitomo Tokugawa, grandson of Yoshinobu, the 15th and last Tokugawa Shogun. £4000-6000

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VARIOUS OWNERS 2 A JAPANESE SWORD (KATANA) with curved single-edged blade, tori-zori, iorimune, mumei tang, with single mekugi-ana, iron mokko-gata mumei tsuba, black fabric-bound white same grip, in its lacquered saya (losses) 73.2 cm; 28 ⅞ in blade £800-1000 3 A LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ SWORD (TACHI), MEIJI PERIOD the elaborate multi-coloured design covering the entire saya and tsuka, illustrates green dragons, with golden details and red mouths, amongst purple clouded skies, interspersed with Aoi-mon in various colours. All metal mounts, including the ashi, kabuto-gane and tsuba are in brass, as is the mokko-gata tsuba. The overall assembled length of the koshirae is 105 cm; The slender blade is shinogi-zukuri with ko-kissaki and a shallow tori-zori. There is muji-hada and the hamon is ko-midare in nioi, with many gunome-ashi. The indistinct boshi appears to be ko-maru. The ubu nakago has two mekugi-ana, suji-jikai yasuri and ha-agari kuri-jiri. It is mumei and is probably shinshinto.

Nagasa: 64.5 cm; Moto-haba: 3.0 cm; Saki-haba: 2.0 cm ‡ £600-800 4 A LARGE JAPANESE CLOISONNÉ SWORD (TACHI), MEIJI PERIOD elaborately decorated with multi-coloured kiku of various designs on both saya and tsuka. On the tsuka the design includes two large dragons.

All metal mounts on both saya and tsuka, as well as the mokko-gata tsuba are in brass. The blade is shinogi-zukuri with tori-zori and chukissaki. The notare-midare hamon is in nioi and the boshi is o-maru. The hamon ends near the machi with yakidashi. The nakago has yokoyasuri and kata-yamagata jiri, a single mekugi-ana and is mumei, probably shin-shinto.

Nagasa: 68.0 cm; Moto-haba: 2.9 cm; Saki-haba: 2.0cm

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5 A JAPANESE DECORATED KOZUKA, KOGAI AND A MODEL OF A KATANA, SHŌWA PERIOD, 20TH CENTURY the kozuka with silver grip (blade missing) decorated with a spiralling garland of gilt flowers and fern foliage, the kogai en suite, the miniature katana of iron, with copper tsuba the first: 10.5 cm; 4 ⅛ in (3) £500-700

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6 A SHINTO TACHI BLADE Sugata (configuration): Shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune chu-kissaki; Kitae (forging pattern): Unclear due to condition; Hamon (tempering pattern): Unclear due to condition; Nakago (tang) : Ubu with yoko-yasuri and a single mekugi-ana, mumei; Nagasa (length from kissaki to machi): 76.3 cm; Koshirae (mounting): A ribbed black lacquered saya with iron ko-jiri which has traces of a gilded dragon and there is a fur covered hand-grip at the koiguchi. The maru-bori tsuba has sukashi mon design. The tsuka has black ito (damaged) over white samé and a sentoku fuchi with a shakudo mon £250-350 7 A JAPANESE CARRIER, EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY perhaps for shot, with iron bound wooden body formed of numerous wooden strips, fitted on the inside at the top with an integral wooden lifting handle 77.0 cm; 30 ⅜ in high £100-150 8 A 25 BORE JAPANESE SNAP MATCHLOCK MUSKET, EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY with octagonal sighted russet barrel later inlaid with a dragon amidst thunderclouds over the breech and with a later rondel in imitation of a mon, pierced block-shaped back-sight, integral pan with hinged brass pivot-cover, brass lock of shaped outline fitted with moulded brass serpentine, brass trigger, cherrywood full stock (small repairs), slender butt of characteristic form, and brass trigger-guard (areas of patination, ramrod missing) 106.2 cm; 41 ⅞ in barrel

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£400-600 9 A CHINESE SWORD (DAO) WITH SILVERED IRON MOUNTS, QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with slightly curved broad blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a full-length fuller and a shorter fuller along the backedge on each face, octagonal iron guard (loose) decorated in silver with scrolling foliage in low relief on each face, iron ferrule and ‘Court Hat’ pommel each decorated with silver, the former en suite with the guard and the latter with geometrical designs, fabric-covered grip, in its fishskin-covered wooden scabbard with characteristic iron mounts decorated with silver en suite with the hilt, with an associated leather thong and a silvered iron suspension 69.0 cm; 27 ¼ in blade

10 AN UNUSUAL THREE BARRELLED HAND CANNON, PROBABLY CHINESE 19TH CENTURY with tapering brass barrels formed in a cluster and bound by three copper bands, tapering socket with a copper collar top and bottom, and later wooden tiller 24.0 cm; 9 ½ in barrel and tiller 0.9 cm; ⅜ in bore £200-300

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11 A PAIR OF CHINESE BRONZE AND CLOISONNÉ STIRRUPS, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY with oval treads formed with a raised border, slender tapering side panels rising to a loop for suspension, cast and chiselled on each side with a dragon issuant from a bed of flames, decorated over the side panels with polychrome flowers and five clawed dragons and around the treads with red and green flowerheads, all on a blue ground in cloisonné 16.0 cm; 6 ⅜ in high (2) £500-700 12 A CHINESE SWORD (DAO), QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY with slightly curved single-edged blade cut with a short inscription on one face, iron hilt comprising disc-shaped guard and cap pommel, later black-painted finish and cordbound grip 69.2 cm; 27 ¼ in blade £150-200 13 TWO CHINESE ORNAMENTAL SPEARS (QIANG), QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY each with wavy terminal spike and tapering moulded socket, the first with pierced circular central moulding and the second with a diagonal transverse wavy blade retained by a large engraved brass boss (light surface rust) 89.7 cm; 35 ¼ in and 90.2 cm; 35 ½ in (2) £150-200

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14 A TIBETAN STAFF, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER with long heavy moulded iron shaft, the grip of phurba hilt form, incorporating gilt-brass openwork mounts top and bottom each comprising four dragon-like brackets, and swelling stone grip with two collars set with contrasting turquoise and red pastes 103.5 cm; 40 ¾ in overall £300-400 15 A JAVANESE SHORTSWORD (PEDANG), LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY with single-edged pattern-welded blade, silver hilt with robust cross-piece and tapering grip cast and chased with flowers and foliage, in its wooden scabbard encased in embossed sheet silver 46.8 cm; 18 ½ in blade £300-400 16 A MALAYSIAN SHORTSWORD (PARANG), LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY with slightly curved single-edged pattern-welded blade decorated with a series of silver-inlaid inscriptions on each face (losses), silver hilt formed in three sections, the lower two plain and the upper engraved with foliage, and carved horn pommel, in its wooden scabbard with silver locket 54.0 cm; 21 ¼ in blade £200-250 17 A PHILIPPINES MACHETE (BARONG) with single-edged leaf-shaped blade, silver ferrule and carved wooden hilt (small chips), in its rattan-bound wooden scabbard 37.5 cm; 14 ¾ in blade £150-200

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 18 A FINE SOUTH EAST ASIAN GOLD-MOUNTED DAGGER (KRIS) OF PRESENTATION QUALITY, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SUMATRA with wavy pattern-welded double-edged blade, grooved at the hilt and encrusted with gold scrolls on the belalai gajah, chiselled and gold-encrusted ganja decorated with scrolling foliage and flowers on the top edge, finely chased gold mendak and selut decorated with beadwork and filigree on sheet gold, figured ivory grip of jawa demam form (small age cracks) decorated with panels of tightly scrolling foliage and drawn-out to a sharply pointed beak pommel, in its wooden scabbard with plain carved wooden wrangka, the pendok encased over the lower half with twisted gold and silver wire, with pronounced buntut en suite with the selut, the upper portion encased in sheet gold chased with foliage, complete with its plaited gold carrying cord attached by plaited gold wire, and with an elaborate gold flower boss at the front set with small garnets around a matching central paste (small losses), and in fine condition throughout 38.7 cm; 15 ⅜ in blade A very similar gold-mounted kris was presented to George IV when Prince Regent

by Stamford Raffles on 10th May 1817 (RCIN 67536). ~ ÂŁ8000-12000

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VARIOUS OWNERS 19 A SOUTH EAST ASIAN DAGGER (KRIS), 20TH CENTURY with pattern-welded wavy blade chiselled and encrusted with gold scale pattern along a medial ridge on each face, the belahi gajah formed as a deity and encrusted with gold, carved wooden grip formed as a stylised figure, in its carved wooden scabbard with wrangka formed as a horse and the pendak decorated with a vertical panel of foliage on the front 37.7 cm; 14 ⅞ in blade £500-700 20 A SOUTH EAST ASIAN DAGGER (KRIS), 20TH CENTURY with double-edged blade of patternwelded iron, decorative filigree mendak, and carved wooden grip 36.2 cm; 14 ¼ in blade ‡ £40-60

21 A RARE INDONESIAN OFFICER’S SWORD, LIÈGE, DATED 1830, PRESENTED BY PANGERAM ADIPATI (1809-91), LATER MANGKUNEGARA IV with curved blade double-edged towards the point, etched over three-quarters of its length with scrolling foliage, trophies and faux damascus pattern, the forte with a rondel within a garland signed ‘J. de Villers à Liège’ on one face and ‘Damasgaranti’ on the other, gilt-brass hilt cast in low relief, comprising a pair of warrior mask langets, vertically recurved quillons with hound’s head terminals, angular lion mask pommel and later knuckle-chain, and carved ivory grip (small chips) carved with foliage, in its fishskin-covered wooden scabbard (small cracks) with large brass locket, chape decorated with foliage, the former inscribed ‘Pangeran Adipattie pourbayo Luitenant [sic] Colonel op Soesoenan no.7 di Soerakarta 1830’, and a pair of suspension bands cast with lion masks 74.5 cm; 29 ⅜ in blade Pangeran Adipati (1809-81) became Mangkunegara IV in 1853, and ruled Mangkunegaran, a principality in Soerakarta (Surakarta), South Central Java, until his death. The Java War, also known as the Diponegoro War, was fought from 1825 between the Javanese and the Dutch, culminating in Dutch victory and the Pax Neerlandica in 1830. ~ £700-1000 22 A SIAMESE (THAI) ARMY OFFICER’S SWORD, RATTANAKOSIN, LATE 19TH CENTURY of regulation type, with etched blade decorated with the crowned Royal arms, trophies and foliage, nickel hilt with folding side-guard, decorated with the Royal arms on the outer guard, and elephant’s head pommel, in its scabbard 79.5 cm; 31 ¼ in blade £250-350

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23 A RARE SIAMESE (THAI) NIELLO AND SILVER-GILT MOUNTED CEREMONIAL SPEAR, AYUTTHAYA, 18TH CENTURY with long tapering leaf-shaped blade of hollow-ground diamond-section, tapering bamboo haft (the shoe missing, the tip chipped), fitted at the top with a long three-stage niello, sawasa and silver-gilt collar of lai dok phuttan pattern chiselled at the top and bottom with broad leafy bands divided by lotus collars, and the top fitted with a large chiselled foliate washer (one leaf expertly restored with resin), complete with its finely lacquered wooden scabbard decorated over its surface with gilt flowers and foliage (small chips and losses) 217.0 cm; 85 ½ in overall A very similar spear is preserved in the National Museum, Bangkok and another was sold in this room 4th December 2019, lot 88. £2000-3000

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24 A BURMESE DHA DAGGER, A MALAYSIAN DAGGER (KRIS), A MALAYSIAN DAGGER (BADE-BADE), A NORTH AFRICAN DAGGER (JAMBIYA), LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY the first with slightly curved single-edged blade, silver ferrule decorated with filigree and beadwork, faceted bone grip and silver cap pommel, in its wooden scabbard encased in silver; the second with patternwelded wavy blade, wooden grip with two panels of scrollwork, in its scabbard with large wrangka and brass pendak; the third with curved single-edged blade and carved horn hilt decorated with a pierced design of foliage, in its wooden scabbard; and the fourth with curved blade decorated with silver scrollwork, engraved white metal hilt, ivory grip, in its white metal scabbard the first: 24.7 cm; 9 ¾ in blade (4) ~ £150-200

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25 A RARE SIAMESE (THAI) IVORY AND SILVER-MOUNTED SWORD, RATTANAKOSIN, LATE 19TH CENTURY with broad curved single-edged blade widening to a blunt tip (hua tad) and struck with a flowerhead mark on one face at the forte, curved hilt encased in chased silver, comprising sections of ivory carved with a vertical arrangement of figures divided by chased silver bands, a broad silver ferrule at the base with plaited mouldings and pommel en suite with the ferrule rising to a fluted onion-shaped terminal, in its black lacquered scabbard (repaired) with some early gold decoration including billowing clouds and dragons (losses) 49.0 cm; 19 ¼ in blade

27 TWO BURMESE SWORDS (DHA), 20TH CENTURY the first with characteristic curved single-edged blade widening towards the tip, encrusted in silver with figures in traditional costume, inscriptions and foliage on each face on a long broad central panel, silver-encased hilt decorated with two panels of figures en suite, conical pommel, in its wooden scabbard encased in silver; the second with curved plain blade, brass hilt, in its wooden scabbard encased in brass the first: 61.0 cm; 24 in blade (2)

Provenance Stated to have been presented by the Governor of Bangkok to the previous owner.

28 A SOUTH EAST ASIAN SWORD (DHA), EARLY 20TH CENTURY, PROBABLY CAMBODIA with straight blade widening to an inwardly rounded tip, hardwood grip fitted with a silver ferrule and chased silver cap pommel, in its rattan-bound wooden scabbard 75.8 cm; 29 ⅞ in blade

The figures on the hilt are almost certainly Hanuman’s warriors from the Ramakian (The Glory of Rama). ~ £2000-3000 26 A VIETNAMESE SWORD (GUAM), 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged fullered blade, characteristic silver hilt including guard and knuckle-guard chased with fire-breathing dragons on the outer face, lion head pommel and bone grip carved with fluting on the rear face, in its silver-mounted hardwood scabbard finely inlaid with elaborate foliage and tendrils, with large silver locket, middle-band and chape decorated en suite with the hilt 60.8 cm; 24 in blade A similar sword illustrated Hales 2013, p. 201, no. 485. £600-800

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£100-150 29 A LONG DAGGER WITH CARVED IVORY HILT, PROBABLY BURMESE, LATE 19TH CENTURY with straight single-edged blade, the hilt formed of a tapering piece of ivory carved as a marine monster in-the-round, and with large silver ferrule 37.2 cm; 14 ⅝ in blade ~ £80-100 30 A BURMESE SWORD (DHA), 19TH CENTURY with curved blade decorated with a near full length panel filled with silver-encrusted scrolling foliage on each face, the back-edge with further designs in silver, and wooden hilt (loose) with a large silver collar top and bottom 61.4 cm; 24 ¼ in blade ‡ £70-90

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31 A FINE INDIAN SWORD (SHAMSHIR), 19TH CENTURY, WITH EARLIER PERSIAN BLADE, 18TH CENTURY with curved single-edged heavy blade of wootz steel with strongly contrasting pattern, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising a pair of straight quillons with Makara head terminals, a large expanded flowerhead on the langets, integral grip decorated with a vertical arrangement of climbing foliage on a punched ground, rising to a lionhead pommel and in fine condition throughout 87.0 cm; 34 Âź in blade ÂŁ2500-3500

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32 AN INDIAN SWORD (SHAMSHIR) WITH GREEN HARDSTONE HILT, MID-19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade formed with a brief slender central groove on each face and with traces of a calligraphic cartouche on the front, russet iron stirrup hilt comprising a pair of delicately shaped langets, quillon and knuckle-guard shaped for the fingers all decorated with gold koftgari scrolling foliage and flowers and mottled green jade grip rising to a globular pommels set with a red paste on each face, in its fabric-covered wooden scabbard (worn) with gilt copper chape 76.8 cm; 30 ¼ in blade

34 A NORTH INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), 18TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade of finely watered steel, retaining traces of two gold calligraphic panels and a panel of flowers on one face, (the gold largely missing), slender iron hilt (repairs), including drooping quillons with petal-shaped terminals, broad knuckle-guard pierced with a calligraphic inscription and pierced cup-shaped pommel, in its wooden scabbard covered with tooled leather, with iron chape and two bands, the latter two each chiselled with traditional foliage inhabited by birds 78.5 cm; 30 ⅞ in blade £400-600

£800-1200 33 AN INDIAN SWORD, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with broad blade double-edged for its last quarter, formed with a long broad fuller on each face, decorated with a panel of tightly scrolling foliage in gold koftgari on each face at the forte, russet iron hilt decorated over its surface in gold koftgari en suite with the forte, comprising a pair of shaped langets with pierced foliate terminals, a pair of quillons with mushroom-shaped terminals, curved knuckle-guard terminating in a monsterhead, large disc pommel, pierced button, and integral grip (small losses and areas of rust) 87.0 cm; 34 ¼ in blade

35 AN INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY with curved European blade double-edged towards the point, stamped with a series of marks within two long slender fullers along the back-edge on each face, iron hilt comprising a pair of langets, down-curved quillons, integral grip and large cup-shaped pommel with rattles, decorated throughout with flowers and foliage within linear frames, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with iron mount 75.5 cm; 29 ¾ in blade £250-300

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36 A RARE EAST INDIA COMPANY OFFICER’S SWORD BY HENRY WILKINSON, LONDON, SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY of 1845 infantry pattern type, with slightly curved fullered blade double-edged for its last third, etched with scrolling foliage, the East India Company rampant lion and the maker’s details on one face and with further foliage, a lengthy inscription and a shorter inscription on the other, brass hilt with crowned ‘VR’ cypher, wirebound fishskin-covered grip, in its regulation scabbard 82.7 cm; 32 ⅝ in blade

38 AN INDIAN OFFICER’S SWORD, LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY PUNJAB with broad curved fullered blade double-edged towards the point, brass hilt of regulation type involving a coat-of-arms, probably Punjab (rubbed), the back-strap cut with a lengthy inscription, and wire-bound leather-covered grip 77.5 cm; 30 ½ in blade

£400-600

39 A MORROCCAN DAGGER (JAMBIYA), A GHURKA KNIFE (KUKRI) AND A JAPANESE SWORD (KATANA), 20TH CENTURY the first with curved double-edged blade decorated with scrolling foliage, characteristic hilt with white metal mounts, in its scabbard; the second with curved broad blade, carved bone grip, in its brass-mounted scabbard; and the third with slightly curved blade decorated with a wavy hamon, gilt mounts decorated with flowers, in its saya, on its black stand the first: 24.5 cm; 9 ⅝ in blade (3)

37 AN INDIAN OFFICER’S SWORD, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with slightly curved fullered blade double-edged towards the point, brass stirrup hilt including straight quillon with downcurved monsterhead finial, a pair of vestigial langets, angular knuckle-guard and monsterhead pommel, and green-stained chequered ivory grip, in a near contemporary tooled leather scabbard with large gilt-brass locket and chape 82.5 cm; 32 ½ in blade

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40 AN INDIAN GEM-SET GOLD-MOUNTED DAGGER (KHANJAR), 20TH CENTURY with tapering double-edged blade formed with a slightly reinforced tip and chiselled with a moulding at the forte, gold-covered hilt formed of a curved grip chased over the greater part of its surface with a trellis pattern enclosing expanded flowerheads, the pommel formed as a caparisoned elephant’s head fitted with a small loop above, in its wooden scabbard encased in an openwork design of gold flowers and foliage inhabited by a boar set upon by a tiger accompanied by a hound and a rabbit on one face and an antelope attacked by a lion with a fleeing antelope on the other, the locket formed of a diamond-set openwork lotus flower designs beneath a band of pairs of diamonds accompanied by a small loop, and the chape with a further diamond-set flowerhead 18.8 cm; 7 ⅜ in blade £4000-6000 41 A NEPALESE SILVER-MOUNTED DAGGER (KUKRI), LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY with characteristic curved blade, hardwood grip carved in the centre and iron cap pommel, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with large silver mounts each chased with scrolling foliage, complete with plaited silver suspension chain, and leather pouch (now loose) with two accompanying small daggers (one missing its grip) 31.5 cm; 12 ⅜ in blade £150-200 42 A CEYLONESE SILVER-MOUNTED DAGGER (PIHA KAETTA), 18TH CENTURY with iron blade of flattened-triangular section formed with a fuller along the back-edge, the lower portion of the blade applied with silver-encrusted scrollwork and enclosed by silver-plated brass decorated with traditional foliage and flowers extending from a brass ferrule en suite, carved hardwood grip retained by three pairs of brass rivets, two pairs with decorative silver washers, and pommel cap decorated en suite; in its wooden scabbard with large silver locket decorated with a band of scrollwork at the top 18.0 cm; 7 ⅛ in blade

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43 A FINE NORTH INDIAN JADE-HILTED DAGGER (PESH KABZ), THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with finely watered single-edged blade formed with a reinforced back-edge, inlaid with a silver inscription and a cartouche filled with scrolling flowers and foliage at the forte on each face, the back-edge with a further inscription and lotus flowers, finely figured dark green hilt, perhaps Serpentine, formed with semicircular mouldings at the base above a slender silver ferrule, faceted grip and rounded pommel, in its red velvet-covered wooden scabbard bound with silver, with silver locket and chape, the latter with delicate scrolling terminal and the former with an openwork design involving a lotus leaf beneath a band of roping carrying a pierced faceted bead for suspension and beadwork at the mouth 22.7 cm; 9 in blade The inscriptions include, at the forte, the first four caliphates of Islam and the Companions of the Prophet, Abou Bakar, Umer, Usman, Haider (or Ali) and Allah, Muhammad and Ali, the latter three show that this was carried by a follower of the Shia school of thought. The inscriptions on the back-edge read shahir (shahhir), Madani, Chhazar and Junaid.

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44 AN INDIAN DAGGER (PESH-KABZ), 19TH CENTURY with tapering blade formed with a reinforced back-edge of Tsection, silvered brass hilt and a pair of ivory grip-scales (age cracks) retained by four rivets, in its green-stained fishskincovered scabbard with silvered brass mounts including fluted bud-shaped chape 31.2 cm; 12 ⅜ in blade

47 AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY with tapering blade swelling slightly towards the point, etched in imitation of watered pattern within a pair of broad shallow converging fullers on each face, gilt-iron hilt comprising a pair of fluted side bars and a pair of moulded grip-bars, in its leathercovered wooden scabbard (small losses) 17.4 cm; 6 ⅞ in blade

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45 AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), 18TH CENTURY with tapering blade formed with a reinforced tip (restored) and a central rib, etched with a pattern in imitation of watering on each face, iron hilt with later gilt finish, comprising a pair of near rectangular side bars and a pair of faceted grip-bars, in a fabriccovered wooden scabbard 22.8 cm; 9 in blade

48 AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR) WITH DECORATED BLADE, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN with tapering blade formed with a reinforced tip, chiselled with scrolling lotus flowers and foliage within a broad central panel and etched in imitation of a watered pattern on each face, iron hilt formed of a pair of tapering side bars and moulded faceted gripbars each with pierced terminals 19.5 cm; 7 ¾ in blade

£300-400

£150-200 46 AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), 19TH CENTURY with curved double-edged blade formed with a reinforced tip, chiselled with a slender foliate moulding in a recessed panel on each side at the forte, iron hilt of characteristic form including a pair of sidebars chiselled and encrusted with gold foliage around the borders and terminating in flowerheads, and a pair of gripbars with further gold flowers (small losses) 17.0 cm; 6 ¾ in blade £250-300

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49 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), 18TH CENTURY with European fullered blade, iron hilt extending to a pair of shaped panels enclosing each side of the forte, a pair of moulded side bars of elliptical section, and a pair of baluster grip-bars joined by two globular mouldings (pitted) 31.5 cm; 12 ⅜ in blade £100-150

50 AN INDIAN DAGGER (KARD) AND THREE FURTHER DAGGERS, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY the first with tapering single-edged blade and a pair of ivory grip-scales, in its hardwood scabbard with large brass chape; the second a Gurka kukri knife, with broad blade, carved hardwood grip and two accompanying knives (scabbard missing); the third with curved blade and brass stirrup hilt in the European manner, including monsterhead pommel, in its leather scabbard, the fourth with curved double-edged blade, hardwood grip, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with large brass mounts the first: 20.5 cm; 8 in blade (4) ~ £300-400 51 A NORTH INDIAN OR AFGHAN KHYBER KNIFE, MID-19TH CENTURY with sharply tapering single-edged blade formed with a reinforced back-edge and two fullers of differing length on each face, silver hilt comprising faceted ferrule, back-strap inscribed ‘D.Willder (?) I.N. H.E.I.C.s. S.Queen Ning-Po China Oct 14th 1841’ (the inner strip loose), and a pair of ribbed horn gripscales retained by iron rivets, in its wooden scabbard covered with tooled leather (losses) and large engraved brass chape with bud-shaped finial 55.5 cm; 21 ⅞ in blade The East India Company’s Steamer ‘Queen’ was one of the Indian Navy warships involved in the capture of Ning-po, 13th October 1841, during the First China (or Opium) War. £300-400 52 EIGHT INDIAN CHETTIAH PALM LEAF SCRIBES KNIVES, TAMIL NADU, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY each with folding scribe’s spike, and folding blade, three with brief inscriptions, seven with moulded ivory bodies, and the eighth of wood the largest: 8.5 cm; 3 ⅜ in overall (8) ~ £150-200 53 AN INDIAN COMPOSITE MACE, 19TH CENTURY with bulbous head fitted with numerous spikes, four shaped flanges and a terminal spike, slender haft formed in three sections with moulded divisions, hilt with figure-of-eight shaped guard, broad knuckle-guard, cup-shaped pommel and long attenuated button 87.0 cm; 34 ¼ in overall £1600-2000 54 TWO INDIAN IRON ELEPHANT GOADS (ANCUS), 18TH/19TH CENTURIES of characteristic form, the first with tapering crescentic hook, the haft decorated with raised mouldings, with a loop for suspension and swelling at the base; the second with faceted haft the first: 51.0 cm; 20 ⅛ in overall (2)

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55 55 A CASED ARAB PRESENTATION GOLD-MOUNTED DAGGER (JAMBIYA), 20TH CENTURY with curved polished double-edged blade formed with a medial ridge, gold-covered hilt with a band of filigree at the base, engraved with flowers and foliage against a punched ground within a linear frame, in its original scabbard decorated on the outer face with the arms of Saudi Arabia, and with foliage en suite within beadwork and filigree frames, the inside struck with a brief inscription, and with two rings for suspension, in its padded case, the inside of the lid with a brief inscription, the outside set with the arms of Saudi Arabia in gold, and with a piece of paper inscribed ‘gold dagger presented by His Royal Highness Prince Saud Abdulah Al-Faisal 1991’ 16.3 cm; 6 ½ in blade £800-1000 56 AN ARAB DAGGER (JAMBIYA), FIRST QUARTER OF THE 20TH CENTURY with curved medially ridged blade, silver hilt decorated with filigree and beadwork designs, horn grip, entirely faced with silver on the inner face, in its silver encased scabbard decorated en suite with the hilt, with pronounced chape, set with four red pastes 18.5 cm; 7 ¼ in blade

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60 A FINE CAUCASIAN GOLD INLAID IVORY AND SILVER-MOUNTED PRESENTATION SABRE (SHASQA) AND WHIP, KUBACHI, LATE 19TH CENTURY with curved blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a series of fullers along the back edge, encrusted in gold with Arabic couplets on each face, silver gilt and nielloed hilt chased with scrolling foliage against a finely matted ground within beadwork frames, the pommel set with an ivory plaque inlaid with gold (small losses, the inner plaque expertly restored), in its original silver gilt and nielloed scabbard decorated en suite with the hilt, the inner face with elaborate panels of niello scrolling foliage enclosing embossed and chased cartouches within foliate and beadwork frames, two silver rings for suspension, and in very good to fine condition, the whip formed of a tapering sections of ivory finely inlaid with cartouches filled with gold flowers and foliage, with silver grip and upper terminal each of chased nielloed and gilt silver, with a leather tail, both in a modern Asprey & Co lined and fitted case the sword: 75.2 cm; 29 ⅝ in blade The couplets read: “zada dawlat sahib hadha alsayf wa ‘umrahu / wa qadrahu wa baraka fi ‘iyalihi yawm fa-yawm” (“May the fortune and life of the owner of this sword increase / And his stature, and [God] bless his family every day.”) and “w’anala maqsad fi’l-’izz bi’l-farah w[a]’lghurur / wa ballaghahu ila darajat al-’ula” (“Grant him [his] goal in glory and in joy and pride, And make him attain the ranks of exaltedness.”) ‡ ~ £10000-14000

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VARIOUS OWNERS 61 A CAUCASIAN DAGGER (KINDJAL), DATED 1342 AH (CIRCA 1923) with double-edged blade formed with an off-set fuller on each face and a short inscription including the date on the front, russet iron hilt finely inlaid with a symmetrical dense pattern of gold scrolling foliage over the sides and at the front, with two pronounced faceted rivets, and the inner face decorated with further designs of scrolling foliage, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with large russet iron mounts decorated en suite with the hilt 37.8 cm; 14 ⅞ in blade £1000-1500 62 A CAUCASIAN SHORTSWORD (KINDJAL), LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY with broad double-edged blade etched with scrollwork in a series of three long fullers on each face (areas of light pitting), characteristic hilt encased in silver decorated with beadwork, filigree and niello, in its scabbard decorated en suite with the hilt, the outer face with a symmetrical arrangement of scrolling flowers and foliage within niello frames and the inner with scrolls of niello foliage, and a loop for suspension 35.0 cm; 13 ¾ in blade ‡ £400-500

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63 A LARGE PERSIAN SHORTSWORD (QADDARE), QAJAR, 19TH CENTURY with broad slightly curved blade double-edged at the point, formed with a long broad and two long slender fullers along the back-edged on each face, struck with three celestial marks each filled with calligraphy and a further panel of engraved calligraphy on the front at the forte, and the hilt retaining its rivets and decorative washers for a grip (now missing), and a portion of the hilt’s silver border (detached) 66.5 cm; 26 ¼ in blade ‡ £200-300 64 AN OTTOMAN AXE, 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY TURKEY, WITH LATER DECORATION with large crescentic head engraved with flowers and foliage on each face and with animals on the front, and blackened cane haft (cracks) applied with large low domed brass bosses 128.0 cm; 50 ⅜ in overall £250-350

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65 A FINE OTTOMAN SWORD (SHAMSHIR), TURKEY, FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade of finely watered steel, decorated in gold koftgari with calligraphic panels joined by flowers and scrolling foliage along the back-edge and on each face of the forte (small losses), silver-gilt hilt cast and chased with elaborate bouquets of flowers and foliage against a delicately punched ground, comprising a pair of recurved quillons with scrolling terminals, a pair of langets, back-strap, a pair of foliate washers on each side of the pommel and original gilt knuckle-chain, figured horn grip retained by brass rivets, in its black leathercovered wooden scabbard with large silver-gilt mounts cast and chased en suite with further trophies-of-arms, bouquets and trophies-of-hunting, comprising locket with terminal matching the quillons, middle-band and chape each with a ring for suspension 79.5 cm; 31 ¼ in blade A Turkish shamshir with hilt and scabbard decorated in a very similar manner is preserved in the Stibbet Museum, Florence (inv. 6433). See Robinson 1973, illus. 54b, and p. 209 no. 137. £6000-8000 66 AN OTTOMAN SILVER-MOUNTED SWORD (SHAMSHIR), TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade of finely watered steel (small areas of staining and light rust), borderengraved marked silver hilt (loose) comprising a pair of straight quillons with bud-shaped terminals, a pair of langets (one chipped), back-strap, and a pair of rhinoceros horn grip-scales retained by three pairs of rivets, rising to a pierced bulbous pommel fitted with a washer on each face, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with large silver mounts comprising chape, two bands with rings for suspension and locket, all lightly engraved with border ornament and foliage and the latter retaining its locking catch 81.5 cm; 32 ⅛ in blade ~ £500-700

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69 67 AN OTTOMAN SWORD WITH RHINOCEROS HORN HILT, TURKEY, LATE 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged French blade formed with two near full length fullers on each face, the rearmost with three long slender central flutes, iron hilt comprising down-curved quillon, a pair of langets and knuckle-guard, and the grip fitted with a pair of rhinoceros horn grip-scales rising to a large bulbous pommel (small repairs) 81.8 cm; 32 ¼ in blade ~ £500-700 68 AN OTTOMAN SWORD WITH RHINOCEROS HORN HILT, TURKEY, LATE 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged French blade formed with two near full length fullers on each face, the rearmost with three long slender central flutes and with traces of etched decoration on one face, iron hilt comprising down-curved quillon, a pair of langets and knuckle-guard, and the grip fitted with a pair of rhinoceros horn grip-scales rising to a large bulbous pommel (small repairs) 80.2 cm; 31 ⅝ in blade ~ £500-700 69 AN OTTOMAN CORAL-AND TURQUOISE-MOUNTED DAGGER (JAMBIYA), NORTH AFRICA, MID-19TH CENTURY with curved double-edged blade formed with two slender central fullers and decorated with gold koftgari foliage and brief inscriptions on the forte on each face, silver hilt chased with flowers and foliage on the inner face and profusely encrusted with corals and turquoises in raised setting on the outer, in its scabbard decorated en suite, with scaly bud-shaped chape (small losses) 24.7 cm; 9 ¾ in blade The inscriptions give three of the names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus as well as that of their dog Qitmir.

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72 A PERSIAN DECORATED ARMOUR, QAJAR, MID-19TH CENTURY comprising helmet (kulah-khud), shield (dhal) and arm defence (bazu-band), each decorated over the greater part of its outer surface with a densely engraved pattern of scrolling flowers and foliage enclosing cartouche-shaped panels filled with engraved silver-encrusted flowers and foliage within gold frames, the perimeter of the dhal and the base of the kulah khud incorporating calligraphic cartouches, the kulah khud fitted with characteristic central spike, plume-holders, nasal bar, and mail neck defence, and the dhal with four bosses corresponding to enarmes 30.5 cm; 12 in high, the kulah khud 45.0 cm; 17 ¾ in diameter, the dhal 33.5 cm; 13 ¼ in the bazu band (3) £3500-4500

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73 A PERSIAN DECORATED PART ARMOUR, QAJAR, 19TH CENTURY comprising helmet (kulah khud), with hemispherical skull fitted at its apex with a spike, at the front with a pair of plume-holders, sliding nasal-bar secured by a thumb-screw, and mail neck-defence of butted links; shield (dhal) of shallow convex form, fitted with four domed bosses corresponding on the inside to enarmes; arm-defence (bazu band), of gutter-shaped form, retaining its two wrist plates attached by mail (losses); decorated throughout with expanded flowerheads within a trellis framework of foliage, and the kulah khud and dhal each encircled with calligraphic panels (areas of patination and light pitting throughout) the helmet: 38.0 cm; 15 in high (3) £600-800 74 A MAIL SHIRT, 18TH/19TH CENTURY, NORTH AFRICAN OR EASTERN formed of solid wire links of half-circular-section alternating with flattened riveted links, open at the front, and with a pair of full sleeves (losses and holes) £200-300

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75 AN INDO-PERSIAN SHIELD (DHAL), MID-19TH CENTURY of shallow convex form, fitted with four domed bosses corresponding to enarmes on the inside, the outer faces each decorated with gold koftgari birds, the central portion of the outer face left plain, and the border decorated with a concentric arrangement of panels filled with gold koftgari flowers, leaves and calligraphy, plain turned edge, and an early lining 36.5 cm; 14 ⅜ in diameter The inscriptions include unidentified Persian verses and ‘amal-i ‘abbas (“Work of ‘Abbas.”) ‡ £1000-1500

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76 A PERSIAN HELMET (KULAH KHUD), QAJAR, FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY with hemispherical skull fitted at its apex with a sharply tapering spike on a moulded base, at the front with a pair of tubular plume-holders with a staple between, the latter retaining a sliding nasal bar secured by a thumb-screw, decorated with a band of courtly hunting scenes around the base, the mounts enriched with gold koftgari, early padded lining, and mail neck-defence of butted iron links 32.5 cm; 12 ¾ in high

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78 A PERSIAN HELMET (KULAH-KHUD), QAJAR, LATE 19TH CENTURY with etched hemispherical skull decorated with calligraphic panels around the base and large panels of scrolling foliage and flowers above, fitted at its apex with a sharply tapering spike on a moulded base, at the front with a pair of plume-holders (that on the left incomplete) with a staple between, the latter retaining a sliding nasal bar secured by a later screw, and mail neck-defence of butted iron rings (small losses) 26.6 cm; 10 ½ in high

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79 AN INDIAN LACQUERED HIDE SHIELD (DHAL), 19TH CENTURY of low convex form, the inside painted red and decorated with a gilt border, fitted with two pairs of iron rings for enarmes, the outer surface painted in polychrome with a central rondel filled with flowers and foliage within a gilt border, a broad band left natural, and the perimeter en suite with the centre, fitted with four corresponding brass bosses 64.5 cm; 25 ½ in diameter £250-300 80 AN INDIAN LACQUERED HIDE SHIELD (DHAL), 19TH CENTURY of low convex form, the inside painted red and decorated with a gilt border, fitted with two pairs of iron rings for enarmes, the outer surface painted in polychrome with a central rondel filled with flowers and foliage within a gilt border, a broad band of green scrollwork, and the perimeter en suite with the centre (small losses), fitted with four corresponding brass bosses 63.0 cm; 24 ¾ in diameter £250-300

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81 AN INDIAN SMALL LACQUERED HIDE SHIELD (DHAL), 19TH CENTURY of low convex form, the inside painted red and decorated with gilt flowers within a gilt border, fitted with two pairs of iron rings for enarmes, the outer surface painted in polychrome with a central rondel filled with flowers and foliage within a gilt border, a broad band of green foliage, and the perimeter en suite with the centre, fitted with four corresponding brass bosses 32.3 cm; 12 ¾ in diameter £150-200 82 A PERSIAN SHIELD (DHAL), QAJAR, 19TH CENTURY of shallow convex russet iron, fitted with four domed bosses corresponding to enarmes on the inside, the outer surface chiselled over its surface with cartouches of courtly figures highlighted in gold enclosed by running bands of foliage and flowers, scalloped border and plain turned edge 44.3 cm; 17 ½ in diameter ‡ £200-300

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83 A SOUTH EAST AUSTRALIAN WOODEN PARRYING SHIELD, VICTORIA, 20TH CENTURY of characteristic form, slightly curved and rounded at the terminals, the outer face carved with geometric fluting and the inner with a single integral grip (small chips) 64.8 cm; 25 ½ in overall £80-120

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84 A RARE INDIAN MOTHER-OF-PEARL POWDER-FLASK, PROBABLY GURJARAT 18TH CENTURY of ‘Turban’ form, the top encircled by a frieze of shaped panels (small repairs and losses), the top formed of a circular arrangement of shaped panels surrounded by red enamel, fitted with russet iron nozzle on a large pierced shaped bracket all decorated with gold-encrusted foliage and with spring closure

86 AN OTTOMAN DECORATED HOLSTER, TURKEY, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY the interior lined in green velvet, the exterior of red velvet embroidered with flowers and foliage in gold thread, the flap secured by a turning copper ring, on a matching belt with brass buckle 17.8 cm; 7 in high, the holster exterior

‡ £1400-1800

£120-180 87 A RARE BRITISH NEW GUINEA STONE CLUB, COLLINGWOOD BAY, 19TH CENTURY with black stone disc-shaped head pierced with a central hole (small chips), and long wooden haft bound with plaited rattan at the top (feathers missing, haft cracked), with early pasted paper inventory tag 91.0 cm; 35 ¾ in overall £250-350

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88 A .577/.450 CALIBRE MARTINI HENRY BREECH-LOADING CARBINE BY FIELD RIFLE COMPANY, BIRMINGHAM, ADAPTED FOR USE IN YEMEN, LATE 19TH CENTURY AND A RARE AFRICAN DECORATED HIDE HOLSTER, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY the first of regulation specifications, with sighted barrel, dated action (rubbed), carved stock of traditional form enriched with numerous nails, and the fore-end retained by decorative silver and brass bands, together with contemporary stitched hide holster, decorated with bands of metal beads and coloured tassels (small tears and losses) the first: 61.0 cm; 24 in barrel (2) £300-400 89 A 28 BORE NORTH AFRICAN SNAPHAUNCE MUSKET (MUKHALA), MOROCCO, 19TH CENTURY with tapering barrel formed in two stages (shortened) and retained by four engraved brass bands, engraved breech struck with marks in imitation of proof, engraved tang, flat lock inlaid with engraved brass panels, full stock inlaid with silver wire, including a brief inscription ahead of the lock and a further inscription opposite, pronounced butt, with lightwood cap, and brass trigger-guard (ramrod missing) 105.2 cm; 41 ½ in barrel The inscriptions read: “bi-niyat al-jihad in sha’a allah” (“God willing, with the intention of holy war”) and possibly a name “Hajj Samsam”. £250-300

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90 AN 18 BORE AFRICAN PERCUSSION MUSKET, THE LOCK DATED 1855 from a British military musket, with tapering sighted barrel retained by numerous decorated brass bands, regulation dated lock with crowned ‘VR’ cypher and ‘Tower’, full stock partly encased in white metal and brass, regulation brass trigger-guard, and the butt fitted with a large pad 39 cm; 99 in barrel £100-150 91 A 54 BORE NORTH AFRICAN (KABYLE) SNAPHAUNCE MUSKET, 19TH CENTURY with tapering sighted barrel retained by numerous engraved silver bands, characteristic flat lock, full stock applied with silver scrollwork enriched with red pigment and large domed silver nails, pronounced butt inlaid with engraved bone, bone butt-plate, silver trigger-guard, a single sling swivel with a small silver coin and iron ramrod 105.7 cm; 41 ⅝ in barrel £100-150

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92 A FINE 20 BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR), EARLY 19TH CENTURY with tapering swamped sighted barrel of pattern-welded iron of spiralling chevron design, encrusted with silver scrollwork at the muzzle and breech and retained by seven slender brass bands, the breech with integral pan with brass pivot-cover, standing backsight, the action enclosed by large brass panels (that on the left losses), brass serpentine, pierced iron trigger, full stock carved beneath the fore-end, slender faceted butt profusely inlaid with carved ivory panels decorated with courtly hunting scenes involving mounted archers, antelope and lions, all within a framework of ivory foliate panels enriched with pellets, the spine of the butt inlaid with small panels filled with expanded flowerheads, ivory butt-cap carved with a lotus flower (chipped), a pair of iron sling swivels, and iron ramrod 122.6 cm; 48 ¼ in barrel

94 A 16 BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK MUSKET, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with strongly swamped sighted multi-stage barrel retained by numerous silver wire bands, chiselled over its entire length with a long panel filled with animals and exotic beasts divided by a slender sighting rib, the lower edges framed by foliage and the whole highlighted with gold against a finely matted ground (losses, areas of pitting), robust breech incorporating the backsight and pan, the latter with pivot-cover, action enclosed by chiselled iron plates en suite with the breech, iron trigger decorated with a running beast, full stock with early dark green painted finish, fluted behind the breech (lifting), slightly curved butt with wedge-shaped spine, a single silver sling swivel, and iron ramrod 145.0 cm; 57 ⅛ in barrel £900-1200

~ £1500-2000 93 AN 11 BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR), EARLY 19TH CENTURY with swamped tapering barrel of pattern-welded iron of ‘twist’ design (fore-sight missing), finely chiselled with flowers and foliage highlighted in gold at the breech and muzzle, the former incorporating the pan (pivot-cover missing) and back-sight, retained by later string binding in six places, action enclosed by a pair of slender pierced foliate iron panels, iron serpentine and solid trigger, full stock, slender rounded butt enriched with ivory inlays (restorations), a pair of iron sling swivels, and iron ramrod 126.2 cm; 49 ¾ in barrel

95 A 20 BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK MUSKET (TORADOR), 19TH CENTURY with swamped sighted barrel octagonal over the breech and with a vase-shaped muzzle, each chiselled, and retaining traces of soft metal decoration, the former with integral pan with pivot-cover, action enclosed by large iron plaques, full stock overlaid with panels of engraved bone about the tang (chips), horn butt-cap, and two sling swivels (ramrod missing) 130.0 cm; 51 ¼ in barrel £80-120

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96 A PAIR OF 18 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED OTTOMAN BALKAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER (KUBUR) PISTOLS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY PRIZREN with minor differences, each with tapering barrel, one profusely decorated with gold koftgari scrollwork, flowers and stylised inscriptions, the other engraved with foliage and stamped in imitation of proof marks, muzzles each retained by a broad silver sheaths chased with scrollwork and set with three nielloed diamond-shaped panels on the top and with silver filigree over the fore-ends beneath, engraved locks, one stepped the other bevelled and chiselled with foliage, full stocks entirely encased in panels of silver filigree enriched with pronounced beadwork designs, the butts decorated en suite, each set with three corals, three diamond-shaped nielloed panels and fitted with spurred pommels, and chased trigger-guards decorated with niello and beadwork, and imitation ramrods, together with a contemporary brass-tipped iron ramrod, with worm enclosed by a threaded brass cap 34.5 cm; 13 ⅝ in barrels (3) ~ £3500-4500

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97 A PAIR OF 20 BORE HIGHLY DECORATED OTTOMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER (KUBUR) PISTOLS, TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY with blued barrels formed in two stages, decorated in gold with conventional foliage, crescents and anthemion over the forward section, octagonal and decorated with dense gold scrollwork over the breeches, the breech tangs and locks each decorated with gold en suite with the breeches, the latter fitted with matching cocks and semi-rainproof pans (one side nail missing), full stocks profusely inlaid with silver wire scrolls sown with pellets, iron mounts decorated en suite with the breeches, comprising solid side-plates, spurred pommels, trigger-guards with leaf-shaped finials, rear ramrod-pipes and imitation ramrods, and in very good to fine condition throughout 27.5 cm; 10 ¾ in barrels (2)

98 A 32 BORE OTTOMAN FLINTLOCK PISTOL, BALKANS, 19TH CENTURY with strongly swamped barrel decorated with silver koftgari, tang decorated en suite and incorporating the back-sight, engraved lock (cock incomplete), half-stock, and brass mounts including near conical pommel with flowerhead cap (trigger-guard missing), and brass simulated ramrod 29.5 cm; 11 ⅝ in barrel ‡ £300-400

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99 A CAUCASIAN MIQUELET-LOCK BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY with etched twist barrel flaring towards the muzzle and retained by two broad silver bands, characteristic flat lock, figured stock inlaid with small bone plaques about the tang and opposite the lock, and ivory butt-cap shaped brass bracket with a loop for suspension 22.8 cm; 9 in barrel ~ £600-800

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100 AN 18 BORE OTTOMAN BALKAN FLINTLOCK KUBUR PISTOL, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BOKA KOTORSKA FOR THE GREEK MARKET with tapering barrel formed in three stages, retained by a broad silver muzzle band chiselled with flowers and foliage within a strapwork frame and incorporating the fore-sight (tang screw missing), sparsely engraved bevelled lock, full stock encased in silver chiselled with flowers, bouquets, trophies-of-arms and foliage within a strapwork frame on a punched ground, butt decorated en suite and with integral pommel, moulded silver trigger-guard and imitation ramrod 32.0 cm; 12 ⅜ in barrel See Elgood 1995, pp. 96 no 097. £700-900

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101 A PAIR OF 20 BORE BALKAN MIQUELET-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY with tapering barrels, one formed with a flat and the other incised with foliage and inlaid with brass, retained by chased muzzle bands, iron locks of characteristic form, full stocks encased in engraved silvered sheet brass chased throughout with scrolls en suite with the muzzle bands, curved butts with attenuated pommels of ‘rat tail’ form, matching trigger-guards, and imitation ramrods 30.2 cm; 12 in barrels (2) £700-1000

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102 A 18 BORE OTTOMAN LONG FLINTLOCK HOLSTER (KUBUR) PISTOL, BALKANS, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with tapering barrel formed in three stages, struck with a proof mark on the left of the breech, chiselled with scrolling foliage, retained by a brass band chiselled with scrolling foliage and incorporating the fore-sight (tang screw missing), rounded lock chiselled with foliage, full stock encased in gilt brass decorated en suite with the muzzle band (the area behind the lock and over the butt now missing), brass mounts comprising spurred pommel and imitation ramrod (triggerguard replaced) 31.6 cm; 12 ½ in barrel £400-600

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European Edged Weapons 103 A BRUNSWICK STATE TWO-HAND PROCESSIONAL SWORD OF THE GUARD OF JULIUS, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK AND LÜNEBURG IN WOLFENBÜTTEL (1528-89), N.4 DATED 1574 with straight double-edged blade of flattened diamond-section, rectangular ricasso formed with a pair of slender up-turned lugs in the middle, one stamped with a wheel mark, boldly incised with the crowned Ducal monogram, the number and the date vertically divided by a gibbet within a linear frame on each side, iron hilt comprising a pair of ribbon-like quillons each interrupted by a fish-shaped moulding and engraved with scrolling foliage, widening and curled forward and back at the respective downcurved terminals, a pair of small flat engraved serpentine lugs at the base, engraved inner and outer ring-guards each interrupted with three baluster mouldings and filled with a saltire, the former with thumb-ring, thick pierced crutch-shaped pommel engraved with a central panel of trellis and scrolling foliage, the top decorated with a scale pattern, and later leather-covered wooden grip (expertly restored) 130.8 cm; 51 ½ in blade This sword forms part of the well documented group made for Duke Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1528-1589) in 1573 and 1574. The prototype was probably that made by Wolf Gabriel and delivered to the court in 1573. Another sword from this group dated 1574 and numbered 237 was sold in this room 8th December 2010, lot 155.

Duke Julius’s reign brought considerable wealth to the Duchy through a number of activities including mining and metalworking. The armourers of Brunswick and the local area flourished during this period and the armoury was a highlight of the tours of the ducal castle in Wolfenbüttel, being specifically mentioned as such in 1578. A near contemporary description reflects its considerable holdings within: ‘Lange Rüstkammer, Kleine Kammer nach dem Zimmerhof, Harnischkammer, Lange Kammer und Oberste Kammer’. £12000-18000

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104 A RARE TWO-HAND SWORD FOR FIELD COMBAT, GERMAN OR SWISS, CIRCA 1530-40 with broad, near-flat, double-edged blade coming to a short point, one side with running wolf mark retaining some latten inlay, and with traces of marks or letters cut along the edges of the ricasso, iron hilt formed with a robust faceted crosspiece spirally fluted towards both ends, with button terminals and a rectangular solid plate over the central section, stopper-shaped pommel, and original leather-covered two-stage grip bound with a leather outer layer over cords (the outer layer probably 16th century also) 109.2 cm; 43 in blade Provenance The Armoury of the Princes Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Schloss Langenburg, sold in this room December 2014, lot 176. ÂŁ4000-6000

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VARIOUS OWNERS 105 A GERMAN TWO-HAND PROCESSIONAL SWORD, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with double-edged blade of flattened-hexagonal section swelling towards the tip and formed with a short serrated edge, rectangular ricasso engraved with wavy lines and punched dots, iron hilt comprising a pair of straight flat quillons swelling towards the terminals, formed with a pair of lugs above and beneath and incised with pairs of lines, inner and outer ringguards each swelling towards the centre, incised with a pair of lines and filled with a plate, later globular pommel and later turned wooden grip 113 cm; 44 ½ in blade Provenance The Hanoverian Royal Collections, Schloss Marienburg, Lower Saxony, sold in this room 29th June 2011, lot 275. £2000-3000

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PROPERTY FROM A CENTRAL EUROPEAN COLLECTION 106 A FINE GERMAN EXECUTIONER’S SWORD, DATED 1684 with broad heavy double-edged blade formed with a characteristic rounded tip, etched at the forte with Christ crucified, the inscription ‘Justicia’, three men suspended from a gibbet, an execution scene and a pious inscription on one side, and with Christ crucified, a wheel dividing further pious inscriptions and an oval panel filled with verse including the date on the other (the etching worn), brass hilt comprising a pair of straight moulded quilllons with spirally-fluted globular terminals, incised with the date on one side of the cross-piece and the initials ‘IH’ on the other, and faceted plummet-shaped pommel en suite with the quillons over the upper portion, and retaining its original grip of plaited string (the cross-pieces loose), in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with large brass mounts 83.1 cm; 32 ¾ in blade Provenance E. Oser Collection, Basel, sold Dr.Störi Kunstsalon, Zurich, 6th December 1929, lot 146 Baron Hans de Schulthess (1885-1951) Sold in this room 10th December 2008, lot 123 The inscriptions include: ‘Veracht nit mich und die mein....shaven dich unddied....nie....chavandich und....mich vatheie nit wietumi ....h sicht wer was o.tuay ...ch frumb bist...a anno 1684’ £6000-8000

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107 A RARE SWEPT-HILT RAPIER, LATE 16TH CENTURY, FRENCH OR NORTH ITALIAN with slender blade of flattened-diamond section, rectangular ricasso struck with the bladesmith’s mark, a Maltese cross, on each side, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising down-turned slightly forward-canted quillon with swollen tip, engraved quillonblock chiselled with hairy circular mouldings at the joins with the arms, drawn-out at the base to a scrolling écusson on each side, knuckle-guard with recurved tip chiselled as a gaping hairy monster, upper and lower ring-guards each swelling slightly in the centre, the upper joined to the knuckle-guard by an additional bar and at the base to a pair of arms, trifurcated inner-guard, barrelshaped pommel decorated at the base en suite with the quillon-block (small areas of pitting) , and early grip of plaited wire and ‘Turks’ heads’ 102.3 cm; 40 ⅜ in blade

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Provenance Sold in this room, 7th December 2006, lot 170

£1400-1800

108 A COMPOSITE ITALIAN MULTI-RING RAPIER, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, stamped with a series of letters within a short fuller framed by lines on each face at the forte, grooved ricasso signed ‘Antonio’ and Piccinino’ on the respective faces, symmetrical iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising inner and outer ring-guards of seven concentric bars each swelling slightly in the centre, fitted with a pierced and engraved figure-of-eight shaped plate at the base, a pair of straight quillons swelling towards the terminals, knuckle-guard with an additional bar front and rear, associated pommel from a Pappenheim rapier, and later grip bound with wire between ‘Turk’s Heads’ 106.0 cm; 41 ¾ in blade

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109 A RARE NORTH EUROPEAN ‘PAPPENHEIM’ RAPIER, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with slender blade of flattened-hexagonal section, cut with a short fuller on each face and with traces of an inscription on one side, plain rectangular ricasso, steel hilt of moulded bars, comprising straight quillons swelling at the terminals, knuckle-guard with a swollen moulding in the centre, inner and outer ring-guards of three bars of increasing size from the base, each en suite with the knuckle-guard and the lower two fitted with sprung-in plate finely pierced with a series of stars and circles, the upper ring joined to the knuckle-guard by an additional matching bar, ovoid pommel, and early grip of plaited wire with ‘Turk’s heads’ 115.5cm; 45 ½in blade The construction of the hilt is notable in the adoption of two as opposed to one pair of pierced sprung-in plates. This highly unusual feature was no doubt designed both for protection and additional blade-catching potential.

Provenance Sold in this room, 28th June 2006, lot 296 £3500-4500

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PATRICK KELLY 110 A NORTH EUROPEAN RAPIER, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with slender blade of diamond-section, tapering ricasso, iron hilt of slender bars interrupted with raised mouldings, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons with scrolling terminals (one replaced, outer guard of three bars en suite with the quillons, fitted at the base with a scalloped iron plate , the uppermost joined to the knuckle-guard by two bars, later pommel and grip bound with plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’ 120.0 cm; 47 ¼ in blade £1200-1800

111 A SPANISH CUP-HILT RAPIER, LATE 17TH CENTURY with tapering double-edged slender blade incised with a wavy pattern along the centre on each face at the forte, struck with a mark on the ricasso, iron hilt comprising cup-guard pierced and chiselled with an expanded flowerhead surmounted by a frieze of foliage inhabited by mythical birds and beasts, rising on one side to a panel filled with a crowned double eagle, a pair of straight quillons incised with chevrons at the terminals, a pair of arms decorated en suite at the join, and curved knuckle-guard also en suite, associated ovoid pommel and wooden grip 105.0 cm; 41 ⅜ in blade Provenance J. F. R. Winsbury, sold Christie’s, London, 16th May 1973, lot 104 £1000-1500

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112 A RAPIER IN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with tapering blade formed with a short fuller, iron hilt of rounded bars including a pair of straight quillons, outer ring-guard, knuckle-guard, trifurcated inner-guard and barrel-shaped pommel, and spirally-bound grip of plaited wire 109.5 cm; 43 ⅛ in blade £1000-1500

VARIOUS OWNERS 113 A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER IN EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE with blade of flattened-diamond section stamped ‘Respice’ twice within a short fuller on each side, steel hilt of rounded bars including quillon with swelling down-turned terminal, and fluted ovoid pommel, and wire-bound grip with ‘Turks’ heads’ 98.5cm; 38 ¾in blade £200-300 114 A RARE POLISH SABRE, FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY with curved blade double-edged towards the point, formed with two broad long fullers, the farthest with three further slender grooves in the centre on each face, retaining traces of etched designs at the forte including a celestial motif, iron hilt with stirrup guard, straight quillon with shaped terminal, a pair of langets, thumb-loop formed with a central ridge, knuckle-guard and cap pommel, and leather-covered wooden grip (small cracks 82.5 cm; 32 ½ in blade Provenance The Counts Rostworowski, Cracow Professor Zdislaw Zygulski Jr., by 2009 Jacek Gutowski, as stated by the vendor £1000-1200 115 A SWEDISH INFANTRY SWORD, CIRCA 1685 with tapering double-edged blade of flattened-hexagonal section (the tip shortened), struck with three flowerhead marks on each face at the forte and a proof mark, the letter ‘P’ at the front, rudimentary blackened iron hilt (areas of patination), comprising guard drawn-out to a short straight quillon and pierced at the rear, frontal guard bar and knuckle-guard joined at the top (thumb-loop missing), spherical pommel, and the grip with an early binding of plaited brass wire between ‘Turk’s Heads’ 74.5 cm; 29 ⅜ in blade For a related sword see Kinman 2014, fig. 101, p.71, discussed pp. 72-4. ‡ £400-600

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116 A HUNTING SWORD WITH FINELY INLAID IVORY HILT DATED 1678, PROBABLY DUTCH with earlier broad straight blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a long fuller on each face, etched with a pair of deer, lions and a wild boar on one face and with a scene from the chase on the other, the latter dated 1658, silver hilt comprising a pair of quillons with hound’s head terminals, quillonblock decorated with an openwork woodland scene involving a stag and a doe on the respective faces, cap pommel featuring a hunter taking aim at a stag, and swelling ivory grip inlaid with a rising design of elaborate fruit and foliage inhabited by exotic birds in silver wire, pellets and coloured pigments, and the back inlaid in silver with the inscription ‘PAX:OPTIM:A:R:ERVM:ANNO:1672’ 47.0 cm; 18 ½ in blade The inscription reflects the desire for peace at the outset of the Anglo-Dutch War (1672-4). In 1672 Britain declared war on Holland on 17th March and attacked ships in the Atlantic and the North Sea. The following month France joined Britain and later formed an alliance, against the Dutch, with the Swedes. ~ £1500-2000 117 A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED HUNTING SWORD, CIRCA 1775-81 with tapering blade double-edged towards the point, etched blued and gilt with rococo ornament including a stag on one face and a cockerel on the other, signed in full by the cutler within a pair of panels on each face at the forte (the bluing worn), silver-gilt hilt finely cast and chased in low relief, comprising short quillons and swelling grip rising to a beaked pommel, all pierced with rococo scrolls, flowers and foliage carrying trophies-of-music and trophies-of-war, in its original vellum-covered wooden scabbard with silver-gilt mounts decorated en suite with the hilt (the chape and the lower portion of the scabbard each missing, scabbard with slight shrinkage) 52.8 cm; 20 ¾ in blade Provenance Sotheby’s, London, 26th June 2003, lot 65.

The cutler’s signature reads: ‘Claud au Cocq MD Fourbisseur du Roy et des Ambassadeurs au Loin des Rues De La Comedie Française et Celle de Sl andre des Artes a Paris’. £1000-1400

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118 A GERMAN HUNTING SWORD, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with straight polished blade double-edge towards the point, engraved with a lengthy German inscription relating to the chase on one face at the forte and with the owner’s coat-of-arms (now erased) on the other, the back-edge with the earlier date 1624, gilt-brass hilt cast in low relief, comprising down-turned shell-guard with a hunter and a stag set upon by a pair of hounds, hound’s head quillon, knuckle-guard decorated with a hunter, cap pommel and tapering sharkskin-covered grip, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with giltbrass mounts decorated en suite, comprising chape with a stag running in a wooden landscape and locket with suspension button formed as an oak leaf on a trophy-of-hunting, complete with its accompanying knife with gilt-brass hilt and shagreen grip en suite 61.5 cm; 24 ¼ in blade £1000-1400 119 A GERMAN HUNTING SWORD, MID-18TH CENTURY with curved blade double-edged towards the point, etched over three-quarters of its length with foliage within a broad shallow fuller on each face (lightly cleaned with chemicals), gilt-brass hilt cast in low relief, comprising a pair of quillons with scrollwork terminals, pierced outer ring-guard decorated en rocaille with scrolls and shells, solid grip formed as a stag’s limb rising to a hoof-shaped pommel, decorated at the top and bottom with rococo scrolls and shell ornament en suite with the guard, in its leathercovered wooden scabbard with matching brass mounts, complete with its accompanying knife and fork each en suite with the hilt 55.5 cm; 21 ⅞ in blade £600-800

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120 A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED HUNTING SWORD, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with slightly curved blade double-edged towards the point, etched and gilt with hounds in pursuit of a boar and a stag on the respective faces and each within a framework of strapwork and foliage, silver hilt cast and chased with strapwork and fluting, comprising a pair quillons with globular terminals, outer ring-guard decorated with strapwork and tapering ivory grip of flattened oval section swelling towards the pommel, in its silver-mounted leather scabbard with silver locket and chape, and complete with its accompanying knife and fork, each with ivory grip en suite 35.8 cm; 14 ⅛ in blade ~ £600-800 121 A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED HUNTING SWORD, LATE 18TH CENTURY with double-edged blade formed with a pair of long fullers, signed ‘Coulaux Ainé & Cie’ and ‘Manuf. Nat.de Klingenthal’ on the respective faces at the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, struck with the maker’s mark, in a diamond the letters ‘A.B.’ divided by a dagger, comprising a pair of straight quillons with hound’s head terminals, ferrule decorated with a hunting horn on the front, and fluted horn grip rising to a moulded pommel set with a silver foliate button, in leather-covered wooden scabbard (restored) retaining its original silver locket and chape each en suite with the hilt and decorated with trophies-of-hunting and the former with a stud formed as a wolf’s head 54.4 cm; 21 ½ in blade £500-700 122 A FRENCH HUNTING SWORD, LATE 18TH CENTURY with broad blade formed with a reinforced backedge and clipped-back point, etched with trophies-of-arms, the spurious date ‘1612’ and foliage on one face and with further trophies, celestial motifs and a series of letters on the other, iron hilt comprising thick crescentic guard with notched borders and a central langet fluted back-strap and cap pommel, and moulded ebonised pistol grip 45.5 cm; 18 in blade

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123 A FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED GLAIVE, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with tapering double-edged blade etched and gilt with flowers and foliage on a blued panel at the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising a pair of straight quillons with hound’s head terminals, the quillon-block decorated with a medusa mask on a gilt panel on each face, gadrooned pommel decorated with foliage and the grip en suite, in its original silver scabbard cast and chased with elaborate trophies-of-arms in high relief, struck with St Etienne marks for 1819-38 and the maker’s mark ‘C.C’ within a diamond, the inner face engraved with border ornament, the locket with the later inscription ‘Boutet et Fils a Versaille’ on both faces of the mouth and the outside with the later crowned monogram ‘JN’ (the gilding refreshed, probably added at the same time as the inscriptions) 60.3 cm; 23 ¾ in blade £2500-3000

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127 A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, PARIS 1753/4 with tapering blade retaining some etched decoration (areas of rust), silver hilt finely cast and chased en rocaille in low relief with woodland game hunting scenes against a matted ground (maker’s mark rubbed) comprising double shell-guard, quillon, knuckleguard a pair of arms and globular pommel, and the grip with a later binding of plaited wire between ‘Turk’s Heads’ 79.5 cm; 31 ⅜ in blade

124 A FRENCH SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1760 with tapering hollow-triangular blade, etched and gilt with scrolls, foliage, the inscription ‘Vive le Roy’ and the crowned Royal arms on a trophy-of-arms on a blued panel at the forte, iron hilt cast and chased in low relief against a gilt matted ground, comprising double shell-guard decorated with differing hunting vignettes within frameworks incorporating trees, scrolls, bouquets, oak and vine fruit and foliage, a pair of arms, quillon-block decorated with a hound on each face, globular quillon and knuckle-guard each decorated with rococo scrolls and bouquets, globular pommel decorated with vine fruit and foliage, inhabited by a goat and an ox, and the grip with an early binding of plaited silver wire between ‘Turk’s heads’ 81.0 cm; 32 in blade

£300-400 128 AN ENGLISH SMALL-SWORD WITH CUT-STEEL HILT, LATE 18TH CENTURY with tapering hollow-triangular blade, etched and gilt with trophies-of-arms, scrolls and foliage on a blued and frosted panel over the lower three-quarters, steel hilt profusely studded with minute faceted beads in imitation of brilliants, comprising oval dish-guard with pierced border, a pair of quillons with circular terminals formed as flowerheads, a pair of slender arms, urnshaped pommel and beadwork knuckle-chain (areas of rust), in its original parchment covered wooden scabbard with steel locket, middle-band and chape 83.7 cm; 33 in blade

£500-700 125 A SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON 1756, MARK OF JOSEPH (2) CLARE with colichemarde blade (areas of rust), silver hilt finely cast, pierced and chased in low relief with scrolling foliage and trophies-of-music within a framework of low faceted beads, comprising boatshell guard, a pair of quillons, knuckle-guard and pommel, and the grip with its original binding of plaited silver wire and ribband between chased collars 82.0 cm; 32 ¼ in blade

£250-350 129 A NORTH EUROPEAN SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1770 with tapering blade of hollow-triangular section, gilt-brass hilt cast, pierced and chiselled with openwork designs of foliage within writhen frames, including double shell-guard, knuckleguard (detached), short quillon with globular terminal, and ovoid pommel, and the grip retaining a portion of its binding and ‘Turk’s Heads’, in its fishskin-covered wooden scabbard with brass mounts en suite with the hilt 74.2 cm; 29 ¼ in blade

Joseph Clare (1732-71) is recorded as a gifted hilt maker and the son of the goldsmith of the same name. After his death he was succeded by his widow, Sarah. See Southwick 2001, p. 72. £350-450 126 A NORTH EUROPEAN SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1740 with two-stage blade inlaid with a running pattern of brass flowers and foliage, steel hilt including short quillon with faceted globular terminal (restored), small double shell-guard, knuckleguard interrupted by a faceted spherical moulding, faceted globular pommel, decorated throughout with etched foliage and later grip 78.2 cm; 30 ¾ in blade

‡ £150-200 130 A SMALL HUNTING DAGGER, 19TH CENTURY with tapering single-edged blade, iron cross-piece (losses) with drooping quillon, white metal ferrule and doe’s foot grip, in its white metal-mounted scabbard 10.9 cm; 4 ¼ in blade

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION 131 A FINE KNIFE WITH CARVED IVORY HILT, 17TH CENTURY, GERMAN OR DUTCH with 18th century tapering blade double-edged for its upper half, etched with a green man mask on a scrolling stand on one face at the forte, baluster moulded base enclosed by a moulded silver collar (loose) for securing the grip, the latter carved in the round with the temptation of Adam by Eve with the Serpent between, all within the branches of the Tree of Knowledge with modestly positioned garlands of fruit, the inner face with an elaborate scroll, and in fine condition throughout, in its 18th century silver-mounted scabbard 32.7 cm; 12 ⅞ in overall Provenance The Grand Duchy of Baden Court Library to 1850 The Grand Duchy of Baden Court Art Gallery to 1879 Residenzschloss, Karlsruhe, integrated into the private Collection of the Grand Duke of Baden Neues Schloss, Baden Baden, from 1919 Sold Sotheby’s, Baden-Baden, 5th October 1995, lot 456 Literature Inventarium über die in dem Atelier des Galleriedirectors Frommel befindliche Elfenbein Sammlung, 1854: 121.16 Inventar des Zähringer Museums, Aufgestellt in den Räumen des Kavalierbaues des Grossherzoglichen Schlosses in Baden-Baden, 1919, ff, Inv. Nr. 174 ~ £1500-2000

VARIOUS OWNERS 132 A FINE SOUTH GERMAN DAGGER WITH CARVED IVORY HILT, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with tapering blade of triangular-section, forte of tapering rectangular section, hollowed for the thumb on two edges and chiselled with scrolling foliage, engraved vestigial silver guard decorated en suite with the forte, carved ivory grip (very small chips, repaired), decorated with a vertically arranged hunting scene involving a stag set upon by hounds and a lion, and the pommel carved as a scallop shell, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard (repaired at the base), with silver locket and chape each decorated en suite with the forte 20.0 cm; 7 ⅞ in blade ~ £1000-1200

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PROPERTY FROM A CENTRAL EUROPEAN COLLECTION 133 A RARE GERMAN GOTHIC POL-AXE, SECOND HALF OF THE 15TH CENTURY with moulded head drawn-out to four prongs, stamped with a mark on each side at the top (indistinct, one prong chipped), slightly down-curved robust rear spike chiselled at the base with a pair of petal-like mouldings, the head fitted with a stout transverse spike on each side and central blade of flatteneddiamond section (areas of light pitting, the blade and one spike possibly associated), a pair of long broad straps, on a later faceted wooden haft studded over the greater parts of its surface with fluted brass studs and six stylised bees arranged in two groups 44cm; 17 ⅜in head Provenance Schloss Erbach, Odenwald, sold Galerie Fischer, 1932, lot 23 Baron Hans de Schulthess (1885-1951) Sold in this room 10th December 2008, lot 171 Two related examples are preserved in the Deutsche Historisches Museum, Berlin. See Müller and Kölling 1990, no. 116, 117. £6000-8000

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134 A RARE ETCHED HALBERD FOR THE GUARD OF THE PRINCE ELECTORS OF SAXE-WEIMAR EISENACH, MID-16TH CENTURY with broad central leaf-shaped blade of hollow-diamond section, notched at the base, small crescentic axe-blade, bifurcated rear fluke incorporating an up-turned lug, finely etched over much of its surface on each side with scrolling foliage on a stippled ground, with the full crested arms highlighted in gold on the central blade, and an exotic bird on each side at the base (light wear), a pair of straps, on a later wooden haft 60.2cm; 23 ¾in head

135 A SWISS POL-AXE, LATE 16TH CENTURY with very slightly curved axe-blade formed with diagonal backedges of differing length, and robust rear spike stamped with a mark on each side, on an early wooden haft fitted with two pairs of straps (the lower portion of the haft replaced) 22.5cm; 8 ⅞in head

Provenance Sold in this room, 10th December 2008, lot 174

The mark is probably that of Balthasar Erhardt of Zurich. Another pol-axe by this maker is preserved in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum. See Meier 1982, pp. 232-234.

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Provenance The Bodmer Collection, Schloss Kyburg, circa 1920 Baron Hans de Schulthess (1885-1951) Sold in this room, 10th December 2008, lot 169

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136 A RARE ITALIAN HALBERD, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY VENETIAN with broad central blade engraved with foliage (rubbed), cut with a cusped pattern and fitted beneath with a broad steel collar formed of six vertical loops each interrupted by a chiselled mask, forward leaning axe-blade pierced and engraved with designs of foliage and stylised monsterheads, fitted with a bronze warrior mask on each face, triangular rear fluke pierced and engraved en suite and fitted with a pair of matching bronze masks, fitted with later spiked transverse bolt, a pair of straps (restored), on a later wooden haft 78.5cm; 30 ⅞ in head Provenance Sold in this room, 7th December 2006, lot 214 Another halberd from this distinctive group was sold in this room, 28th June 2006, lot 347. £1500-2000 137 A HALBERD, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ITALIAN with central spike of diamond section stamped with two marks and lightly engraved at the base, engraved crescentic axe-blade pierced with shaped holes and formed with a pair of lugs shaped as bird heads (a pair of spikes missing from the sides), engraved rear spike pierced en suite and formed with a reinforced tip, engraved socket, a pair of long plain straps, on an early chip carved wooden haft 95.5cm; 37 ⅝ in head 137 Provenance Sold in this room 7th December 2006, lot 229

138 A GERMAN HALBERD, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with slender central spike of diamond section, angular head cut with an acute axe-blade, pierced with a series of slipped quatrefoils and formed with a small up-turned lug at the top, rear fluke pierced en suite and stamped with a mark, the letters TD arranged vertically, tapering socket, and a pair of short straps, on a later wooden haft 70cm; 27 ¾in head Provenance Sold in this room 26th June 2007, lot 196 £500-700

VARIOUS OWNERS 139 A NORTH EUROPEAN HALBERD, 17TH CENTURY with leaf-shaped terminal blade formed with a medial ridge, curved axe-blade (small chips top and bottom), rear pean with an additional up-turned lug, tapering faceted socket, a pair of straps (areas of pitting), on a long moulded wooden haft with tassel 39.2 cm; 15 ½ in head Provenance Schloss Ramholz £300-400

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PROPERTY FROM A CENTRAL EUROPEAN COLLECTION 140 A RARE GERMAN (BAVARIAN) STATE GLAIVE (KUSE) FOR THE GUARD OF MAXIMILIAN, ELECTOR OF BAVARIA, CIRCA 1623-51 with knife-like blade double-edged over its upper third, decorated on each face with a large panel covering the greater part of its surface, filled with an elaborate trophy-of-arms, the crowned electoral arms enclosed by the Order of the Golden Fleece, and a further trophy-of-arms beneath, with minute traces of gilding (worn, areas of pitting), tapering moulded socket, a pair of long straps, on is faceted wooden haft with an additional pair of straps 71.0 cm; 28 in head Maximilian I (1573-1651, elector from 1623) received a strict Jesuit education followed by travel in Bohemia and Italy after which he succeeded his father as duke of Bavaria in 1597. The duchy had been administered poorly and was debt ridden but it was soon restored to solvency by the energetic young duke. Under his rule the legal system was revised, an effective army was built and control was tightened over his church and its lands. He established himself as the undisputed leader of the German Catholics during the thirty years war, perhaps in part through his obsessive style of government: “I see to my affairs myself and check my accounts myself” he reportedly told a relative. His determination to achieve religious and political goals played a crucial role in prolonging the war in Germany for thirty years, dying three years after it ended in 1648.

141 A RARE ETCHED PARTISAN OF THE GUARD OF THE ELECTOR FRIEDRICH AUGUST I OF SAXONY, ‘THE STRONG’, CIRCA 1694-97 with central blade of flattened-diamond section, broad base formed of a pair of flat notched flukes, etched at the base with a pattern of scrolling foliage on each side and surmounted on the respective faces with the crowned electoral arms and the initials CFA for Friedrich August Churfürst, moulded collar, faceted socket and a pair of long straps, on a wooden haft painted with an inventory number 60.5cm; 23 ⅞in head Provenance The Saxon Electoral Armoury, Dresden Sold in this room, 26th June 2007, lot 218 Friedrich August I ruled as Elector of Saxony (1694-1733) and twice as King August II of Poland (1697-1704 and 1709-1733).

Similar partisans are preserved in the Wartburg (inv.no. 461) and the Wallace Collection (inv. Nos. A1002 & A1003). Another partisan from this group with the same notable style of etching is preserved in the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin. See Müller and Kölling1981, p.311 no. 395. £1800-2200

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142 A LUGGED SPEAR, LATE 15TH CENTURY, GERMAN OR SWISS with tapering head of flattened-diamond section (tip rounded), recessed at the base and formed with a pair of wing-like lugs, stamped with a cross crosslet mark on each face, tapering socket, and a pair of short straps (one chipped), on a wooden haft 43.7 cm; 17 ⅛ in head

143 AN AUSTRIAN SPONTOON FOR THE GUARD OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES VI, CIRCA 1730 with broad central blade of flatteneddiamond section, pierced at the base with four holes and formed with a pair of upturned lugs, etched and gilt over almost its entire surface with differing trophies-ofarms including a cannon and mortars, and the respective faces with the imperial double eagle charged with the monogram ‘CVI’ on one side and the addorsed crowned imperial cypher ‘CVI’ on the other, moulded tapering socket, and a pair of long straps, on an early wooden haft complete with moulded iron shoe en suite with the socket 35cm; 13 ¾in head

A similar spear, from the armoury at Veste Hohenwerfen and latterly in the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, was sold in this room, 7th May 2014, lot 90. £500-600

144 AN ITALIAN BUTTAFUOCHI, LATE 16TH CENTURY with broad leaf-shaped blade the upper half pierced with three circles and a pair of slots, engraved on each side with a pair of figures, the base pieced with scrolls and fitted with a brass mask on each side and a pair of short lugs at the base (the terminals for holding match now missing), conical socket with a broad steel collar at the top formed of six vertical hoops each interrupted by a chiselled mask, and a pair of steel straps, on a later wooden haft 40cm; 15 ½in head Provenance Sold in this room, 28th June 2006, lot 348 See Boccia and Coelho 1975 nos. 452 and 453. £1000-1400

Provenance The Moser Collection Baron Hans de Schulthess (1885-1951) Sold in this room, 10th December 2008, lot 191 A similar example is preserved in the Vienna City Museum, inv. no. 126.140. £1500-2000

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145 A RARE GERMAN COMBINED HALBERD AND 80 BORE WHEELLOCK PISTOL, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with tapering double-edged terminal blade engraved with linear ornament, flowers and stamped, on one face, ‘HR’, moulded at the base and fitted with a transverse axe-head (the tip of the upper prong chipped) and down-curved rear fluke, tapering socket moulded at the top and fitted with a ring for attaching to the pistol muzzle, the pistol with tapering barrel formed in two stages and retained by a slender iron band (a working replacement, the peg for fixing the head and stock later), faceted breech with a raised brass band at each end and decorated over its outer surface with a small punched design of numerous wave-shaped panels, flat lock retained by two side nails, sparsely engraved on the tail, fitted with external wheel with domed cover, safety-catch, sliding pan-cover with button release and moulded dog, fruitwood stock inlaid with engraved staghorn segmental lines surrounding staghorn plaques decorated with a bird opposite the lock, a pair of figures about the tang and further geometric designs, all enriched with delicate brass wire tendrils, staghorn pellets and engraved mother-of-pearl rondels, fitted beneath the rear of the lock with a shaped horn panel, perhaps a thumb rest (inlay with small losses and repairs), the stock extending to form the haft (shortened), fitted at the top with a turned horn collar and, in the centre, with iron baluster trigger on an engraved staghorn trigger-plate, and inlaid with four slender plaques en suite with the stock over its upper half 116.0 cm; 45 ¾ in, the pistol and haft overall Provenance The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby’s, London, 5th May 1983, lot 161 £4000-6000

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146 A VERY RARE SAXON DECORATED COMBINED GUN REST AND SPEAR, CIRCA 1730, ALMOST CERTAINLY BY JOHANN TOBIAS GRAEFENSTEIN with U-shaped head formed with a recurved flat edge on each side, robust faceted socket moulded at the top, fitted with a long hinged sprung spear blade forming the central spike, secured to the socket by a pierced rectangular lug engaged by a press stud when extended and to the haft by a sliding button when retracted, the head and the blade all finely etched and gilt with scrolling foliage within linear borders, on its original wooden haft with an additional pair of straps and conical steel shoe 76.8cm; 30 ¼in head, when extended Provenance Sold in this room, 10th December 2008, lot 188 An almost identical combined gun rest and spear decorated in the same manner is preserved in the former Electoral Armoury, Dresden, inv. no. T-98. See Lewerken 1989, p. 273, no. 149b.

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION 147 A GERMAN DECORATED PARADE AXE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with wedge-shaped iron head pierced with a slipped quatrefoil and a circle, etched on each face with a large shaped panel filled with scrolling tendrils inhabited by armoured figures and a Turk in contemporary dress accompanied by trophies-of-music and trophies-of-hunting (small areas of wear), the base issuant with a reinforcing D-shaped bar, tapering blackened hardwood haft inlaid with scrolling tendrils carrying ball flowers enriched with small pellets and larger mother-of-pearl pellets, all between segmental lines (small losses and repairs) and ivory basal cap engraved with further tendrils and an espagnolette mask 56.0 cm; 22 in overall

149 A GERMAN DECORATED AXE, DATED 1843 with iron head, one face deeply engraved with traditional designs including the pious inscriptions ‘INRI’ and ‘IHS’, the date, the maker’s stamp, in a heart the letters ‘FZ’, the owner’s name ‘Matthias Wöhre’, an arrangement of flowers and foliage divided by a serpent above the inscription, perhaps ‘Werz ich derachtet will alhirauf disetet den so den dich nur in der stillen mit soit schon desstt werdet’, the other face plain, flat rear pean, short tubular socket, and short wooden haft 56.0 cm; 22 in overall

Provenance The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby’s, London, 5th May 1983, lot 161

150 A GERMAN DECORATIVE IRON HATCHET, 20TH CENTURY, A CONTINENTAL INFANTRY SWORD AND A MACHETE the first perhaps an apprentice piece, with broad single-edged blade struck with the bladesmith’s mark, an anvil charged with the letter ‘B’, on one face, writhen iron hilt incorporating a scrolling guard and a large ring for suspension; the second with slightly curved blade (now seized in its scabbard) and brass stirrup hilt with integral banded grip, in its scabbard (worn); the third with robust broad blade, brass guard and blackened grip, in its scabbard; and a Spanish commemorative sword, Barcelona, dated 1992, and with the Olympics motif at the forte the first: 23.5 cm; 9 ¼ in blade (4)

~ £1000-1500 148 A SAXON MINERS GUILD AXE, DATED 1739 with iron head pierced with a slipped trefoil and two groups of three holes, impressed on one face ‘3889’, extending at the terminal point (cracked) to a brass acorn finial, square rear pean, engraved bone sectional haft decorated over its full surface with eight differing scenes from miners’ lives, after Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch and Blasius Weffring, the topmost section decorated with Christ crucified flanked by a pair of praying miners, the pious inscription ‘Mein grubenlich soll Jesus sein / mit freuden fahr ich aus und ein’ (My inner light shall be Jesus / with joy I travel out and in), the date and an elaborate flower above the crossed swords of the Archmarshallship of the empire and the arms of Saxony on one side and the miners’ emblem, a pair of crossed stone hammers on the other, the basal cap decorated with the figure of Augustus III, Elector of Saxony beneath an electoral bonnet on one face and the mounted figure of Maria Joseph on the other (small chips, basal plaque missing) 84.5 cm; 33 ¼ in overall £600-800

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151 A RARE LANCE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ENGLISH of wood, probably poplar, with long tapering forward section fluted for its rear third, recessed faceted grip, tubular rear section fitted at the front with a leather band retained by iron nails with large flat heads, the whole painted in contrasting dark red and black (small areas of light worm damage and small chips) 336.0 cm; 132 â…? in A number of almost identical lances are preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds, such as inv. no. VII.552, and in the collection of H. M. The Queen at Windsor Castle. It would appear that this lance, along with others in the group, was never fitted with a coronel. ÂŁ1400-1800

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152 A SWISS MODEL 1829/30 BERN SHARPSHOOTER’S SHORTSWORD AND A SWISS VAUD SHARPSHOOTER’S SHORTSWORD, CIRCA 1820/30 the first with broad blade stamped with the conjoined letters ‘AA’ and the number ‘493’ at the forte, and hardwood grips retained by three pairs of rivets with domed brass heads; and the second with straight blade double-edged towards the point, in its scabbard (restorations) the first: 52cm; 20 ½in blade (2) £200-300 153 A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL FENCING EPÉES, LATE 19TH CENTURY with hollow-triangular blades, hemispherical cup-guards, tapering pommels of octagonal section and leather-covered grips bound with plaited wire (worn) 71.0 cm; 28 in blade and 71.8 cm; 28 ¾ in blades (2) £100-150

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154 A GERMAN OFFICER’S SWORD FOR AN ADOLESCENT, MID-19TH CENTURY with curved blade etched with scrolling foliage within a broad long fuller on each face, gilt-brass hilt comprising recurved quillons with scrolling terminals, ovoid langets filled with a classical warrior and foliage on the outer face, and faceted backstrap (repaired) rising to a cap pommel, and chequered hardwood grip (one small crack), in its black leather scabbard tooled and gilt with foliage (worn) with large gilt-brass mounts cast with bold designs of foliage in low relief on the outside and complete with its suspension belt and straps 62.0 cm; 24 ⅜ in blade £400-600 155 A PRUSSIAN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD, LATE 19TH CENTURY of regulation type with slender iron blade, brass hilt with double shell-guard and the grip with a garde-star (rubbed, losses) on one side, in a later brass-mounted leather scabbard 82.8 cm; 32 ⅝ in blade £50-80 156 A RUSSIAN (SOVIET) OTHER RANKS SHASQA, 20TH CENTURY of regulation type, with curved blade numbered ‘1270’ at the forte and with the Soviet insignia, regulation hilt numbered and marked en suite, including pommel with an eagle charged with a hammer and sickle and a star, in its scabbard (bayonet missing) 82.0 cm; 32 ¼ in blade £100-150 157 A GERMAN MODEL 1898 BAYONET AND A FRENCH LEBEL BAYONET of regulation type, the first complete with its scabbard the first: 52.2 cm; 20 ½ in blade (2) £100-150

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158 A RARE FRENCH SABRE FOR A MOUNTED GRENADIER, CIRCA 1804-10 with slightly curved blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a near full-length fuller, struck with inspector’s marks on one face at the forte and with Coulaux Frères Imperial arsenal inscription on the back-edge, regulation brass hilt comprising down-turned quillon decorated with palmette, with traces of Versailles inscription on the inside, outer-guard of three bars incorporating a flaming grenade within a rondel, cap pommel, and leather-covered grip bound with plaited brass wire, in its original wooden scabbard encased in brass, and complete with two rings for suspension 96.0 cm; 37 ¾ in blade By the time of the decree of 28th Floréal An XII (18th May 1804), the Consular Guard became the Imperial Guard and included four squadrons of mounted grenadiers. See Ariès 1966. £800-1000 159 A FRENCH MODEL AN.XI HEAVY CAVALRY SWORD of regulation type, with straight blade formed with a pair of full-length fullers on each face, struck with inspector’s marks on one face at the forte, signed on the back-edge ‘Mre de Klingenthal Coulaux Frères Entreprs’, brass hilt numbered ‘235’ and 735’ on the inside, including three outer bars, knuckleguard and cap pommel, matching inspector’s marks, leather-covered grip (wire binding missing), in its iron scabbard 97.5 cm; 38 ⅜ in blade The Inspectors marks are those of Jean Jaques Mouton and Simon Ferdinand Beaumaretz. See Ariès 1966, 2 fascicule, fig.2, the same marks illustrated. £500-700 160 A FRENCH AN.XI LIGHT CAVALRY OFFICER’S SWORD with curved blade double-edged towards the tip and formed with a long fuller, etched and gilt with trophies, garlands and foliage on a blued panel at the forte and signed ‘S & K’ for Schitzler and Kirschbaum of Solingen, brass triple-bar hilt with down-curved globular quillon, a pair of elliptical langets, and original leather-covered wooden grip with plaited brass wire binding (worn) 84.5 cm; 33 ¼ in blade Provenance: Dr Raymond Wargnier, sold, Sotheby’s Monaco, 23 April 1990, lot 731.

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161 TWO FRENCH CUIRASSIER SWORD SCABBARDS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY each struck with inspector’s marks on the drag of the chape, and with two rings for suspension the first 100.3 cm; 39 ½ in long (2) £100-150 162 AN UNUSUAL NAVAL OFFICER’S DIRK WITH ENAMELLED SCABBARD, MID-19TH CENTURY with straight blade from a regulation sword formed with a clipped-back point, brass hilt comprising pierced slotted double shell-guard, lionhead pommel, fishskin-covered wooden grip set with a fouled anchor involving a pair of addorsed dragons all within a frame of twisted silver wire and foliage beneath a crown, brass back-strap with the later inscription ‘Nemesis 1841-42’, in its copper scabbard decorated with cloisonné enamel comprising polychrome flowers and foliage (small losses), and the inner face with two loops and a ring for suspension 46.5 cm; 18 ¼ in blade £1200-1800 163 A NAVAL OFFICER’S DIRK BY P. & S. FIRMIN, 153 STRAND, LONDON, CIRCA 1839-49 with tapering double-edged blade etched with scrolling foliage, trophies-of-arms and the maker’s details (areas of pitting), gilt-brass hilt comprising foliate cross-guard, lion mask pommel, and turned ivory grip (small cracks), in its leather scabbard with gilt-brass mounts comprising chape, middle-band and locket, the latter two each with a ring for suspension and the locket with the maker’s details 22.5 cm; 8 ⅞ in blade ~ £350-450

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164 THE 1847 PATTERN OFFICER’S AND DRESS SWORDS OF REARADMIRAL JOHN PARRY JONES-PARRY BY J. GALT, HIGH STREET, PORTSMOUTH the first with slightly curved blade double-edged towards the point, etched with scrolling foliage and the crowned Royal Arms on one face and with further foliage, a fouled anchor and the maker’s details ‘J.Galt., High St, Portsmouth’ on the other, solid brass half-basket-hilt with folding side-guard, cast with a fouled anchor on the outside, lionhead pommel in its brass-mounted leather scabbard (now in two pieces), including locket with the maker’s details on a garter enclosing the Royal Arms; the second similar, with etched light-weight blade, in its scabbard the first: 77.7 cm; 30 ⅝ in blade (2)

166 AN 1831 PATTERN GENERAL OFFICER’S SWORD of regulation type, with curved fullered blade, gilt-brass hilt cast in low relief, ivory grip-scales (chipped), in its brass scabbard 79.3 cm; 31 ¼ in blade

Rear-Admiral John Parry Jones-Parry (1829-1920), Lord of the Manor of Thelwall, Cheshire, entered the Navy in 1845, became a mate 17th November 1851 and joined the Excellent (Gunnery school ship) at Portsmouth in June 1852. The following year he was appointed to the Terrible and served in that ship in the Black Sea throughout the war with Russia. He was present at the bombardments of Odessa and Sebastopol. His practical understanding of naval ordnance resulted in his invention of a nonrecoil gun-carriage and mantle that protected the crew. He became a captain on 29th December 1871 and rear-admiral on 1st January 1888. After his retirement he became a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire. By family tradition, the dress sword was worn by JonesParry at the Duke of Wellington’s funeral 18th November 1852.

168 TWO BRITISH HEAVY CAVALRY TROOPER SWORD SCABBARDS, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY of 1796 heavy cavalry pattern type, each with two slender bands and a pair of rings for suspension the first: 91.8 cm; 36 ⅛ in (2)

~ £150-200 167 AN 1856 PATTERN ENFIELD BAYONET of regulation type, the blade etched within the fuller with scrolling foliage and the inscription ‘Old England Defenders’ (worn), iron cross-piece, in its iron-mounted leather scabbard 57.8 cm; 22 ¾ in blade £150-200

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£800-1200 165 A 1796 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY TROOPER’S SWORD of regulation type, with curved single-edged blade by Mole & Sons, Birmingham, iron stirrup hilt marked ‘80HB16 - 604’, banded wooden grip (binding missing), in a contemporary, probably German, iron scabbard 84.4 cm; 33 ¼ in blade £300-400

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Militaria 169 AN OFFICER’S GORGET OF THE GALWAY MILITIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY the inside struck in the centre with the maker’s mark ‘WB’, a pellet between, the outer face engraved in the centre with the full crowned Royal Arms and ‘GR’ in the centre, and on the respective sides with elaborate trophies-of-arms and crossed fronds divided by the inscriptions ‘Galway’ and ‘Militia’ respectively 12.0 cm; 4 ¾ in x 9.5 cm; 3 ¾ in £800-1000 170 A STANDARD BELT OF THE SECOND LIFE GUARDS A post-1902 example. Red velvet bearing three stripes of gold oakleaf lace. Cast gilt-brass mounts with foliate decoration, the buckle with regimental title, the tip bearing battle-honours including South Africa, Paardeberg, and Relief of Kimberley 11.5 cm; 4 ½ in high £200-300

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Armour 172 A RARE EUROPEAN MAIL CAPE OR PISAIN, PROBABLY GERMAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY composed entirely of riveted iron rings, those at the upstanding neck-opening and base of the throat densely arranged in alternating rows of rectangular and half-round-section wire, the remainder of rectangular section wire, well-shaped to the shoulders, extending downwards to an obtuse points at both the front and rear of the waist, and formed with a central opening at the front (small losses) Mail capes such as this, referred to by modern collectors as ‘bishops’ mantles’, were known at the time of their use as ‘pisains’. Two similar examples are in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, Inv. Nos. III. 13 & 14, in one case fitted with a Nuremberg-inscribed brass ring. Another, also opening at the front and now mounted on a so-called ‘Landsknecht armour’ is preserved in the Stibbert Museum, Florence. Others of an early fashion were formerly in the collections of Sir Guy Laking and Felix Joubert. See Laking 1920, Vol. II, figs 5301).

Another example, formerly in the collection of Baron Armand van Zeulen (1838-96) and sold Sotheby’s, London (1st April 1980, lot 81) was sold in this room 26th June 2007, lot 283. £6000-8000

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PATRICK KELLY 173 A FINE NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE-HELMET FOR FIELD USE WITH ETCHED DECORATION, CIRCA 1555-60, PROBABLY MILANESE with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high boldly roped medial comb, fitted at the nape beneath an elaborate escutcheon with a tubular plume-holder, and at the front with a visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached by common pivots having radially-incised lowdomed heads, the forward-sloping visor with a stepped centrally-divided vision-slit pierced at the right of its lower edge with a hole to receive a missing lifting-peg, and the prow-shaped upper bevor cut at the right of its upper edge with a U-shaped notch to accommodate the lifting-peg, pierced at the same side with nine small circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation and fitted at its lower edge with a pierced stud to accommodate a swivel-hook formerly attached at the right of the chin of the lower bevor (hook missing), the lower edges of the skull and bevor each flanged outwards to receive articulated gorget-plates of which only the upper rear one survives, the surface of the helmet etched at the brow, around the ventilation holes of the upper bevor, in a medial band, in its borders and at each side of its comb with running foliate scrolls, involving at each side of the comb a bird of prey, executed partly in line and partly in shallow relief on a blackened and stippled ground (worn and moderately patinated overall) 29.5 cm; 11 ⅝ in overall Provenance The Chichester family, Hall, Barnstaple, Devon, sold Sotheby’s, 11th November 1996, lot 601.

The helmet resembles both in form and decoration one in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Kienbusch Collection, no. 7), forming part of a half-armour made for William Herbert, First Earl of Pembroke (1501-70), which an inventory of the Earl’s armoury drawn up at Wilton House, Wiltshire, on 7 December 1558 described as “a millayne demilaunce graven and gilt”. See Hayward 1964, p. 226 & 228, fig. 7. A helmet of similar fashion forms part of an Italian heavy field armour in the Wallace Collection, London. See Mann 1962, pp. 62-3, pl. 31. £7000-10000

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174 A NORTH ITALIAN MORION IN THE ‘SPANISH’ FASHION, CIRCA 1580-90 with one-piece almond-shaped crown rising to a short stalk at its apex, slightly down-turned brim projecting to an obtuse point front and rear and formed at its edge with a plain inward turn, pierced at its rear with a later small suspension-hole, and the base of the crown encircled by thirteen round-headed lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (the fourteenth missing) 20.7 cm; 8 ½ in high £300-500

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VARIOUS OWNERS 175 A GERMAN ZISCHÄGGE, MID-17TH CENTURY with hemispherical one-piece skull embossed with six radiating ribs, fitted at its apex with a transversely-pierced finial and circular washer, at the brow with a flat ogival peak pierced at the rear with a rectangular hole to accommodate a later sliding nasalbar and secured at the brow by a rectangular staple and locking-screw (the peak pierced for display purposes), fitted at the nape with a slightly flaring, obtusely-pointed neck-guard of four upward-overlapping lames, (cheek-pieces missing), the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns (areas of light pitting and patination) 28.5 cm; 11 ¼ in high £600-800

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PATRICK KELLY 176 A RARE ENGLISH COLLAR MADE IN THE ROYAL WORKSHOPS AT GREENWICH, CIRCA 1610 formed of four sturdy lames front and rear, in each case articulated to one another by three internal leathers (replaced), the upper edge of the first formed with a file-roped inward turn, the lower edge of the fourth with a series of large scallops bordered by pairs of widelyspaced incised lines, and the upper edges of the second to fourth each bevelled and bordered by a pair of more closely-spaced incised line, the front and rear sections of the collar connected to one another by an internal hinge at the left side and closed by a plain stud and hole and a mushroom-shaped stud and keyhole slot at the right (the whole showing a mottled overall patina and a number of plugged holes) 16.8 cm; 6½ in Provenance Robin Wigington, Poets Arbour, Stratford upon Avon, 9th October 1992 Morton and Angela Stern, New York, sold in this room, 4th December 2013, lot 193 The gorget almost certainly derives from a series of garnitures for tilt and barriers use made at Greenwich about 1610. Several examples of the series are still to be seen in the Royal Armouries, Inv. Nos. II. 73, 78-9, 80 & 86 (ffoulkes 1916, vol. I, pp. 121-3 & 130; Exhibition of Armour made in the Royal Workshops at Greenwich, Tower of London, 1951, pp. p. 32; and Dufty & Reid 1968, pl. LII) £2000-2500

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VARIOUS OWNERS 177 A CLOSE HELMET IN THE FLEMISH STYLE OF CIRCA 1560-70, 20TH CENTURY comprising two piece skull joined along the crest of a high, roped comb, pivoted visor pierced with two stepped vision-slits, upper bevor pierced on the right side with a series of vertical ventilation slits, pivoted bevor secured by a hook-and-eye catch, two gorgetplates front and rear, the second with a roped lower edge, and in lightly pitted ‘aged’ condition throughout 36.8 cm; 14 ½ in high £700-1000

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178 AN ELECTROTYPE COPY OF THE HELMET OF HENRI II, KING OF FRANCE (1519-1559), AFTER DESIGNS BY ETIENNE DELAUNE, LATE 19TH CENTURY the skull rising to a high medial comb, and fitted with a visor, bevor and lower bevor attached by common pivots with decorated heads, the visor fitted with lifting peg at the right, and the lower bevor secured to the skull by a hook (that of the upper bevor hook missing, small soldered repairs) 25.5 cm; 10 in high The full armour to which the helmet belongs is preserved in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Electrotype copies of this armour by Lionnet Brothers are recorded and the present helmet is almost certainly from this group. The decoration of the armour illustrates the rivalry of Caesar and Pompey. £500-700

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179 A SOUTH GERMAN BACKPLATE FROM AN “ALMAIN RIVET”, EARLY 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY NUREMBERG formed of a main plate having a straight upper edge, and cut-away in a concave curve at the lower end of each side to receive a separate associated plate contributing to the armopening which, in common with the upper edge, is formed with an angular outward turn, the lower edges of the main and side-plates flanged outwards to receive a modern culet of four upward-overlapping lames in the “Gothic” style made of old metal, the lowest of which is deeper than the rest and cusped at its centre, and all four decorated at each side with a shallow step serving as a continuation of junction of the main and side-plates (the lower end of the main plate repaired at its left arm-opening with a small riveted patch, and the side-plates and culet showing some pitting) 53.5 cm; 21 in Provenance Bashford Dean, New York French & Co., Inc. Formerly mounted with the lots 181, 182, 183, 185, 187, 189. £1400-1800

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180 A SOUTH GERMAN BACKPLATE, EARLY 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY AUGSBURG formed of a main plate having a straight upper edge, shallow arm-openings and a scalloped lower edge overlapping an outward-flanged waist-lame decorated just above its angle with a pair of transverse incised lines, the main plate boldly decorated in relief with vertical ribs of convex form separated by single incised lines, its upper edge and arm-openings decorated with plain borders enclosed to the inside by narrow grooves, and the scallops of the lower edge decorated with short, perpendicular incised lines (the surface lightly patinated overall and showing some patches of pitting and active corrosion) 35.0 cm; 13 ¾ in £1200-1800

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181 A PAIR OF WESTERN EUROPEAN MITTEN GAUNTLETS, CIRCA 1500, PROBABLY SPANISH each consisting of a long obtusely-pointed cuff closed at the inside of the wrist by brazing and formed at its upper edge with an angular outward turn (that of the right showing a slight loss), three metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle plate, two finger-plates decorated with longitudinal flutes of V-shaped section and a thumb-defence of three scales (the thumb plates and the last metacarpal plate of each restored, the inside of the cuff of each pierced with a later mounting-hole, the knuckle and finger-plates possibly associated, the first metacarpal-plate of the right gauntlet with a small welded repair, and the whole lightly patinated overall) 30.5 cm; 12 in (2) Provenance Probably the armoury of the Duke of Osuna and Infantado, sold over three sales in 1880, 1890 and 1896.

Bashford Dean, New York French & Co., Inc. The armoury of the Dukes of the Infantado was the second most important armoury in the Iberian Peninsula after the Royal Armoury in Madrid. At one time it had no less than one hundred and sixty-two full armours many of which had been made for distinguished Royal and noble patrons. This collection was matched by an equally impressive array of edged weapons, firearms and also rarities such as a shield made from an elephant’s ear with a silver brim, another from a tortoiseshell. It also housed historic artefacts including the central gangplank from the Turkish flagship at the Battle of Lepanto presented by Don Juan of Austria to the 5th Duke. Despite a fire in 1702 much of the armoury survived into the late 19th century when it was dispersed. See Ramos 2013, pp. 1-16. For a discussion of the Spanish armour of this period see Mann 1932, p. 67. See also footnote to lot 179. £1800-2200

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182 TWO WESTERN EUROPEAN SPAUDLERS, ALMOST FORMING A PAIR, EARLY 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SPANISH each consisting of six downward overlapping lames that narrow slightly below the second (the uppermost in each case repaired at its apex with a riveted internal patch, and the lowest in each case restored using old metal (lames of the left slightly cut at their lateral edge) 27.8 cm; 11 in (2) Provenance Probably the armoury of the Duke of Osuna and Infantado, sold over three sales in 1880, 1890 and 1896.

Bashford Dean, New York French & Co., Inc. See footnotes to lots 179 and 181. £500-800

183 TWO WESTERN EUROPEAN VAMBRACES FROM THE SAME SERIES AS ONE ANOTHER AND NEARLY FORMING A PAIR, EARLY 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SPANISH each of fully articulated construction and consisting of a tubular upper and lower cannon joined by a couter of four lames (the lowest in each case associated), the second of which bears a large oval sidewing curving over the inside of the elbow, decorated at its front with a single transverse rib, and around its edge with a recessed border, the upper cannon surmounted by a turner of one lame with a later loop to accommodate a pauldron strap at the inside, and the lower cannon, attached to the couter by sliding rivets, closed at its front by a strap (replaced) issuing from a slot in its hinged inner half (that of both associated), and formed at its lower edge with an angular outward turn (lightly pitted and patinated overall) 43.5 cm; 17 ⅛ in (2) Provenance Probably the armoury of the Duke of Osuna and Infantado, sold over three sales in 1880, 1890 and 1896.

Bashford Dean, New York French & Co., Inc. See footnotes to lots 179 and 181. £1500-1800

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184 TWO NEAR MATCHING GERMAN “ARMDEFENCES” OR SPLINTS OF AN “ALMAIN RIVET”, EARLY 16TH CENTURY each composed of a spaudler of three downward-overlapping lames (the second and third of the left restored), a guttershaped upper cannon, a one-piece couter of sub-rectangular outline open at the rear and shaped to the point and inside of the elbow, a gutter-shaped lower cannon and a hand-defence of three downwardoverlapping lames (restored using old metal), the couter articulated to the cannons above and below it by an internal leather and the hand-defence articulated to the lower cannon by a sliding rivet operating in a long medial slot cut into the latter (lightly patinated overall) 71.2 cm; 28 ⅛ in (2) £1200-1800

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185 TWO SPANISH CUISSES AND POLEYNS FROM THE SAME SERIES AS ONE ANOTHER AND NEARLY FORMING A PAIR, EARLY 16TH CENTURY each consisting of a short, medially-ridged, gutter-shaped cuisse, each boxed at the outside, and the left struck with a maker’s mark consisting of a cross with a pair of pellets at the base, a winged poleyn of five outward-overlapping lames and a short, mediallyridged demi-greave extending only midway down the shin, the convex upper edge of the cuisse and the inner end of the oblique lower edge of the demi-greave each formed with angular outward turns accompanied by recessed borders, the wing of the mediallykeeled main plate of the poleyn formed with a recessed border, and the lower end of the demi-greave in each case pierced with a later double-ended keyhole-slot to accommodate the turning-pins of the greaves (see lot 185, formerly mounted with it, and the whole lightly patinated overall) 46.5 cm; 18 ⅜ in (2) Provenance Probably the armoury of the Duke of Osuna and Infantado, sold over three sales in 1880, 1890 and 1896.

Bashford Dean, New York French & Co., Inc. See footnotes to lots 179 and 181.

Cuisses and poleyns of this type would have been worn without greaves. £1500-2000

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186 A PAIR OF WESTERN EUROPEAN GREAVES, MID-16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ITALIAN each of ankle-length form and composed of a medially-ridged front plate and rear plate joined by hinges at the outside and by strips of leather pierced with lace-holes at the inside, the upper edge of the rear plate formed with a plain partial inward turn and fitted at its centre with a later flat loop intended to accommodate the strap of a poleyn, and the lower edge pierced with holes of two different sizes now used to wire to it strips of riveted mail of later Near or Middle Eastern origin 41.0 cm; 16 ¼ in (2) £1500-2000 187 A PAIR OF GREAVES AND SABATONS IN THE LATE 15TH CENTURY WESTERN EUROPEAN STYLE, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY each consisting of a full-length tubular greave well-shaped to the calf and ankle, opening at the inside of the leg, fitted at its front upper end with a turning-pin to attach to it an overlying poleyn, cut at the heel with a shallow arch subsequently closed by a small riveted semi-circular plate, and at its front lower end with a taller arch to accommodate the sabaton of twelve lames overlapping inwards to the fourth and terminating in a pointed toe-cap (the whole showing patches of light patination) 43.0 cm; 17 in (2) Provenance Bashford Dean, New York French & Co., Inc. See footnotes to lots 179 and 181. £700-900

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188 A PAIR OF SABATONS IN THE GERMAN “GOTHIC” STYLE OF THE LATE 15TH CENTURY, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY each consisting of eleven medially-ridged rearward-overlapping lames of which the third and eleventh are longer than the rest, and the last forms a rounded toe-cap fitted with a stud to receive a detachable extension, and with all but the first two lames decorated on the outside with a longitudinal ridge (showing a light patination and oxidised patches overall) 24.5 cm; 9 ⅝ in (2) £800-1000 189 A PAIR OF BESAGUES IN THE LATE 15TH CENTURY WESTERN EUROPEAN STYLE, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY each of circular form divided by radiating flutes of rounded section into eight evenly-spaced segments shaped peripherally as ogees and surrounding a round-headed copper rivet incised at its centre with an asterisk, that serves to attach an iron and buff leather suspension-tab at its rear (lightly patinated overall) 16.0 cm; 6 ⅜ in diameter (2)

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190 A SABATON FOR THE RIGHT FOOT IN THE GERMAN ‘GOTHIC’ STYLE OF THE LATE 15TH CENTURY, WITH DETACHABLE TOECAP EXTENSION, 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY consisting of a total of twelve medially-ridged, rearwardoverlapping lames, of which the third, eleventh and twelfth are longer than the rest, and the last two respectively form a rounded top-cap (with a riveted interval patch), and a detachable pointed extension to it, with all but the first two lames decorated on the outside with a longitudinal ridge, the third lame retaining its leather strap and filed iron buckle, and painted inside with an inventory number in white numerals (lightly patinated overall) 41.0 cm; 16 ⅛ in £400-600

Provenance Bashford Dean, New York French & Co., Inc.

191 A PAIR OF WESTERN EUROPEAN ROWEL SPURS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY each of robust construction with straight tapering arms of semicircular cross-section, a medium length neck of circular section ending distally in a large spherical terminal split to accommodate a small eight-pointed rowel, and extending backwards proximally in a pyramidal spike designed to fit into the heel of the underlying boot (patinated overall) 11.8 cm; 4 ⅝ in (2)

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192 TWO GAUNTLETS IN THE LATE 15TH CENTURY GERMAN ‘GOTHIC’ STYLE, MAINLY OF LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY MAKE BUT INCORPORATING SOME ORIGINAL LATE 15TH CENTURY ELEMENTS each consisting of a long pointed medially-ridged cuff open at the inside of the wrist and formed over the end of the ulna with a boss, two metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate (that of the right with splits at its upper edge), two finger-plates decorated with longitudinal flutes of V-shaped section, and a thumb-defence of two scales attached by a lateral hinge to the inner edge of the second metacarpal-plate, the whole decorated with sprays of flutes in the “Gothic” fashion, the second metacartpal-plate, the knuckle-plate and the finger-plates original but the remainder restored (the surface showing a variable light patina) 35.0 cm; 13 ¾ in (2) £800-1000

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Miscellanea VARIOUS OWNERS 193 A MINIATURE ARMOUR IN LATE GOTHIC STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY comprising etched close helmet with vertically slotted visor, cuirass embossed with a pattern of radiating panels at the base, a pair of pendant tassets, full leg-defences with pointed sabatons, a pair of full arm-defences with fingered gauntlets, mounted on a wooden stand, the legs of which are covered with leather, and complete with a sword 43.5 cm; 17 ⅛ in high Provenance Sold in this room, 4th December 2013, lot 329 £350-450 194 A MINIATURE FULL ARMOUR IN 16TH CENTURY STYLE, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY comprising close helmet with low applied brass comb, and pivoted visor and bevor, the latter pierced with a horizontal line of ventilation-holes, cuirass including breastplate fitted with a central brass panel in imitation of a plackart, a pair of tassets, a pair of full leg-defences including sabatons with pointed brass toes, a pair of full arm-defences with fingered gauntlets, on a rectangular wooden base and complete with a sword and shield 49.5cm; 19 ½in including base Provenance Sold in this room, 8th December 2010, lot 136 £350-450

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195 SIX FLINT AND STONE ARROWHEADS, NEOLITHIC OR BRONZE AGE and eight further small arrowheads (14) £20-30 196 A CHASTITY BELT IN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 20TH CENTURY formed of a horizontal belt of four hinged straps of iron from which descend at the front two pierced shaped plates each pierced around the periphery with stitch holes, and fastened at the top by two pierced pivoting rivets 25.5 cm; 10 in high A 17th century example, from the property of a European Prince, was sold in this room, 2nd December 2015, lot 342. ‡ £250-350

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197 A RARE GERMAN COMBINED HUNTING SWORD AND 120 BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOL, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with tapering blade double-edged towards the point, etched with a stag on one face at the forte (worn), the outer face fitted with two-stage brass barrel, iron action behind with bevelled cock and folding trigger, brass hilt, comprising down-turned openwork shell-guard, a pair of slightly recurved quillons with globular terminals, cap pommel, and associated stained bone grip, in its wooden scabbard with later green fishskin covering, with chased brass locket and chape decorated with rococo scrolls together with a matching chased brass baldrick and later belt, formed of leather faced with numerous brass plaques embossed with a contrasting scale pattern with a ropework border top and bottom 49.5 cm; 19 ½ in blade (2) £1400-1800 198 A RARE ENGLISH COMBINED HUNTING SWORD AND 100 BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOL, CIRCA 1780 with slightly curved single-edged blade engraved with foliage (areas of light wear), the outer face fitted with two-stage barrel at the forte, the muzzle retained by a faceted ring, and the action covered by a plate studded with faceted beads, burnished iron hilt with recurved quillons with pierced rounded foliate terminals, spirally carved ivory grip, and faceted cap pommel with button en suite 38.0 cm; 15 in blade ~ £1000-1500

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199 A BRASS DOG COLLAR, 19TH CENTURY stamped with scrollwork at the borders and inscribed ‘Blackie, Sweet Briar Hall, Nantwich’, fitted with iron loop and complete with padlock and key 13.4 cm; 5 ¼ in diameter £150-200 200 A BELT HOOK FOR A SWORD OR DAGGER, LATE 17TH CENTURY of steel, comprising C-shaped clip with spring, and universal joint carrying a pierced and engraved buckle 7 cm; 2 ¾ in high

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Provenance Robin Wigington, Stratford-upon-Avon, sold in this room, 3rd December 2014, lot 420 £200-250 201 A DETACHED POMMEL FROM A RAPIER, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GERMAN plummet-shaped, chiselled around the base with a panel of scrollwork, the remaining surface chiselled with slender flutes divided by a framework of chains and triangular panels of foliage around the top 5.7 cm; 2 ¼ in high £150-200 202 A FLINT AXEHEAD, PROBABLY BRITISH MIDDLE TO UPPER PALEOLITHIC CIRCA 150,000-10,000 B.C. of cordiform with slightly curved leading and rear edges, one face largely dark and the other with lighter patches 16.0 cm; 6 ¼ in

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Provenance Stated by the owner to have been acquired with a library assembled in the third quarter of the 20th century £200-250 203 A SILVER PRESENTATION PLAQUE FOR SHOOTING from a rifle, inscribed ‘London Rifle Brigade O Company Captain Harwood’s prize for shooting won by Color. Serg C.C. Hayes 29th Oct 1870’, the reverse with two pins for attachment 5.8 cm; 2 ¼ in £80-100

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204 AKEHURST, Richard, The World of Guns (1973), BAILEY, De Witt, Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718 - 1783 (1997), BAILEY, De Witt, British Board of Ordnance Small Arms Contractors 1689 - 1840 (1999), BLACKMORE, Howard L., British Military Firearms 1650 - 1850 (1961), BULL, Stephen, An Historical Guide to Arms and Armour (1994), CAPWELL, Tobias, The Real Fighting Stuff: Arms and Armour at Glasgow Museums (2007), DIXON, Norman, Georgian Pistols (1971), EDGE, David & PADDOCK, John Miles, Arms & Armour of the Medieval Knight (1996), GARDNER, J. S., Foreign Armour in England (1898), GEORGE, J. N., English Guns & Rifles (1947), KOVAC, Mario, Rapiers and Salon Swords: From Mortal Game to Fashion (2006), MANN, Sir James, Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour, Volume I: Armour (1962), MANN, Sir James, Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour, Volume II: Arms (1962), MAZANSKY, Cyril, British Basket-Hilted Swords (2005), NEUMANN, George C., Battle Weapons of the American Revolution (1998), NORMAN, A.V.B., Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour Supplement (1986), NORMAN, A.V.B., Culloden: The Swords and the Sorrows (1996), NORMAN, A.V.B., Culloden: The Swords and the Sorrows Supplement (1996), PETERSON, Harold L., The Book of the Gun (1963), Sotheby’s, The Hever Castle Collection: Arms and Armour (1983), Sotheby’s, The Hever Castle Collection: Works of Art (1983), Sotheby’s, The Visser Collection: Fine, Rare and Important Arms, Part I (1990), Sotheby’s, The Visser Collection: Fine, Rare and Important Arms, Part II (1991), Sotheby’s, Die Furstliche Sammlung Thurn und Taxis (1993), Sotheby’s, Nelson: The Alexander Davison Collection (2002), VALENTINE, Eric, Rapiers (2004), WHITELAW, Charles E., Notes on Swords with Signed Basket Hilts by Glasgow and Stirling Makers (2003), WILKINSON, Frederick, Antique Firearms (1969), WILKINSON, Frederick, Edged Weapons (1970), WILKINSON, Frederick, The World’s Great Guns (1977)

205 AN AMERICAN (NAVAJO) SILVER BELT BY GLEN WHITEHAIR, 20TH CENTURY formed as a rattlesnake, with body of twenty two articulated links fitted at the respective ends with a rattle and a head set with turquoise eyes, the latter signed and with a pair of fangs for closure of the former 96.5 cm; 38 in £250-300

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PATRICK KELLY 206 AN ENGLISH STONEBOW BY WILLIAM BARKER, WIGAN, NO. 220, MID-18TH CENTURY with slender steel bow fitted with contemporary style string with bullet pouch, retained by a pair of irons terminating in a moulded finial at the front and fitted with folding fore-sight behind, the latter with a later green paste sight, slender fluted tiller with builtin gaffle retained by a sliding iron ring, incorporating signed folding back-sight, the forward section of the tiller inlaid on the top with a shaped iron panel engraved with a trophy-of-arms, a pair of scrolling side-bars, and turned serial-numbered pommel (the iron parts with light pitting) 82.5 cm; 32 ½ in tiller £800-1200

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION 207 A RARE LARGE CENTRAL EUROPEAN DECORATED SPORTING CROSSBOW (GANZE RÜSTUNG), LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BOHEMIAN with heavy steel bow struck with a mark (Neue Støckel 6451) on the belly to the right of the tiller, retained by later cords with green pom poms (loose), small iron stirrup and fitted with a portion of an early string of twisted cord and sinew, strongly formed tiller veneered over its full length with a framework of scrolls and bouquets of fruit, inlaid with engraved staghorn panels on each side comprising two differing coats of arms at the top, three pairs of half-length portrait figures in contemporary dress, a further portrait on the left and the figure of Ceres on the right, all on a ground of minute staghorn pellets framed by tightly scrolling staghorn tendrils carrying ball flowers left natural and enriched with green stain, framed top and bottom by a slender ropework frame, the top veneered in engraved staghorn decorated with scrolls, bouquets of fruit and a herm, fitted with bolt-rest, bone nut, and later iron bolt-clip, a pair of lugs for a cranequin, the underside veneered over its full surface and decorated with the standing figure of Venus on her scallop shell, a bouquet of fruit centring around an aperture for the cocking rod, a mannerist mask, further bouquets of fruit and an amorous couple above a heart (the tiller with small cracks and repairs, some inlays perhaps replaced in early working life), iron trigger-guard, and folding trigger 73.0 cm; 28 ¾ in tiller The arms are perhaps those of Berka z Dubé and Zajícové z Hazmburka.

The style of inlay is reminiscent of firearms from Thuringia and Saxony from the last quarter of the 16th century though the overall scheme of design and its execution is more subdued. The head dress on many of the figures is related to illustrations of 17th century Burghers of Silesia and Bohemia, a fact that is reinforced by the two coats-of-arms, almost certainly for man and wife that would appear to be from those lands. The manufacture and decoration of crossbows was often subject to conservative design as evident in this example, clearly echoing the richly decorated examples of neighbouring Saxony. The tradition of crossbow shooting lasted many centuries and continues to this day in many parts of Europe, notably in Saxony. See Breiding 2013, p. 15. £6000-8000

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208 A FINE LARGE GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW (GANZE RÜSTUNG), MID-18TH CENTURY with heavy steel bow painted on the belly and back with an elaborate trellis design (small areas of wear and losses), retained by early cords with green pom-poms, small iron stirrup and fitted with an early string of twisted cord, tiller inlaid on each side with a matching trellis design in staghorn and enriched with engraved staghorn washers and scrolling marine monster plaques, the top veneered in engraved staghorn decorated with symmetrical panels of scrollwork, foliage, bouquets of fruit, and engraved with the owners initial, ‘JZ?’ and the date, perhaps 1766 (rubbed, the tiller with a small repair on the left of the nut), fitted at the front with bolt rest, bone nut, horn bolt-clip (the front portion missing), folding adjustable iron sight, a pair of lugs for a cranequin and chequered thumb-rest, the underside inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques with further scrolls, including a central monsterhead with a pierced mouth for inserting a cocking rod, iron trigger-guard, and folding trigger 77.0 cm; 30 ⅜ in tiller Provenance The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby’s, London, 5th May 1983, lot 84 The trellis design on the bow and the tiller is reminiscent of contemporary hunt enclosures. The marine monsters are reminiscent of the inlay on earlier Saxon pistols. £3000-5000

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209 A GERMAN CRANEQUIN FOR A CROSSBOW, DATED 1611, PROBABLY AUGSBURG with circular gearbox stamped with the maker’s mark (Neue Støckel 1808) on the cover, ratchet bar engraved with the date in a rectangular frame at the top, faceted winder with turned wooden handle (belt hook missing), and the inside fitted with a cord loop 34.0 cm; 13 ⅜ in overall

210 A GERMAN CRANEQUIN FOR A CROSSBOW, MID-16TH CENTURY with near circular gearbox stamped with a brass-lined maker’s mark, two differing bolts crossed, ratchet bar fitted with a belt hook at the base and a claw-mount at the top (the latter restored), short U-shaped winder restored) with turned wooden handle, and the inside with a later cord loop; together with a crossbow bolt, with near pyramidal head and faceted socket, on a modern wooden shaft the first: 36.2 cm; 14 ¼ in (2)

Støckel records this maker circa 1572-87, probably in Augsburg. £800-1000

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211 A BRONZE NOON CANNON DIAL SIGNED CHEVALLIER, 19TH/20TH CENTURY with stone base engraved with hour dial divided 5-12-7, inscribed ‘Chevallier, Ingr. Opti.en de SM Le Roi de Westphalie a Paris’, brass mounts including gnomon set for 47 North, arc inscribed with monthly calendar scale, and burning glass retained by two shaped arms 22.0 cm; 8 ⅝ in diameter

212 A BRASS CANNON IN THE STYLE OF COSIMO CENNI, MODERN after the Bargello cannon, of embossed sheet brass, the muzzle engulfed by a lion’s head, decorated with a knightly figure on the chase, and the arms of the Medici on the first reinforce, and the cascabel formed as the head of St Paul 71cm; 28in barrel £400-600

Provenance Christie’s South Kensington, 4th October 1995, lot 97 £1200-1800

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PATRICK KELLY 213 A PAIR OF IRON SALUTING CANNON, 19TH CENTURY each with tapering multi-stage barrel swelling at the muzzle and formed with raised astragal mouldings, raised block-shaped vent field with provision for an ignition device, globose cascable incorporating a breeching loop, a pair of trunnions cast with the letter on ‘I’ on the left and ‘S’ on the right: on its iron carriage with openwork designs on the stepped cheeks and four iron trucks (small chips, the iron Parts with areas of pitting 69.0 cm; 27 ¼ in barrel 4.0 cm; 1 ⅝ in bore (2) £800-1200

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214 A BRONZE SALUTING CANNON, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY formed in five tapering stages divided by raised astragal mouldings and flaring at the muzzle, a pair of plain trunnions, flattened vent field, and globose cascable with small button: on its green-painted wooden field carriage with long trail with scrolling terminal, fitted with a pair of spoked cambered wheels 27.3 cm; 10 ¾ in barrel 1.4 cm; ⅝ in bore £500-700 215 A PAIR OF BRONZE SALUTING CANNON IN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY each with tapering multi-stage barrel cast with raised foliate mouldings, a crowned coat-of-arms and the date 1630 over the first reinforce, a pair of dolphins, plain trunnions, and globose cascabel decorated with foliage 45.5cm; 17 ⅞in barrels 2.5cm; 1in bores (2) £500-700

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216 A HAND-IGNITED POWDER-TESTER EARLY 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ENGLISH with brass body and action, the wheel numbered from ‘1’ to ‘12’ and engraved with scrolls, the indicator arm engraved as a gaping bird’s head, its beak forming the pointer, and with figured rounded butt 15.5 cm; 6 ⅛ in

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218 A COMBINED TURNSCREW AND WHEEL-LOCK SPANNER, FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY with moulded stem, T-shaped head with a spanner aperture at each end (one split), the other end with turn-screw head and a ring-shaped spanner for a barrel wrench behind 14.0 cm; 5 ½ in £200-250 219 THREE DETACHED LOCKS IN MID-17TH STYLE, 20TH CENTURY the first a dog-lock, with flat plate fitted with ring-neck cock and dog-safety-catch (polished bright overall); the second flintlock, in mid-17th century style, with slender cock pierced with a scroll at the base and in aged condition throughout; and the third snaphaunce, stamped ‘IPK’ inside and with filed details the first: 18.2 cm; 7 ⅛ in (3)

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£100-150 220 A LEATHER ‘LEG-OF-MUTTON’ GUN CASE, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY suitable for 30 in barrels, the outside paited with the owner’s name ‘I. Fraser-Forbes’ (buckle removed) 84.0 cm; 33 in overall £40-60 221 A DECORATED CIRCULAR POWDER-FLASK IN GERMAN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY of turned wood, the outer surface profusely inlaid with engraved horn pellets, triangular and diamond-shaped panels enriched with plain horn pellets, the outer face fitted with a carved bone noble profile and the inner face with an engraved mother-of-pearl plaque charged with a coat-of-arms, fitted with horn nozzle, sprung brass lever closure, and a pair of loops for suspension 19.0 cm; 7 ½ in high £400-500

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222 A NORTH EUROPEAN POWDER HORN, DATED 1773, PROBABLY SCANDINAVIAN of flattened cow horn, the outer face lightly incised with the date, fitted with moulded brass closure with iron spring, wooden basal cap, and the inner-face with a small square hinged brass loop for suspension 18.0 cm; 7 ⅛ in £100-150 223 A RUSSIAN POWDER HORN, MID-19TH CENTURY of polished cow horn, fitted with brass nozzle struck with an arsenal mark including an anchor on the inside, spring cut-off, shaped brass basal cap fitted with wooden stopper, and two brass rings for suspension 38.0 cm; 15 in

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£100-150 224 A BRITANNIA METAL FLASK BY JAMES DIXON & SONS, CIRCA 1880 with plain inner face, the outer finely decorated with a hunting vignette within a scrollwork cartouche surmounted by a gaping mask and thistle foliage, and graduated nozzle with spring cut-off 21.0 cm; 8 ¼ in

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14. See Riling 1953, p. 213 and p. 387, no. 1050. £500-700 225 A FRENCH COPPER POWDER-FLASK, MID-19TH CENTURY decorated with a game vignette on each face including a gralloched stag, a resting hound and a hunter taking aim, the base encircled with a panel filled with oak leaves and acorns, signed ‘P.F.D.F. a Paris’ in capitals, fitted with sprung graduated push stopper, threaded brass cap for refilling, and four loops for suspension 23.7 cm; 9 ⅜ in high An identical scene on a slightly differing flask by Gosset is illustrated Riling 1953, p. 321, no. 620. ‡ £200-300

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226 AN AMERICAN ‘PEACE’ GUNPOWDER FLASK BY BATTY, DATED 1849 AND ANOTHER FLASK the first embossed on each face with the Federal Eagle charged with the Union Flag, clasped hands on a star of twelve rays enclosed by twenty stars and a trophy-of-arms carrying a shield charged with the letters ‘US’, adjustable brass nozzle stamped with the inspector’s initials; ‘K’, with cut-off (spring missing), and two rings for suspension; the second by G. & J. W. Hawksley, the body embossed with acorns, oak foliage and a stag’s head the first: 25.0 cm; 9 ⅞ in high (2) The inspector is either A. D. King or A. L. Koones. See Riling 1953, p. 98 and 363. £120-180

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227 TWO CONTINENTAL FLASKS AND TWO HORN FLASKS, 19TH CENTURY the first with copper body embossed with oak foliage, fitted with adjustable brass nozzle with spring closure, the second with plain iron body (previously covered with leather) and brass cap with spring closure; the third and fourth French, each with brass-bound stained translucent horn body (small cracks and chips), fitted with brass nozzles, one with a turn-off cap and the other with spring cut-off the first: 16.0 cm; 6 ⅜ in (4) ‡ £150-250

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European and American Firearms PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION 228 A FINE AND VERY RARE 18 BORE SOUTH GERMAN MATCHLOCK PETRONEL, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY, THE STOCK SIGNED HP, ALMOST CERTAINLY HANS PAUMGARTNER with tapering barrel swelling at the muzzle and chiselled in relief with a pair of rampant lions supporting an open tome inscribed with the initials ‘AB’ above a spray of acanthus foliage, breech chiselled with a frame of foliage enclosing three rounded figurative panels alternating with two octagonal, the latter decorated with a running design of vine fruit and foliage, the uppermost figurative panel with Homer seated playing his violin in a woodland, the middle with the standing figure of Mercury clutching the severed head of Argos within an architectural frame and struck with two marks at the base (Neue Støckel 7029, 7030) and the bottom with Venus bathed by three cupids, integral pan with pivot-cover etched with foliage within a framework of trellis, tang chiselled as an issuant mask, slender flat lock chiselled with three long panels with a foliate terminal at each end, retained by two screws entering from the lock side, fitted with curved serpentine formed as a monsterhead, slender curved faceted trigger with moulded terminal, full stock inlaid with engraved staghorn panels (restorations and small repairs, the butt-cracked through and repaired), comprising addorsed mythical creatures within segmental frames over the fore-end, further foliate monsters about the tang, the figure of Leda with the swan at the end of the ramrod channel, elaborate trigger-plate formed of a vertical arrangement of foliage, a winged lion opposite the lock, and elaborate herms on each side of the butt, the spine of the butt inlaid with further engraved staghorn comprising a unicorn horn top and bottom, the latter with the stockmaker’s initials ‘HP’ in a frame (Neue Støckel 8025), ivory butt-cap, and associated ramrod 91.5 cm; 36 in barrel Decorated petronels are rarely offered for sale, the majority remaining in public collections, such as the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no.

XII.1548), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. No. 32.75.111), the Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire, Brussels (inv. no.

IX/6); the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no D271); the Kienbusch Collection, The Philadelphia Museum of Art (acc. No. 635) and the Musée Rath, Geneva (inv. no. K182). For an extensive list of known examples see Godoy, 1993, cat. No. 8, p. 27 and 143.

Hans Paumgartner is recorded circa 1540-90 in Graz and worked at the court of Charles II, Archduke of Styria. Two highly decorated firearms by this maker are preserved in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. A2305) and the Art Institute of Chicago (acc. no.

1982.2266) respectively, the latter being made for Archduke Charles II. An apparently unsigned wheel-lock rifle in Vienna (inv. no. D272) is decorated with inlay of the same unusual design, notably the unicorn horns, monsters and foliage. See Schedelman 1972, pp. 8-9 and 2425 and Karcheski Jr. 1995, p. 75.

The barrelsmith is possibly Antonio Ferrari who, along with his brother Paolo, is mentioned as archibusari in the Brescian tax lists of 1588, 1590 and 1606. An alternative candidate is Antonio Carrara, a merchant who was entrusted, with Apollonio Chinell, in 1591 with the fontego of military barrels in Brescia and, in 1594, supplying guns to local troops in the Venetian region. Both attributions might be considered tenuous in light of the exuberant decoration of the barrel, perhaps the work of a specialist iron chiseller rather than a barrelsmith. See di Carpegna 1997, p. 44 and 116. ~ £8000-12000

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VARIOUS OWNERS 229 A RARE ITALIAN 18 BORE WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, LAST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BRESCIAN with swamped sighted russet iron barrel rifled with eight slender grooves, the muzzle chiselled as a gaping monstrous head with foliage behind, the breech chiselled with an elaborate panel of foliage involving marine monsters, a classical warrior and grooved for sighting, fitted with back-sight of two folding leaves, flat russet iron lock retained by two side nails, stamped with a mark on the inside (indistinct), fitted with engraved external wheel retained by a pair of delicate foliate brackets, sliding pan-cover, moulded dog with spring formed as a bifurcated herm, double set trigger (seized), figured half stock carved with bold scrolls, conventional foliage and wave designs about the tang lock and mounts, russet iron mounts comprising solid side-plate decorated with Diana in her chariot on a ground of foliage, pierced triggerguard decorated with scrolling foliage and a demi-figure, the forward terminal formed as a crouching salamander, rear ramrodpipe formed en suite and with a pair of scrolling herms behind, butt-plate decorated with a pair of addorsed dolphins and with foliate tang, and original iron ramrod with chiselled finial 78.5 cm; 31 in barrel ÂŁ3000-4000

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230 A 120 BORE SILESIAN WHEEL-LOCK BIRDING GUN (TSCHINKE), MID-17TH CENTURY with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with eight slender grooves, engraved with gilt scrolls and foliage at the muzzle, median and over the breech, fitted with moulded tunnel backsight, long tang decorated en suite, engraved and gilt lock decorated en suite with the barrel, fitted with external mainspring partly covered by an engraved steel panel, engraved sliding pancover (button release missing), flash-guard and engraved dog decorated with foliage, fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid over its entire surface with engraved staghorn scrolling tendrils, strapwork terminating in monster heads and with mythical beasts and birds, all enriched with pellets, carved cheek-piece with an oval escutcheon supported by scrolling herms, on the left and patchbox with associated sliding cover on the right, the whole enriched with shell ball flowers and further animal plaquettes including a squirrel and a rabbit, steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipe and butt-plate the latter decorated with an hermaphrodite figure, two faceted iron ramrod-pipes, and horn fire-end cap (small repairs), and horn tipped ramrod, perhaps the original 96.4 cm; 38 in barrel ‥ £7000-9000

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231 A FINE 18 BORE FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED PERCUSSION FUSIL DE CHASSE ROYALE BY PREVOST FILS, ARQUEBUSIER DU ROI, VERSAILLES, DATED 1816, FRENCH PROVINCIAL SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1809-1819, MAKER’S MARK J.M. BENEATH A MULLET converted from flintlock, with browned barrel, small areas of surface rust) formed with a long flat, fitted with silver bead foresight and large silver back-sight chased with rococo scrolls and fitting round the barrel, engraved with the royal cypher, a fleur-delys and numbered ‘21’, engraved blued breech and tang, the former struck with the mark of Albert Renette beneath (Neue Støckel 8127), signed engraved case-hardened lock dated and numbered on the inside, figured walnut full stock carved with scrolls, and a swag of fruit behind the rear ramrod-pipe, chequered grip and fore-end, padded cheek-piece (leather covering largely missing), engraved full silver mounts including side-plate decorated with a swag and numbered trigger-guard with urn finial, silver escutcheon engraved with the crowned Royal Arms, original steel-tipped ramrod, and some early finish 97.4 cm; 38 ⅜ in barrel Provenance Christie’s, 29th October 1980, lot 109 This gun belongs to a Royal group of essentially similar firearms made by De Sainte, Lepage and Prevost. All are numbered on the mounts and some on the locks and barrels. Another example, by De Sainte, is preserved in the Bayersiches National Museum, Munich. See Schalkhauser 1988, p. 281. ‡ £1000-1500

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232 A RARE 20 BORE FRENCH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY HONORÉ MAYE À MARSEILLE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with tapering barrel of ‘hog’s back’ form retained by a single engraved silver band with sprung release lever, platinum-lined vent, engraved tang incorporating a moulded back-sight, signed bevelled lock engraved with flowers on the tail, fitted with roller and semi-rainproof pan (cock replaced), figured walnut half-stock with chequered grip, carved with scrolls about the tang, takedown butt finely carved in the round as a hound’s head, fitted with a moulded silver band as a collar, engraved steel trigger-guard, engraved two-piece side-plate with the owners initials inlaid in silver wire between, two silver ramrod-pipes each attached to the barrel by a silver band and the forward band incorporating the fore-sight, and complete with contemporary ramrod, perhaps the original 81.0 cm; 31 ⅞ in barrel £1000-1500

233 A RARE 80 BORE FLINTLOCK GOOSE RIFLE BY EDWARD BATE, LONDON, CIRCA 1800 with blued rifled barrels in a dice formation as a cluster of four around a fifth central barrel, silver fore-sight, the upper two signed ‘Bate’ and inscribed ‘London’ respectively, engraved breech and tang decorated with star bursts, the latter grooved for sighting, gold-lined vent, signed bevelled lock finely engraved with two game birds on a tree on the tail, fitted with engraved bevelled cock, rainproof pan, and roller on the steel spring, walnut half-stock, chequered grip, the butt with a velvet-covered cheek-rest (a working replacement), engraved trigger-guard decorated with a star burst and a hound putting up a waterfowl, engraved butt-plate, three iron ramrod-pipes (refinished throughout), and vacant silver shield-shaped escutcheon, and iron ramrod, perhaps the original 50.5 cm; 19 ⅞ in barrels Provenance Sotheby & Co., 13th December 1971, lot 65,£460.00 to Clarke Literature Peter Hawkins, The Price Guide to Antique Guns & Pistols, Suffolk, 1973, p. 334 Edward Bate apprenticed in Birmingham and is recorded in London 1763-1810.

From circa 1805 he worked in partnership with Jover as Jover & Bate.

A sporting gun with skeleton butt by him is preserved in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle (inv. no. L.279). £12000-18000

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234 A 16 BORE ENGLISH FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, BY JOSEPH GRIFFIN, LONDON, DATED 1772 reconverted from percussion, with rebrowned two-stage barrel fitted with silver ‘spider’ fore-sight, gold-filled maker’s stamps, platinum vent, engraved bolted lock with roller (top-jaw and screw missing), figured walnut half-stock lightly carved with foliage and finely inlaid with silver-wire scrolls and engraved flower-heads, steel mounts finely engraved and chiselled with flowers and foliage, including butt-plate and pierced side-plate, dated escutcheon engraved with the owner’s name ‘Thos Alston Esqr’ with chiselled scallop shell above, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod 92.6 cm; 36 ½ in barrel Provenance Christie’s, 25th February 1981, lot 108 ‡ £1200-1800

235 A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY HARVEY WALKLATE MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, NO. 519, CIRCA 1790 with rebrowned sighted barrel formed in three stages, signed in a platinum-lined oval and inscribed ‘Gunmaker to his Majesty’ over the breech (rubbed, indistinct), with two platinum lines, platinum vent and struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark beneath, finely engraved tang, border-engraved lock signed beneath the rainproof pan, engraved with a game bird on the tail and inscribed ‘89 Fleet Street’, fitted with a roller on the steel and the steel spring, the latter with a tension-adjusting screw acting on a lug (cock repaired), figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, iron mounts comprising trigger-guard with pineapple finial, buttplate and ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheon, silver fore-end cap and silver barrel bolt escutcheons and brass tipped wooden ramrod (the iron parts with areas of pitting) 78.8 cm; 31 in barrel £1100-1400

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236 A RARE SIX BORE FLINTLOCK WALL GUN BY MORTIMER, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1776-1782 with slightly swamped sighted barrel retained by two slender bands and a broad band fitted with stirrup swivel mount (the band and mount later), the breech formed with a raised moulding, grooved for sighting, struck with Tower private proof marks and the barrelsmith’s initials of Edward Jordan, grooved tang, border-engraved lock finely engraved with the White Tower, signed in full on the tail, stamped twice on the inside with the maker’s initials ‘EI’, en suite with the tang, fitted with border-engraved cock, pan and steel, full stock carved with an apron moulding about the tang (light worm damage, small areas of bruising), border-engraved brass mounts of regulation type comprising flush-fitting side-plate, trigger-guard with a stylised flowerhead on the bow and foliate terminal, butt-plate decorated with scrollwork and foliage, vacant escutcheon, and original iron ramrod 96.5 cm; 38 in barrel Provenance Norm Flayderman, 1997 The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) Harvey Walklate (1) Mortimer worked at 41 Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields, between 5th June 1776 and 10th January 1782. This is one of only two firearms by him with this address. Edward Jordan (1733-58) was a barrel and lockmaker to the Ordnance.

Given the earlier date of the barrel and lock it is likely that Mortimer acquired these elements following Jordan’s death, probably at auction. This practice was not uncommon, the Ordnance department held semi annual auctions to dispose of unwanted, damaged or worn out goods of all sorts. The stock in trade of Joseph Heylin was sold at auction following his bankruptcy, on 23rd October 1779, this sale included a number of items among which were ‘sundry wall Pieces’.

A blunderbuss of circa 1750 by Thomas Hatcher and a musket of 1739 by Wolldridge with a similar engravings of the White Tower are preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. nos. XII.1507 and XII.262). See Blackmore 1986, p. 110 and ffoulkes 1915, p. 363 no. 262. ‡ £5000-6000

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237 A DOG-LOCK MUSKETOON BY I. BRAZIER, CIRCA 1740 with heavy brass barrel formed in four stages, belled towards the muzzle and formed with a pronounced moulding behind, stamped with London proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark over the breech, steel tang, signed flush-fitting lock with flat cock fitted with dog-safety-catch and faceted pan, blackened hardwood full stock (small repairs, wormed), impressed with a mark, ‘R’ crowned, on the right of the butt, brass mounts comprising flushfitting side-plate, butt-plate with short rounded tang, trigger-guard with globular finial, a single ramrod-pipe, later brasstipped ramrod, and the middle of the stock with provision for a swivel mount (now missing) 67.8 cm; 26 ¾ in barrel £3000-4000

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238 A FLINTLOCK MUSKETOON, WITH EARLIER 17TH CENTURY BRASS BARREL, 18TH CENTURY with brass barrel formed in four stages, flared at the muzzle with a raised moulding behind, octagonal then polygonal breech with a raised moulding incorporating the back-sight, struck with the barrelsmith’s mark, the letters ‘TA’ beneath a fleur-de-lys (overstruck) and London proof marks, iron tang, borderengraved rounded regulation lock with ‘GR’ crowned, Government ownership broad arrow mark beneath the pan and ‘Tower’ on the tail, full stock (small cracks and minor repairs), brass mounts of regulation type including trigger-guard with moulded finial, butt-plate with tang of shaped outline, and moulded ramrod-pipe of early form (sling swivels missing), and horn-tipped wooden ramrod with iron worm 63.8 cm; 25 ⅛ in barrel

239 A DOG-LOCK MUSKETOON BY T. BANISTER, LATE 17TH CENTURY with heavy brass barrel belled at the muzzle and formed with a raised moulding behind, struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark at the breech formed with a raised band incorporating the back-sight, iron tang, signed flat lock with bevelled tail, fitted with dog safetycatch and faceted pan, full stock (chipped about the lock, formed with a raised moulding about the tang, the butt with flattened spine, brass mounts comprising pierced scrolling side-plate, butt-plate with slender tang, and a single moulded ramrod-pipe, and iron trigger-guard and wooden ramrod 69.5 cm; 27 ⅜ in barrel

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240 A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS SIGNED THEOP RICHARDS, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1830 with brass barrel formed in three stages and swelling at the muzzle, octagonal breech struck with proof marks and engraved with a band of foliage, top-mounted spring bayonet (button catch terminal missing), engraved tang fitted with bayonet-release catch, stepped lock (re-engraved, later signature), full stock, engraved brass mounts comprising trigger-guard with pineapple finial and a game bird on the bow, and butt-plate en suite, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod with iron worm 36.2 cm; 14 ¼ in barrel £1000-1500

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 241 A RARE FLINTLOCK SEA SERVICE MUSKETOON BY BROOKS, CIRCA 1790 with 58.0 cm; 22 ⅞ in steel barrel flared at the muzzle and struck with view, proof and Ordnance marks at the breech, signed border-engraved lock engraved ‘Tower’ and with Ordnance mark, figured walnut full stock, the butt with flat-topped comb, brass mounts of regulation type comprising trigger-guard, side-plate, butt-plate and ramrod-pipe, and contemporary brass-tipped wooden ramrod (the tip missing) 99.0 cm; 39in overall Provenance Warwick Castle (inv. no. F084), sold in this room, lot 278, 26th June 2007.

Four musketoons of this type from Warwick Castle and with locks

by Brooks have been sold in this room: 14th December 2005, lot 145, 26th June 2007, lots 276, 277 and 278. See Blackmore 1961, p.

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VARIOUS OWNERS 242 A .650 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK BAKER RIFLE, CIRCA 1820 with rebrowned sighted 30 ⅛ in barrel stamped with Tower view and Proof marks at the breech, rifled with seven grooves, fitted with brass barleycorn fore-sight, folding back-sight (restored) and with bayonet bar on the right of the muzzle, border-engraved bevelled lock stamped with ‘GR’ crowned, ‘Tower’ and Government ownership broad arrow mark (refreshed), walnut stock (small repairs), impressed with the stockmakers name (rubbed) opposite the lock, raised cheek-piece, regulation brass mounts, including escutcheon engraved ‘4’ (probably later) and butt-plate with the later inscription ‘L.B.K.G.L.No. 6’, steel sling swivels, and steel ramrod, perhaps the original 76.5 cm; 30 ⅛ in barrel £3000-4000

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243 A .750 CALIBRE INDIA PATTERN FLINTLOCK MUSKET, DATED 1786 of regulation specifications, the barrel struck with view, proof and ordnance marks at the breech, the lock engraved with crowned GR and ‘Tower’, figured walnut full stock impressed with further marks including the date (partly obscured), and the Ordnance storekeeper’s mark, regulation brass mounts, and steel ramrod 99cm; 39in barrel Provenance Warwick Castle, inv. no. F053, sold in this room 26th June 2007, lot 281 £1500-2000

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244 A 1777 PATTERN SHORT LAND FLINTLOCK MUSKET, LATE 18TH CENTURY with rebrowned sighted barrel struck with King’s View and Proof marks at the breech, struck with the barrelsmith’s initials ‘TH’ beneath a mullet (rubbed) on the left and inscribed ‘P/31’, tang with traces of inspector’s mark, border-engraved lock with ‘GR’ crowned, ‘Tower’ and Government ownership broad arrow mark, the inside with the initials ‘WG’ and inspectors mark, full stock swelling about the rear ramrod-pipe and with an apron moulding about the tang, struck with a mark on the right of the butt, full brass mounts including flat side-plate, escutcheon engraved en suite with the breech, four ramrod-pipes, two iron sling swivels, iron ramrod and with a contemporary bayonet stamped ‘J.Hill’ 107.3 cm; 42 ¼ in barrel (2)

245 A 10-BORE FLINTLOCK MILITIA MUSKET OF INDIA PATTERN TYPE

BY CLARK, LONDON, TOWER PROOF, LATE 18TH CENTURY with sighted barrel engraved ‘London’ at the breech and stamped ‘SI’, plain tang, signed rounded lock, figured three-quarter stock carved with an apron moulding about the tang, impressed ‘WP’ opposite the lock and ‘10’ on the spine of the butt, regulation brass mounts including side-plate numbered ‘10’ and butt-plate engraved ‘N-Y 96’, iron sling loops, iron ramrod, probably the original, and socket bayonet numbed ‘94’ and ‘41’ 106.7 cm; 42 in barrel £2000-2500

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION 246 AN IMPORTANT 54 BORE SOUTH GERMAN BREECH-LOADING SELF-SPANNING WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, AUGSBURG, MID-16TH CENTURY with swamped barrel formed in two stages, the forward section round, chiselled with a grotesque foliate mask incorporating a low brass fore-sight at the muzzle, a further band of bold foliage at the median, and etched with a symmetrical design of bold strapwork enclosing delicate tendrils between, the rear section octagonal, stamped with Augsburg town mark towards the breech, and decorated with alternating bands of running foliage and delicate strapwork with scrolls, hinged breech decorated en suite with the muzzle and the median, released by a sprung gilt folding catch on the tang also forming the back-sight, removable iron cartridge incorporating the pan with associated hinged cover, blued flat lock retained by two side nails, fitted with external wheel retained by an engraved circular bracket pierced on the front with two slender S-scrolls, the edge gilt and pierced beneath as a drain, sliding secondary pan-cover etched with a green man mask and operated by a button release, sprung safety-catch with delicately filed details including monsterhead terminals, pivoting dog formed as a monsterhead with an issuant foliate mask beneath, fitted at its base with a hinged lever acting on an axle corresponding with a chain on the inside, the latter rotating the wheel and withdrawing the pan-cover when turned (the tip of the dog spur expertly restored), mainspring retained by an elaborately etched perhaps 1562, behind and a iron plaque decorated with a tusked marine monster, full stock monsterhead suspended beneath, the profusely inlaid in engraved staghorn with an open design spine decorated with three birds including an of foliage and differing flowers between segmental lines, owl, a marine monster on the left, and faceted with strapwork cartouches enclosing differing scenes pommel decorated with an alternating arrangement of rabbits pursued by hounds and foxes on each side of espagnolettes, fruit and foliage between of the fore-end, a staghunting scene including corresponding segmental lines, iron trigger-guard, a mounted huntsman accompanied by hounds engraved staghorn fore-end cap and engraved staghorn and a falcon opposite the lock, strapwork ramrod-pipe (small losses, minor replacements, small repairs cartouches forming the side nail at the fore-end and opposite the lock, later ramrod) washers, the underside inlaid 55.6 cm; 21 ⅞ in barrel en suite and involving an Provenance espagnolette, trigger-plate The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby’s, London, 5th May 1983, lot 61 formed of a scrollwork plaque with a mask Exhibited top and bottom, Welt im Umbruch 1980, no. 885, p. 493-4, illustrated. the butt decorated As stated in the Hever catalogue, this pistol displays exceptional technical en suite with innovation for the period. It can be loaded at the breech with a removable cartridge further strapwork that is complete with a pan, thus allowing the user to insert a pre-loaded and primed cartouches cartridge into the chamber. Furthermore it can be used as a self-spanning wheel-lock or about the tang, primed with a key. No other pistol of this early date displays so many refinements. inscribed with The breech-loading system is related to that of a slightly earlier pistol of circa 1545-50, the date, probably made in Augsburg, preserved in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv. nr.

A603. See Schedelmann 1972, p. 4 and Gamber & Beaufort 1990, p. 66. The option for selfspanning or hand spanning is notably early. Two examples made around a century later, formerly preserved in the ancestral armoury of the Princes Hohenlohe-Langenburg at Schloss Langenburg were sold in this room, lot 286, 3rd December 2015 and lot 538, 24th June 2015. £25000-30000

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VARIOUS OWNERS 247 A GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, 17TH CENTURY AND LATER with two stage barrel formed with triangular panels and hemispherical recesses in the Saxon fashion over the breech, flat lock fitted with external wheel retained by a horizontal bar, pan with sliding cover and moulded dog, full stock profusely inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques including foliate rondels, a tusked monster opposite the lock and on each side of the tang all within segmental frames and enriched with tendrils and ball flowers, the butt extending to an integral monsterhead pommel with scrolling snout, iron trigger-guard, and ramrod with engraved staghorn tip 24.5 cm; 9 ⅝ in barrel £2000-3000

248 TWO 32 BORE GERMAN OFFICER’S LONG WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS, INTENDED FOR USE AS A PAIR, CIRCA 1640-50 with minor differences, with tapering barrels formed in two stages, the breeches each struck with three marks, one involving the initials KS (Neue Støckel 8337), the locks retained by three side-nails on white bone washers, each struck on the inside with a mark, ‘IM’, fitted with sliding pan-covers with button release, and with the wheels retained by a small crescentic bracket (one expertly restored, the pan release buttons not a pair), ebonised wooden full stocks (small parts of the stocks reblackened), decorated about the barrel tangs and opposite the locks with carved designs of scrolling foliage in low relief on a contrasting stippled ground and picked-out with minute brass nails, flattened pommels each fitted with domed wooden cap decorated en suite with the stocks and bound by an iron band, iron trigger-guards, ramrod-pipes and fore-end caps, and one pistol retaining its original iron-tipped ramrod (the other expertly restored, the iron parts lightly cleaned) 65.8 cm; 25 ⅞ in: 65.5 cm; 25¾ in (2) Provenance The Armoury of the Princely house of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, (inv. nos. 259, 260), removed from Schloss Langenburg, sold in this room, 3rd December 2014, lot 238.

The carved treatment of the stocks picked-out with brass nails is characteristic of the workshops of the Gsell family of gunmakers of Arzberg, Bavaria. Comparable examples include the stock of a wheel-lock rifle signed by Georg Gsell and dated 1649, in the former Imperial collection, Vienna (D291), and a pair of flintlock Wender guns in the armoury of the Princes von und zu Liechtenstein, Schloss Vaduz. £5000-7000

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249 A RARE EARLY FLINTLOCK WENDER PISTOL, DUTCH OR NORTH GERMAN, CIRCA 1655-60 with turn-over barrels formed in two stages, one with a mark struck on the breech (traces only), fitted with a raised iron figure-of-eight ring over the muzzles and released by a catch in front of the trigger-guard, bevelled flat lock struck with maker’s mark behind its chamfered leading edge, tapering to a rear finial chiselled as a stylised monster’s head, and fitted with ring-necked straight cock engaging a dog safety, ebonised wooden butt fluted about the upper breech tang (expertly repaired beneath the lock), globular pommel inlaid with contrasting delicate brass lines and with a brass collar (expertly restored), inset with iron button finial, deeply fluted ebonised fore-end formed of two halves, iron ramrod-pipe (expertly restored) and iron trigger-guard (later ramrod) 64 cm; 25 ⅜ in Provenance The Armoury of the Princely house of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, (inv. no. 334), removed from Schloss Langenburg, sold in this room, 3rd December 2014, lot 231.

The maker’s mark on the lock is apparently unrecorded (the initials MH above a hand). A closely comparable pistol, unmarked but possibly from the same workshop, was in the collection of the late H.L.Visser; see Puype 1996, Volume I, Part 3, cat. no. 507, pp. 38-9. See also the early Wender gun originating from the same armoury, also sold in this room, lot 275. £4000-6000

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250 AN ELABORATE PAIR OF 32 BORE CONTINENTAL SILVER-MOUNTED RIFLED PISTOLS SIGNED BOUTET A VERSAILLES, CIRCA 1820 AND LATER with octagonal swamped sighted polygroove rifled barrels later decorated with gold on a blued ground including minute stars, foliage and neo-classical panels, the breeches stamped with imitation Versailles manufactory marks and incorporating the back-sights, engraved tangs, engraved burnished stepped locks later inscribed ‘Boutet à Versailles’ , fitted with rollers, semi-rainproof pans and later engraved cocks and steels, set triggers, full stocks later inlaid with numerous engraved silver panels including trophies-of-arms, and foliage, angular butts carved with scale pattern inset with minute silver nails, later full silver mounts cast and chased in low relief, including openwork side-plates formed of two swans feeding from a central urn, trigger-guards with neo-classical urn finials and engraved with a crowned coat-of-arms on the bow, marine trophy butt-caps, a pair of ramrod-pipes, the rearmost formed as a river god, and each with silver-tipped ramrod: in lined and fitted case veneered in rosewood, the lid finely inlaid in engraved brass with a crowned mantled coatof-arms en suite in the centre, a griffin in each corner and border lines, the interior lined in plum velvet and with a full compliment of accessories including priming-flask engraved with a coat-of-arms en suite, bullet mould, turn-screw and mallet 24.8 cm; 9 ¾ in barrels The arms are those of the Austrian field marshal and diplomat Karl Philipp, Prince Schwarzenberg, (1771-1820), one of the most successful Allied commanders in the Napoleonic Wars. ~ £12000-16000

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION 251 A GERMAN (SAXON) SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, BY F.CARLSON A DRESDEN, CIRCA 1710-19 with swamped barrel formed with a long slender flat signed ‘F. Carlson a Dresden’ and fitted with silver fore-sight on a bed of engraved scrolls, the breech chiselled against a finely gilt matted ground with a trophy-of-arms incorporating a foliate mask beneath a canopy ahead of a band of beadwork, scroll-and border-engraved breech tang, signed border-engraved bevelled lock chiselled and gilt with a trophy-of-arms en suite on the tail, engraved with the reclining figure of Diana and signed beneath the faceted pan, fitted with chiselled and gilt cock and steel, the former involving an issuant serpent, top-jaw with a further foliate mask and the latter with foliage en suite, figured walnut full stock carved with sprays of foliage about the rear ramrod-pipe and the breech tang (expertly repaired), full silver mounts cast and chased in low relief against a finely gilt matted ground, comprising openwork sideplate involving scrolling foliage, an issuant serpent and a female portrait profile, trigger-guard with a grotesque mask on the bow and foliate terminal, butt-cap with a large green man mask and a bold design of symmetrical scrolls and foliage, and escutcheon decorated with a pair of bound prisoners carrying a portrait medallion on a trophy-of-arms beneath a count’s coronet, and a pair of faceted ramrod-pipes (later ramrod) 33.5 cm; 13 ¼ in barrel Friedrich Carlsohn was born in Liebau, Kurland in present day Latvia. In 1700 he made a masterpiece with Andreas Erttel who is credited with the introduction of the ‘French manner’ to the Saxon Court. In 1701 he became a master of the Dresden Guild and a burgher in 1705.

In 1716 he was reprimanded for employing six lockmakers and four gunmakers at the same time. In 1719 he died in his house on the Schiessgraben. The former Saxon Electoral Armoury, now incorporated within the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, includes a wheel-lock rifle, two flintlock rifles, and three pairs of pistols by this maker.

The design of the mounts is taken from earlier French pattern books including those of Simonin and Guérard. Johann Christoph Weigel published a facsimile of the latter ‘presented under the skillful guidance’ (vorgestellet unter anleitung der geschickteseten) of the Parisian Gunmakers in Nuremburg, some time before 1725. See Hayward 1963, pp. 110-111, Schaal 1975, p. 90 and Grancsay 1970, p. 14 and p. 86. £4000-6000

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VARIOUS OWNERS 252 A PAIR OF 20 BORE FLINTLOCK LONG GERMAN HOLSTER PISTOLS BY WITTEMAN A GISSEN, CIRCA 1720 with tapering barrels formed with a long flat engraved with border ornament and foliage, a further portrait oval over the breech and with an anthemion panel behind and stamped ‘N.S.’ on the left, fitted with silver fore-sights, gold-lined vents, border-engraved tangs engraved with a trophy-of hunting, stepped bevelled locks engraved with border ornament, differing trophies-of-arms on the tails and beneath the pans, and signed within the steel springs, fitted with faceted pans and engraved bevelled cocks, figured full stocks (a working replacement, small repairs), moulded over the fore-ends, about the locks, tangs and mounts, engraved gilt-brass mounts comprising scrolling side-plates involving central ovals stamped ‘N.S.’ flanked by foliage and marine monsters, spurred pommels decorated with monsterhead scrolls and fitted with foliate caps, bevelled trigger-guards with foliate terminals (one repaired at the back), trophy-of-arms escutcheons engraved with the owners crest beneath a coronet, a pair of ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end caps, and wooden ramrods with brass caps 35.2 cm; 13 ⅞ in barrels (2) Peter Wittemann is recorded in Giessen, Hessen, circa 1710-35. A pair of all-metal pistols by him, almost certainly made for the Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse (1691-1768) and later in the Keith Neal Collection (sold Christie’s 9th November 2000, lot 251), are decorated with a vacant version of the same style as the present pair. However, the crown on the present arms has not been engraved with sufficient clarity to make a firm attribution. £3500-4000

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253 A PAIR OF 14 BORE SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK PISTOLS, RIPOLL, MID-18TH CENTURY with two-stage barrels chiselled with a delicate beadwork moulding at the muzzle, octagonal breeches struck with two gold-lined marks comprising the name ‘Fran Laranaga’ and a rampant lion, apparently unrecorded, long tangs engraved with wavy lines around the borders, flat characteristic flat burnished iron locks stamped with two differing gold-lined oval marks, one signed ‘M. Zuluaga’, full stocks applied with a large engraved brass panel decorated with foliage about the tangs, bulbous butts with an engraved brass openwork flowerhead over the greater part of its surface, burnished iron side-plates, iron trigger-guards, engraved brass trigger-plates and fore-end caps, and iron ramrods 20.0 cm; 8 in barrels (2) £2000-2500

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256 AN 18 BORE LIÈGOIS FLINTLOCK LONG HOLSTER PISTOL BY LECOMTE A LIÈGE, CIRCA 1730 with swamped sighted barrel formed in two stages, octagonal breech sparsely engraved with foliage, engraved tang decorated with border ornament and foliage, signed rounded lock engraved with scrolls of foliage, full stock moulded over the fore-end, carved in low relief with foliage about the rear ramrod-pipe and the tang (small repairs around the butt), and gilt-brass mounts comprising solid side-plate en suite with the lock, spurred pommel, a pair of ramrod-pipes and horn-tipped wooden ramrod (cleaned) 34.0 cm; 13 ⅜ in barrel

254 A 20 BORE SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK BELT PISTOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY with two-stage barrel moulded at the breech, chiselled with foliage at the girdle, inlaid with silver flowers and struck with the gold-lined barrelsmith’s mark, ‘Eud/cam’, engraved tang, flat lock sparsely engraved with foliage, the steel signed ‘Petorento’, full stock carved with foliate mouldings in low relief, engraved brass mounts decorated with scrolls including side-plate fitted with long iron belt hook, spurred pommel with chased silver cap, triggerguard and vacant silver escutcheon and later wooden ramrod 15.3 cm; 6 in barrel £500-700

£350-450 255 A 22 BORE FLINTLOCK FRENCH PISTOL BY POULCE À SEDAN, CIRCA 1720 with sighted barrel formed with a long flat and chiselled with a symmetrical panel with scrolling foliage with monster head terminals over the breech (the muzzle shortened), signed engraved stepped lock, figured walnut three-quarter stock, iron mounts including broad trigger-guard with moulded baluster finial and spurred pommel and associated ramrod 21.2 cm; 8 ⅜ in barrel

257 A 40 BORE CONTINENTAL FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOL, MID18TH CENTURY with two-stage rifled barrel moulded at the muzzle and octagonal over the breech, stepped bevelled lock fitted with faceted pan, moulded full stock (perhaps later) with faceted butt with ‘bird’s head’ pommel, and moulded brass mounts including triggerguard with bud-shaped finial 11.7 cm; 4 ⅝ in barrel

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258 A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL .700 CALIBRE PERCUSSION RIFLED OFFICER’S PISTOLS, LIÈGE PROOF, NO. 3413, MID-19TH CENTURY with browned twist octagonal sighted barrels (one with areas of very light pitting) struck with proof marks and the serial numbers beneath the breeches, engraved breeches numbered en suite, scroll-engraved tangs incorporating the back-sights, scrollengraved engraved flush-fitting stepped locks fitted with scroll-engraved hammers (one spur chipped), half-stocks, fluted butts, engraved iron mounts comprising spurred trigger-guards, butt-caps with lanyard rings and fore-end caps, German silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and stirrup ramrods 19.2 cm; 7 ⅝ in barrels (2) £700-900 259 A .700 FRENCH MODEL 1822 BIS PERCUSSION RIFLED CAVALRY PISTOL, NO. 1777 of regulation type, with sighted barrel retained by a brass band, dated tang stamped with the model designation, lock with Saint Etienne imperial arsenal inscription, walnut stock numbered en suite, brass mounts and numbered iron ramrod en suite 20.0 cm; 7 ⅞ in barrel £200-300

260 A 15 BORE SPANISH PERCUSSION BELT PISTOL BY VICENTE DE AGUIRE, EIBAR, DATED 1832 with tapering barrel moulded at the muzzle, inscribed “Eibar de herradurras anno 1832” and struck with a barrelsmith’s mark, engraved breech, engraved grooved tang, signed engraved lock fitted with characteristic hammer formed as a dog, figured walnut full stock, chequered butt, iron mounts including trigger-guard with foliate terminal, belt hook and ivory-tipped ramrod 15.0 cm; 5 ⅞ in barrel This maker is recorded in Eibar at the slightly earlier date 1810-29.

See Larrañaga 1984, p. 140. ~ £300-400 261 A 40 BORE CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION RIFLED TARGET PISTOL, MID-19TH CENTURY with octagonal rifled sighted barrel with traces of blued finish, inscribed “acier fondu” in gold-encrusted letters, scroll-engraved breech numbered 1, scroll-engraved tang incorporating the backsight and numbered en suite, flush-fitting scroll-engraved lock, figured walnut half-stock carved with scrolling foliage over the fore-end, fluted butt, scroll-engraved iron mounts matching the lock and breech, comprising spurred trigger-guard and pommel, and no provision for a ramrod 24.0 cm; 9 ½ in barrel £350-450

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262 AN UNUSUAL CASED PAIR OF .44 CALIBRE RIM-FIRE D.B.TURNOVER PISTOLS BY J.RIGBY & CO., 24 SUFFOLK STREET, DUBLIN, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1870 with case-hardened sighted barrels signed on the flat on the left and fitted with blued spring-catches on the right, case-hardened actions fitted with long-spurred hammers, safety-catches, and knurled triggers, chequered grips, lanyard rings and some early colour: in their fitted mahogany case lined in blue baize, complete with brass clearing rod, rammer and oil bottle 10.8 cm; 4 ¼ in barrels John Rigby & Co. were in business from 1866. £2500-3500

263 A CASED PAIR OF LEFAUCHEUX PIN-FIRE MINIATURE PISTOLS, EARLY 20TH CENTURY with octagonal barrels, one inscribed ‘Austria’ and engraved butts (one incomplete), in an engraved pewter box complete with a clearing rod the case 6.5 cm; 2 ½ in long £40-60 264 A .30 CALIBRE RIM-FIRE FOUR-BARRELLED SHARPS PATENT PISTOL BY SHARPS & HANKINS, PHILADELPHIA PENN, NO. 9261, CIRCA 1859-74 with fluted sighted barrel group, iron frame and action, knurled hammer, iron back-strap, walnut grips (one small chip) and traces of original blued finish; and a modern bullet mould the first: 9.0 cm ; 3 ½ in barrels £200-300

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267 A .36 CALIBRE COLT MODEL 1851 NAVY PERCUSSION REVOLVER, INSCRIBED IN GOLD TO KUVABSAHU, NO. 31021, CIRCA 1855 of standard production specifications, with 7 ½ in octagonal sighted barrel fitted with hinged rammer beneath, rounded cylinder, action stamped ‘Colt’s patent’ on the left (the hammer spring weak), iron trigger-guard, with matching numbers throughout, the barrel cylinder and frame decorated with goldencrusted designs of flowers, conventional and scrolling foliage and linear ornament, the trigger-guard and under-side of the backstrap with a framed Hindi inscription, and walnut grips impressed ‘3810’ on the right 35.3 cm; 13 ⅞ in overall

265 A .32 CALIBRE RIM-FIRE SINGLE ACTION SMITH AND WESSON MODEL NO. 2 REVOLVER, NO. 40678, CIRCA 1861-74 of standard production specifications, with 6 in barrel, retaining some original finish and in good condition throughout 29.5 cm; 11 ⅝ in overall £200-300 266 A .44 CALIBRE REMINGTON NEW MODEL ARMY PERCUSSION REVOLVER, NO. 97448, CIRCA 1865-73 of standard production specifications, with blued octagonal sighted blued barrel with three line makers details, stamped ‘D’ on the right of the breech, blued frame, blued cylinder, walnut grip with inspector’s stamp on the left, brass trigger-guard and much early finish throughout 20.3 cm; 8 in barrel

The inscription is in Punjabi dialect and records a presentation to the officer Vyasunkad Kuvabsahu. £1200-1800

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268 A CASED .320 RIM-FIRE TRANTER’S PATENT HOUSE DEFENCE POCKET REVOLVER BY J. LANG, 22 COCKSPUR STREET, LONDON, RETAILED BY ISAAC HOLLIS & SONS, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, NO. 9042 with octagonal 3 ¾ in blued sighted rifled barrel, signed top-strap grooved for sighting, blued frame stamped with the serial number and patent mark on the left, chequered walnut butt, blued butt-cap with blued screw-in clearing rod, and retaining much original finish throughout: in its fitted oak case lined in blue baize, the lid with retailer’s label 24.5 cm; 9 ¾ in overall £1000-1200

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269 A RARE .56 CALIBRE 1738 PATTERN LAND SERVICE FLINTLOCK PISTOL, MARKED TO THE 11TH DRAGOONS, THE LOCK BY EDGE AND DATED 1759 with tapering barrel inscribed ‘11 Drags’, struck with King’s View and Proof marks at the breech, and the barrelsmith’s initials ‘RE(?)’ beneath a flowerhead on the left, tang with inspector’s mark, border-engraved lock with ‘GR’ crowned, Government ownership broad arrow and signed and dated on the tail, full stock moulded about the lock and mounts, stamped with inspector’s marks, brass mounts including thumbpiece engraved 3 / 22, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod 30.0 cm; 11 ¾ in barrel £2500-3000 270 A 16 BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOL OF MILITARY TYPE BY H.W.MORTIMER, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with tapering brass barrel signed in full on the top and with traces of a number (dented), signed stepped bolted lock (cock replaced), walnut full stock (repairs) and brass mounts of regulation type including side-plate, pommel and trigger-guard with bud-shaped finial (areas of wear, ramrod later) 23.5 cm; 9 ¼ in barrel

271 A 15 BORE PERCUSSION PISTOL, OF EAST INDIA SHORT CAVALRY TYPE, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY converted from flintlock, of regulation type, with tapering barrel, border-engraved lock with ‘GR’ crowned and ‘Tower’, full stock (cracks and repairs) and regulation brass mounts 23.2 cm; 9 ⅛ in barrel See Harding 1997, pp. 284-285. £250-300 272 A 22 BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOL OF MAIL COACH TYPE, SIGNED H.W.MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY AND LATER with brass barrel bearing later inscription ‘H.W.Mortimer, London, Gunmaker to his Majesty’, stepped bevelled lock inscribed en suite (lock rebuilt), full stock (repairs), brass mounts of regulation type including side-plate with the later inscription ‘Captain Charles Dansey’ and later ramrod 23.2 cm; 9 ⅛ in barrel Provenance The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) ‡ £300-400

Provenance Fort Carson Antiques, 1975 The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) Literature H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, Rhode Island 1992, pp. 255-6. ‡ £500-600

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274 A 40 BORE PERCUSSION DUELLING PISTOL BY JOSEPH CHARLES REILLY, 316 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, WITH CONCEALED RIFLING, CIRCA 1835-47 with heavy browned twist octagonal sighted barrel signed in full on the top flat, the bore rifled for approximately the rear three quarters, engraved case-hardened breech decorated with scrolls and inlaid with two platinum lines, engraved tang decorated with scrolling foliage and a sunburst, signed flush-fitting lock engraved with scrolls of foliage and fitted with bolt safety-catch, set trigger, figured walnut half-stock with chequered butt (areas of light bruising, dented beneath the lock), engraved steel mounts comprising spurred trigger-guard with foliate terminal, pear-shaped butt-cap, and, moulded ramrod-pipe, horn fore-end cap, vacant silver escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons and early brasstipped ramrod with iron worm enclosed in a brass cover 25.2 cm; 10 in barrel

273 A PAIR OF 25 BORE PERCUSSION OFFICER’S PISTOLS PRESENTED TO MR GEORGE BROWN, LONDON PROOF MARKS, DATED 1843 with octagonal sighted barrels fitted with stirrup ramrods and struck with proof marks beneath, engraved tangs (one screw replaced), scroll-and border-engraved back-action locks, figured walnut full stocks, engraved trigger-guards with pineapple finials, slender belt hooks, and white metal escutcheons with presentation inscription 15.5 cm; 6 ⅛ in barrels (2) The presentation inscription reads: ‘To Mr Geo.Brown by a few friends as a token of respect Glasgow May 31st 1843’ £750-900

£700-900 275 A 60 BORE PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL SIGNED NOCK, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS CIRCA 1830 with turn-off barrel, box-lock action inscribed within ovals carried by scrolls on each side, folding trigger, flat-sided walnut butt (repairs) and vacant German silver escutcheon 6.2 cm; 2 ½ in barrel £80-120

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276 A CASED PAIR OF 120 BORE PERCUSSION PISTOLS BY OSBORN & JACKSON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1840 with blued turn-off barrels, engraved German silver actions decorated with scrollwork and signed on the left, fitted with blued folding triggers and sliding thumb-piece safety-catches, finely chequered walnut butts with scalloped pommels, inset with silver rondels, and vacant silver escutcheons and much original finish throughout: in their fitted cased lined in purple velvet, the outside covered with tooled leather, and complete with accessories comprising bullet mould, barrel key, oil bottle and three-way flask 3.8 cm; 1 ½ in barrels Osborn & Jackson are recorded at 49 Ellis Street, Birmingham circa 1838-45. £1800-2200

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277 A FINE CASED PAIR OF 30 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED PELLET-LOCK PISTOLS BY CHARLES MOORE, LONDON, NO. 948, LONDON HALLMARKS, 1824, MAKER’S MARK E.B. with browned twist octagonal swamped barrels fitted with silver bead fore-sights on a gilt sunburst, inlaid with a gold panel of elaborate symmetrical foliage towards the breeches, struck with the serial number beneath, ‘CM’ and with no proof marks, case-hardened breeches inlaid with two gold lines, struck with goldlined maker’s patent stamp, serial number and with platinum plugs, engraved case-hardened breech tangs decorated with symmetrical foliage and border ornament, signed engraved case-hardened locks numbered on the inside, fitted with bolt safety-catches, engraved sprung gravity stops released by a spur on the base of the hammers and with rollers and platinum rondels, engraved spurred hammers with blued springs retaining the strikers, figured walnut full stocks, finely chequered butts, full silver mounts comprising numbered trigger-guards with pineapple finials (silver marks rubbed), oval pommel caps, moulded ramrod-pipes, vacant escutcheons, and barrel bolt escutcheons, horn fore-end caps, and horntipped ramrods, one with iron worm enclosed in a threaded brass terminal, and remaining in very good condition throughout: in an early Continental exotic hardwood case inlaid with a brass foliate panel on the outside of the lid (small cracks and losses), the interior with an early, probably original, green velvet lining, and complete with accessories comprising rare copper pellet dispenser by C. Moore, numbered 795, of flattened form with circular ratchet cover and blued spring, two-piece moulded iron nipple wrench, turnscrew by Colquhoun & Cadman, brass three-way flask by Sykes, oil bottle, rammer and bullet mould, and each pistol with brass inventory tag numbered ‘94’ 10 cm; 4 in barrels The present pistols are adapted from the design patented by Westley Richards in 1821. Another pair of pistols built on the same system by this maker are preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Acc. No. 19.53.108). The absence of proof marks may suggest a continental or Royal commission. ‡ £9000-11000

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 278 A FINE PAIR OF 22 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY JOHN COSENS, CIRCA 1690 with very minor differences, with tapering barrels formed in four stages, moulded girdles, octagonal then polygonal breeches, the forward sections signed ‘I.Cosens’ ahead of a chiselled acanthus moulding and with panels of foliage and beadwork, the rear sections with contrasting classical warriors in the centre framed by monsterhead scrolls, struck with the barrelsmith’s mark and London view and proof marks on the left, border-engraved tangs decorated with scrolling foliage inhabited by an exotic bird, border-engraved rounded locks decorated with cupids on the tails, one brandishing a falchion and the other aiming an arrow, decorated beneath the pans with curved slender panels en suite with the breeches and signed beneath a monsterhead scroll, chiselled cocks decorated with monsterhead scrolls, the pans each with a monsterhed on the brim, chiselled steels (the tip of one steel with a small chip, the engraving on one lock refreshed), full figured stocks, perhaps ash or elm, lightly carved with scrolls and swelling about the rear ramrod-pipes, the tangs enclosed by raised mouldings framed by scrolls, silver mounts comprising pierced side-plates decorated with monsterhead terminals centring on a green man mask, spurred pommels with grotesque mask caps, iron trigger-guards with foliate terminals and engraved with strawberry foliage on the bows, a pair of moulded silver ramrod-pipes, moulded iron escutcheons formed as a gaping mask each charged in the centre with the owner’s crest, and original iron-capped ramrods 30.7 cm; 12 ⅛ in barrels (2) The crest is that of Philipson. One likely candidate is Christopher Philipson (1646-1709), of Crook Hall, Member of Parliament for Westmoreland in 1679.

Philipson served as a Royalist militia officer and assisted Daniel Fleming in breaking up a Quaker meeting at Windermere in 1675. He replaced Sir John Lowther III as the honourable member for Westmorland in the second Exclusion Parliament. For his efforts he was rewarded with a knighthood by Charles II in 1681 as ‘a person of known loyalty and affection’, he was foreman of the grand jury which presented a loyal address after the Rye House Plot.

John Cosens, said to have leant ‘ye arte [of gunmaking] in ye City of Winchester’, was admitted to the Freedom of the Gunmakers’ Company on 14th August 1662. By 1664 he was in business and received payments from the Ordnance board for the manufacture and repair of matchlock and snaphaunce arms during the period 1666-80. In 1670 he took over Harman Barne’s shop in the Strand from his widow and he became Gunmaker in Ordinary to Charles II before 1669. The Wardrobe Account for 1680 shows that he delivered three pairs of pistols and one gun for£29 and in the same year he supplied pistols and one gun “stocked with asshe” for£8 as part of the King’s presents for the Emperor of Morocco. The last reference to him is on 4th August 1698 when he was fined ten shillings for proving a birding barrel belonging to John May who was not entitled to have barrels proved. See Neal and Back 1984, p. 139 and Blackmore 1999, pp. 58-9. £20000-30000

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279 A CASED PAIR OF 22 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY PHILIP JOHN JOSEPH BOND, 45 CORNHILL, LONDON, CIRCA 1800 with octagonal sighted barrels signed in block capitals on the flats, engraved with a band of foliage at the breeches, gold-lined vents, engraved tangs decorated with Britannia trophies, signed stepped bolted bevelled locks decorated with foliage on the tails and sunbursts ahead of the cocks, the latter engraved en suite with the tails, steel springs with rollers, figured walnut full stocks with finely chequered butts, engraved blued steel mounts comprising spurred trigger-guards with trophies-of-arms on the bows and pineapple finials, pearshaped butt-caps decorated with expanded flowerheads, a pair of ramrod-pipes and vacant silver escutcheons, and original ramrods, one with horn tip and the other with powder measure: in contemporary fitted oak case, perhaps the original, lined in green baize, the lid with brass carrying handle, complete with accessories include red morocco-covered three-way flask and bullet mould 25.5 cm; 10 in barrels Philip John Joseph Bond is recorded as gunmaker and sword cutler at 45 Cornhill 1794-1816. ÂŁ8000-10000

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280 A CASED PAIR OF 30 BORE FLINTLOCK RIFLED OFFICER’S PISTOLS BY BARTON WITH SHOULDER STOCK, CIRCA 1790 with rebrowned swamped sighted shallow-rifled barrels signed ‘Barton, London’ on the flats and engraved with a band of beadwork at the breeches, gold-lined vents, engraved breeches incorporating the back-sights, stepped bevelled bolted locks signed ‘Barton’ in script and fitted with bevelled cocks (the signatures on the barrels and locks re-engraved), set triggers, slender walnut full stocks, the butts each with an iron escutcheon for the shoulder stock, engraved iron mounts comprising trigger-guards with acorn finials and rococo flowers on the bows, engraved pear-shaped butt-caps, and a pair of moulded ramrod-pipes, and wooden ramrods, one original and complete with its iron powder-measure: in a contemporary fitted mahogany case relined in green baize (repairs), the lid with flush-fitting brass carrying handle, and complete with shoulder stock recessed for the cheek, powder-flask, bullet mould and oil bottle 30.5 cm; 12 in barrels The shoulder stock is almost identical to that made for the 1793 pattern Royal Horse Artillery pistol carbine. See De Witt Bailey 2002, p. 92 and O’Sullivan and De Witt Bailey 2019, p. 219. £7000-9000

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281 A FINE AND RARE PAIR OF 28 BORE D.B. FLINTLOCK SINGLETRIGGER SAW-HANDLED CARRIAGE PISTOLS BY H.W.MORTIMER & CO., LONDON, GUNMAKERS TO HIS MAJESTY, CIRCA 1800-1806 with browned twist barrels signed in full on the rib and fitted with silver fore-sights, engraved case-hardened breeches decorated with starbursts (one small chip), inlaid with gold lines, gold-lined vents, engraved case-hardened tangs incorporating a groove for sighting, flat locks signed in script, engraved with border ornament, starbursts and trophies-of-arms on the tails, fitted with engraved ‘French’ cocks, bolt safety-catches, gold-lined rainproof pans, and rollers, figured walnut half-stocks (light bruising, very small closed cracks), slightly curved spurs with a raised panel along the top, chequered rounded butts with flat ovoid pommels encircled by an engraved silver band, border-engraved ovoid steel pommel-plates decorated with a central flower-head, engraved blued spurred trigger-guards decorated with trophies-of-arms and border ornament on the bows and with pineapple finials, rear ramrod-pipes en suite, silver barrel-bolt escutcheons, later brassmounted ramrods, and some early finish (areas of light rust patination) 26.7 cm; 10 ½ in barrels (2)

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Provenance The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) The owner’s notes state that the system for these pistols was derived from the patent of Thomas Sykes registered 4th February 1794, no. 1978. ‘A Lock, Instrument or Machine with one Tricker or Bolt, whereby both Locks of a Double Barrel...Fire-arm.....may be fired, the one after the other, or one alone, by the said One Tricker or Bolt, without the Side Motion or Alteration of the Position of the said Tricker.....’. ‡ £7000-9000

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PATRICK KELLY 282 A CASED PAIR OF 25 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY H. W. MORTIMER & CO, LONDON, GUNMAKERS TO HIS MAJESTY, CIRCA 1800-06 with octagonal swamped sighted barrels signed ‘H. W. Mortimer & Co., London, Gunmakers to His Majesty’, engraved with a band over the breeches, gold-lined vents, engraved tangs decorated with trophies-of-arms and incorporating standing back-sights, stepped bevelled locks signed in script, engraved with sunbursts on the tails, fitted with bevelled cocks (one repaired), semi-rainproof pans, bolt safety-catches, rollers, detents and set triggers, figured walnut full stocks, finely chequered butts, characteristic spirally fluted pommels, engraved iron mounts comprising spurred trigger-guards with pineapple finials and trophies-of-arms on the bows, a pair of ramrodpipes, and horn-tipped wooden ramrods: in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize (areas of wear, small chips, cracks, retaining hooks for closure and one side panel of the lid missing), the lid with flush-fitting carrying handle retained by screws on the outside and with trade label for 1800-07 inside (creased), and retaining a brass powder-flask 25.5 cm; 10 in barrels A very similar cased pair of duelling pistols by this maker are illustrated Munson 1992, p. 172, plate 263. £3500-4500

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283 A CASED PAIR OF 22 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY HARVEY WALKLATE MORTIMER, CIRCA 1780 each with rebrowned twist octagonal sighted barrel signed ‘H Mortimer’ in script and inscribed ‘London’ in italic capitals, engraved with a band of beadwork (refreshed), struck with the barrelsmith’s and London proof marks at the breech, stepped lock engraved with foliage on the tail and beneath the pan, signed in script beneath the latter, fitted with bevelled cock decorated en suite, and steel with roller, figured walnut full stock, flat-sided butt with flattened spine, engraved iron mounts comprising trigger-guard with a flower on the bow and acorn finial, pear-shaped butt-pate decorated with a sunburst, two ramrod-pipes (later ramrods, areas of light pitting)): in a contemporary fitted oak case lined in green baize, the case lid with flush-fitting brass carrying handle on the outside and trade label for William Bond at 59 Lombard Street on the inside, complete with a brass three-way flask 26.0 cm; 10 ¼ in barrels Flat-sided butts, characteristically associated with Wogdon, are rarely encountered with this maker. See Munson 1992, p. 182, plate 280. £3000-4000

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VARIOUS OWNERS 284 A PAIR OF 14 BORE FLINTLOCK SILVER-MOUNTED PISTOLS BY HENRY DELANEY, LONDON, CIRCA 1745 with cannon barrels, octagonal then polygonal breeches struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith’s marks and engraved with scrolls and stars, signed beneath the steels within a wrigglework frame, separate engraved tangs, border-engraved actions decorated with scrolls on the tails, swelling figured walnut butts carved with a scallop moulding about the tangs, and a raised moulding behind the locks, silver mounts cast and chased in low relief, comprising pierced foliate side-plates, butts with greenman mask caps, and vacant escutcheons with foliate borders, iron trigger-guards decorated with trophies-of-hunting (refreshed), a pair of iron ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrods with iron worms 20.3 cm; 8 in barrels (2) Henry Delaney is recorded as a maker of fine breech-loading sporting guns and silver-mounted pistols. He also made a large crossbow with built-in cranequin in the Marquis of Bath’s collection at Longleat. See Blackmore 1986, p. 81. £4000-6000

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285 285 AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF 120 BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOLS WITH SILVER BARRELS, ACTIONS AND MOUNTS, SIGNED MORTIMER, LONDON, TOWER PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, BIRMINGHAM SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1774, MARK OF CHARLES FREETH with turn-off cannon barrels formed in two stages divided by raised mouldings, engraved with a band of foliage at the breeches and one numbered ‘1’ beneath, engraved actions decorated with border ornament, signed ‘Mortimer’ on a scroll carried by a ground of rococo scrolls on the left and inscribed ‘London’ on a scroll carried by trophies-of-arms and rococo designs on the right, fitted with border-engraved iron steels and ring-neck cocks, engraved tangs decorated with rococo flowers, highly figured rounded walnut butts profusely inlaid with silver wire and engraved silver plaques forming a design of scrolling tendrils, flowers and rococo shells within a wrigglework frame enriched with minute silver pellets (small pieces of wire lifting), silver mounts comprising, sliding trigger-guard safety-catches with moulded borders and each engraved with a diamond-shaped panel on the bow, vacant silver escutcheons, and grotesque mask butt-caps with engraved borders 3.5 cm; 1 ⅜ in barrels (2) Provenance Clay P. Bedford Collection (inv. no. 1512), one pistol Christie’s, London, 18th July 2002, lot 339, one pistol Bonhams, London, 30th November 2011, lot 391, the pair The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) Exhibited Early Firearms of Great Britain and Ireland from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1971, cat. no. 197

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Literature Clay P. Bedford and Stephen V. Grancsay, Early Firearms of Great Britain and Ireland from the Collection of Clay P. Bedford, exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1971, pp. 174 and 177 H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, 1992, pp.

151-152, pl. 234.

This pair of pistols are probably unique and, as Munson states, among the earliest known examples of H.W. Mortimer’s work. ‡ £6000-8000

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286 A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK OVER-AND-UNDER HOWDAH PISTOL BY STAUDENMAYER, LONDON, NO. 1282, CIRCA 1810 with rebrowned tapering sighted barrels, signed on the upper flat and inlaid with a platinum line, engraved breech tang fitted with standing back-sight, signed border and foliate engraved bolted locks (cocks and steel replaced), fitted with rainproof pans and steel springs with rollers, highly figured walnut half-stock with chequered hook-shaped butt in the Catalan taste, engraved iron mounts including trigger-guard decorated with a trophy-of-arms, blued vestigial butt-cap, and later stirrup ramrod (refinished throughout) 18.0 cm; 7 ⅛ in barrels

287 A 32 BORE D.B. FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY BARBER AND BOALER, LATE 18TH CENTURY with browned twist tapering barrels (finish faded) inscribed ‘Newark’ on the rib, engraved breeches with gold-lined vents, stamped ‘LB’ and ‘Twisted’ beneath, engraved grooved tang, signed stepped bolted locks, fitted with semi-rainproof pans, rollers, and bolt safety-catches (cocks replaced, restorations), figured walnut half-stock, chequered butt, engraved iron mounts comprising French style trigger-guard with pineapple finial and a trophy-of-arms on the bow, fore-end cap decorated with a sunburst, vacant shield-shaped silver escutcheon, and iron-tipped ramrod with worn enclosed by a brass cap 24.5 cm; 9 ¾ in barrels

Literature Shaun Brown, Samuel Staudenmayer, Gun Maker, Cockspur Street, London, in, The Canadian Society of Arms Collecting, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2002.

£1400-1800

Samuel Henry Staudenmayer, Gunmaker to the Prince of Wales and Duke of York, apprenticed to John Manton and is recorded at Cockspur Street circa 1802-25. £3000-3500

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288 A 50 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL, CIRCA 1760 with cannon barrel, box-lock action engraved with scrolls (rubbed), sliding trigger-guard safety-catch, swelling walnut butt profusely inlaid with delicate silver wire, and silver butt cap cast and chased with a demonic mask in low relief 5.8 cm; 2 ⅜ in barrel £150-200

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289 A 40 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL BY CARR, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1820, with turn-off barrel cut for a key and engraved with a band of foliage at the muzzle, fitted with spring bayonet on the right, rounded action engraved with sunbursts, trophies-of-arms and signed in an oval on the left, fitted with bayonet-release lever on the right, engraved sliding thumb-piece safety-catch also locking the steel, folding trigger, finely chequered walnut butt, silver grotesque mask butt-cap and vacant silver escutcheon 6.5 cm; 2 ½ in barrel £350-500

VARIOUS OWNERS 289 290 A 40 BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOL BY MATHER, NEWCASTLE, PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1830 with turn-off barrel, box-lock action engraved with ovals carried by bouquets of flowers, signed on the left and inscribed ‘Newcastle on the right, sliding thumb-piece safety-catch, flat-sided walnut butt, and iron trigger-guard engraved with a star 4.0 cm; 1 5⁄8 in barrel £200-250 291 A 54 BORE FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL BY THOMAS, BIRMINGHAM PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1790 with cannon barrel, box-lock action signed on a scroll on the left and with rococo ornament on the right, engraved tang, flat-sided walnut butt (restored) and iron trigger-guard engraved with a flower 6.2 cm; 2 ½ in barrel

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£150-200 292 A 40 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL SIGNED HILL, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1820 with turn-off barrel engraved with foliage around the muzzle, boxlock action signed on ovals carried by trophies-of-arms, sliding thumb-piece safety-catch (top-jaw and screw and tang screw missing, iron parts patinated, action defective), chequered walnut butt and vacant silver escutcheon 4.0 cm; 1 ½ in barrel £200-250

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293 A 28 BORE FLINTLOCK OVER-AND-UNDER TAP-ACTION POCKET PISTOL BY H.W.MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, CIRCA 1785 with turn-off barrels cut for a key at the muzzles, engraved with a band and numbered ‘2’ and ‘3’ at the breeches, engraved box-lock action signed on a scroll on the left and inscribed ‘Gunmaker to his Majesty’ on the right each on a pair of scrolls carried by elaborate trophies-of-arms, fitted with sliding thumb-piece safetycatch also locking the steel, tap-lever on the left and folding trigger and flat-sided walnut butt 3.7 cm; 1 ½ in barrels Provenance Edred Gwilliam, Cricklade, 1982 The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) Literature H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, Rhode Island 1992, p. 250. ‡ £500-600 294 A PAIR OF 28 BORE FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOLS BY H.W.MORTIMER, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, CIRCA 1785-90 with turn-off barrels engraved with a band of foliage around the breeches and one numbered ‘1’, finely engraved box-lock actions, inscribed ‘Gunmaker to his Majesty’ on a scroll over an artillery encampment on the left and signed on a panel carried by an elaborate trophy-of-arms on the right, fitted with sliding thumbpiece safety-catches also locking the steels and folding triggers, swelling figured walnut butts fitted with engraved silver caps each engraved with a sunburst, and border-engraved vacant silver escutcheons 13.6 cm; 5 ⅜ in barrels (2)

295 A 22 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S PISTOL BY H.W.MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, LONDON SILVER MARKS FOR 1783, MARK OF MICHAEL BARNETT with tutenag sighted barrel formed in two stages, swamped towards the muzzle and octagonal over the breech, the latter signed in full within a delicately engraved frame, engraved with a band of beadwork and fitted with iron back-sight, engraved tang decorated with flowers, signed stepped tutenag lock decorated with scrolls and a star burst, previously fitted with bolt safety-catch (now missing), walnut full stock, chequered grip, full silver mounts comprising solid side plate decorated with scrolls and a central flowerhead, trigger-guard with acorn finial and a large elaborate flower on the bow, spurred pommel engraved with border ornament en suite with the breech and with a small central flower,silver escutcheon engraved with the owner’s coatof-arms, a pair of ramrod-pipes, and later ramrod 22.5 cm; 8 ⅞ in barrel Provenance Norm Flayderman, 1974, cat. 95.

The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) Literature H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, Rhode Island 1992, pp. 31-33.

Bernard Dickens, “M.B.” - The Gunmakers’ Silversmith. A Question of Attribution, in The Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, vol.

XVI, No. 2, March 1999, p. 102.

The grasshopper crest and coat-of-arms is that of the Gresham family. The former can still be seen on the former Royal Exchange founded in 1565 by Sir Thomas Gresham. ‡ £1000-1500

Provenance The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) Literature H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, Rhode Island 1992, pp. 216-217.

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296 A PAIR OF 50 BORE FLINTLOCK OVER-AND-UNDER TAP-ACTION PISTOL BY WILLIAMS, LONDON, TOWER PRIVATE PROOF MARKS CIRCA 1780 with turn-off barrels numbered 1-3 and the fourth blank, border-engraved breeches numbered en suite, box-lock actions engraved with garlands, signed on the left and inscribed ‘London’ on the right, fitted with sliding thumb-piece safety-catches also locking the steels, taplevers on the left and ring-neck cocks (one top-jaw and screw replaced, small repairs), flat-sided figured walnut butts inlaid with large engraved silver plaques of stylised pineapple foliage on each side, the edges inlaid with silver wire lines enriched with pellets (losses), and further engraved silver plaques on the spines, and engraved iron trigger-guards 7.5 cm; 3 in barrels £1500-1800

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298 A PAIR OF 50 BORE FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOLS BY H.W.MORTIMER & CO., GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, LONDON, CIRCA 1799-1806 with turn-off barrels numbered ‘1’ and ‘2’ beneath and struck with London view and proof marks, rounded breeches signed in full on a long curling scroll carried by trophies-of-arms, finely engraved tangs decorated with conventional foliage, rounded side-action locks fitted with border-engraved cocks (one replaced), semirainproof pans, rollers, bolt safety-catches, and folding triggers (one pistol with areas of pitting), and highly figured finely chequered butts with characteristic spirally carved pommels 4.5 cm; 1 ¾ in barre;s (2)

297 A 25 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOL BY RICHARD (1) WILSON, LONDON, CIRCA 1745-50 with cannon barrel engraved with a scroll of foliage over the breech and signed beneath the pan, the underside with proof marks and the barrelsmith’s stamp, engraved tang, side-action lock with rounded cock (steel, steel spring, top-jaw and screw replaced), figured walnut butt (small repairs), and silver mounts comprising trophy-of-arms side-plate, grotesque mask butt-cap, vacant trophy-of-arms escutcheon and sliding trigger-guard safety-catch engraved with a scroll terminating in a palmette on the bow 13.5 cm; 5 ⅜ in barrel £700-900

Provenance Norm Flayderman 1974, catalogue number 96.

The Estate of Howard Lee Munson (1940-2019) Literature H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers 1753-1923, Rhode Island 1992, p. 211. ‡ £1000-1500

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 299 A PAIR OF 22 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY LEWIS (1) BARBAR, LONDON, CIRCA 1730 with turn-off cannon barrels, rounded actions engraved with foliage top and bottom, signed beneath the pan, struck with London proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark (one steel spring replaced), engraved tangs, figured walnut butts carved with foliate mouldings about the tangs, iron trigger-guards, one engraved with a star on the bow (the other with light pitting), silver mounts comprising openwork rococo side-plates involving an issuant demon mask, engraved spurred pommels, and escutcheons with the owner’s crest, perhaps a griffin’s head erased (rubbed) 13.7 cm; 5 ⅜ in barrels (2) Lewis (1) Barbar, son of James, emigrated from France to avoid religious persecution in 1688 and is recorded ‘in the King’s service circa 1690-7. He became Free of the Gunmakers Company by redemption and his proof piece, ‘a very fine piece’ was passed in 1704. He became Master in 1718, was Gentleman Armourer to George I in 1717, George II in 1727 and was also gunsmith to the Dukes of Montague 1710-41. He was Contractor to the Ordnance 1723-40 and died in 1741. £2500-3000

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Conditions of Business for Buyers 1.

Introduction

(ii) gives any guarantee or warranty to Bidders and any implied warranties and conditions are excluded (save in so far as such obligations cannot be excluded by English law), other than the express warranties given by the Sellerto the Buyer (for which the Seller is solely responsible) under the Conditions of Business for Sellers;

(a) The contractual relationship of the Auctioneers and Sellers with prospective Buyers is governed by:(i) these Conditions of Business for Buyers; (ii) the Conditions of Business for Sellers displayed in the saleroom and available from the Auctioneers;

(iii) accepts responsibility to Bidders for acts or omissions (whether negligent or otherwise) by the Auctioneers in connection with the conduct of auctions or for any matter relating to the sale of any lot.

(iii) The Auctioneers Authenticity Guarantee; (iv) any additional notices and terms printed in the sale catalogue, in each case as amended by any Saleroom Notice or Auctioneers Announcement.

(c) Without prejudice to Condition 4(b), any claim against the Auctioneers and/or the Seller by a Bidder is limited to the Purchase Price for the relevant lot. Neither the Auctioneers nor the Seller shall be liable for any indirect or consequential losses.

(b) As Auctioneers, the Ltd Company hosting the auction acts as agent for the Seller. Occasionally, the Auctioneers may own or have a financial interest in a lot.

2.

(d) Nothing in Condition 4 shall exclude or limit the liability of the Auctioneers or the Seller for death or personal injury caused by the negligent acts or omissions of the Auctioneers or the Seller.

Definitions “Bidder” is any person making, attempting or considering making a bid, including Buyers; “Buyer” is the person who makes the highest bid or offer accepted by the auctioneer, including a Buyer’s principal when bidding as agent;

5.

“Seller” is the person offering a lot for sale, including their agent, or executors; “Auctioneers” Thomas Del Mar Ltd, Matthew Barton Ltd and 25 Blythe Road Ltd trading as Olympia Auctions. For other auctioneer’s at 25 Blythe Road, such as Charles Miller Ltd, please see their website for their Conditions of Business

(b) The Auctioneers advises Bidders to attend the auction, but the Auctioneers will endeavour to execute absentee written bids provided that they are, in the Auctioneers opinion, received in sufficient time and in legible form.

“Buyer’s Expenses” are any costs or expenses due to the Auctioneers from the Buyer; “Buyer’s Premium” is the commission payable by the Buyer on the Hammer Price at the rates set out in the Guide for Prospective Buyers; “Hammer Price” is the highest bid for the Property accepted by the Auctioneers at the auction or the post auction sale price;

(c) When available, written and telephone bidding is offered as a free service at the Bidder’s risk and subject to the Auctioneers other commitments; the Auctioneers is therefore not liable for failure to execute such bids. Telephone bidding may be recorded.

6.

“Purchase Price” is the Hammer Price plus applicable Buyer’s Premium and Buyer’s Expenses;

The Buyer’s Premium, Buyer’s Expenses and Hammer Price are subject to VAT, where applicable.

Examination of Lots

(b) Ivory and Restricted Materials (CITES) ‘~’ Lots marked with the symbol ~ have been identified at the time of cataloguing as containing organic material which may be subject to restrictions regarding import or export. As the Auctioneers of these articles, the Auctioneers undertakes to comply fully with CITES and DEFRA regulation. Buyers are advised to inform themselves of all such regulations and should expect the exportation of items to take some time to arrange. The information is made available for the convenience of Bidders and the absence of the symbol is not a warranty that there are no restrictions regarding import or export of the Lot. The Auctioneers accepts no liability for any lots which may be subject to CITES but have not be identified as such.

(a) The Auctioneers knowledge of lots is partly dependent on information provided by the Seller and the Auctioneers are unable to exercise exhaustive due diligence on each lot. Each lot is available for examination before sale. Bidders are responsible for carrying out examinations and research before sale to satisfy themselves over the condition of lots and accuracy of descriptions. (b) All oral and/or written information provided to Bidders relating to lots, including descriptions in the catalogue, condition reports or elsewhere are statements of the Auctioneers opinion and not representations of fact. Estimates may not be relied on as a prediction of the selling price or value of the lot and may be revised from time to time at the Auctioneers absolute discretion.

4.

Exclusions and limitations of liability to Buyers (a) The Auctioneers shall refund the Purchase Price to the Buyer in circumstances where it deems that the lot is a Counterfeit, subject to the terms of the Auctioneers Authenticity Guarantee. (b) Subject to Condition 4(a), neither the Auctioneers nor the Seller:(i) is liable for any errors or omissions in any oral or written information provided to Bidders by the Auctioneers, whether negligent or otherwise;

Import, Export and Copyright Restrictions (a) The Auctioneers and the Seller make no representations or warranties as to whether any lot is subject to import, export or copyright restrictions. It is the Buyer's sole responsibility to obtain any copyright clearance or any necessary import, export or other licence required by law, including licences required under the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

“Reserve Price” (where applicable) is the minimum Hammer Price at which the Seller has agreed to sell a lot.

3.

Bidding at Auction (a) The Auctioneers has absolute discretion to refuse admission to the auction. Before sale, Bidders must complete a Registration Form and supply such information and references as the Auctioneers requires. Bidders are personally liable for their bid and are jointly and severally liable with their principal, if bidding as agent (in which case the Auctioneers prior and express consent must be obtained).

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Conduct of the Auction (a) The auctioneer has discretion to refuse bids, withdraw or reoffer lots for sale (including after the fall of the hammer) if (s)he believes that there may be an error or dispute, and may also take such other action as (s)he reasonably deems necessary. (b) The auctioneer will commence and advance the bidding in such increments as (s)he considers appropriate and is entitled to place bids on the Seller’s behalf up to the Reserve Price for the lot, where applicable.

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(c) Subject to Condition 7(a), the contract between the Buyer and the Seller is concluded on the striking of the auctioneer's hammer.

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(a) What is the legal basis on which the Auctioneers relies to process your data?

Payment and Collection

On some occasions, the Auctioneers processes your data with your consent (e.g., when you agree that the Auctioneers may place cookies, or if you ask, the Auctioneers, to send you information about upcoming events).

(b) Title in a lot will not pass to the Buyer until the Auctioneers has received the Purchase Price in cleared funds. The Auctioneers will generally not release a lot to a Buyer before payment. Earlier release shall not affect passing of title or the Buyer's obligation to pay the Purchase Price, as above. (c) The refusal of any licence or permit required by law, as outlined in Condition 6, shall not affect the Buyer’s obligation to pay for the lot, as per Condition 8(a). (d) The Buyer must arrange collection of lots within 10 working days of the auction. Purchased lots are at the Buyer's risk from the earlier of (i) collection or (ii) 10 working days after the auction.

Until risk passes, the Auctioneers will compensate the Buyer for any loss or damage to the lot up to a maximum of the Purchase Price actually paid by the Buyer. The Auctioneers assumption of risk is subject to the exclusions detailed in Condition 5(d) of the Conditions of Business for Sellers. (e) All packing and handling of lots is at the Buyer's risk. The Auctioneers will not be liable for any acts or omissions of third party packers or shippers.

Remedies for non-payment Without prejudice to any rights that the Seller may have, if the Buyer without prior agreement fails to make payment for the lot within 5 working days of the auction, the Auctioneers may in its sole discretion exercise 1 or more of the following remedies:(a) store the lot at its premises or elsewhere at the Buyer’s sole risk and expense; (b) cancel the sale of the lot; (c) set off any amounts owed to the Buyer by the Auctioneers against any amounts owed to the Auctioneersby the Buyer for the lot; (d) reject future bids from the Buyer; (e) charge interest at 4% per annum above HSBC Bank plc Base Rate from the Payment Date to the date that the Purchase Price is received in cleared funds; (f) re-sell the lot by auction or privately, with estimates and reserves at the Auctioneers discretion, in which case the Buyer will be liable for any shortfall between the original Purchase Price and the amount achieved on re-sale, including all costs incurred in such re-sale; (g) Exercise a lien over any Buyer’s Property in the Auctioneers possession, applying the sale proceeds to any amounts owed by the Buyer to the Auctioneers. The Auctioneers shall give the Buyer 14 days' written notice before exercising such lien; (h) commence legal proceedings to recover the Purchase Price for the lot, plus interest and legal costs; (i) disclose the Buyer’s details to the Seller to enable the Seller to commence legal proceedings 10. Failure to collect purchases (a) If the Buyer pays the Purchase Price but does not collect the lot within 10 working days of the auction, the lot will be stored at the Buyer's expense and risk at the Auctioneers premises or in independent storage (b) If a lot is paid for but uncollected within 6 months of the auction, following 60 days written notice to the Buyer, the Auctioneers will re-sell the lot by auction or privately, with estimates and reserves at the Auctioneers discretion. The sale proceeds, less all the Auctioneers costs, will be forfeited unless funds or the unsold items collected by the Buyer within 2 years of the original auction.

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Privacy Policy

(d) Any post-auction sale of lots shall incorporate these Conditions of Business. (a) Unless otherwise agreed in advance, payment of the Purchase Price is due in pounds sterling immediately after the auction (the "Payment Date").

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11. Data Protection

On other occasions, the Auctioneers processes your data when the Auctioneers need to do this to fulfil a contract with you (e.g., for billing purposes) or where the Auctioneers are required to do this by law (e.g., where we have to fulfil anti-money laundering requirements). If it is mandatory for you to provide data for these purposes, the Auctioneers will make this clear at the time and will also explain what will happen if you do not provide the data (e.g., that the Auctioneers will not be able to process a bid at auction).

The Auctioneers also processes your data when it is the Auctioneers legitimate interests to do this and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights. For example, the Auctioneers has a legitimate interest in ensuring the security and integrity of the auctions, in learning about the interests and preferences of current and prospective clients, in developing new business opportunities, in maintaining accurate business and provenance records, and in ensuring that the Auctioneers websites and apps operate effectively. When the Auctioneers process personal information to meet the Auctioneers legitimate interests, the Auctioneers put in place robust safeguards to ensure that your privacy is protected and to ensure that the Auctioneers legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. (i) The Auctioneers will use information supplied by Bidders or otherwise obtained lawfully by the Auctioneers for the provision of auction related services, client administration, marketing and as otherwise required by law. (ii) By agreeing to these Conditions of Business, the Bidder agrees to the processing of their personal information and to the disclosure of such information to third parties world-wide for the purposes outlined in Condition 11(a) (i). (b) Who gets to see your personal data?

The Auctioneers and other auctioneer’s at Olympia Auctions, such as Charles Miller Ltd. The Ltd company that initially receives your data will process it. Your data may also be transferred to and processed by other companies within the group of Auctioneers.

The Auctioneers uses EU Commission approved standard contractual clauses to regulate the transfer and processing of data between the Auctioneers.

Outside the Auctioneers The Auctioneers do not transfer your personal data to organisations who wish to use it for their own marketing promotions or other purposes. The Auctioneers only transfer your personal data to other organisations where it Is necessary to enable the Auctioneers to provide you with the services you have requested (for example: the Auctioneers may transfer your data to the Auctioneers bank, payment card acquirers, shippers, warehouses, insurers, experts who help the Auctioneers authenticate or value property, event venues, caterers, catalogue and direct marketing fulfilment and distribution). Where the Auctioneers do it will be on the basis that these organisations are required to keep the information confidential and secure, and they will only use the information to carry out the instructed services.

Some of these organisations may be located outside the EEA. The Auctioneers may also need to retain and disclose certain information about you to appropriate agencies to conduct antimoney laundering and trade sanction checks and to assist with fraud and crime prevention and detection.

When the Auctioneers receive a request for information from a government or law enforcement agency the Auctioneers will disclose information which is the subject matter of that request, if the Auctioneers are satisfied that the government or law enforcement agency has the right to seek disclosure and the

correct procedure has been followed. In all other circumstances such information will only be disclosed if the Auctioneers are ordered to do so by a court of law. (c) How long will the Auctioneers keep your personal data?

The Auctioneers will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to provide the relevant services, maintain business records to satisfy tax, legal and other regulatory requirements, and protect and defend against potential legal claims.

In the context of our research and records on ownership of art objects to assist with checks on authenticity provenance and title, we will keep this data for as long as the record is relevant to our legitimate business interest and the public interest.

What steps do the Auctioneers take to keep your personal data secure?

The Auctioneers will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect the security and integrity of all personal information provided via our website, or by any other means electronic or otherwise.

(e) Your data You have the right to request deletion of your personal data. The Auctioneers will comply with this request, subject to our legitimate interests as noted above.

How can I access the information you hold about me?

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information then please write to the Auctioneers or email the Auctioneers.

The Auctioneers have an obligation to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. Please write to the Auctioneers or email the Auctioneers to correct or remove any information that you think is incorrect. (f) Complaints If you have any queries or complaints in relation to the Auctioneers processing your personal data please contact the Auctioneers.

12. Miscellaneous

The Auctioneers use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal details from unauthorised physical and electronic access.

(a) All images of lots, catalogue descriptions and all other materials produced by the Auctioneers are the copyright of the Auctioneers.

As effective as modern security practices are, we cannot guarantee the complete security of personal data held in our systems, nor that information you supply through the internet or any computer related network is entirely safe from unauthorised intrusion, access or manipulation during transmission. Any transmission is at your own risk. We will not be liable for any resulting misuse of your personal data.

(b) These Conditions of Business are not assignable by any Buyer or Seller without the Auctioneers prior written consent, but are binding on Bidders' successors, assigns and representatives.

(d) Third party websites The Auctioneers website may contain links to other websites not operated by us, the Auctioneers. The information you provide to us will not be transmitted to other websites, but these other websites may collect personal information about you in accordance with their own privacy notice. We as the Auctioneers cannot accept any responsibility for the privacy practices or content of those websites.

(c) The materials listed in Condition 1(a) set out the entire agreement between the parties. (d) If any part of these Conditions of Business be held unenforceable, the remaining parts shall remain in full force and effect. (e) These Conditions of Business shall be interpreted in accordance with English Law, under the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts, in favour of the Auctioneers.

Thomas Del Mar Ltd’s Authenticity Guarantee If the Auctioneers sell an item of Property which is later shown to be a “Counterfeit”, subject to the terms below the Auctioneers will rescind the sale and refund the Buyer the total amount paid by the Buyer to the Auctioneers for that Property, up to a maximum of the Purchase Price.

The Guarantee lasts for one (1) year after the date of the relevant auction, is for the benefit of the Buyer only and is non-transferable.

“Counterfeit” means an item of Property that in the Auctioneers reasonable opinion is an imitation created with the intent to deceive over the authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture or source, where the correct description of such matters is not included in the catalogue description for the Property.

Property shall not be considered Counterfeit solely because of any damage and/or restoration and/or modification work (including, but not limited to, recolouring, tooling or repatinating).

Please note that this Guarantee does not apply if either:(i) the catalogue description was in accordance with the generally accepted opinions of scholars and experts at the date of the sale, or the catalogue description indicated that there was a conflict of such opinions; or (ii) the only method of establishing at the date of the sale that the item was a Counterfeit would have been by means of processes not then generally available or accepted, unreasonably expensive or impractical; or likely to have caused damage to or loss in value to the Property (in the Auctioneers reasonable opinion); or

(iii) there has been no material loss in value of the Property from its value had it accorded with its catalogue description.

To claim under this Guarantee, the Buyer must:(i) notify the Auctioneers in writing within one (1) month of receiving any information that causes the Buyer to question the authenticity or attribution of the Property, specifying the lot number, date of the auction at which it was purchased and the reasons why it is believed to be Counterfeit; and (ii) return the Property to the Auctioneers in the same condition as at the date of sale and be able to transfer good title in the Property, free from any third party claims arising after the date of the sale.

The Auctioneers have discretion to waive any of the above requirements. The Auctioneers may require the Buyer to obtain at the Buyer’s cost the reports of two independent and recognised experts in the relevant field and that are acceptable to the Auctioneers. The Auctioneers shall not be bound by any reports produced by the Buyer, and reserves the right to seek additional expert advice at its own expense. In the event the Auctioneers decides to rescind the sale under this Guarantee, it may refund to the Buyer the reasonable costs of up to two mutually approved independent expert reports, provided always that the costs of such reports have been approved in advance and in writing by the Auctioneers.

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