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272 271 267 A GROUP OF SMALL ELEMENTS OF ARMOUR comprising and etched and gilt scaled finger-defence of a late 16th century German gauntlet (the first scale associated); four elements of pikemen’s and harquebusiers’ shoulder-straps, English, c. 1630-50, the lower rear corner of a lame of a mid16th century shoulder-defence, a plate fluted in the ‘Gothic’ style and bearing the initials of Anthony de Reuck, a fragment of iron stated to have been excavated from the site of the battle of Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, fought in 1471, a swivelhook and pin possibly from a 16th century armour; and two fragments of mail formed of riveted rings of round-section wire, one edged with brass rings of which some are punched and some formed with butted joins, probably Indian 18th/19th century £40-80 268 A GROUP OF SPEAR AND CROSSBOW-QUARREL HEADS comprising a leaf-shaped spear-head, struck on each side with a mark, possibly of the South German city of Augsburg, 16th century; a small tanged, leaf-shaped spear-head, possibly Indian, 18th/19th century (lightly patinated); an excavated blade possibly of an Asian spear; and two crossbow quarrel-heads with acute points of triangular section, and the shaft of a quarrel with wooden flight (one lacking its rear end) (6) £120-180 269 A COLLECTION OF SHOT OF VARIOUS SIZES including two of stone for a saker found at Dover Castle, Kent, in 1914, 15th/16th century, seven small shot of lead found at Oliver’s Mount Battery, Winchester, 1988, in one case flattened on impact, and in two retaining their casting-sprues, perhaps 17th century, together with a collection of lead shot of various sizes and forms, 16th to 19th centuries, and a large stone-bow projectile from the Thames, 16th-18th centuries £30-50 76
270 TWO LEAD-ALLOY TOY SOLDIERS AND THE BASE OF ANOTHER one representing a musketeer and one a drummer (lacking its head), found in the Thames, 18th/19th century, a small leadalloy badge in the form of a Medieval archer, together with an arrow, a sword-scabbard and an unidentified device of the same material, and a miniature penknife with mother of pearl grip-plates, late 19th/early 20th century £60-100 271 AN ANGLO-SAXON SHIELD-BOSS AND GRIP, LATE 5TH/6TH CENTURY the first of Dickinson’s type 1.1, the second terminating at each end in adorsed volutes (one missing) See Dickinson & Härke 1992, pp.10-13 & 24-7, fig. 7 & 16-17 for comparable examples. £250-400 272 A GROUP OF DETACHED ELEMENTS OF GAUNTLETS OF THE LATE 14TH AND EARLY 15TH CENTURIES including three knuckle-plates, two of copper-alloy and one of iron with an applied medial rib of copper-alloy; a terminal finger-plate of a gauntlet of engraved copper-alloy; the distal two scales of a thumb-defence and three further thumb or finger-scales (8) £60-80