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ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOUR & MILITARIA WEDNESDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2023

ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOUR & MILITARIA THE ROY ELVIS COLLECTION OF INDIAN ARMS & ARMOUR, PART III THE COLLECTION OF A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AND COLLECTOR PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN THE BERNARD DICKENS COLLECTION

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION: 25 Blythe Road, London W14 0PD AUCTION: Wednesday 6th December 2023, 11am, precisely PUBLIC EXHIBITION: Sunday 3rd December, 12pm to 4pm Monday 4th December, 10am to 7pm Tuesday 5th December, 10am to 5pm SALE NUMBER 41 ENQUIRIES: Thomas Del Mar Simeon Beever

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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Akehurst 1972

Richard Akehurst, The World of Guns, New York 1972

Alexander, Kwiatowski & Pyhrr 2015 David G Alexander, Will Kwiatowksi & Stuart Pyhrr, Islamic Arms and Armour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2015 Atkinson 1978

John A. Atkinson, The British Duelling Pistol, Ontario 1978

Beard 1924

Charles R. Beard, The Barberini Armour, Tulmin and Sons, 1924

Blair 1970

Claude Blair, ‘A Royal Swordsmith and Damascener: Diego de Caias’ in Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 3, 1970

Blair 1973

Claude Blair, ‘The Egg Family, Part I and Part II (contd.)’ in Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, Volume VII, 1973

Brown 2002

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

Buller 1979

Fred Buller, The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike, Stanley Paul & Co., London 1979

Cumberland

Memoirs Of Richard Cumberland

Dickens 1999

Bernard Dickens, ‘’M·B’ The Gun Makers’ Silversmith - A Question of Attribution’ in Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, March 1999

Eaves & Norman 2016

Ian Eaves & A. V. B. Norman, Arms & Armour: in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: European Armour, Royal Collection Trust 2016

Elgood 1995

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

Elgood 2004

Robert Elgood, Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865, Chicago 2004

Elvis 2020

Roy Elvis, The Hindu Warrior, London 2020

Godwin, Evans & Williams 2016

Brian Godwin, John Evans & David Williams, ‘The Probin Gunmakers of 18th Century Birmingham’ in Man At Arms, February 2016

Hales 2013

R. Hales, Islamic and Oriental Arms and Armour: A Lifetime’s Passion, St Peter Port 2013

Halliday 1986

Robert Halliday, ‘The Billy and Charley forgeries’ in The London Archaeologist, Winter 1986

Hayden-Wright 2008

David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania 2008

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Kruczek 2001

Jan Kruczek, Rusznikarstwo szkoły cieszyńskiej, Pszczyna 2001

LaRocca 2000

Donald J. LaRocca, ‘A notable group of late sixteenth-century etched Italian armour’ in J.A.A.S., vol. XVI, no. 4, March 2000

Lewerken & Karpinski 1989

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

Littler 1991

Albert Littler, ‘An Old Wigan Trade’ in Journal of The Society of Archer – Antiquaries, vol.

34, 1991

Mohamed 2007

Bashir Mohamed, The Arts of the Muslim Knight, 2007

Moser 1912

Henri Moser, Collection Henri-Moser—Charlottenfels : Oriental arms and armour, Leipzig 1912

Munson 1992

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

Neal & Back 1975

William Keith Neal and David H. L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, London 1975

Neal & Back 1980

William Keith Neal & David H. L. Back, British Gunmakers: Their Trade, Cards, Cases and Equipment, 1760-1860, Braunton 1980

Neal & Back 1989

William Keith Neal & David H. L. Back, Messrs. Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, Norwich 1989

Norman 1986

A. V. B. Norman, Wallace Collection Catalogues: European Arms and Armour Supplement, London, 1986

Orisaka, Taelman & Anseeuw 2010

Orikasa, Taelman and Anseeuw, Helmets of the Saotome School, Lauwe, 2010

O’Sullivan & Bailey 2019

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

Petrasch & Sänger 1991

Ernst Petrasch & Reinhardt Sänger, Die Karlsruher Türkenbeute, Munich 1991

Pichler 1880

Fritz Pichler, Das Landes-Zeughaus in Graz, Leipzig 1880

Rawson 1968

P. S. Rawson, The Indian Sword, Reading 1967

Schuckelt 2010

Holger Schuckelt, Die Türckische Cammer, 2010

Waelty 2022

Hans F. Waelty, Arms anciennes du Maroc, Zurich 2022

Wimsey 2000

Tom Wimsey, ‘Newton Of Grantham’ in J.A.A.S., Vol. XVI, No. 5, September 2000

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EASTERN ARMS AND ARMOUR THE ROY ELVIS COLLECTION OF INDIAN ARMS & ARMOUR, PART III 1 A SOUTH INDIAN SWORD, LATE 15TH/16TH CENTURY, TAMIL NADU OR TRAVANCORE with broad tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, iron hilt comprising a pair of long tapering langets with pierced borders, broad curved rectangular guard with down-turned brim, pommel pierced en suite with the guard and fitted with a series of rattles, and later copper button (extensive pitting), 82.3 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C44.

A group of related swords are preserved in the Nambalakottai temple, Tamil Nadu.

£800-1,000

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2 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (KOPIS), PROBABLY 15TH CENTURY with recurved blade double-edged towards the point, the lower section with a reinforced back edge and with a raised moulding, iron hilt extending over the lower portion of the blade with a pair of long broad chiselled langets, angular figure-of-eight shaped guard chiselled with scrolls, carved wooden cushion-shaped pommel with tall conical moulded iron button (pitted throughout), 74.5 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C95.

Three related examples, formerly in the collection of Anthony North, were sold in this room 30th June 2010, lot 83. Dating on this group varies ranging from the 12th to 16th centuries. See Elgood 2004, pp.

83-5 and Rawson 1968, plate 12.

£400-600 3 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN COPPER ALLOY TEMPLE SWORD, POSSIBLY 15TH/16TH CENTURY with broad single-edged straight blade strongly curved the towards a straight triangular point and with three slender reinforcing ribs along each face, fitted along the back-edge with thirteen drop-shaped rattles, hilt extending over the lower portion of the blade with a pair of shaped langets formed in three stages and each reinforced by a pair of cobra head mouldings, angular figure-of-eight shaped guard cast and chased with a chakra in each quarter (restorations), large dish-shaped pommel with pierced upturned brim fitted with four rattles (two missing) and integral grip (the rattles restored), 70.7 cm, blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number L01.

For a related sword dated to the 12th century see Elgood 2004, p. 76.

£700-900

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4 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN RAPIER, 16TH/17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NAIR, MALABAR COAST, KARNATAKA with very slender long blade of flattened-oval section, iron hilt extending over the forte with a pair of shaped langets widening towards the hilt, pierced on one side (perhaps for a tassel), large circular guard of low V-section, pronounced pommel of ‘egg-cup’ form comprising two interlocking hemispheres of slightly differing size, button formed en suite, an integral grip swelling in the centre (patinated throughout), 105.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C82.

Two related examples are preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 36.24.1424) and Junagarh Fort, Bikaner. See Elgood 2004 p. 95.

£800-1,000

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5 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN BROADSWORD, 16TH/17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MADRAS OR GINGEE with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section (perhaps associated), widening to the width of the hilt at the forte, iron hilt extending over the lower portion of the blade with a pair of long shaped langets, upward-curved guard, pommel en suite with the guard and fitted with an additional shaped bar (small restorations, areas of pitting), and integral banded grip with central moulded collar, 76.5 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C70.

Similar swords are preserved in the British Museum, London (nos. 096145 and 293376) and the Victoria and Albert Museum. See Elgood 2004, p.

89, figs 8.34 and 8.35 and Rawson 1968 plates 18-20.

£800-1,000 6 AN EARLY INDIAN BROADSWORD (KHANDA), 16TH/17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MADRAS with broad double-edged blade swelling slightly towards a sharp point (one small chip), iron hilt extending over the forte with a pair of shaped langets, figure-of-eight guard of v-section, pommel formed of a series of panels including a square at the base and a low dish-shaped plate at the top, each fitted with rattles (small losses) and integral grip (pitted throughout), 60.5 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C30 The owner’s catalogue entry for this lot describes it as a Churika, originating from the Greek xiphos sword, possibly introduced to India by Alexander the Great. For related swords preserved in the Liverpool Museum see Elvis 2004, p. 81.

£500-700

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7 A SOUTH INDIAN SWORD, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY, TAMIL NADU OR TRAVANCORE with broad blade of flattened hollow-diamond section swelling towards the tip, copper alloy hilt comprising a pair of long tapering langets with shaped borders chiselled with foliage, broad curved rectangular guard with down-turned brim, sectional pommel, the lower portion en suite with a series of rattles above, and moulded grip, 67.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C41.

A group of related swords are preserved in the Nambalakottai temple, Tamil Nadu.

£800-1,000 8 A RARE INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD OR GOLCONDA, ANDHRA PRADESH with broad double-edged straight crucible steel blade of flatteneddiamond section, iron hilt comprising a pair of shaped langets with pierced borders and foliate terminals, widening at the base to form a pair of quillons pierced en suite, oval guard with elaborately pierced border involving addorsed monsters rising to a broad knuckle-guard, pear-shaped pommel with up-turned brim, and pronounced faceted bud-shaped pommel (hilt with small chips and holes, rear guard cracked, pitted throughout), 78.2 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C110.

Probably a Royal sword, the hilt would originally have had a silver or silver-gilt finish.

£700-1,000

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9 A SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (FIRANGI), 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD OR GOLCONDA, ANDHRA PRADESH with European straight blade double-edged towards the point, stamped with a brief inscription within a pair of long slender fullers on each face (small areas of light pitting), finely pierced and chiselled iron hilt with beadwork borders, extending over the lower portion of the blade with a pair of langets with shaped foliate terminals, a pair of quillons with pierced budshaped terminals, figure-of-eight shaped guard of low V-section, broad knuckle-guard, cup-shaped pommel with long attenuated button, integral grip with an early red velvet covering and the hilt with a padded green velvet liner on the guard, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard (small losses, opening at the seam), 106.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C28.

£600-800 10 A VERY RARE SOUTH INDIAN SWORD IN THE EUROPEAN TASTE, 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA with slightly curved blade double-edged towards the point and formed with three long fullers on each face, iron hilt, comprising a pair of shaped langets, down-curved quillons with globular terminals, knuckle-guard with recurved bud-shaped finial, up-turned outer guard with pierced border and a central radiating design of lines, (one side extensively chipped), smaller inner guard formed en suite (chipped), spirally-fluted shallow dish-shaped pommel fitted with an associated copper alloy loop, and integral grip, 71.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C35.

The hilt is based on English, German and Italian hangers of the late 16th century. For two examples, preserved in the Junagarh Fort, Bikaner and the Government Museum, Chennai respectively, see Elgood 2004, p. 127.

£400-600

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11 A FINE SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (PATISSA), 17TH CENTURY with broad double-edged blade of wootz steel swelling to a ‘Cobra’s head’ tip, engraved steel hilt formed with a pair of shaped langets extending over almost a third of the blade’s length on each side and engraved with foliage between bands of geometric ornament, the portion at the forte widening and downcurved with blade-catching lugs each decorated with a flower and a Yali, border-engraved dish-guard formed of a pair of D-shaped panels arranged in a V-shape and with a pair of notches at the apex (one small hole), up-turned cupshaped pommel fitted with a smaller cap enclosing rattles, faceted bud-shaped button, integral grip, and some early red pigment (patinated brown throughout) and solid russet grip, 86.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C105.

See Elgood 2004 pp. 82-83. Another example of this distinctive type was sold in this room, 8th December 2021, lot 51 and another 29th June 2022, lot 138.

£1,000-1,500

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12 A FINE SOUTH INDIAN RAPIER, 16TH/17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH with long slender blade of flattened-diamond section, thickening, with blunt edges and inlaid with minute red pigment panels within a copper alloy frame on each face at the ricasso, tapering grip moulded at the base, formed with flattened sides and overlaid front and back with a large copper alloy panel engraved with panels of geometric ornament, and domed pommel decorated en suite, 118.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C68.

£1,200-1,800 13 A SOUTH INDIAN SWORD , PROBABLY 17TH CENTURY MADURAI, TAMIL NADU with straight fullered blade double-edged towards the point, copper alloy hilt comprising vestigial guard, faceted integral grip interrupted with a central framework of saltires and beading, and horsehead pommel, 78.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C38.

£300-400

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14 A FINE SOUTH INDIAN GAUNTLET SWORD (PATA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH with broad double-edged, probably European, blade formed with a short slender fuller on each face, iron gauntlet hilt extending with a pair of shaped langets over the forte, bulbous over the hand and decorated with a framework of lines, embossed with an ellipse at the wrist, pronounced beadwork border decorated with a chiselled panel of foliage ahead, the interior with a plain grip bar and arm bar with recurved budshaped terminals, and the outer surface retaining much early silver plated finish, 80.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C57.

£1,200-1,800

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15 A FINE SOUTH INDIAN GAUNTLET SWORD (PATA) WITH CARVED WOODEN HILT, 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA with straight double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section, threaded tang retained by a nut inside the hilt, darkwood, probably ‘tendu’, hilt carved in the round as an elephant’s head with its trunk wrapped around the ferrule, a pair of fluted bosses over the hand with a ‘chain-of-life’ ahead of a lotus flower behind, a further lotus lower and a pronounced monster head on the top of the fluted brim, with early turned hardwood grip bar (upper bar missing) on the inside, 82.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C81.

Another example, also from the Elvis collection, was sold in this room 7th December 2022

£600-800

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16 AN INDIAN GAUNTLET SWORD (PATA), PROBABLY 18TH/19TH CENTURY THANJAVUR, TAMIL NADU with broad double-edged blade formed with a long central fuller, iron gauntlet hilt extending over the forte with a pair of shaped panels, embossed over the hand with an elephant devoured by a Yali, and pierced over the forearm with an elaborate design of scrolling foliage inhabited by dragons with a pronounced beadwork border top and bottom (areas of pitting, small holes and chips), and the inside fitted with a slender grip-bar and slender arm bar with recurved terminals, 98.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C98.

£800-1,200

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17 A RARE NORTH INDIAN TWO HAND SWORD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY RAJASTHAN with double-edged straight flat blade formed with a long fuller on each face, tubular brass hilt incorporating an engraved gaping Makara head gorged on a pair of later brass panels with shaped finials enclosing the forte, three-stage grip divided by prominent raised collars, and moulded bud-shaped pommel, 90.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C116.

Another sword of this type, formerly in the collection of Henri Moser, is preserved in the Bernisches Historisches Museum, see Moser 1912, p.

XIV, pl. XXIII, no. 124. Another example, also from the Roy Elvis collection, was sold in this room, 7th December 2022, lot 15.

£500-700

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18 A HIGHLY DECORATED NORTH INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR) WITH GOLD-ENCRUSTED GEM-SET HILT, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY with curved blade broadening and double-edged towards the point, formed with a pair of long shallow fullers and struck with traces of an inscription enclosed by decorative dots on one face (small areas of light pitting), finely punched iron hilt encrusted with cabochon gem-set flowers within a gold framework over its entire surface, comprising langets and quillons with a pair of emeralds on each side, quillon terminals each set with an elaborate gold flower centring on a garnet, quillon-block, grip, and underside of the pommel set with rubies and the top of the pommel enclosed by a frame of emeralds (the gold with restorations, some stones replaced), in a later red velvet covered wooden scabbard, 72.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C08.

The owner’s catalogue entry for this lot attributes it to the Royal Jaigarh Fort Armoury, Jaipur, Rajasthan.

£5,000-7,000

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19 A NORTH INDIAN SWORD (PULWAR), 19TH CENTURY with curved blade double-edged towards the point, etched with a crucible steel pattern and with a brief inscription on one face, silver-plated hilt comprising langets with leaf-shaped terminals, down-curved hoof-shaped quillons, cup-shaped pommel formed as a flowerhead with a square bracket for a tassel, and integral grip cast with a chevron design and foliage, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with silver chape, 80.5 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C03.

£400-600 20 AN INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY with curved fullered blade double-edged towards the point (areas of rust), iron hilt of characteristic form including mushroom-shaped quillons, disc pommel and integral grip, cast with flowers and foliage enriched with gold throughout (worn, gold restored), 77.8 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C14.

£400-600

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21 A FINE NORTH INDIAN SILVER-HILTED SWORD (TALWAR), LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY with curved crucible steel blade double-edged towards the tip, struck with a sun-in-splendour mark on one face and with a brief inscription at the forte, silver hilt of characteristic form, comprising a pair of langets with shaped foliate terminals, mushroom-shaped quillons, disc pommel with pierced rounded button fitted with a later ring, and integral grip, in its green velvet-covered wooden scabbard with silver locket and chape each pierced with a fine design of scrolling foliage, the former fitted with a ring and chain for suspension, 73.4 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C04.

The owner’s catalogue entry for this lot attributes it to the Royal Jaigarh Fort Armoury, Jaipur, Rajasthan.

£800-1,000

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22 A SOUTH INDIAN SWORD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABALY MADRAS, TAMIL NADU with broad curved heavy blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a fuller along the back edge and struck with a mark at the forte (light pitting), copper alloy hilt cast and chiselled in low relief, comprising a pair of langets with engraved border decorated with a pattern of eyes, a pair of quillons with horse hoof terminals, integral grip incorporating a pair of wings rising to a horse head pommel issuant with a string of pearls forming the knuckle-guard, 71.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C75.

£500-700 23 A SOUTH INDIAN SWORD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MALABAR, KARNATAKA with slightly curved single-edged blade widening slightly and double-edged towards the point, engraved copper alloy hilt comprising straight slightly flaring langets, quillons with conical terminals, recurved knuckle-guard chiselled with a three-point coronet at the base and with an engraved trilobate terminal at the top, disc-shaped pommel with raised brim, the top decorated with a flowerhead in low relief and fitted with a fluted button with early loop, and integral grip moulded at the top, incised on one side of the grip with the armoury number ‘668’, 79.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C23.

£250-350

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24 AN INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), 17TH/18TH CENTURY with straight blade double-edged towards the point, formed with four long slender fullers on each face and struck with four ‘S’ marks on one face at the forte (rubbed), chiselled iron hilt with beadwork border, comprising a pair of shaped langets decorated with foliage, quillons swelling towards the terminals and each decorated with a flowerhead, figure-of-eight shaped guard of V-section and broad knuckle-guard with recurved bud-shaped terminal each decorated with foliage, cup-shaped pommel, recurved button and integral grip, 81.2 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C26.

£400-600 25 A SOUTH INDIAN RAPIER WITH TALWAR HILT, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA with long slender blade, long blunt-sided ricasso, copper alloy hilt cast in low relief, comprising langets with foliate terminals, quillons and recurved knuckle-guard with Yali head terminals, disc pommel with coronet brim and integral grip (restorations), 79.7 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C112.

£350-450

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26 A SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), 17TH/18TH CENTURY with associated broad single-edged crucible steel blade doubleedged towards the point, stamped with a brief inscription on one face, chiselled iron hilt decorated with a frieze of flowers at the principle borders and with pierced foliate details, comprising a pair of langets, quillons formed as bulbous flowerheads, figure-of-eight shaped guard of low V-section decorated with a pair of pierced flowerheads and rising to a broad knuckle-guard pierced with a lotus flower, and with recurved bud-shaped finial, large pommel with up-turned brim, pointed button decorated with foliage and integral grip, in a leather-covered wooden scabbard, 73.4 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C103.

£300-500 27 AN INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ARCOT, TAMIL NADU with straight blade slightly waisted in the centre and doubleedged towards the point, formed with a long fuller over the middle section and two grooves framed by slender lines on each face at the forte, engraved with a sun-in splendour on one face, iron hilt comprising a pair of pierced langets, a pair of quillons with fluted bud-shaped terminals, figure-of-eight shaped guard of low V-section with engraved border, broad knuckle-guard pierced with shaped foliate beaded panels top and bottom, cup-shaped pommel, some early silver plated finish and with an early padded red velvet liner, 84.4 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C31.

£350-450

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28 A SOUTH INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MALABAR with very broad straight double-edged blade formed with three long slender fullers and cut with a pair of celestial motifs on each face (probably an early association), iron hilt comprising a pair of langets each flaring towards cusped terminal, straight quillons with conical terminals, disc-pommel with hemispherical top, button fitted with an associated silver ring, integral swelling grip, and decorated over its surface in encrusted silver with geometric designs including a knot pattern over the grip (small losses), 86.5 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C76.

A related example, also from the Elvis Collection, was sold in this room, 7th December 2022, lot 22.

£400-600

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29 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN HARDWOOD PRACTICE SWORD OR BATON FORMED AS A PATTISA, PROBABLY MADRAS, TAMIL NADU formed in one piece, with diamond-section blade formed with blunt edges, carved ‘hilt’ with triangular panels extending over the blade, integral grip rising to a disc pommel with prominent button Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C21.

£200-300 30 A NORTH INDIAN SWORD (KOPIS), POSSIBLY LAHORE, 18TH CENTURY with curved blade of flattened-diamond section with a reinforced back-edge, sharp inner edge and flaring towards a cusped terminal, the latter retaining traces of engraving, engraved iron hilt with some early silver-plated finish, extending over the forte with a pair of slender langets, a pair of short flattened globular quillons, moulded baluster-shaped pommel, and retaining its plaited wire grip (small areas of rust), in its fabric-covered wooden scabbard, 55.5 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C46.

£500-700

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31 A NORTH INDIAN DAGGER (JAMADHAR KATAR), 16TH/18TH CENTURY with tapering blade formed with a reinforced tip, a long medial ridge and waisted at the forte, iron hilt comprising curved oval guard, moulded baluster grip, broad oval pommel reinforced on the top and pointed near square button, 35.5 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D118.

£400-600

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32 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (CHILANUM), 16TH/17TH CENTURY with recurved double-edged blade formed with a pair of long fullers divided by a central rib, iron hilt comprising a pair of shaped langets and oval guard inlaid on the outside with silver foliage (losses), a pair of short bud-shaped quillons with a pierced panel in the centre on each face, recurved knuckleguard, bifurcated pommel with button formed of three pronounced buds, with a leaf on each side, and integral grip interrupted by a central moulding (pitted, restorations, the blade probably associated), 34.5 cm overall Royal Elvis Catalogue Number D66.

£400-600 33 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (CHILANUM), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH with curved double-edged stout blade formed with a series of long deep fullers divided by a medial ridge, widening at the forte and pierced on each side to form a pair of stylised elephants, iron hilt comprising curved guard, bifurcated pommel, bud-shaped button with silver terminal, integral grip formed with a pronounced globular central moulding and retaining some early silver gilt decoration including a flower on each side on the pommel, 41.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D41.

A chilanum of this type, formerly in the Oldman collection, is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, (acc. no. 36.25.751).

£700-900

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34 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KHANJARLI), 16TH/17TH CENTURY with recurved blade formed with a pair of slender fullers and reinforced at the point, finely chiselled iron hilt extending over the forte with a pair of langets with beadwork borders, curved oval guard with a beadwork border within a writhen frame, drawn-out on each side to a small bud-shaped quillon, knuckle-guard chiselled with foliage and rising to a small chiselled recurved Yali head finial, small pommel en suite with the quillons, and associated shaped green-jade grip-scales, 37.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D95.

£800-1,000

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35 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), 16TH CENTURY, VIJAYANAGARA, KARNATAKA with sharply tapering blade formed with a reinforced point and a series of converging fullers, iron hilt extending over the forte with a large pierced, shaped panel on each face, strongly recurved outer-guard with recurved Yali finial, reinforced at the borders and in the centre with finely pierced foliate panels, a pair of waisted side-bars, and a pair of grip-bars each with a central globose moulding (areas of pitting), 52.5 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D67.

A dagger of this form, previously in the collection of George Cameron Stone, is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (acc. no.36.25.905). See Elgood 2004, pp. 146-147.

£700-900

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36 A FINE SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), 16TH/17TH CENTURY, THANJAVUR, TAMIL NADU with straight double-edged probably European blade formed with a slender central fuller on each face, pierced and chiselled iron hilt comprising a pair of shaped langets extending over the forte, curved elliptical guard decorated with foliage, outer guard decorated with a frieze of foliage inhabited by addorsed Yali beneath a large flower with recurved bud-shaped finial (a brazed repair at the base), pronounced tapering side bars decorated with a vertical arrangement of foliage with a Yali at the top, and a central grip bar with a shaped additional bar on either side (pitted throughout), 56.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D14.

A similar katar, is preserved in the British Museum (acc. No. 1965, 0412.1) and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. No. 36.25.1010). The owner’s catalogue attributes this group to the Thanjavur Armoury. See Elgood 2004, p. 153.

£1,000-1,500

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37 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA with tapering blade formed with a series of converging fullers and a reinforced point, iron hilt finely pierced with trellis panels carrying symmetrical designs of lotus flowers, comprising a pair of shaped langets enclosing the forte, arched guard, a pair of tapering side-bars and a pair of moulded grip bars joined by bud-shaped mouldings and with traces of early silver finish, 44.5 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D64.

£400-600 38 AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR) 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA with broad flat probably European double-edged blade, russet iron hilt extending with a pair of shaped pierced langets over the forte each decorated with addorsed Yali and a central lotus leaf, a pair of side-bars with foliate borders and addorsed Yali at the top (small chips), a pair of strongly moulded gripbars, and with traces of gold finish, 62.3 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D72.

£400-600

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39 A NORTH INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), LATE 18TH CENTURY with slightly curved double-edged crucible steel blade formed with a pair of long converging fullers divided by a slender rib and with a reinforced point, iron hilt comprising a pair of shaped langets each decorated with a conventional flower, arched guard, a pair of side-bars each with a tapering recessed panel and lobated finial, a pair of grip-bars joined by beads, and decorated throughout with gilt flowers and foliage, in its wooden scabbard with a later leather covering, and large iron mounts decorated en suite with the hilt, comprising chape with bud-shaped terminal and locket with a pierced loop (the gold with losses, the iron parts now russet brown throughout), 54.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D12.

£700-900

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40 A NORTH INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), DATED 1842, PROBABALY BANDANWARA, RAJASTHAN with sharply tapering crucible steel blade formed with two pairs of converging fullers on each face and a reinforced point, iron hilt comprising slightly angular guard with a gold-encrusted old Hindi inscription on the inner face, a pair of slender side bars with gold encrusted flowers on each side of the tips, a pair of burnished faceted grip-bars, and in fine condition throughout, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard shaped to accommodate the base of the hilt, with finely pierced silver chape decorated with engraved flowers, and complete with an early leather belt with silver buckle, 43.4 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D07.

The inscription includes a pious invocation, the year and place of manufacture.

£400-600

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41 A NORTH INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), KUTCH, SIND, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY with tapering blade formed with a pair of slender fullers and a reinforced point, hilt extending over the forte with a pair of shaped langets, pronounced V-shaped guard, a pair of shaped side-bars, decorated with conventional foliage and a flower on the outside, grip-bar interrupted by a large faceted central polygon and retaining much early silver plated finish, 44.3 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D62.

£350-450

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42 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KHANJAR), 16TH/17TH CENTURY, PROBABALY BANGALORE OR MYSORE, KARNATAKA with recurved blade of flatteneddiamond section formed with a reinforced tip, brass hilt retaining traces of early silver finish, comprising a pair of foliate langets, recurved grip formed as a stylised lion’s body with a Yali head top and bottom, and engraved recurved knuckle-guard with foliate tip, 24.0 cm overall

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43 AN INDIAN DAGGER (KHANJAR), 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY TAMIL NADU with recurved blade, brass hilt cast and chased in relief, comprising shaped langets, up-turned bud-shaped quillon, integral grip rising to a Yali head pommel, the latter issuant with a ropework knuckle-guard, 22.5 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D46.

44 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KHANJAR), PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY MYSORE, KARNATAKA with recurved fullered blade formed with a reinforced point, engraved brass hilt cast and chased in relief, comprising a pair of shaped langets, one inscribed with the date 1257 (1835 AD) recurved knuckle-guard and integral grip formed as a tiger’s body rising to a Yali head pommel, 30.0 cm overall

£150-200

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D58.

£200-250

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D32.

£250-300

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45 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KHANJAR), PROBABLY 17TH CENTURY THANJAVUR, TAMIL NADU with recurved blade, brass hilt cast and chased in relief, comprising shaped border-engraved langets, oval guard with beaded border and vestigial quillon, foliate knuckle-guard rising from a pair of addorsed Yali heads at the base, and integral grip with Yali head pommel, 32.0 cm overall

47 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KHANJARLI), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY KERALA with recurved fullered blade pierced on each side at the forte, copper alloy hilt including oval guard with a short bud-shaped quillon, knuckle-guard with recurved terminal, large elliptical pommel and integral grip (worn)

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D125.

£250-350

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D78.

£200-250 46 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KHANJAR), 17TH CENTURY AND LATER, POSSIBLY KERALA with broad recurved single-edged blade, copper alloy hilt extending over the forte, including moulded knuckle-guard, low-capped pommel decorated with beadwork, and tapering grip with raised bands at the top, bottom and centre, 41.5 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D45.

£250-350

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48 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (KHANJAR), PROBABLY 18TH/19TH CENTURY formed entirely of steel, with recurved double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section, integral flattened hilt incorporating a pair of trilobate mouldings at each end, and bud-shaped pommel (areas of light pitting), 27.7 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D114.

£150-200

49 A FINE SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (BICHWA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY THANJAVUR, TAMIL NADU with recurved double-edged blade formed with a series of slender converging fullers on each side of the forte and reinforced tip, brass hilt cast and chased in high relief, comprising a pair of foliate langets, pierced outer guard decorated with a symmetrical design of foliage inhabited by monsters with a large central flower issuant with a protruding Yali head, inner guard interrupted with a central flowerhead, and moulded bud-shaped pommel, 37.5 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D49.

£400-600

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Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D04.

51 A FINE SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (BICHWA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BIDAR, NORTH KARNATAKA with recurved double-edged blade of flattened diamond section, brass hilt cast and chased in high relief, comprising a pair of engraved langets, pierced outer guard decorated with the avatars of Vishnu arranged vertically, inner guard with an elaborate moulding top and bottom, and well modelled pommel formed as Nandi bull, 32.4 cm overall

£200-300

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D63.

50 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (BICHWA), 16TH/17TH CENTURY PROBABLY BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA formed entirely of steel, with recurved blade formed with a series of converging slender fullers on each face, D-shaped hilt extending over the forte in a pair of foliate langets, knuckle-guard finely pierced and chiselled on the outside with a pair of opposing Yali in the centre, and stout conical pommel, 37.0 cm overall

£400-600

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52 A CENTRAL INDIAN DAGGER (BIDCHIR), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA with recurved double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section, slotted iron half-basket guard, and horn grip extending to form an additional prong for parrying, 37.2 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D06.

£200-300

53 AN INDO-PERSIAN DAGGER (KARD), 17TH/18TH CENTURY with straight single-edged crucible steel blade of flattenedtriangular section (small areas of pitting), inlaid with gold scrolls and foliage within a shaped linear frame on each side of the forte, moulded faceted forte encrusted with gold flowers, back-strap encrusted with further scrolls of gold-encrusted foliage within delicate beadwork frames (rubbed) and marine ivory grip-scales, 36.8 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D25.

~ £600-700

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54 A SOUTH INDIAN HATCHET (ARUVAL), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MALABAR COAST with curved crescentic blade formed with a fuller along the back-edge, moulded bud-shaped point, sharp inner edge and broadening at the forte, engraved iron figure-of-eight shaped guard rising to a broad knuckle-guard with recurved bud-shaped finial, carved wooden grip with broad iron ferrule at the base, elliptical pommel fitted with concentric washers with scrolling terminals, 74.0 cm blade Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C122.

£300-400 55 A SOUTH INDIAN HATCHET (ARUVAL), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MALABAR COAST with curved crescentic blade with sharp inner edge, engraved with a flower on each side at the forte, iron hilt including knuckle-guard with recurved bud-shaped finial, and hardwood grip (one repaired crack), rising to a pear-shaped pommel with stepped iron cap, 60.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C64.

£200-250 56 A SOUTH INDIAN CEREMONIAL HATCHET (ARUVAL), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY KERALA formed entirely of copper alloy, with hatchet blade fitted with seven rattles along the back-edge, decorated with raised linear moulding and scrolls at the forte on each face, hilt extending over the forte with a pair of small shaped langets, figure-of-eight shaped guard of low V-section,. Cylindrical grip decorated with a trellis design, and large disc pommel fitted with five further rattles, 36.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number L04.

£300-400

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57 A FINE SOUTH INDIAN HATCHET (MOPLAH), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MALABAR, KARNATAKA with broad single-edged hatchet blade of flattened-diamond section, inlaid in silver with a slender panel of scrollwork along the back edge, applied with pierced and chased silver scrollwork on each side over the forte (the tip with small dents), chased tapering silver socket, horn grip with angular pommel, applied with a long silver panel on each face chased with a running pattern of scrollwork and further inlaid panels en suite with the forte, 59.7 cm overall

58 A SOUTH INDIAN DAGGER (PICHANGETTI), COORG, KARNATAKA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with single-edged hatchet blade formed with a clipped-back point, engraved with pairs of lines along the back-edge on each face and with a filed design on the back, notched and moulded at the forte, brass ferrule, and long carved grip with beaked pommel, 42.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D80.

£150-200

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number D17.

£500-700

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59 A SOUTH INDIAN FIGHTING DAGGER (KOPIS), 15TH/16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MADRAS, TAMIL NADU with recurved blade formed with a sharply tapering double-edged point, the lower half of triangular-section, inlaid with an engraved copper alloy panel along the back-edge, chiselled and engraved with a monster at the base, and turned hardwood grip fitted with an iron collar and a square washer at the top, 41.7 cm Roy Elvis Catalogue Number C89.

£200-300

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60 A SOUTH INDIAN HATCHET (ARUVAL), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY VIZIANAGARAM, MADRAS OR THANJAVUR, TAMIL NADU with curved hooked blade formed with a groove along the back edge and sharpened inner edge, pierced and chiselled at the forte with a peacock on each face, on an associated wooden haft with iron ferrule, 59.2 cm overall

61 A SOUTH INDIAN HATCHET (ARUVAL), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY KOCHI, KERALA with curved steel blade formed with a sharp inner edge, engraved with a broad panel of scrollwork along the back-edge on each face, rectangular forte, turned ebony grip with a pronounced sectional moulding at the top and a simple collar top and bottom (areas of pitting), 61.2 cm overall

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number E11.

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number E30.

£200-300

~ £200-300

62 A SOUTH INDIAN AXE (PHARASA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABALY TRAVANCORE, KERALA with curved axe-head engraved on each face with a central lotus flower, moulded terminal spike and rear pean, faceted haft with raised writhen mouldings, moulded mushroomshaped threaded basal moulding incorporating a long concealed stiletto, and retaining some early silver finish throughout, 55.7 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number E13.

£800-1,000

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63 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN AXE (PHARASA), 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA with crescentic axe-blade rising to a further smaller blade with reinforced tip and a leaf-shaped terminal spike, engraved along the back-edge with foliage and linear ornament, five-sided socket chiselled with a leaf at the base of the blade, and later wooden haft, 40.8 cm head Roy Elvis Catalogue Number E12.

£150-200 64 A CENTRAL INDIAN AXE (PHARASA), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY KHOND with recurved axe-blade engraved with dots, foliage and petals along the back-edge, faceted socket, on a wooden haft with an iron cap top and bottom, 89.7 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number E19.

£100-150 65 A SOUTH INDIAN AXE (BULLOVA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA recurved iron head formed with reinforced terminals of flatteneddiamond section formed with a bud-shaped terminal top and bottom, engraved with pairs of lines along the back-edge, moulded socket with finial and lines en suite, 32.8 cm Roy Elvis Catalogue Number E27.

£200-300 66 A SOUTH INDIAN IRON BOOMERANG (VALARI), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MADURAI, TAMIL NADU with curved blunt-edged body widening towards the tip, fitted with a pair of compressed hemispheres with internal rattles at one end, bound with a pair of cusped panels at the other, and engraved with rudimentary linear designs on each face, 39.5 cm Roy Elvis Catalogue Number K09.

A related example is preserved in the British Museum (Acc. No. 8969).

£150-200

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67 A RARE MASSIVE INDIAN GILT COPPER ALLOY MACE (HANUMAN GADA), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY KERALA with bulbous head formed of a series of vertical orange-like segments, tapering moulded terminal, and spirally moulded integral haft with pointed base, and retaining much early gilt finish throughout, 92.5 cm Roy Elvis Catalogue Number E37.

Maces of this type are associated with the Hindu God Hanuman and are carried in the right hand as symbols of sovereignty.

£1,000-1,200

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68 A SOUTH INDIAN MACE FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA with bulbous head formed of eight shaped flanges, with a faceted budshaped finial, a beaded rondel at the bottom, on its cylindrical haft with moulded terminal, 65.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number E20.

£350-450

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69 A SOUTH INDIAN COPPER FAKIR’S CRUTCH, 18TH/19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA of characteristic form, with a pair of arms each terminating in an elephant’s head, embossed and chased with hunting scenes involving elephants, tigers and antelope, supported at the base by a pair of leaping tigers, integral haft decorated with panels of foliage, and with traces of early silver plating, 47.5 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number K20.

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70 A SOUTH INDIAN MACE FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH with hollow bulbous head formed with moulded bud-shaped finial, integral faceted haft interrupted by a central moulding, bulbous basal cap, and some early silver plated finish (pitted), 63.7 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number E40.

£250-350

71 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN SPEAR HEAD (SANG), 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MYSORE with curved double-edged terminal spike of hollow-diamond section formed with a medial ridge and two pairs of short grooves on each face, chiselled at the base with foliage flanked by a pair of stylised Yali, tapering faceted socket with raised collars at the top, middle and bottom, each decorated with beadwork, foliage and writhen patterns, and the latter widening with a series of additional foliate steps (areas of pitting), 49.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F02.

A related example is preserved in the Government Museum, Chenai (No. 2236). See Elgood 2004, p. 194.

£1,400-1,800

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72 A SOUTH INDIAN LARGE SPEAR HEAD (VEL), 17TH CENTURY, BANGALORE OR MYSORE, KARNATAKA with tapering reinforced head formed with a series of deep converging grooves on each face, chiselled at the base with foliage in the centre and with a pair of fronds enclosing the lower edges, tapering faceted socket with a raised beadwork moulding at the top, a writhen moulding in the centre, and a pronounced bulbous moulding at the base, with an additional loose ring on the lower section (pitted throughout), 43.2 cm overall

73 A SOUTH INDIAN LARGE SPEAR HEAD (VEL), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA with broad leaf-shaped head of hollow-diamond section, formed with a deep recessed panel divided by a slender rib rising from a lotus flowerhead supported at its base by a pair of Yali on each face, long tapering spirally moulded socket chiselled with a moulded collar at the top and bottom each decorated with beadwork and foliage (the head with a small hole and small chips, pitted), 54.0 cm

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F19.

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F25.

£500-700

A closely related though slightly less elaborate example from the same collection was sold in this room, 26th June 2023, lot 64.

£500-700

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74 A SOUTH INDIAN SPEAR (VEL), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA with broad straight tapering head of hollow-diamond section terminating in a reinforced sharp point, flaring at the base to a pair of sharp lugs (small repairs), tubular brass socket with three raised writhen collars and a further larger collar at the top with pierced and engraved down-turned brim, on a later haft with iron shoe, 261.4 cm overall

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Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F21.

Another example was sold in this room, 28th June 2023, lot 69.

£300-400 75 A PAIR OF SOUTH INDIAN SILVER-ENCRUSTED PARTISANS, 18TH CENTURY, TRIVANDRUM, KARNATAKA each with broad double-edged terminal blade of flatteneddiamond section, formed with a pair of grooves and inlaid with engraved silver scrolling foliage and flowers, broad base formed with a pair of up-turned lugs, encrusted with an elaborate spray of flowers and foliage on a finely punched ground on each face all within a ropework frame, tapering partly faceted socket divided by raised bands, a pair of long straps, the socket and straps decorated with inlaid silver foliage en suite with the blades (small losses), polished hardwood haft (one bent) and tapering iron shoe with disc-shaped moulding and robust terminal spike, 228.3 cm overall (2) Provenance Schloss Marienburg, Lower Saxony Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F08.

£600-800

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76 A NORTHWEST INDIAN SPEAR, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY HADOTI, RAJASTHAN with triangular blade formed with a medial ridge and a reinforced point, chiselled at the base with a lotus flower and held in the jaws of a Makara head, tapering faceted socket fitted with a pair of down-curved arms each formed as a stylised elephant’s head with recurved bird’s head finial, polished hardwood haft, and tapering faceted iron shoe with arrow-shaped spike, 251.0 cm, overall,

77 A SOUTH INDIAN SPEAR (VEL), LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY with leaf-shaped head of flatteneddiamond section, a pair of short vestigial basal lugs, short tapering faceted socket, a broad silver collar, on a portion of its wooden haft with four copper bands and a white metal band 85.2 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F38.

£250-350

78 A NORTHWEST INDIAN SPEAR, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY HADOTI, RAJASTHAN with tapering double-edged point formed with a rectangular base held in the jaws of a stylised serpent (restored), tapering moulded faceted socket, polished hardwood haft, and tapering faceted iron shoe with arrow-shaped spike, 250.0 cm, overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F13.

£200-300

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F13 (bis).

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79 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN PARRYING SPEAR, 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH with tapering leaf-shaped head formed with a medial ridge, silver-plated iron haft decorated with a spiralling design over its length, fitted at the centre with a silver-plated moulded knuckle-guard, moulded at the base, and with a finely bound grip of plaited silver wire and ribband (small losses), 80.5 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F09.

£400-600 80 A SOUTH INDIAN SPEAR HEAD (VEL), POSSIBLY BANGALORE, KARNATAKA, 17TH/18TH CENTURY with tapering reinforced crucible steel head, engraved at the base and formed with a pair of pierced Yali head mouldings, tapering copper alloy socket (associated) with raised collars, on a wooden stand, 50.3 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F06.

£700-900 81 A SOUTH INDIAN LANCE SHOE (BARSHA), 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MADRAS, TAMIL NADU with tapering spike, two pronounced fluted onion-shaped mouldings, and tapering socket with flanged rim, 31.3 cm Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F23.

£250-350

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82 A NORTH WEST INDIAN MAIL SHIRT FOR A CHILD, 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY LAHORE of small butted iron rings of circular section wire decorated with diamond-shaped panels of matching copper alloy rings, open at the front, vented at the back, and with a pair of long arms (small losses), 48.0 cm high Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A25.

£400-500

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83 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN MAIL AND PLATE SHIRT (ZEREH BAGTAR), 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY HYDERABAD OR GOLCONDA, ANDRHA PRADESH formed of riveted rings of D-section wire alternating with heavy solid rings, open at the front, a pair of half-length arms, extending to the waist, vented at the back, the front, back, and sides fitted with vertical panels of rectangular lamellar plates over the torso, those on the back arranged over six columns with two tall panels on each side with a Devanagari inscriptions, and those at the front arranged over four columns on each side (small losses, some minor early internally patched repairs, expert restorations), 67.0 cm Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A16.

The inscriptions include the name Maharajah Anup Singh and 'No. 10'.

A related shirt, with more elaborate plates inscribed to Maharajah Anup Singh is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. No. 2000.497).

Maharaja Anup Singh (reigned 1669-98) was a general in the armies of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707) and led a series of campaigns in the Deccan including battles at Golconda in 1687 and Adoni in 1689. Most of the arms and armour captured by him was then placed in his armoury at Bikaner. It is likely that this shirt originates from Bijapur, the richest and most powerful state in the Deccan until its defeat by Aurangzeb. Mail shirts reinforced with steel or iron plates were probably introduced to India during the early Mughal period by the Ottomans. See Alexander 2015, p. 46, no. 13.

£2,500-3,500

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84 AN INDIAN MAIL AND LAMELLAR SHIRT, 17TH CENTURY of D-section rivetted rings alternating with solid rings, open at the front, extending and flaring over the thighs, with a pair of fulllength arms, fitted with two large plates at the front, each with three hasps for closure, a pair of additional plates on each side, and with three columns of downward lapping cusped plates over the back, 75.0 cm high Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A19.

£1,200-1,800

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85 A RARE SOUTH INDIAN MAIL AND PLATE HELMET (TOP), 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA formed of eight slightly curved tapering plates of low V-section (three holed), each fitted with a beaded border and joined together by three rows of rivetted mail rings of flattened D-section wire, fitted at the apex with a small rondel fitted with later bud-shaped finial, the front plate with a staple for a nasal, fitted at the base with four plates each with curved lower edge (one cracked, one replaced), fitted at each side with a cheek-defence of two plates (one cracked, one with small holes, one replaced) and at the rear with a neck defence of nine plates (small losses, the mail with restorations, rusted throughout), 43.0 cm high Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A11.

Helmets of this form may be dated anywhere from 1525-1625 and were worn in Mysore at the end of the 18th century. A closely related helmet is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. No. 36.25.13), see Elgood 2004, p. 61.

£800-1,000

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86 AN INDIAN MAIL AND LAMELLAR HELMET (TOP), 17TH/18TH CENTURY in the Turkish manner, formed of ten vertical panels of upward-lapping rectangular plates joined by rows of mail formed of riveted rings of D-section wire alternating with solid rings (small losses), fitted at the top with a low domed circular rondel with a brief inscription, 25.0 cm high Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A24 (bis).

£400-600

87 A NORTH INDIAN MAIL AND LAMELLAR HELMET (TOP), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN formed of twenty-two tall horizontally-lapping shaped plates joined by a narrow panel of riveted mail to a row of shorter matching plates above and below, the former joined by a further panel of mail to a central finial with conical plumeholder and the latter triangular panels of mail for the neck and ears (small losses, restorations), 41.0 cm high Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A38.

£400-600

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88 A RARE INDIAN MAIL COIF, 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BIKANER, RAJASTHAN of small riveted rings of near round-section wire, covering the face with a triangular flap and two openings for the eyes, extending at the front, over the shoulders and the back, fitted at the top with a pierced low domed copper alloy boss fitted with a ring, decorated at the principle borders with rows of butted copper alloy links, a small panel of copper alloy rings in the centre of the forehead, and with an early blue silk lining (rust, small losses)

89 AN INDIAN MAIL HELMET (COIF), 17TH/18TH CENTURY of small riveted rings of alternating thin and thicker near round-section wire open at the face, extending over the neck, and rising at its apex to a circular copper alloy rondel with flanged rim, moulded finial and traces of early gilding (small repairs and losses), 40.0 cm high Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A57.

£300-500

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A61.

£1,500-2,500

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90 A SOUTH INDIAN ARM DEFENCE (DASTANA), 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ARCOT, TAMIL NADU formed of a tapering gutter-shaped main plate with recurved bud-shaped terminal, hinged inner plate, the borders reinforced with a cusped panel, each plate embossed with an elliptical moulding at the wrist, chiselled with concentric panels filled with scrolling foliage, and much early silver-plated finish, 36.0 cm

92 A SOUTH INDIAN ARM DEFENCE (DASTANA), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH formed of a tapering gutter-shaped main plate and hinged inner plate with reinforced borders, embossed with an ellipse over the wrist on the outside, and the outer surface profusely decorated with silver koftgari flowers and foliage, 33.5 cm

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A50.

£350-450

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A48.

£300-500 91 A SOUTH INDIAN ARM DEFENCE (DASTANA), 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH formed of a tapering gutter-shaped main plate (one small hole) and a hinged inner plate, the borders reinforced with a cusped panel, the outer plate embossed with an elliptical moulding at the wrist and retaining traces of early silver plated finish, 21.7 cm

93 A SOUTH INDIAN ARM DEFENCE (DASTANA), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH formed of a tapering gutter-shaped main plate and hinged inner plate with reinforced borders (slightly compressed), embossed with an ellipse over the wrist on the outside, and the outer surface profusely decorated with symmetrical designs of gold koftgari flowers and foliage (small losses), 29.5 cm

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A49.

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number A51.

£200-300

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94 A FINE SOUTH INDIAN GILT COPPER SHIELD (DHAL), PROBABLY HYDERABAD 15TH/16TH CENTURY of low domed convex form, comprising layers of copper joined by numerous copper rivets, the outer face with a central rondel set with four bosses with large carved rock crystal flowerheads (associated, possibly 17th/18th Century) corresponding to four later rings for enarmes on the inside, embossed with five concentric circles of pointed scales with a broad cusped band at the top and a plain band at the base, and much early gilding, 51.8 cm diameter Roy Elvis Catalogue Number B06.

The scale pattern is notably unusual on Indian arms and armour. A related example in steel is preserved in the Furusiya Art Foundation Collection. See Mohamed 2007, p. 369, no. 351. A katar with similar decoration, attributed to Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu and formerly in the George Cameron Stone Collection is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. No. 36.25.1017). A gilt-copper bazu band decorated in the same manner is preserved in the Government Museum, Chenai (no. 1971). See Elgood 2004, p. 61.

£6,000-8,000

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95 AN INDIAN COPPER ALLOY STIRRUP AND A PAIR OF INDIAN COPPER ALLOY STIRRUPS, 18TH/19TH CENTURY the first with pierced tread fitted with jingles, decorated with a trellis design and up-turned at each end to form the lower portion of the side-bar, the latter arched, decorated with fine beadwork borders over the upper section and with a zoomorphic loop for suspension; the second each with rectangular tread, arched side-bars with recurved bird’s head terminals and a loop for suspension at the top, 15.0 cm (3) Roy Elvis Catalogue Numbers K19 and K20.

£200-300 96 TWO CENTRAL INDIAN IRON STIRRUPS, BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA of slightly differing form, each with moulded tread rising to form the side-bar, the latter chiselled at the top and with an integral loop for suspension, 15.5 cm high (2)

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Roy Elvis Catalogue Numbers K23 and K25.

£150-200 97 A SOUTH INDIAN BUCKLER (DHAALEN), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABALY KERALA of domed kite-shaped form, the outer face cast and chiselled with celestial motifs within beadwork frames and a border of foliage, the corners each with a monsterhead fitted with later rattle, and the inner face with a tubular grip (one small early internally patched repair), 22.5 cm Roy Elvis Catalogue Number L03.

£200-300

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98 A SOUTH INDIAN BUCKLER (PARICHA), LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MYSORE of circular convex form with strongly outward-turned brim, fitted with four bosses decorated with flowerheads and corresponding to small rings on the inside for enarmes, the outer surface chiselled with a small central flowerhead, a broad frieze of flowerheads, foliage and geometric designs within beadwork frames, 32.0 cm diameter Roy Elvis Catalogue Number B09.

£300-400 99 A SOUTH INDIAN BUCKLER (PARICHA), LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MYSORE of circular convex form with strongly outward-turned brim, fitted with four bosses each formed as an elaborate flowerhead with pierced stellate flanged base, corresponding to small rings on the inside for enarmes, the outer surface fitted with an additional boss shaped as a crescent, with traces of original gilding, and the inside with its padded cushion, 36.0 cm diameter

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Roy Elvis Catalogue Number B13.

£200-300 100 A NORTH INDIAN BLACK LACQUERED BUFFALO HIDE SHIELD (DHAL), 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN of circular convex form with outward-turned brim, fitted at its centre with four gilt iron bosses, each of hemispherical form with pierced cusped border, and corresponding on the inside with four iron rings with enarmes, pierced with two holes for mounting, fitted with an early velvet pad and grips, 67.0 cm diameter

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Roy Elvis Catalogue Number B02.

£400-600

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101 A NORTHWEST INDIAN RECURVED COMPOSITE BOW, 18TH CENTURY formed of wood, bone and sinew, with carved nocks (one chipped, small losses), lacquered over its surface with a green background decorated with traditional ornament in gilt polychrome, reinforced with bands of sinew on the inner face, and a brief inscription on each side of one nock, 97.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number G16.

£300-400 102 A SOUTH INDIAN DECORATED BOW, 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY KARNATAKA of bamboo, with carved nocks, painted in gold with scrolling foliage against a green ground, with grip decorated with gold en suite against a red ground (small chips, fitted with a later string), 130.8 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number G06.

£150-200 103 A SOUTH INDIAN CEREMONIAL COPPER ALLOY BOW, POSSIBLY 19TH CENTURY MYSORE, KARNATAKA formed in one piece, cast and chased with a Yali head at the terminals and a pair of Yali heads at the grip, and with beadwork borders along its length (restorations), 98.4 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number L06.

£200-300

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104 A NORTH INDIAN ARROW PULLER, 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BIKANER, RAJASTHAN formed entirely of steel, swelling faceted head divide into four parts and with a sliding collar incorporating a hook to clamp an arrow head, integral steel shaft with raised mouldings, and the base with a pierced rectangular moulding, 73.7 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number G23.

£80-120 105 TWO RARE SOUTH INDIAN ARROWS FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, 17TH/18TH CENTURY for shooting large game, each with large crescentic head, possibly for ham-stringing, moulded neck, integral shaft and swelling slightly towards the nocks (areas of pitting), 76.7 cm, the longer (2) Roy Elvis Catalogue Number G12 (bis).

£100-150 106 SIX RARE SOUTH INDIAN ARROWS FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, 17TH/18TH CENTURY for shooting large game, three with leafshaped heads (one restored), one with small triangular head and two with conical heads, each with integral shaft and swelling slightly at the nock (areas of pitting), 76.0 cm, the longest (6) Roy Elvis Catalogue Number G12.

£300-500

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107 EIGHT SOUTH INDIAN ARROWS (TIR), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MADRAS, TAMIL NADU each with sharply tapering triangular iron head, short socket, on its reed shaft (one incomplete, small losses), 84.0 cm (8) Roy Elvis Catalogue Number G13 (bis).

£250-350

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108 SIXTEEN NORTH INDIAN ARROWS (TIR), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ALWAR, RAJASTHAN with robust tapering pointed iron heads for piercing armour, each decorated with a series of soft metal decorative bands at the base, and reed shafts with carved nocks (four incomplete), 75.5 cm, the longest (15) Roy Elvis Catalogue Number G11 (bis).

£200-300

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109 ELEVEN NORTH INDIAN ARROWS (TIR), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ALWAR, RAJASTHAN with triangular iron heads with stepped base and short sockets, and reed shafts with carved nocks (four incomplete), 75.5 cm, the longest (15) Roy Elvis Catalogue Number G10 (bis).

£150-200

110 A RARE CENTRAL INDIAN IRON CANNON, 18TH CENTURY with tapering sighted barrel formed in four stages, the muzzle formed as a stylised tiger’s head, cast with a band ahead of the breech, with integral pan on the right, standing back-sight, and a pierced lug beneath, fitted with a pair of trunnions, and retaining some early red painted finish, 85.4 cm barrel; 3.0 cm bore Roy Elvis Catalogue Number J05.

Light cannon of this type were used by Indian and Ottoman troops on fortresses and also mounted on camels and elephants. See Elgood 1995, p. 139.

£1,000-1,200 111 A SOUTH INDIAN FLASK, POSSIBLY MALABAR 19TH CENTURY AND AN INDIAN POWDER FLASK, 19TH/20TH CENTURY the first with turned wooden pear-shaped body, copper alloy fitting incorporating a moulded spout issuant from an elephant mask, threaded stopper and a short chain for suspension; the second with curved tapering near conical copper alloy body fitted with a tiger’s head finial with serpent head stopper, and a short chain for suspension, the first: 27.0 cm high (2) Roy Elvis Catalogue Numbers I10 and I13.

£200-300

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112 AN 18 BORE NORTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR), 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN with tapering sighted barrel retained by later leather bands, finely chiselled with a band of foliage at the muzzle, a flower flanked by an exotic bird at each end of the middle-section joined by a slender rib, and with foliage at the breech, the latter fitted with standing back-sight and integral pan with chiselled pivot-cover, chiselled tang decorated with a panel of flowers and foliage, the action enclosed by a pair of decorated plaques each chiselled with foliage around the border and an elaborate flower flanked by exotic birds at one end, fitted on the right with pricker, chiselled trigger, full stock, the butt with tall angular comb, a pair of sling mounts, and chiselled steel ramrod, 102.5 cm barrel Roy Elvis Catalogue Number H12.

£400-600 113 A 20 BORE NORTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR), 18TH CENTURY with octagonal swamped sighted barrel encrusted with silver scrolls at the breech and muzzle (small losses) and retained by a series of leather bands over silver saddles (replaced), the breech with standing back-sight and integral pan, the latter with no provision for a cover, tang with a silver inscription (rubbed, small losses) and a further white metal plaque behind, action enclosed by a shaped plate on each side retained by a band and rivets over pierced flower-shaped washers, pierced trigger, full stock applied with a long delicately pierced plaque beneath the lock, slightly rounded butt pierced for fuse and with a large pierced washer and impressed with an arsenal number on each side (rubbed), a pair of white metal sling mounts, and silver tipped iron ramrod, 132.5 cm barrel Roy Elvis Catalogue Number H21.

£600-800

114 A FINE 16 BORE NORTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN with blued tapering sighted barrel retained by leather bands over chased silver saddles (replaced), finely chiselled and encrusted with gold with a band of foliage at the muzzle, a flower and conventional foliage at each end of the middlesection joined by a slender gilt rib, and with foliage at the breech, the latter fitted with standing back-sight and integral pan with chiselled pivot-cover, silver tang, the action enclosed by a pair of blued steel plaques each chiselled and encrusted with gold foliage around the border and an elaborate flower at one end, fitted on the right with gold-encrusted pricker-holder (pricker missing), gold-encrusted trigger, full stock, the butt with tall angular comb, a pair of gold-encrusted sling mounts, gold-encrusted steel ramrod, a portion of its leather sling, and red painted tampion, perhaps the original, 98.4 cm barrel Roy Elvis Catalogue Number H06.

£1,200-1,800 115 A FINE 16 BORE NORTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BUNDELKHAND with very strongly swamped sighted barrel retained by later cord bands over white metal saddles, decorated at the breech with a fine hair-matting design and delicate twist pattern over the greater part of its length, breech of hog’s back form incorporating standing back-sight and integral pan with pivotcover, action enclosed by large moulded copper plaques, full redwood stock with slightly hooked faceted butt, inlaid with stylised birds’ heads in copper alloy, bone rondels and grooved for sighting behind the breech, butt cap decorated with further inlays en suite, a single faceted sling mount, associated pricker and steel ramrod, 113.5 cm barrel Roy Elvis Catalogue Number H03.

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116 A 28 BORE NORTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR) FOR A CHILD, 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN with swamped sighted barrel retained by later leather bands, chiselled with a raised moulding at each end, breech of hog’s back form incorporating the back-sight and integral pan, the latter with pivot cover, action enclosed by a pair of steel plaques each chiselled with border ornament and a lotus flower on the tail, fitted on the right with pricker (restored), pierced trigger, full blackened stock carved with beadwork panels, the butt with tall angular comb and a panel of scale pattern on each side, a pair of sling mounts, and steel ramrod with faceted tip, 74.0 cm barrel

118 AN 18 BORE SOUTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK PISTOL, POSSIBLY BIJAPUR, KARNATAKA with tapering barrel retained by two chased white metal bands, slightly engraved at each end, the breech with integral pan with pivot-cover, the action enclosed by an embossed brass plaque decorated with scrolls and extending over the spine of the butt, full stock studded with iron and brass nails over shaped washers, brass butt-cap, and iron ramrod (worn), 51.0 cm overall Roy Elvis Catalogue Number H19.

£400-600

Roy Elvis Catalogue Number H07.

£400-600 117 A FINE DETACHED 16 BORE NORTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN BARREL, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN formed in three stages, fitted with bead fore-sight and standing back-sight, the breech with integral pan, the lower half plain for fitting into the stock, and the entire remaining surface chiselled with small flowerheads within shaped frames, 130.0 cm barrel Roy Elvis Catalogue Number H15.

£200-300

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VARIOUS OWNERS 119 A JAPANESE DAISHŌ (PAIRED LONG AND SHORT SWORDS) IN BLACK LACQUERED SAYA (SCABBARD) DECORATED IN COLOURED LACQUERS, BLADES 1650-1750, MOUNTS NINETEENTH CENTURY comprising a katana (long sword), Sugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (longitudinal ridge line), with a shallow torizori (even curve) and small kissaki (point), gilded copper habaki (collar); Hamon (tempering pattern): irregular notare (undulating) in nie (grains), details partially obscured by rubbing; Nagasa (length): 62.0 cm; Nakago (tang): ubu (unshortened), one mekugi-ana (peg-fixing hole), mumei (unsigned); Koshirae (mounting): black lacquered saya (scabbard) with red and gold lacquer decoration of flowers and a samurai. Copper alloy fuchikashira (hilt ornaments) with a black silk itō (braiding) wrapped tsuka (handle) over same (rayskin). The iron tsuba (hand guard) with a russet surface patination and pierced decoration of fans, together with a wakizashi (short sword), Sugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (longitudinal ridge line), with a shallow tori-zori (even curve) medium kissaki (point), gilded copper habaki (collar); Hamon (tempering pattern): broad notare (undulating) in nie (grains), details partially obscured by rubbing; Nagasa (length): 40.0 cm; Nakago (tang): suriage (shortened), mumei (unsigned), one mekugi-ana (peg-fixing hole); Koshirae (mounting): black lacquered saya (scabbard) with red and gold lacquer decoration of flowers and a samurai. Side pocket for a kogatana (utility knife) with shakudō gilded decoration of the kozuka (handle) in relief.

Copper alloy fuchi-kashira (hilt collar and pommel) with a faded black silk itō (braiding) wrapped tsuka (handle) over same (rayskin) and gilded shakudō menuki (copper alloy hilt grips) decorated with sakura (cherry blossom). The iron tsuba (hand guard) with a russet surface patination and pierced decoration of fans

£2,000-3,000

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120 A WAKIZASHI (SHORT SWORD) MOUNTED IN MAGNOLIA WOOD SHIRASAYA, SIGNED KUNIHIRO; PROBABLY HORIKAWA KUNIHIRO, CIRCA 1596-1615 Sugata (configuration): shinogi-zukuri (longitudinal ridge line); medium kissaki; muzori (no curvature); kitae (forging pattern) masame and mokume hada (longitudinal and burl-grain ground); hamon (tempering pattern) suguha (straight line); omote (outer side of blade) with a short single hi (groove) ura (inner side of blade) with a bonji (Sanskrit Buddhist symbol) and much-polished narrow double hi; fitted with a silver foil covered habaki (collar); nakago (tang); nakago (tang) with one mekugi-ana (peg hole) and signed Kunihiro, probably Horikawa Kunihiro, 40 cm blade

£600-800 121 FOUR WOODEN DISPLAY STANDS FOR JAPANESE SWORDS each formed of two hinged sections, three with provision for ten swords, and the fourth with provision for six swords (one chipped), each 91.0 cm high (4)

£100-150

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122 A JAPANESE RIDGED HELMET (SUJIBACHI KABUTO) SIGNED JOSHU (NO) JU SAOTOME IENARI, MOMOYAMA PERIOD, 16TH CENTURY with iron skull of sixty-two ribbed plates signed on the inside at the rear, fitted with gilt copper tehen no kanamono. The peak (mabizashi) covered with stencilled leather with copper alloy rim (fukurin). and fitted with a gilt copper crest holder (kuwagata dai) decorated with scrolling grasses and stylised chrysanthemum rivets heads with a gilt copper alloy fore-crest holder, both. The lower edge (koshimaki) of the helmet bowl has numerous holes for fitting the missing neck guard (shikoro).

Areas of rust and pitting. 16.0 cm high

123 A JAPANESE HELMET (HOSHI SUJIBACHI KABUTO) SIGNED JOSHU (NO) JU SAOTOME IENARI, MOMOYAMA PERIOD, 16TH CENTURY with well-formed iron skull of sixty-two plates, signed on the inside and profusely studded over its outer surface with coneshaped rivets, shakudo and copper gilt tehen no ana, The lower edge (koshimaki) of the helmet bowl has numerous holes for fitting the missing neck guard (shikoro). Fitted with a peak (mabizashi) with patinated copper alloy rim (fukurin) lacquered red on its underside. 16.5 cm high

Saotome Ienari was of the third generation of the Saotome School which flourished in what is now Ibaraki Prefecture at the end of the Muromachi period and into the Momoyama period.

Provenance Important Japanese Swords, Armour and Tsuba, Christie's, 14th November 1967, part of lot 146.

For other helmets by this armourer see Orikasa, Taelman and Anseeuw, 2010, pp. 48-63.

Saotome Ienari was of the third generation of the Saotome School which flourished in what is now Ibaraki Prefecture at the end of the Muromachi period and into the Momoyama period.

Provenance Important Japanese Swords, Armour and Tsuba, Christie's, 14th November 1967, part of lot 146.

For other helmets by this armourer see Orikasa, Taelman and Anseeuw, 2010, pp. 48-63.

£1,000-1,500

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124 A JAPANESE HELMET (SUJIBACHI KABUTO), EDO PERIOD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY with iron skull of sixty-two ribbed plates of hammered finish russet iron, fitted with low relief iron and gilt copper tehen no kanamono. Peak (mabezashi) with copper alloy border and some red lacquer on the inside. The unusually flat lower edge (koshimaki) of the helmet bowl has surprisingly few holes for fitting the missing neck guard (shikoro). 16.5 cm high Provenance Important Japanese Swords, Armour and Tsuba, Christie's, 14th November 1967, part of lot 146.

£700-900 124

125 A JAPANESE HELMET (KABUTO) SIGNED SAOTOME IEHISA, EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY with well-formed iron skull of six riveted plates joined at low ribs and each embossed with a gourd in the centre, and flat russet iron tehen no kanamono, signed on a gilt panel inside at the back, The lower edge (koshimaki) of the helmet bowl has numerous holes for fitting the missing neck guard (shikoro).

The front of the bowl is fitted with a peak (mabezashi) embossed with a pair of eyebrows and gilt copper alloy rim (fukurin) and fitted with a fore-crest holder and lacquered red on the inside, 18.0 cm high The genealogy of the Saotome School is unclear but it is thought that Saotome Iehisa lived in Hitachi province (modern day Ibaraki Prefecture) and was active in the late Momoyama to early Edo periods.

Provenance Important Japanese Swords, Armour and Tsuba, Christie's, 14th November 1967, part of lot 146.

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126 TWO MINIATURE JAPANESE HELMETS, 20TH CENTURY comprising an elaborate kabuto complete with fittings, in its magnolia case and a gold coloured kabuto with tall almondshaped skull and shikoro, the first: 7.5 cm high

£200-250 127 A JAPANESE LACQUERED IRON FACE MASK (HAPPURI), EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY unsigned, the outside lacquered black, with furrowed brow and fitted with fins on the cheeks, and the inside lacquered red, 19.0 cm

£300-500

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128 TWO CHINESE BRONZE SWORDS (JIAN), PROBABLY ZHOU DYNASTY OR EARLY WARRING STATES (1050-221 BC) AND THREE FURTHER SWORDS IN ZHOU DYNASTY STYLE in excavated condition and cast in one piece, the first with broad double-edged blade of hollow-diamond section, guard formed with a downward ogee moulding on each face, integral grip with two raised bands and shallow concave pommel; the second with hollow-diamond section blade (now in two pieces), with a brief inscription on one face at the forte, slender guard, tapering tubular grip and flanged pommel; the third with two raised bands on the grip (pommel missing); the fourth inlaid with gold coloured panels on the blade and the guard (tip missing); and the fifth with tang of rectangular section (pommel missing), the first: 55.5 cm overall (5) Provenance Anthony Dove (1938-2021)

£300-500 129 A CHINESE SWORD (DAO) AND THREE MALAYSIAN DAGGERS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY the first with double-edged blade inlaid with brass rondels, engraved brass hilt decorated with traditional designs, in its fishskin-covered wooden scabbard with brass mounts en suite; the second a Moro kris, with pattern-welded straight doubleedged blade, white metal hilt, grip bound with white metal and rattan, in its scabbard; the third a Sulawesi kris, with pattern welded wavy blade, carved hilt with beaked pommel, in its scabbard; and the fourth with curved blade, and carved wooden hilt, the first: 40.5 cm blade (4)

£200-250 130 A CARVED JADE SWORD HILT AND BLADE FRAGMENT IN CHINESE WARRING STATES STYLE; SIX BRONZE SWORDS (JIAN) IN CHINESE ZHOU DYNASTY OR EARLY WARRING STATES (1050-221 BC) STYLE, 20TH CENTURY; AND TWO FURTHER SWORDS the first with a portion of its iron blade and cylindrical tang, and openwork jade hilt carved with a dragon on each side; the second to seventh each in green patinated ‘excavated’ condition and cast in one piece, with broad double-edged blade, diamond-shaped guard and integral grip with two raised bands and shallow concave pommel; the eighth formed in one piece, with medially ridged blade, spirally moulded grip and mushroom-shaped pommel; and the ninth with curved singleedged blade, and horn grip set with numerous brass nails, the first: 15.5 cm (9) Provenance Anthony Dove (1938-2021)

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131 A KOREAN DAGGER, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY, of regulation type, in the Japanese taste, with slightly curved single-edged blade, brass hilt comprising slightly up-turned ovoid guard, foliate cap pommel, and fishskin-covered grip bound with leather, in its leather-covered scabbard with brass locket (chape missing), 32.5 cm blade

‡ £200-300

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132 A SMALL COPPER ALLOY CROSSBOW MECHANISM, PROBABALY CHINESE WESTERN HAN DYNASTY 206BC - 25AD of characteristic type, with trigger and sear each pivoting on a bolt fitted into a near rectangular case, on a wooden stand, 4.2 cm wide

£50-80

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133 A SMALL MALAYSIAN DAGGER (KRIS), 20TH CENTURY in its scabbard, carved with a monster on the wranka; together with an Indian dagger, 20th Century, a Balinese silver kris hilt, 19th Century, and a carved bone kris grip (4)

£250-350 134 A SOUTH EAST ASIAN SHORTSWORD AND A MALAYSIAN KRIS, 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade swelling towards the point and serrated at the forte, brass hilt in the European military style (cracked), carved horn grip with monsterhead pommel, and leather scabbard; the second with wavy blade and horn hilt carved with an amorous couple, the first: 46.5 cm (2)

‡ £200-300 135 A SOUTH EAST ASIAN DAGGER (KRIS), BALI, 19TH CENTURY with double-edged pattern-welded of hollow-diamond section grooved at the forte (the majority of the tang now detached), small copper alloy selut set with red and green pastes in raised settings, large carved grip with a flat face front and back, in its scabbard with some yellow paint, bound with rattan at the base and with moulded wrangka, 43.0 cm blade

‡ £60-80

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136 A FINE INDIAN GOLD AND GEM-SET JADE ARCHER'S RING, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY of characteristic convex rounded form, inlaid on the outside with gold tendrils carrying flowers of rubies and diamonds, including a flower of two diamond petals and a single ruby petal front and back (light wear, very small chips, the gold with small losses), 4.2 cm Provenance Acquired from an English Collector, Easter 1979.

A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory number 105.

£2,000-3,000

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137 AN INDIAN CARVED JADE ARCHER’S RING, 18TH CENTURY of characteristic convex rounded form, carved at the front with a central lotus flower and foliage and further foliage at the back (cracked), 4.3 cm Provenance Acquired from an English Collector, Easter 1979.

A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory number 105.

138 THREE INDIAN CARVED JADE ARCHERS’ RINGS, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY each of characteristic convex rounded form, the first slightly mottled and pointed at the rear; the second of similar form (very small chips), and the third pale green and rounded at the rear, the first 4.2 cm (3)

£500-800

£800-1,000

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139 THREE INDIAN HARDSTONE ARCHER’S RINGS, 17TH/18TH CENTURY each of characteristic convex rounded form, the first of agate with a central figured ‘eye’ and slightly rounded at the back; the second of figured brown stone and the third of figured translucent stone, perhaps chalcedony, the first: 3.7 cm (3)

140 AN INDIAN DECORATED JADE ARCHER’S RING AND TWO FURTHER INDIAN ARCHER’S RINGS, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY of characteristic convex rounded form, the first carved with a central flowerhead carried by leafy tendrils at the at the front and a smaller flower at the rear (small chips, gems missing), and with minute traces of gold inlay; the second of mottled jade, previously inlaid with gold and set with gems or pastes, and the third of white jade, pointed at the front and with a small point at the rear the first: 4.2 cm (3)

Provenance India and New York 1972-9 A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory numbers 73, 74, 107.

A similar example to the first, formerly in the Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676-1753), the distinguished connoisseur who succeeded Isaac Newton as Master of the Mint in 1727, is preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum (accession number IS.42-1981)

Provenance Spinks 23rd January 1969, London art market 1969-72 A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory numbers 44, 84. 140.

£400-700

£600-900

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141 TWELVE INDO-PERSIAN COPPER ALLOY ARCHER’S RINGS, 16TH/18TH CENTURY each cast and of characteristic slipper form, the majority lightly engraved, one cast with raised diamond-shaped panels, 2.7 cm to 5.6 cm (12)

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Provenance Istanbul, 1968-69 A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory numbers 1-9, 11-13

£200-300 142 TWELVE INDO-PERSIAN COPPER ALLOY ARCHER’S RINGS, 16TH/18TH CENTURY each cast and of characteristic slipper form, the majority lightly engraved, 2.7 cm to 5.1 cm (12)

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Provenance Istanbul, 1968-69 A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory numbers 14, 15, 18-27

£200-300

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143 AN INDO-PERSIAN SILVER COPPER ALLOY ARCHER’S RING AND ELEVEN INDO-PERSIAN COPPER ALLOY ARCHERS’ RINGS, 16TH/18TH CENTURY the first cast with a small rondel at the rear and a series of decorative indentations, the second to twelfth each cast and of characteristic slipper form, the majority lightly engraved, 3.5 cm to 3.8 cm (12) Provenance Istanbul and Tehran, 1968-69 A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory numbers 28-39

£200-300

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144 TEN INDO-PERSIAN COPPER ALLOY ARCHER’S RINGS AND TWO FURTHER ARCHER’S RINGS, 1300BC/18TH CENTURY the first circa 1300-1100 BC, of cast ring form, decorated with pellets over its outer surface; the second to nineth each cast and of characteristic slipper form, four lightly engraved, one indented with pellet designs and one formed as a pronounced thumb nail; another, of mother of pearl and another of bone (incomplete), 3.3 to 4.2 cm (12)

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Provenance Ankara, Isfahan, Tehran and London 1969-1970 A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory numbers 40, 42, 43, 51-57, 64-65

£200-300

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145 EIGHT INDO-PERSIAN COPPER ALLOY ARCHER’S RINGS, A CHINESE COPPER ALLOY ARCHER’S RING, TWO INDIAN BONE ARCHERS’ RINGS, AND ANOTHER, POSSIBLY WEST AFRICAN 16TH/19TH CENTURY the first seven of cast slipper form, the eight with a small moulded point; the nineth formed as moulded ring open in the centre; the tenth and eleventh of bone slipper form with a raised moulding on the inside and the twelfth decorated with a dragon’s head, 3.3 cm to 7.3 cm (12)

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Provenance Istanbul, Delhi and London 1969-1970 A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory numbers 66, 79-83, 85-87, 93, 94

£200-300 146 TWELVE MIDDLE EASTERN AND ASIAN ARCHER’S RINGS, 16TH/19TH CENTURY two of white metal, with raised mouldings; another, smaller, decorated with scrolling foliage; five of copper alloy cast slipper form; another, of copper alloy, two of bone and another of stained blue bone or horn, 1.8 cm to 4.6 cm (12) Provenance London, 1970-86 A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory numbers 99, 103, 141, 173

£120-180

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147 A CAUCASIAN SILVER ARCHER’S RING; A NORTH AFRICAN RING AND TWO FURTHER ARCHER’S RINGS, 19TH CENTURY the first of slipper form, set with a green stone at the rear, with roped upper edges and decorated over its surface with niello foliage; the second of red dyed bone; the third of bone and the fourth of tortoise shell, the first: 4.5 cm (4) Provenance The first: Isfahan 1969 A distinguished British Scholar and Collector, inventory numbers 41 and 76

~ £150-200

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VARIOUS OWNERS 148 AN UNUSUAL INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), 18TH CENTURY with fullered blade double-edged towards the point, stamped with a series of letters and decorative marks on each face, iron hilt comprising a pair of quillons pierced with rectangular panels and terminating in star-shaped flowerheads, langets with pierced scrollwork finials, figure-of-eight shaped guard with reinforced rim (two rivets detached), retained on the inside by a pair of transverse pins, broad knuckle-guard applied with a central rib with a pierced finial top and bottom en suite with the langets, disc pommel with attenuated button terminating in a bud-shaped finial, fitted with pierced gilt copper loop, retaining much gold koftgari decoration throughout (rubbed), and the grip retaining almost all its original binding of plaited silver and brass wire, 84.5 cm blade

£700-900 149 AN INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), EARLY 19TH CENTURY with curved blade formed with a shallow fuller, bifurcated at the tip and pierced with a pine-cone shaped aperture behind, cut with a series of inscriptions at the tip and over the forte, the latter within a linear frame, gilt copper alloy hilt engraved with a dense pattern of flowerheads on a finely punched ground, comprising langets with shaped terminals, a pair of bulbous quillons, recurved knuckle-guard with shaped terminal, large dish-shaped pommel and integral grip, 82.5 cm blade The inscriptions are Arabic and read, in part, at the forte: ‘… baldat al-kabul … husayn … ya ‘ali fatima imam(?)’ (… city of Kabul … Husayn … O ‘Ali, Fatima Imam(?)), at the tip ‘shir-i mardan … la fath [sic] illa ‘ali la sayf illa dhu’l-faqar husayn hasan imam bibi fatima … al-sayf … min baldat al-kabul’ (Lion of men (i.e. ‘Ali) .. there is no hero but ‘Ali no sword but Dhu’lFaqar, Husayn, Hasan, Imam, Bibi Fatima … the sword … from the city of Kabul) and on the reverse at the forte: ‘la fata illa ‘ali la sayf illa dhu’l-faqar ..’ (There is no hero but ‘Ali, no sword but Dhu’l-Faqar).

£1,000-1,200

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150 A FINE INDIAN BROAD SWORD (PATA) FROM THE ARMOURY OF THE NIZAM OF HYDERABAD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY with broad double-edged possibly European blade struck with a mark on one face, probably a falchion (rubbed) and a brief inscription on the other, silver-plated iron gauntlet chiselled with a frame of beadwork, extending over the forte with a pair of shaped langets, moulded over the hand, flaring over the fore-arm and with strongly moulded borders over the wrist and at the base, the interior with a single grip bar, arm bar with recurved bud-shaped finials, and an early blue quilted padded lining, the outside retaining much silver-plated finish enriched with a framework of gilt (small losses and areas of lifting), in its dark red velvet covered wooden scabbard with gilt iron chape, 89.7 cm blade Provenance The armoury of the Nizams of Hyderabad The Nawab Mir Nawaz Jung Bahadur, senior minister in the government of the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad and the Nizam’s envoy to London in the 1940s Thence by descent.

£2,000-3,000

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151 FOUR ETCHED INDO-PERSIAN AXES, 19TH CENTURY the first with double-head etched on each face with scrolling foliage inhabited by peacocks, robust terminal spike, and integral steel haft with domed terminal; the second of similar form, decorated with foliage in small panels and at the borders; the third with crescentic head decorated with foliage inhabited by figures in traditional dress, flat rear pean, terminal spike and integral haft; and the fourth similar, decorated with calligraphy, the first 76.0 cm (4)

£250-350 152 A RARE INDIAN GOLD-ENCRUSTED BAYONET, 19TH CENTURY with tapering blade of hexagonal section at the base and reinforced diamond section towards the point, decorated with gold foliage in a tall triangular panel on each face, rectangular ricasso decorated with gold flowers, and a pair of long slender arms to fit along the sides of the barrel each decorated with gold foliage (small losses), 30.3 cm overall

£350-450 153 AN INDIAN AXE (ZAGHNAL), 20TH CENTURY of characteristic form, with slightly curved double-edged axeblade formed with a reinforced tip, pierced at the base with two stylised bird’s heads, enriched with gold lines and foliage on each face, moulded mushroom-shaped rear pean decorated en suite (small areas of pitting), on its wooden haft with iron rivets over brass foliate washers, 61.0 cm blade

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£200-300 154 AN INDIAN SWORD (PULOUAR), 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade of watered steel (areas of pitting), chiselled iron hilt with attenuated langets decorated with foliage, down-curved quillons with monsterhead terminals, spirally-moulded pierced cup-shaped pommel and integral grip decorated with slender ribs, 81.0 cm blade

£250-350

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155 AN INDIAN EXECUTIONER’S SWORD (TEGHA), 19TH CENTURY with characteristic very broad heavy blade double-edged towards the point, formed with five long slender fullers on each face, struck with a bladesmith’s mark on one face and with a series of decorative dots on the other, iron hilt of talwar form comprising a pair of langets, quillons with broad pointed terminals, knuckle-guard, large disc pommel with pierced button on a large domed washer, integral grip, decorated throughout with engraved flowers on a finely punched ground and retaining much silver plated finish, 87.7 cm blade

£600-800

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156 A NORTH INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), 18TH CENTURY, RAJASTHAN OR PUNJAB with triangular blade of crucible steel, formed with a reinforced point, chiselled with a caparisoned elephant and rider highlighted in gold (small losses) on each face, iron hilt of characteristic form comprising side bars and grip-bars, the latter swelling in the centre, and decorated throughout with gold flowerheads enclosed by scrolls of foliage, in a wooden scabbard with later fabric covering and iron chape decorated with gold flowers enclosed by leafy tendrils (the gold with losses), 42.2 cm overall Two katars with related blades are preserved in the Chi Mei Museum, Taiwan. See Hales 2013, nos. 157 and 158.

£800-1,200 157 AN INDIAN PARTISAN, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with strongly tapering head formed with a medial ridge dividing a pair of tapering grooves, formed with two pairs of opposing lugs at the base, inlaid with copper alloy pellets and lines at the base, a later plain iron collar and turned wooden grip with fabric covering, 50.2 cm overall

£150-200 158 THREE INDIAN SPEARHEADS, 19TH CENTURY the first with tapering iron spike of square-section and spirally moulded copper alloy socket decorated with a writhen collar top and bottom; the second of iron with tapering pyramidal spike, and blued faceted socket decorated with gold lines and a band of chevron top and bottom; and the third of iron, with spike of square-section and tapering socket, the first: 22.5 cm (3)

£80-100 159 TWELVE INDIAN ARROWS, 18TH/19TH CENTURY ten with blunt iron heads for stunning game, one with conical iron head (one missing its head), each with reed haft with carved nocks, 76.5 cm overall, 73.0 cm, the longest (12) 156

£80-100 160 FOUR INDIAN ARROWS, 19TH CENTURY the first two with pointed iron heads tubular sockets and reed shafts, the third with leaf-shaped head and reed shaft (now in two pieces) and the fourth a reed shaft (head missing); together with a silver-topped swagger stick (worn), the first: 72.7 cm overall (5)

£50-80

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PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR 161 A FINE OTTOMAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED SABRE (KARABELA), MARKED FOR THE REIGN OF SULTAN MEHMET IV (1648-87) with 16th century slightly curved crucible steel blade widening to a double-edged point and with a fine watered pattern throughout, chased gilt and nielloed silver hilt comprising guard of characteristic form with straight quillons with moulded bud-shaped terminals, decorated over its surface with a spray of differing flowers and foliage against a matted ground (one small crack at the top of one langet), back-strap decorated with a running pattern of foliage and flowers en suite, and polished horn grip retained by three rivets over silver foliate washers, carved with pairs of chevron lines and widening to a shaped terminal, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard, the leather embossed in imitation of shagreen (small wrinkles beneath the locket), with large silver chape, locket and a pair of bands with suspension rings, all decorated en suite with the hilt, the locket and chape each struck with a tughra, the upper suspension ring with a zig-zag inspection mark, and remaining in fine condition throughout, 78.2 cm blade This karabela survives in notably fine condition and was possibly part of the booty taken during the Turkish Wars of the second half of the 17th century. Viewed alongside the distinguished Türkenbeute now preserved in Vienna, Karlsruhe and Dresden the present karabela may be classified among the higher quality examples.

See Schuckelt 2010, pp. 265-266, nos. 241-243.

£12,000-18,000

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VARIOUS OWNERS 162 A RARE OTTOMAN SILVER-MOUNTED DAGGER, SECOND HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY with curved double-edged crucible steel blade formed with a pair of long slender fullers within a linear frame terminating in leafy fronds at the forte on each face, the fronds each retaining some silver inlay, waisted hardwood hilt of characteristic form, fitted with an engraved silver ferrule at the base and studded with ten rivets with large silver heads, in its wooden scabbard encased in silver, struck with a mark (indistinct), chiselled with a pattern of dense scrolling tendrils enclosing small flower heads on a finely punched and gilt ground on the inner face, the outer with leaf-and lozenge-shaped panels filled with a matching pattern of flowerheads and with a small loop for suspension, fitted at the top with a shaped silver collar decorated en suite and at the chape with an engraved bulbous terminal (rubbed in places), 20.0 cm blade Similar daggers were taken as part of the booty gathered by the Margraves of Baden-Baden and Baden-Durlach now preserved in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe. See Petrasch, Sänger, Zimmermann and Majer 1991, pp. 200-202.

£3,500-4,500

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163 AN OTTOMAN SWORD (KILIG), TURKEY, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with broad curved blade formed with a long fuller chiselled with foliage at each end. double-edged point, some gold koftgari and traces of a cartouche on one side, border-engraved silver hilt including a pair of langets and quillons with faceted bud-shaped terminals, polished horn grip scales (repairs) rising to a rounded pommel, in its original leather-covered scabbard with large silver mounts chased with foliage, the locket and chape each struck with a mark (chape compressed at the base), and with two loops for suspension, 72.3 cm blade

£800-1,200

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164 A DECORATED TURKISH SWORD (KILIG), 19TH CENTURY AND LATER with heavy blade of characteristic form, decorated on each side and the back-edge with later gold ornament and inscriptions, brass cross-piece, and later wooden grip rising to a bulbous pommel, 74cm blade

£400-600 165 A SUDANESE SWORD (KASKARA) LATE 19TH CENTURY AND ANOTHER SWORD the first with broad fullered doubled-edged blade, characteristic iron hilt with straight quillons, and leather-bound grip (pommel missing), in its tooled leather scabbard; the second modern, in Spanish 15th century style, the first: 91.7 cm blade

£120-180 166 TWO AFRICAN AXES, A BOOMERANG AND A FRENCH MODEL 1816 INFANTRY SHORTSWORD (BRIQUET) the first with iron axe head formed with a pronounced vertical spike, on its curved wooden haft; the second with small triangular iron head, on its wooden haft; the third with flat inner face and carved grooved outer face; and the fourth of regulation type (worn throughout), the first: 86.5 cm overall (4)

£120-180 167 A CAUCASIAN SHORTSWORD (KINDJAL), 19TH CENTURY with broad double-edged blade formed with a long off-set fuller on each face, and the hilt fitted with a horn grip-scale on each face retained by three iron rivets, the upper and lower drawn-out to a conical point on the front (the iron parts pitted), 55.0 cm blade

£150-200 168 A CLUB, 19TH/20TH CENTURY, PROBABLY NATIVE AMERICAN PLAINS with stone head enclosed in the centre by a loop of stitched hide extending to form the haft with wooden core, 61.5 cm overall

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169 AN ARAB GOLD-AND SILVER-MOUNTED SWORD (SAIF), LATE 19TH CENTURY with slightly curved fullered blade double-edged towards the tip, silver cross-piece with fluted conical terminals and applied with a chased gold plaque in the centre, the grip encased in chased gold rising to an angular pommel, all decorated with geometric designs, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with large silver mounts comprising chape, middle-band and locket, the latter two each with rings for suspension, all applied with chased gold plaques decorated en suite with the hilt, 79.5 cm blade

£3,000-4,000

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170 AN INDIAN MAIL AND LAMELLAR SHIRT, 17TH CENTURY formed of rows of large riveted iron rings alternating with rows of butted rings, extending to above the knees, the chest area closely meshed and open at the front, vented at the back and applied with three rows of narrow vertically overlapping rectangular iron plates, the sides with pairs of longitudinal plates a pair of full-length sleeves, the front with a pair of rectangular convex plates each fitted with bars for straps or laces (losses, holes, extensive rust)

£500-600 171 AN INDO-PERSIAN HELMET (KULAH KHUD), 19TH CENTURY with hemispherical skull etched over its surface with scenes from the chase including figures in traditional dress, a band of inscriptions around the base, fitted with a pair of plume holders at the front, sliding nasal bar (retaining screw and central spike missing), and a very small portion of its mail neckdefence, 14 cm high

£200-300

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172 TWO MAIL SLEEVES, 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY INDIAN each formed of solid rings of rectangular section wire alternating with riveted rings of D-section wire (small losses and holes), 56.0 cm long

£100-150 173 TWO ELEMENTS OF ASIAN MAIL AND FABRIC ARMOUR, LATE 19TH CENTURY of two panels of differing size, each formed of small butted rings of circular section iron wire within lozenge-shaped frames of matching copper alloy wire, stitched onto pink fabric with blue velvet borders and copper alloy rings for suspension (areas of light wear, small losses), 97.0 cm The panels are of Chinese form incorporating rings of Indo-Persian mail.

£100-150

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174 A PERSIAN DECORATED HELMET (KULAH KHUD), QAJAR, MID-19TH CENTURY with hemispherical skull fitted with characteristic central spike, a pair of plume-holders, bracket for a nasal bar (now missing), and mail neck defence of butted links, decorated over the greater part of the skull with a complex pattern of cartouches, silver-encrusted bouqets and gold koftgari flowering tendrils, and the base encircled with a series of calligraphic cartouches, 27.5 cm high

£800-900

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175 AN INDO-PERSIAN SHIELD (DHAL), 19TH CENTURY of low domed form, the outer surface profusely etched with numerous calligraphic panels, hunting scenes, courtly figures in traditional dress and foliage within a shaped linear framework and enriched with silver and gold koftgari (rubbed), fitted with three shaped domed bosses (one missing) corresponding with rings for enarmes, and the interior retaining a portion of an early lining and enarmes, 46.5cm diameter

177 A NORTH INDIAN HIDE SHIELD (DHAL), 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN of circular convex form with outward-turned brim, fitted at its centre with five hemispherical copper alloy bosses with pierced rims and traces of gilding, a copper alloy crescent, and the inside with an early pad, four iron rings and a pair of leather enarmes (small losses), 54.0 cm diameter

£250-300

£400-600 176 A NORTH INDIAN HIDE SHIELD (DHAL), 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN of circular convex form with outward-turned brim, fitted at its centre with five engraved hemispherical copper alloy bosses with pierced rims, a copper alloy crescent, and three large foliate washers, and the inside with an early pad, four iron rings and a pair of leather enarmes, 49.5 cm diameter

£300-400

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178 TWO STRIKE-A-LIGHTS, LATE 19TH CENTURY (2)

£60-80

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179 A 10 BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK MUSKET, 18TH CENTURY with sighted barrel retained by seven slender cord bands, formed with a bold twist pattern over almost its entire length, strongly moulded muzzle decorated with recessed panels, plain breech punched with an arsenal inscription, fitted with integral iron pan with copper pivot-cover, the action enclosed by a series of large iron plaques pierced and engraved with pairs of birds, figured hardwood full stock inlaid with horn rondels, pierced iron butt-cap en suite with the action plates and original iron ramrod (pricker missing), 129.5 cm barrel Provenance Robin Wigington

£600-800

180 A RARE 22 BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK MUSKET WITH LEFT-HAND LOCK, 18TH CENTURY with swamped sighted barrel retained by four cord bands, decorated with a band of gold foliage around the muzzle and at the breech, the latter fitted with standing back-sight, integral iron pan decorated en suite, pivot-cover, the action encased by a pair of iron plaques each decorated with punched border ornament (pricker missing), hardwood full stock, the butt impressed with recessed panels and painted with a scrollwork cartouche on each side, the right-hand side impressed with an arsenal number (small closed cracks) and original iron ramrod, 101 cm barrel

181 A 12 BORE NORTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN with heavy tapering sighted barrel retained by five slender chased silver bands, profusely chiselled over its surface with a dense pattern of floral sprays on a punched ground, flared breech incorporating chiselled integral pan and back-sight, action enclosed by a pair of openwork iron plaques, each with chiselled rear terminal decorated and a floral border, that on the right with chiselled pricker and match holder, full blackened stock with faceted slightly curved butt, chiselled trigger and iron ramrod, 95.5 cm barrel

£500-600

Provenance Robin Wigington

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182 A 25 BORE NORTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR), 18TH/19TH CENTURY with octagonal sighted etched twist probably European barrel retained by four slender silver bands, stamped with a goldlined shaped mark (now punched), with integral pan and standing back-sight at the breech, action enclosed by a pair of engraved silver plaques with leafy borders and foliate terminals, moulded pricker (bent), engraved trigger, full stock (small losses and areas of wear), faceted butt bound with silver decorated en suite with the action, ivory butt-cap and steel ramrod, 133.2 cm barrel

~ £300-400 183 A 22 BORE NORTH INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN (TORADOR), 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY RAJASTHAN with tapering sighted barrel retained by three shaped engraved copper alloy bands, flared breech fitted with integral pan, backsight and chiselled with a panel of elaborate foliage, a further foliate panel along its length on each side and moulded muzzle en suite, action enclosed by a pair of iron plaques, each with chiselled rear terminal decorated with a floral panel and the remaining border decorated with leaves, full stock (small repairs), slender faceted butt, and iron ramrod, 121.0 cm barrel

£250-300 184 A 14 BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK MUSKET, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with tapering sighted barrel retained by later bands, chiselled with foliage around the muzzle, the breech with standing backsight and integral pan, action enclosed by a pair of iron plaques with cusped borders, full stock (areas of wear) and iron ramrod, 115.2 cm barrel

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185 AN 18 BORE INDIAN MATCHLOCK GUN, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with tapering sighted barrel retained by later bands, waisted muzzle, flared breech with standing back-sight and integral pan, action enclosed by a pair of shaped iron plaques, shaped trigger (iron parts pitted), full stock, and curved faceted butt, 125.2 cm barrel

£100-150 186 AN INDIAN 25 BORE PERCUSSION GUN FOR THE TOURIST MARKET, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER with tapering sighted barrel, flat lock struck with a spurious date and with a crown on the tail, blackened half-stock profusely inlaid with mother-of-peal (small losses), the butt with raised cheek-piece, engraved copper alloy mounts including butt-plate and trigger-guard, copper alloy fore-end cap, and iron ramrod, 85.5 cm barrel

£100-150 187 TWO AFGHAN PERCUSSION GUNS, 19TH CENTURY the first 34 bore, with swamped sighted barrel retained by four slender iron and an engraved brass band, border-engraved lock, full stock, hooked butt, applied with engraved brass plaques and iron ramrod (worn, losses); the second 25 bore, with sighted barrel retained by five engraved brass bands, flat lock, full stock, hooked butt applied with engraved brass plaques, and iron trigger-guard (worn, losses), 82.5 cm and 117.5 cm barrels (2)

£150-200

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188 A 14 BORE WEST BALKANS FLINTLOCK GUN (HERZEGOVINA OR MONTENEGRO), 19TH CENTURY with tapering sighted barrel retained by five engraved brass bands, associated bevelled lock, full stock encased in openwork brass panels over the fore-end (small chips), the butt profusely applied with shaped mother-of-pearl panels enriched with brass nails (small losses),engraved iron trigger-guard, two iron suspension rings, and iron ramrod, 95.0 cm barrel

191 A 22 BORE NORTH MOROCCAN SNAPHAUNCE MUSKET, 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY TÉTOUAN with tapering barrel struck with a mark at the breech and retained by five broad chased coper alloy bands, flat lock retained by three side nails, struck with a mark and sparsely inlaid in white metal, full stock (repairs) pronounced butt with hardwood butt-plate (loose), and copper alloy trigger-guard (ramrod missing), 115.2 cm barrel

£200-300

£400-600 189 A 16 BORE OTTOMAN GUN BARREL, TURKEY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY sligthly swamped, moulded at the muzzle and fitted with a bead fore-sight, encrusted with silver flowers within cartouche-shaped frames at each end (rubbed), a brief inscription towards the breech, and engraved tang with traces of silver (worn), 110.8 cm

£100-150

192 A 46 BORE MOROCCAN SNAPHAUNCE GUN (BUSHFER), LITTLE ATLAS MOUNTAINS, 19TH CENTURY with tapering sighted barrel retained by numerous chased white metal bands decorated with flowers and foliage and set with red coral, the breech overlaid with white metal decorated en suite, standing back-sight, flat lock, full stock of traditional form enriched with bone and set with chased white metal panels set with red coral, and iron ramrod (iron parts rusted), 119.8 cm barrel

~ £120-180 190 A TURKISH FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS AND A 14 BORE CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION MUSKET, CIRCA 1840 the first with strongly formed twist barrel flaring at the muzzle and engraved with a cartouche at each end, tang with a brief inscription, engraved flat lock in the European style, full stock punched with rondels (some later set with faceted beads), small carved butt incorporating a bird-of-prey on the comb and inset with triangular panels of bone on each side, and iron mounts including butt-plate and trigger guard and iron ramrod; the second of regulation type, with tapering sighted barrel retained by a single iron band, rounded lock (an arsenal conversion from flintlock), three-quarter stock (cracked through at the wrist, repairs), and iron mounts (ramrod missing), the first: 103.0 cm barrel (2)

193 A 14 BORE NORTH MOROCCAN SNAPHAUNCE MUSKET, 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY TÉTOUAN with tapering sighted multi-stage barrel retained by seven chased silver bands, octagonal breech fitted with standing back-sight, flat lock struck with a mark, retained by three sidenails over shaped washers, fitted with cock and battery each engraved with lines, blackened full stock, inlaid with two mother-of-pearl panels behind the tang (the third missing), carved with scrollwork beneath the lock, ivory butt-plate, iron trigger-guard and iron ramrod (light wear), 128.7 cm barrel For a discussion of this group see Waelty, 2022 p. 92-101.

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194 TWO INDIAN FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS PISTOLS FOR THE TOURIST MARKET, LATE 19TH CENTURY almost forming a pair, with iron barrels retaining some silver decoration, large locks, one engraved with foliage, full stocks decorated with shaped panels of nails, and brass trigger-guards (ramrods missing), 27.7 cm and 29.0 cm barrels (2)

£200-300 195 A 20 BORE FLINTLOCK OTTOMAN HOLSTER PISTOL (KUBUR), TURKEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with tapering sighted barrel formed with a long flat with a brief inscription, inlaid with silver (small losses) over the breech and struck with a mark (muzzle band missing, rubbed), engraved grooved tang, engraved strongly bevelled lock chiselled with foliage on the tail, full stock carved with foliage over the foreend and about the tang, the latter set with a turquoise in a raised setting and inlaid with silver wire scrolls, brass mounts in the European taste, comprising spurred pommel (cap missing), side-plate, trigger-guard and two ramrod-pipes (escutcheon missing), and simulated ramrod, 34.0 cm barrel

£200-300 196 A 28 BORE OTTOMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL (KUBUR), TURKEY, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY AND A 36 BORE INDIAN PERCUSSION PISTOL, 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY the first with swamped sighted barrel inlaid with an engraved brass panel along the flat and a pair of further shorter panels on each side at the breech, rounded lock, full stock (repairs) and engraved brass mounts (worn); the second with sighted barrel fitted with stirrup ramrod (links missing), flat lock (defective) and full stock profusely inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and iron mounts (worn), the first: 22.2 cm barrel (2)

£150-200

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EUROPEAN EDGED WEAPONS 197 A TWO-HAND SWORD IN GERMAN EARLY 16TH CENTURY STYLE, 20TH CENTURY with broad double-edged blade formed with a series of fullers and a pair of basal lugs, struck with the maker’s mark and name ‘Deltin’ at the forte, iron hilt comprising a pair of straight writhen quillons with bulbous terminals, inner and outer ringguards en suite, tall spirally-fluted pear-shaped pommel, and blackened banded grip, 120.0 cm blade

£1,000-1,500 198 A SWORD IN ITALIAN LATE 15TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY with straight double-edged blade, iron hilt comprising straight quillons with bulbous finials, pronounced fishtail pommel, some early painted finish, and wooden grip (patinated), 80.7 cm Based on the sword attributed to the ownership of Ludovico Sforza, il Moro, Duke of Milan (1452-1508).

£400-600

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199 A MEDIEVAL SWORD, FIRST HALF OF THE 14TH CENTURY in excavated condition, with tapering double-edged blade formed with a broad long central fuller on each face, tapering tang, iron hilt comprising robust tapering quillons of circular section widening towards the terminals, and wheel pommel, 91.7 cm blade The hilt confirms to Oakeshott type XII.

£2,500-3,500

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200 A HIGHLY DECORATED GARNITURE OF A SWEPT HILT RAPIER AND LEFT-HAND DAGGER IN MID-16TH CENTURY STYLE, 20TH CENTURY, PROBABLY TOLEDO each with straight blade of flattened-diamond section, struck with the inscription ‘CELIS LOBACO ESPADERO MI‘ and ‘SINAL ES EL SANT CRUCIFICIO‘ within a fuller on the respective faces, grooved rectangular ricasso struck with a mark on each face, Christ crucified including the instruments beneath, iron hilt of flattened bars, the rapier comprised of straight quillons with bud-shaped terminals, lower ringguard swelling in the centre, two outer ring-guards en suite, the upper joined to the knuckle guard at the top ahead of a recurved finial, bifurcated inner guard, faceted pommel and integral grip, decorated throughout with gold and silver damascene, including a city besieged by artillerymen and cavalry, and panels of scrolling foliage, the pommel decorated en suite and inscribed ‘Diego de Caias Facie bat’; the dagger with straight quillons, faceted pommel and integral grip all decorated and inscribed en suite with the sword, (small losses) and remaining in very good to fine condition throughout, the rapier: 103.5 cm blade (2) Diego de Qaias, the celebrated swordsmith and damascener, is first recorded working for Francis I of France in I535 and later for Henry VIII in 1542. The present sword and dagger were inspired by the rapier of circa 1560 preserved in Dresden (inv. nr. E612) and almost certainly made in Toledo during the 1970s. For an account of de Caias and a list of his works see Blair 1970, pp. 149-198.

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201 AN ITALIAN SWEPT-HILT RAPIER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, rectangular ricasso, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of straight quillons swelling slightly towards the terminals, three outer ring-guards joined at the base, the middle ring swelling in the centre and the upper joined to the knuckle-guard by a further bar, écusson fluted on the outer face, a pair of arms, trifurcated inner-guard, associated fluted barrel-shaped pommel and later grip bound with plaited wire (areas of pitting), 110.8 cm blade

202 A COMPOSITE ENGLISH BROADSWORD, CIRCA 1620 with associated later broad double-edged blade formed with a long slender fuller and struck with a pair of celestial marks on each face, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons, outer ring-guard enclosing a circular panel incised with a pair of chevrons, smaller matching inner-guard, knuckle-guard, large ovoid pommel incised with chevrons en suite with the guard, and later wooden grip (the hilt pitted), 90.7 cm blade

£600-800

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205 A HIGHLAND BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD, 19TH CENTURY with associated etched blade of regulation type, iron basketguard of rounded bars carrying an alternating arrangement of narrow and square panels pierced with arrangements of hearts, fluted bun-shaped pommel, and wire-bound fishskincovered grip (chemically cleaned), 82.0 cm blade

203 A SWEPT HILT RAPIER IN EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, rectangular ricasso struck twice with a mark on each face, iron hilt of flattened bars comprising horizontally recurved quillons, outer guard, knuckle-guard, trifurcated inner-guard and faceted pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’, 108.7 cm blade

£250-350

£400-600 206 A HIGHLAND BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD, 20TH CENTURY with broad double-edged fullered blade, iron basket-guard formed of alternating square and rectangular panels pierced with hearts and circles, fluted bun-shaped pommel, wirebound grip, red doe-skin liner, in its leather scabbard, 81.0 cm blade

204 A BACKSWORD WITH BRASS MORTUARY HILT, IN THE ENGLISH THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY STYLE with 17th century broad blade double-edged towards the point, cut with three slender fullers of differing length and struck with a pair of celestial masks on each face (pitted), symmetrical brass basket-hilt of characteristic form decorated with a pair of masks on the base, comprising a pair of vestigial langets, scrolling quillon struck ‘M’ crowned on the inside, knuckle-guard, two frontal bars joined by a vertical bar and fitted with a further scrolling bar, chiselled globular pommel, and later grip bound with plaited wire (losses) between brass collars, 85.2 cm blade

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207 A FINE FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALLSWORD, PARIS, 1753 with tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, etched and gilt with foliage, strapwork, a trophy-of-arms, a female allegory of France on a blued panel at the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief against a finely matted ground with a series of spiralling panels filled with foliage, flowers and mulberry fruit, comprising shell-guard struck with Paris Maison Commune mark on the inside and a further mark, quillon with globular terminal, a pair of arms, knuckle-guard, globular pommel and solid grip decorated en suite, 82.2 cm blade

209 AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALLSWORD, LONDON MARKS FOR 1782 with associated hollow-triangular blade, silver hilt comprising oval dish-guard with chased beadwork border on the inside, a pair of straight quillons with globular terminals, knuckle-guard, and urn-shaped pommel with beadwork border en suite with the guard, and the grip bound with plaited silver wire and ribband, 85.8 cm blade A sword with a near identical hilt is illustrated Southwick 2001, p. 292, plate 83.

£300-500

£500-650 208 AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1740 with tapering blade of hollow-triangular section, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief against a finely punched ground, comprising a pair of classical warriors revealing a pair of field guns beneath a canopy on the outside and a further pair of classical warriors revealing trophies-of-arms on the inside, quillon decorated with foliage, knuckle-guard interrupted by a foliate moulding (marks rubbed), globular pommel en suite with the shell, and the grip bound with plaited wire between silver collars, 69.3 cm blade

210 AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON, CIRCA 1785 with hollow-triangular blade etched with scrolls over the forte, silver hilt cast and chased with faceted beads in imitation of brilliants, comprising oval openwork dish-guard decorated with a radiating design of foliage (date mark unclear), a pair of quillons with rounded terminals, a pair of slender arms, quillon-block centring on a star, knuckle-guard, and ovoid pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire and ribband between chased silver collars, 82.5 cm blade A similar hilt, marked for London 1785-6, is illustrated Southwick 2001, colour plate 10.

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213 FOUR COURTSWORDS WITH BURNISHED STEEL HILTS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY the first with etched blade decorated with scrolls and the retailer’s details ‘Ede & Ravenscroft, 93 & 94 Chancery Lane WC2’, burnished iron hilt decorated with faceted beads in imitation of brilliance, including pierced oval guard and complete with its knuckle-chain, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard, the second with etched hollow-triangular blade, burnished steel hilt set with faceted studs, in its scabbard, the third with hollow triangular blade, burnished steel hilt set with faceted studs, in a steel-mounted leather-covered scabbard, the fourth with hollow triangular blade, steel hilt pierced and set with faceted studs (reversed) in associated leather-covered scabbard complete with velvet baldrick), the first: 78.4 cm blade (4)

£300-400

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214 THREE BRITISH COURTSWORDS, EARLY 20TH CENTURY the first with etched blade, gilt brass hilt cast with beadwork including downturned shellguard cast with a crown, in its brass-mounted leather scabbard; another with etched blade, beadwork hilt, in its scabbard, and another (scabbard missing, light wear throughout), the first: 81 cm blade (3)

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211 A CONTINENTAL SILVER-HILTED HUNTING SWORD, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with associated blade formed with a pair of long fuller and double-edged towards the point, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising down-turned shell-guard decorated with a woodland pastoral scene, and tapering grip decorated with two differing biblical scenes front and back (rubbed), 54.7 cm blade

£350-450 212 A HUNTING SWORD SIGNED PALMER, CIRCA 1880 with robust blade double-edged at the point and stamped with the bladesmith’s name on one face, recessed ricasso, burnished steel hilt formed of a pair of straight quillons with rounded terminals and back-strap, and a pair of hardwood grip scales in the Ottoman fashion (one small crack), carved with pairs of chevrons and retained by three rivets with low domed heads, it its steel mounted leather scabbard with locket and chape engraved with pair of lines, the locket with a stud for a belt and locking lever, 36.8 cm blade

£300-400

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215 TWO ELIZABETH II COURTSWORDS FOR CIVIL SERVICE INCLUDING THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD AND DIPLOMATIC CORPS, THE FIRST RETAILED BY THE WILKINSON SWORD CO AND THE SECOND BY ALAN BENNETT, 36 SAVILLE ROW with etched blades decorated with scrolling foliage, crowned Royal cypher and the retailer’s details, brass hilts cast with beadwork in low relief including down-turned shell-guards, in original leather-covered wooden scabbards, with their knots, the first with its sword case and the second in an associated case, the first: 81.5 cm blade (2)

£100-150 216 THIRTEEN COURTSWORD SCABBARDS, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY the first with brass chape and locket signed ‘H & G Fletcher, 128 New Bond Street’, eight further with brass lockets and chapes; another (in two pieces); and three with brass lockets (chapes missing), (13)

£100-150 217 SIXTEEN STEEL-MOUNTED SCABBARDS FOR COURT SWORDS, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY thirteen with elaborate faceted steel studs on the locket and three further scabbards (areas of rust, small losses), (16)

£200-300 218 A MASONIC SWORD RETAILED BY FATTORINI & SONS LTD, BRADFORD; THREE DETACHED BLADES AND SCABBARDS; TWO EPEES the first with etched blade, copper alloy pommel (cross-guard missing) and wire-bound grip, in its scabbard (worn); the second for a Victorian court sword; the third and fourth blades for court or robe swords; the fifth a scabbard for a courtsword, the sixth and seventh scabbards for small-swords with iron mounts; another (incomplete); an epee stamped ‘Wilkinson Pall Mall’ with tapering blade of square-section and helmet pommel, another, stamped ‘Paris’, and a sword in fantastic style with brass hilt cast with dragonheads, the first: 72.0 cm (9)

£150-200 219 SIX VARIOUS SCABBARDS, 19TH/20TH CENTURY comprising a saya for a Japanese katana; two leather field service scabbards; and three further regulation scabbards (6)

£120-180

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220 A GERMAN LEFT-HAND DAGGER, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with tapering blade of diamond-section, rectangular ricasso, iron hilt comprising a pair of forward-canted quillons swelling towards the terminals, small side-ring, globular pommel and later grip (the iron parts pitted, reassembled to accommodate the grip, 38.3 cm blade with tapering blade of diamondsection, rectangular ricasso, iron hilt comprising a pair of forward-canted quillons swelling towards the terminals, small side-ring, globular pommel and later grip (the iron parts pitted, reassembled to accommodate the grip, 38.3 cm blade

£400-600 221 A COMPOSITE LEFT HAND DAGGER, 17TH/18TH CENTURY with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, iron hilt including inverted guard with down-turned quillons, faceted pommel and iron grip inlaid with silver scrolls, 32.5 cm blade

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222 A SMALL AXE, UNDERWOOD, 56 HAYMARKET, LONDON, LAST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with curved axe-blade formed with a sharp leading edge and struck with the maker’s details on one face, tapering rear pean, iron haft with moulded neck, fitted with a pair of tapering rounded hardwood panels with chequered grips over the lower portion and pierced at the base, complete with its leather cover with belt loop, 33.5 cm Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Henry Thomas Underwood is recorded at 56 Haymarket between 1822 until his death in 1860. Knives continued to be marked ‘Underwood’ until 1925 when the company ceased trading.

£200-250 223 A BRONZE DAGGER IN FANTASTIC MEDIEVAL STYLE, MID-19TH CENTURY cast in one piece, with tapering double-edged blade of diamond-section, recurved cross-piece with central lion mask boss one face above the spurious date ‘MDMI’ spirally moulded grip and the pommel formed as a gaping monsterhead, 24.3 cm overall Probably one of the Shadwell Dock Forgeries by Billy Smith and Charley Eaton.

Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, pp. 45-6.

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Billies and Charlies, otherwise known as Shadwell Dock Forgeries, were produced in a variety of forms, often as badges, but also as figures, vases, vessels etc., the majority made by the labourers or navigators (navvies) Billy Smith and Charley Eaton. The great public works of the 1840s and 50s had entailed large excavations and dredging operations, which threw up a number of medieval artefacts. Billy and Charley, whilst mudlarking on the Thames, had found a medieval medallion, which they sold for a handsome sum. By 1857, lacking further such finds, the enterprising pair decided to manufacture these objects instead, casting them in a lead copper alloy. The letters usually found on the bases or edges of these pieces make no sense, presumably since the forgers were illiterate. For a year, academics and collectors lapped up these rare pieces, claimed by Billy & Charley to have been found at the construction site of the new Shadwell docks. In 1858 a lecture at the British Archaeological Association condemned them all as forgeries, although in a consequent court case, the eminent scholar Charles Roach Smith pronounced that even the most badly educated forger would not produce such blatantly ridiculous items and that therefore they must be genuine. There continued to be a strong market for the pieces until a couple of years later, when a sceptic uncovered Billy and Charley’s moulds. Billy and Charley escaped prosecution and continued production, but ever increasing awareness of the forgeries meant falling prices, with Charley dying in penury at Tower Hamlets and Billy disappearing from the records by 1871. See Halliday 1986.

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224 A SALESMAN’S DISPLAY OF SEVENTEEN POCKET KNIVES, JOSEPH ELLIOTT & SONS, SHEFFIELD, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY each with three folding blades, struck with the maker’s details including Allen & Son at the ricasso, comprising nine with ivory scales, three with tortoiseshell scales, four with mother-of-pearl scales and one with natural staghorn scales, mounted on board with stock reference numbers in ink and the makers details, with cover labelled ’card no. 4, fine 3 blades’, 35.5 cm x 23.5 cm Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 205.

This lot is offered with UK Ivory Act 2018 certificate number LXY6U1RX

~ £400-600 225 A RARE LINGARD PATENT SPRING-KNIFE, CIRCA 1860 with tapering blade retaining some stamped inscription including ‘February 9th 1850’, ricasso stamped ‘Lingard, Peacroft Sheffield, secondary blade stamped en suite (springs defective), German silver fillets, mother-of-pearl scales each retained by five rivets, and embossed German silver cross-guard and pommel each decorated with scrolls and foliage, in its leather scabbard with belt loop, 13.5 cm (closed) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 130.

Robert Lingard was born around 1798 and is recorded as a spring knife maker first at Wharncliffe Side and at Peacroft from around 1850.

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226 A SALESMAN’S DISPLAY OF TWENTY-SIX POCKET KNIVES, LOCKWOOD BROTHERS, SHEFFIELD, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY each struck with the maker’s details at the ricasso, comprising four with ‘Real Pampa’ blades; four with German silver scales, eighteen with ivory or ivorine scales, two with coloured enamel scales and two with tortoiseshell scales, mounted on board with stock numbers in ink and the makers details in gilt letters, with cover, 43.0 x 35.0 cm Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 197.

This lot is offered with UK Ivory Act 2018 certificate number RXSIY057 The apparent founder of Lockwood Brothers Ltd was John Lockwood of Ecclesfield, who was apprenticed to file maker John Burgin and became a Freeman in 1767, when he was assigned the mark ‘CX’. In 1861 Lockwoods employed 500 staff and in 1865 they expanded their premises at Arundel Street. The enterprise became more closely involved in cutlery and trade catalogues show a wide range of knives and pocket cutlery with an emphasis on complicated sportsman’s patterns, hunting and skinning knives. By 1862 German counterfeiting had forced the company to adopt another mark: a Pampas rhea with the words ‘REAL KNIFE’ and ‘PAMPA’. The firm’s main trade mark was ‘C:X’. Lockwood’s also acquired a Maltese cross ‘L’ mark.

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227 A RARE FOLDING HUNTING KNIFE, J. NOWILL & SONS, SHEFFIELD, CIRCA 1845 with long tapering wavy blade of burnished steel, signed by the maker between a ‘D*’ and crossed keys mark on one face at the forte, locked by a spring-catch and released by a heart-shaped German silver button in a half-length grip, German silver fillets, engraved German silver terminals decorated with flowers and foliage, and chequered ivory grips, in its leather scabbard, probably the original, 26.0 cm (closed) Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 91.

The D* mark was first used by one Thomas Nowill (circa 1676-1704), recorded as a ‘Maker of Knives’. J. Nowill & Sons won a prize medal at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 for ‘…..a display of cutlery comprising…..pocket knives, Indian hunting knives…..and an ‘assortment of knives for the Levant’. The firm had considerable export business with outlets in Turkey, Greece and Egypt, and the influence is clear in the kris-style blade on the present knife.

This lot is offered with UK Ivory Act 2018 certificate number YYVM6VNZ

~ £1,000-1,500

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228 A DESK ERASER KNIFE, JOHN PETTY & SONS, SHEFFIELD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY with burnished blade, signed ricasso and turned wooden grip; another, Rodgers, Cutlers to His Majesty, Sheffield, with whalebone grip; another, Wostenholm, Sheffield, with carved wooden grip; a folding artist’s knife, John Petty & Sons, Sheffield; a desk knife, John Petty & Sons, Sheffield; and a rare cigar box opening knife, the first: 17.5 cm (6) Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 177.

The last was reportedly found at the office of Joseph Rodgers.

John Thomas Petty (circa 1818-1887) is recorded as a grocer and shopkeeper around the mid-19th century. In 1868, he advertised as a maker of farriers’ and oyster knives and established a thriving business which later passed to his sons John Thomas Petty (1848-1931) and Joseph Heald Petty (1856-1920). In 1881 the firm had six employees but they expanded considerably towards the end of the century to Perth Works, a three storey building at 60 Garden Street that could have provided employment for up to a hundred hands. They built a solid reputation for their butchers’ and trade knives as well as some fine exhibition pocket knives.

£100-150 229 A SPORTSMAN’S ‘WHARNCLIFFE’ KNIFE, RODGERS, NO. 6 NORFOLK STREET, SHEFFIELD, CUTLERS TO HIS MAJESTY, EARLY 20TH CENTURY with folding blade stamped ‘Wharncliffe’, saw, corkscrew, awl, shaped farrier’s hook, inlet picker and tweezers, natural staghorn scales, brass fillets, and vacant German silver escutcheon, 10.4 cm (closed) Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p.84.

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230 AN EXCEPTIONAL GOLD AND GILT-BRASS MOUNTED MINIATURE PENKIFE FOR ROYAL PRESENTATION, JOSEPH RODGERS & SONS, SHEFFIELD, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with over forty eight folding blades and accessories including fleams, saw, awls, corkscrew, fork and picks, many signed and some elements in gold, finely filed fillets, mother-of-pearl scales over gold fillet each retained by three gold rivets, one side with a vacant rectangular escutcheon and the other with a shield shaped escutcheon engraved with the crowned letter ’A’, spirally-fluted burnished steel stem, cast and chiselled giltcopper alloy stand engraved with foliage against a frosted ground, on its carved ivory two-piece base carved with neogothic foliage on the top and the base encircled by rectangular panels filled with further designs of foliage and the Royal initial ‘A’ beneath a royal coronet front and back, on an associated moulded wooden base with glass dome cover, 11.5 cm (the knife and ivory stand, opened), 1.8 cm (the knife, closed) In the nineteenth century, Rodgers had an unsurpassed reputation and history that was synonymous with the cutlery trade. The family’s first cutler, John Rodgers (1701-85), is recorded around 1724, with a workshop near the present cathedral. In the same year the Company of Cutlers ‘let’ him a mark, a Star and Maltese Cross, which became world famous in later years. The company began making exhibitions knives and presented George IV with a minute specimen of cutlery with 57 blades, which occupied only an inch [25mm] when closed. In 1822, Rodgers’ was awarded its first Royal Warrant. Another fourteen royal appointments, from British and overseas royal dignitaries, followed over the next eighty years, and its company history was duly titled: Under Five Sovereigns.

The McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 halved their American business and consequently they toured South Africa. Despite increasing foreign competition and the decline of the American market, Rodgers’ prospered before the First World War. Joseph Rodgers & Sons left an enduring legacy in its knives. Its dazzling exhibition pieces and other fine cutlery show that the company’s reputation as Sheffield’s foremost knife maker was well founded. Abbreviated from Geoffrey Tweedale 2019.

Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) The initial A beneath a British Royal coronet suggests a presentation by the makers to one of Queen Victoria’s children, Princess Alice (1843-78), Prince Alfred (1844-1900) or Prince Arthur (1850-1942).

Stated by the vendor to have been part of the celebrated displays at Joseph Rodgers & Sons showrooms at 9 Norfolk Street.

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Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 87.

In the nineteenth century, Rodgers had an unsurpassed reputation and history that was synonymous with the cutlery trade. The family's first cutler, John Rodgers (1701-85), is recorded around 1724, with a workshop near the present cathedral. In the same year the Company of Cutlers 'let' him a mark, a Star and Maltese Cross, which became world famous in later years. The company began making exhibitions knives and presented George IV with a minute specimen of cutlery with 57 blades, which occupied only an inch [25mm] when closed. In 1822, Rodgers’ was awarded its first Royal Warrant. Another fourteen royal appointments, from British and overseas royal dignitaries, followed over the next eighty years, and its company history was duly titled: Under Five Sovereigns.

The McKinley Tariff Act of 1890 halved their American business and consequently they toured South Africa. Despite increasing foreign competition and the decline of the American market, Rodgers’ prospered before the First World War. Joseph Rodgers & Sons left an enduring legacy in its knives. Its dazzling exhibition pieces and other fine cutlery show that the company’s reputation as Sheffield’s foremost knife maker was well founded. Abbreviated from Geoffrey Tweedale 2019.

This lot is offered with UK Ivory Act 2018 certificate number HOGO0K0X

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231 A LOCK KNIFE SIGNED SKIDMORE, 32 DUKE STREET, LATE 19TH CENTURY with folding locking blade, signed rectangular ricasso, twopiece German silver guard decorated with flowers and foliage, polished horn scales, vacant German silver escutcheon and German silver terminal en suite with the guard, 14.3 cm (closed)

£150-200 232 A TAYLOR EYEWITNESS PATENT KNIFE WITH COMPASS, SHEFFIELD, CIRCA 1940 with single-edged blade formed with a clipped-back point, etched with the maker’s details and patent ‘329566’ on one face, brass guard (one quillon removed) and chequered grip set with a compass on one face, 11.3 cm blade Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006)

£50-80

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233 A BOWIE KNIFE FOR THE AMERICAN MARKET, TILLOTSON & CO., COLUMBIA PLACE, SHEFFIELD; A BOWIE KNIFE, PROBABLY AMERICAN AND ANOTHER, LATE 19TH CENTURY the first with robust single-edged blade formed with a spear point, stamped ‘The Hunter’s Companion’, and with Federal eagle on one face, recessed rectangular ricasso struck with the maker’s details, thin oval German silver guard, a pair of natural scales, probably narwhal, and vacant escutcheon, in its tooled and gilt leather scabbard; the second with broad blade formed with a clipped-back point and a slender fuller on each face, copper alloy guard, and natural staghorn grip; the third with tapering blade formed with a clipped-back point, German silver guard, natural staghorn grip, and German silver pommel cap, in its German silver scabbard, the first: 19.2 cm (3) Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 267.

~ £1,000-1,500

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234 A FOLDING KNIFE SAW, UNDERWOOD, LONDON AND A POCKET KNIFE, GEORGE GILL & SONS, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY the first with signed folding saw-blade, and figured hardwood scales; the second with six folding elements including awl and corkscrew (one blade associated) and natural staghorn scales with German silver escutcheon, the first: 15.9 cm (closed) (2) Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 113.

Henry Thomas Underwood is recorded at 56 Haymarket between 1822 until his death in 1860. Knives continued to be marked ‘Underwood’ until 1925 when the company ceased trading.

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235 A MASSIVE BOWIE KNIFE, WADE & BUTCHER, SHEFFIELD, LATE 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FOR EXHBITION with broad heavy blade double-edged at the point, signed in block capitals beneath the back-edge on one face, recessed rectangular ricasso marked ‘XCD’, off-set German silver oval guard, pistol grip hilt with milled copper alloy fillets and natural staghorn scales retained by four rivets, in a leather scabbard, perhaps its original, with belt loop, 47.0 cm blade Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 286.

£1,500-2,000

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237 EIGHT FLEAMS, 19TH CENTURY comprising seven three-bladed, the first signed Joseph Rodgers, the second Greaves, the third J. & S. Dungworth and another, all with brass bodies; the fifth signed Premier F. Newton, the sixth Borwick cast steel and another, with horn bodies and the eighth with a single blade and brass body, the largest: 12.2 cm overall (8)

£120-180

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236 A MINIATURE POCKET KNIFE, WRAGG & SON, SHEFFIELD, LATE 19TH/20TH CENTURY AND FOUR EXTRA THIN POCKET KNIVES the first with two folding blades, awl and cork screw, brass fillets and mother-of-pearl scales; the second by Petty & Sons, with two folding blades and polished horn grips; the third with two blades and button hook; the fourth with two folding blades, one stamped ‘Innocent 1695’ and tortoiseshell scales; the fifth and sixth similar and the seventh with motherof-pearl scales, the first: 5.0 cm (7) Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 108 and 121.

~ £200-300

238 A GERMAN SMALL HUNTING TROUSSE, MID-18TH CENTURY comprising knife with broad single-edged blade struck with the letter ‘P’ on one face, moulded ferrule, natural staghorn scales retained by three rivets on foliate washers and engraved silver pommel, fork and bodkin mounted en suite, in its iron-mounted tooled leather scabbard (light insect damage), 26.0 cm overall Provenance Joe Kindig III (1923-2021), thence by descent

‡ £300-400 239 A GERMAN POCKET KNIFE, MID-18TH CENTURY with broad folding single-edged blade struck with a heart mark on one face, polished horn scales with moulded silver collar at one end, fitted with a pair of tweezers with polished horn grips retained by three rivets over foliate washers, and two accompanying dummy pieces, 13.4 cm Provenance Joe Kindig III (1923-2021), thence by descent

‡ £150-200 240 A NORTH EUROPEAN ACCOMPANYING KNIFE FOR A TROUSSE, EARLY 18TH CENTURY with single-edged blade sharpened to a rounded edge and struck with a dagger mark on one face, tapering silver grip chased with foliage inhabited by an exotic bird on each face, and the pommel decorated with a flowerhead (rubbed), 14.2 cm

£120-180

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241 AN ITALIAN CORSECA, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with tapering terminal blade formed with a pronounced medial ridge and stamped with the letters ‘L’ and ‘E’ at the base on each face, a pair of pronounced basal lugs with strongly scalloped lower edges, tapering faceted socket, a pair of straps, on a wooden haft, 93.2 cm head

£800-1,000 242 AN ITALIAN RUNKA, LATE 16TH CENTURY with broad tapering terminal blade of flattened-diamond section (one small chip), recessed at the base, a pair of long tapering basal lugs struck with letters, perhaps ‘acac’, tapering faceted socket, on a later wooden haft with associated straps, 78.5 cm head Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £350-450

243 A BILL IN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY AND A PARTISAN, IN FRENCH OR ITALIAN EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY the first with broad curved axe-blade clipped at the terminal and formed with an up-turned lug at the rear, tapering socket, and wooden haft; the second with tapering terminal blade formed with a medial ridge, a pair of basal lugs, tapering faceted socket and a pair of straps, on a wooden haft painted with a chevron design at the top, the first: 61.0 cm head Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £300-400 244 AN ITALIAN SPETUM, LATE 16TH CENTURY with long terminal spike of diamond section, a pair of flat curved basal arms with reinforced tips (one chipped), one struck with a mark, decorated throughout with traces of engraved ornament, tapering faceted socket, and a pair of straps, on a later wooden haft, 90.5 cm head Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent 244

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245 A STYRIAN HALBERD, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with long tapering terminal spike of diamond section, forward-leaning curved axe-blade pierced with three slipped quatrefoils, rear fluke pierced en suite, stamped with a mark, a medieval sword hilt, and with three pellets arranged vertically, short tapering socket, and a pair of long straps, on a wooden haft fitted with an additional pair of straps, 107.0 cm head A halberd struck with same mark is preserved in the Styrian Zeughaus, Graz, see Pichler 1880, plate XXVII, fig. 1.

£700-900 246 A GERMAN HALBERD, MID-16TH CENTURY AND A SWISS HALBERD OF SO-CALLED SEMPACH TYPE, PROBABLY ZURICH, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY the first, with knife-like terminal blade, forward-leaning axe-head formed with a notch behind at the top and bottom, rear spike formed en suite and struck with a mark, a pair of straps (areas of pitting), on a later wooden haft (in two pieces), with brass inventory tag ‘H. 77’; the second with reinforced terminal spike long slightly curved axe-blade pierced with a cruciform aperture at the base, (top corner slightly chipped), triangular rear fluke struck with a mark on one side, a pair of addorsed fleur-de-lys, and a pair of long straps, on its wooden haft, branded with a mark beneath one of the straps, the first: 110.0 cm head Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £400-600

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247 A RARE ITALIAN COMBINED WAR HAMMER AND RETRACTING SPEAR, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY with long central blade of tapering slightly hollow-diamond section and retained by a spring catch at the base, retracting beneath a hinged lid chiselled with scrolls, tapering faceted hammer head (restored), long tapering faceted rear spike chiselled with scrolls, tapering socket bound with iron ribband, iron haft enclosed in a later leather covering decorated with a spiralling frame filled with flowerheads, and hollow basal socket, 102.0 cm overall The design is similar to ‘Swine’s-Feathers’ of this period, that incorporate two additional shorter retracting blades and were carried by infantry officers during peace time. For related examples see Lewerken 1989, nos.

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£1,500-2,000

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248 A HALBERD IN ITALIAN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY AND A HALBERD IN 18TH CENTURY STYLE the first with long terminal spike, curved axe blade pierced with three apertures top and bottom, angular rear spike, a pair of long straps, on a wooden haft with tassel; the second with tapering terminal blade of flattened-diamond section, slightly curved axe-blade, triangular rear spike, a pair of straps, on a wooden haft, the first: 70.0 cm head Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £300-400 249 A LUCERNE HAMMER IN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY, A SPIKED FLAIL, 17TH CENTURY, AND ANOTHER, IN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY the first with long terminal spike of diamond section, threepronged hammer head, stout rear spike, a pair of straps, on a wooden haft (worm damage) fitted with a pair of additional straps; the second formed of ten iron spikes set into a rudimentary wooden haft (wormed); the third with bulbous head fitted with an iron collar with two spikes (four missing), and leaf-shaped terminal blade, on a wooden haft, the first: 90.5 cm head (3) Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

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250 A HALBERD IN EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with long tapering terminal spike of diamond section, pierced axe-blade and rear fluke, the latter incorporating three spikes, short socket, a pair of long straps, on a wooden haft with an additional pair of straps, 155.5 cm head

£250-350 251 TWO HALBERDS IN EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 20TH CENTURY cast, each with tapering terminal spike (one detached), recurved axe-blade, rear spike, tapering socket, decorated with foliage and a stylised bird on each face (repairs), on a wooden haft 63.0 cm head (2)

£150-200 252 A VICTORIAN PAINTED STAVE OF OFFICE of black painted wood, with the crowned monogram above ‘4’ in polychrome, 184.0 cm overall

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253 A GILT AUSTRIAN MODEL 1869 CAVALRY OFFICER’S SWORD, CIRCA 1870 plain curved single-edged fullered blade, regulation pattern hilt in gilt copper, black leather scabbard with gilt mounts and single suspension hook 85.0 cm blade Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Collections, inv. nos. 178 & 179 The Royal House of Hanover, sold Sotheby’s Marienburg, 5th October 2005, lot 3860

£400-600 254 A GERMAN LIGHT CAVALRY GENERAL OFFICER’S MAMELUKE-HILTED SWORD, CIRCA 1815-33 in the Turkish manner, with curved blade double-edged towards the point, steel hilt comprising cross-piece with acorn finials, and a pair of ivory grip-scales rising to form a pierced rounded pommel and shaped for the fingers, in its steel scabbard, 76 cm blade Provenance Schloss Cumberland, Gmunden, inv. nos. 1529, 1530 Schloss Marienburg, Hanover, sold Sotheby’s October 2005, lot 3690

~ £400-600 255 A FRENCH MODEL ANXI CAVALRY SWORD, DATED 1811 of regulation type, with fullered blade engraved with Klingenthal Imperial arsenal inscription along the back edge and stamped with inspectors marks at the forte ‘L B C*’, brass hilt stamped ‘versailles’ and struck with inspectors marks including ‘VB’, wire-bound leather covered grip, in its scabbard (rusted), 96.4 cm blade

£350-450

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256 AN EAST GERMAN NAVAL DAGGER, MID-20TH CENTURY of regulation type, the forte stamped 29849, in its scabbard with gilt mounts and straps, in its card box, 25.0 cm blade

£120-180 257 AN ITALIAN MODEL 1952 CADETS DAGGER of regulation type, with polished blade marked ‘F.ll Turco Napoli’ on crossed swords, gilt hilt including hoof quillon terminals and lionhead pommel, in its scabbard with two rings for suspension, 20.8 cm blade

£120-180 258 A SWISS MODEL M1943 OFFICER’S DRESS DAGGER, N0. 53543 of regulation type, the forte marked ‘Elsener Schwyz Victoria’ on one face and numbered on the other, chrome-plated hiltwooden grips, in its scabbard with knot, 21.0 cm blade

£150-220 259 A CASED POLISH MODEL 1954 AIRFORCE DAGGER WITH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION of regulation type, the blade numbered 32461, chromed hilt with pierced quillon and white composition grip, in its scabbard with enamelled badge, complete with straps: in its box with 75th anniversary presentation inscription to Mariuszowi Ziontkowi on the lid, 23.2 cm blade

£170-240 260 A SWEDISH CAVALRY OFFICER’S SWORD, 19TH CENTURY probably for a Royal Horse Guards or Crown Princes Hussar, with slender pipe-backed blade etched over its lower portion, gilt-brass hilt cast in low relief, including oval langets decorated with trophies-of-arms, knuckle-guard with a pair of crossed flags and a brace of pistols, and the back-strap rising to a maned lionshead pommel, original wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its leather scabbard with large gilt-brass mounts decorated en suite with the hilt, 80.5 cm blade

£300-500

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261 A FINE HUSSAR SABRE, CIRCA 1800-20, POSSIBLY BY PROSSER with pipe-backed blade formed with a hatchet point, gilt-brass stirrup hilt cast with scrolling foliage on the langet, straight quillon with faceted bud-shaped terminal, back-strap cast with a chevron design, and wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its fishskin-covered wooden scabbard with large gilt-brass mounts decorated with chevrons against a contrasting matted ground, the middle-band and chape each with a central design of three concentric circles enclosing a bead, the middle-band and locket each with a ring for suspension and complete with two lion mask hasps and straps, 81.5 cm blade Stated by the vendor to have been acquired via a third party from Schloss Marienburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. A sword of related type, signed Prosser on the locket, was illustrated in the sale catalogue of Schloss Marienburg, Sotheby’s, 5th-15th October 2005, lot 3686. An earlier sword of this form is preserved in the Royal Collection (RCIN 61703) and was sent to Mr Prosser on 6 April 1809.

£1,000-1,200

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262 A 1796 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD of regulation type, with plain blade by J. J. Runkel of Solingen, gilt-brass hilt with fixed guard and the grip bound with plaited wire between gilt brass collars (worn), 82.4 cm blade

£200-250 263 A GEORGE IV 1821 PATTERN CAVALRY OFFICER’S SWORD of regulation type, with pipe-backed blade etched with the crowned Royal cypher on each face, iron triple-bar hilt, wirebound fishskin-covered grip, in its iron scabbard (worn), 91.5 cm blade Stated by the vendor to be that of Robert (Selby) Luard, commissioned 1819, Lieutenant 1827, Captain 1839, Major 1854.

£150-250 264 A VICTORIAN 1821 PATTERN HEAVY CAVALRY OFFICER’S SWORD BY HAMBURGER RODGERS & CO., 30 KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN, A 1796 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY TROOPER’S SWORD AND A VICTORIAN ARTILLERY OFFICER’S SWORD BY STILLWELL & SON, MADRAS of regulation type, the first with pipe-backed blade etched with the crowned Royal cypher and foliage on a panel on each face and with the maker’s details at the forte, ‘honeysuckle’ hilt, in its scabbard; the second with plain blade, stirrup hilt, in its scabbard; the third etched with the crowned Royal cypher, regimental and retailer’s details on the blade, triple-bar hilt, in its scabbard, (all three swords with light surface rust throughout) and a 1907 pattern bayonet, in its scabbard, the first: 92.5 cm blade (4)

£300-500

265 THE VICTORIAN 1822 PATTERN OFFICER’S SWORD PRESENTED BY MAJOR HENRY JAMES R.E. F.R.S & C. TO QUARTERMASTER JAMES MACDONALD, R.E. ON APPOINTMENT 1873 with regulation pipe-backed blade etched with a crowned flaming grenade and Royal cypher on each face, and with the presentation inscription within a panel at the forte, regulation gilt-brass hilt, wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its steel scabbard (areas of pitting), 81.2 cm blade

£300-400 266 A VICTORIAN INDIAN ARMY 1845 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD RETAILED BY RANKIN, CALCUTTA, AND A VICTORIAN 1845 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD RETAILED

BY HAMLIN & EMBLING, PAVILION BUILDINGS the first of regulation type, with curved blade etched with the crowned Imperial cypher, scrolling foliage, the retailer’s details, and the presentation inscription ‘presented by the Chief Commissioner Burma to Havildar Bysakha Singh Yamethin Military Police Battalion as a reward for gallantry 1890’, regulation brass hilt with crowned Imperial cypher, wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its iron scabbard; the second of regulation type, with etched blade (areas of wear), brass hilt, and wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, the first: 82.3 cm blade (2)

£250-350 267 A VICTORIAN 1845 PATTERN RIFLE REGIMENT OFFICER’S SWORD of regulation type, with etched blade decorated with the regimental device and the crowned Royal cypher, iron hilt, wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its iron scabbard (areas of pitting), 82.0 cm blade

£200-250 268 A VICTORIAN 1845 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD RETAILED BY GARDEN, 200 PICCADILLY of regulation type, the blade with spear point, etched with the crowned Royal cypher and maker’s details, brass hilt with folding side-guard, wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, with associated foul weather cover, 82.0 cm

£100-150

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269 A VICTORIAN 1857 PATTERN ROYAL ENGINEERS OFFICER’S SWORD RETAILED BY C. WEBB, 23 OLD BOND STREET, LONDON of regulation type, with etched blade including the crowned Royal cypher, regimental designation and retailer’s details, brass hilt and wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its brass scabbard (worn), 82.5 cm blade Stated by vendor to be that of Major General Charles Edward Luard, Royal Engineers (1837-1908), executive officer during the Fenian disturbances of 1871, served in Bermuda, Corfu, Gibraltar, and Natal. His wife was murdered in August 1908 (The Seal Chart Murder), shortly after Luard stepped in front of a train after a whispering campaign insinuating that he was the murderer.

273 A GEORGE V 1897 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD RETAILED BY J. BATSON & SONS, LONDON AND A GEORGE V 1897 PATTERN OFFICER’S SWORD FOR THE 6TH BATTALLION WELSH REGIMENT, RETAILED BY HOBSON & SONS, 135 LEXINGTON STREET, LONDON the first of regulation type, with etched blade including crowned Royal cypher, nickel-plated hilt, in its field service scabbard (worn); the second of regulation type, with etched blade including crowned Royal cypher, regimental designation, owner’s initials ‘H.G.H.’, nickel-plated hilt, in its field service scabbard (worn), the first: 84.3 cm blade (2)

£200-300

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270 THE 1831 PATTERN MAMELUKE-HILTED GENERAL OFFICER’S SWORD OF A. FORYCE, 78TH HIGHLANDERS, BY WILKINSON, NO. 18256 FOR 1872 of regulation type, with etched blade including the crowned Royal cypher, crossed sword and baton and scrolling foliage, brass hilt, ivory grips (one cracked, pommel eye mounts missing), in its brass scabbard, 79.0 cm blade

274 A GEORGE V 1827 PATTERN NAVAL OFFICER’S SWORD BY S. W. SILVER & CO., 2A EASTCHEAP of regulation type, with etched blade including the crowned Royal cypher and crowned fouled anchor (areas of rust), brass hilt with folding side-guard, wire-bound fishskin covered grip, in associated scabbard, 78.7 cm blade

£200-250

The Wilkinson sword records state sword no. 18256, blade fitted with Highland hilt, was received by A. (?W.) D. Foryce, 78th Highlanders, 24th August 1872.

~ £50-350 271 A VICTORIAN 1895 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD RETAILED BY MANTON & CO. CALCUTTA with etched blade marked ‘London Made’ on the back edge, iron hilt with crowned cypher, wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in field service scabbard, 82.5 cm blade

£40-60 272 THE 1895 PATTERN INFANTRY SWORD OF C.A. BALL ACTON, BY WILKINSON, NO. 34501 FOR 1896 of regulation type, with etched blade including crowned Royal cypher, owner’s name and maker’s details, nickel-plated hilt, in its field service scabbard, with sword knot, 82.0 cm blade The Wilkinson sword records state sword no. 34501, 95th Rifles pattern, was sold to C. A. Ball Acton, 25th September 1896.

Stated by the vendor to be the sword of Major Charles Elmhirst Luard (1876-1914), gazetted to the Norfolk Regiment on 18 November 1896, Served in Central Africa in 1899 and West Africa. Severely wounded in the operations in Ashanti (now southern Ghana), he was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in 1901. Served in East Africa in 1903, Captain in 1905. Initially reported missing in action at Chivres Hill, Missy-sur-Aisne, later it was officially confirmed that he must be presumed to have been killed in action.

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275 THE 1897 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD OF ERIC DALBIAC LUARD (1878- 1903), QUEEN’S OWN REGIMENT, BY WILKINSON, NO. 39642 FOR 1902 of regulation type, with etched blade including crowned Royal arms and cypher and maker’s details, nickel-plated hilt, in its field service scabbard (worn), 82.7 cm blade

278 AN ELIZABETH II ROYAL AIR FORCE OFFICER’S SWORD BY WILKINSON, NO. 81651 with etched blade including vacant scrolls, battle honour ‘Borneo’, the owner’s initials ‘B.C.H.’, crowned insignia and Royal arms, gilt-brass hilt, in its scabbard, complete with buff leather cover and leather carrying case, the latter with gilt initials, 82.5cm blade

The Wilkinson sword records state sword no. 39642, Infantry pattern (nickel plated), was sold to E.D. Luard, Royal West Kent Regiment, 5th November 1902.

The Wilkinson Sword records state that sword no. 81651, an RAF pattern, was sold to B.G. Holland, RAF, 8th February 1960.

£400-600

Lieutenant Eric Dalbiac Luard, served with the Royal West Kent Regiment, contracted enteric fever in Africa and died at Garrero in 1903, while attached to the 2nd King’s African Rifles.

£120-180 276 AN 1845 PATTERN NAVAL OFFICER’S SWORD RETAILED BY GIEVES, PORTSMOUTH, POST 1902 with etched blade including a fouled anchor and the crowned Royal arms, gilt-brass hilt with folding side-guard, in its brassmounted scabbard, complete sword knot (worn), chamois cover and outer leather cover, 79.0 cm blade

£200-300 277 THE GEORGE V 1897 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD OF COLONEL BRINSLEY ERSKINE LUARD M.C., BY WILKINSON, NO. 62836 FOR 1931 of regulation type, with etched blade including crowned Royal cypher, nickel-plated hilt, in its field service scabbard, with leather belt, perhaps the original, 82.5 cm blade

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The Wilkinson sword records state sword no. 62836, Infantry pattern, was sold to B. E. Luard, 25th August 1931.

Colonel Brinsley Erskine Luard MC, Coldstream Guards. 2nd Lieut.

28.01.1932, Lieut. Col. 29.11.1951. C.O. 1st Battalion, Military Cross 23rd April 1942, Western Desert.

The recommendation for his Military Cross reads: ‘On 21st Jan ‘42 this officer was commanding a Column in close contact with the enemy East of Shera. Thereafter he was ordered to withdraw in the face of 60 enemy tanks and Lorried Infantry. From noon onwards on 23rd Jan his column continued to engage the enemy advancing from the South and past both his flanks, while our own troops withdrew rapidly through his position. By the evening he was completely cut off, under heavy shell fire, and attacked by tanks from both flanks. These he drove off and under cover of darkness managed to extricate his Column by moving to the South and East through the enemy’s position. Throughout 20 months fighting in the Western Desert this officer has at all times displayed a high standard of courage and leadership. ‘

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279 A RARE WORLD WAR I MACHINE GUNNER’S ‘WELSH KNIFE’ OF THE 9TH BATTALION, ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS, CIRCA 1917-18 entirely of steel, or regulation type, with broad leaf-shaped blade, stepped folding circular guard locking into the forte, plain tang with a portion of cord binding, sharpened pommel, and original canvas-covered leather scabbard with belt loop, 59.8 cm Provenance Herbert George Davis (1883-1967), who was in service with the Howard de Walden family before and after World War I. Thence by descent.

Allegedly based on an ancient Welsh weapon (later proved not to be the case), the “Welsh Knife” was designed by the sculptor and armourer Felix Joubert in 1916. A limited number were made by the Wilkinson Sword Company at the behest of Lord Howard de Walden who commanded the Battalion between September and December 1917. A memorandum of 27 January 1920 in the Imperial War Museum states “9th Batt’n. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. This battalion made use of a knife with which all machine gunners and bombers were always equipped. Every member of a raiding party was so armed and in one raid on the Messines Ridge two days before the battle of Messines they were used with conspicuous success. They were provided by Lord Howard de Walden and were a replica of a weapon used by Ancient Welsh tribes. They were double-edged, but were intended more for bayonetting than cutting.”

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MILITARIA 280 AN AMERICAN 4TH CAVALRY OFFICER’S DRESS HELMET an attractive early 20th Century example by Riderbock & Co, New York, of blue cloth, the front bearing a gilt Eagle plate mounted with numeral ‘4’ in white metal, and a double swag of plaited narrow gold cord, ornate gilt upright post fitted with a drooping yellow horsehair plume, the interior with maker’s name and inspection stamp dated 1901, and a roan leather headband

£250-350 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 281 A PRUSSIAN OFFICER’S PARADE ATTILA OF HUSSAR REGIMENT NO.7 of “Russian Blue” cloth, gold chain gimp trimming and lace, metal rosettes and olivets and plain braid shoulder-straps, fitted with incorrect imitation grey “astrakhan” collar and cuffs (minimal moth)

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£350-500 282 A SAXON OFFICER’S FIELD GREY TWILL ATTILA OF HUSSAR REGIMENT NO.20 trimmed and edged with green-flecked grey braid and cord forming five loops each side in front (shoulder-cords removed, minimal moth)

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283 A GERMAN OFFICER’S LITEVKA (UNDRESS DOUBLEBREASTED TUNIC) of grey cloth with white collar-patches and blue piping. plain white metal buttons and Captain’s shoulder-straps (moth damage, mainly in one area of skirt)

£300-350 284 AN OFFICER’S BLUE FULL DRESS TUNIC OF THE GERMAN STAFF OR PIONEERS with black velvet facings, scarlet piping, and silver litzen (embroidered loops) to collar and cuffs, provision for epaulettes (not fitted), (very minor moth damage, mainly inside)

£300-400 285 A GERMAN OFFICER’S LIGHT BLUE PARADE ATTILA probably of Hussar Regiment No.19, trimmed and edged with silver chain gimp forming five loops each side in front (shoulder-cords absent, moth damage, mainly to bottom of skirts)

£200-300 286 A GERMAN INFANTRYMAN’S BLUE FULL DRESS TUNIC OF REGIMENT NO. 7 with plain brass buttons, scarlet facings, piping and cuff-flaps, white shoulder-straps bearing the cypher of Wilhelm II (minimal moth damage); together with a similar tunic, with plain lighter blue shoulder-straps and edging to cuff-flaps (some moth damage) (2)

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£200-300 287 A PRUSSIAN OFFICER’S BLACK INTERIM ATTILA OF THE 1ST OR 2ND LIFE HUSSARS edged and trimmed with black-flecked silver braid forming five loops, with olivets and rosettes, each side in front, troop officer’s Russia braid shoulder-straps mounted with the Guelphic crown above ‘V’ (some stitching faults, and the original collar replaced by one of plain scarlet cloth, minimal moth damage)

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VARIOUS OWNERS 291 A CAVALRY BREASTPLATE, 19TH CENTURY formed in one piece with a medial ridge, up-turned at the neck, plain inward turns at the arm openings, studded throughout with brass-capped lining rivets and a pair of studs for the attachment of shoulder straps (pitted), 47.0 cm high

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288 A PRUSSIAN DRAGOON OFFICER’S CORNFLOWERBLUE FULL DRESS TUNIC probably of Regt No.14, with black velvet facings and white piping to collar and cuffs, tombak buttons (one missing), (minimal moth, shoulder-cords absent, some damage to skirt)

£180-240 289 AN IMPERIAL GERMAN DARK BLUE FULL DRESS TUNIC with scarlet piping and fine gilt buttons bearing the Imperial Eagle, the collar with scarlet patches and a double row of narrow gold braid, very small shoulder-knots of gold Russia braid

292 A JACKET OF RIFLE BRIGADE OFFICER’S FULL DRESS PATTERN a very small 19th Century example, richly trimmed as per Dress Regulations of 1822, 1834 and 1846, black cloth with black velvet collar and cuffs, edged and ornamented with black mohair braid, the collar intricately decorated with fine Russia, the sleeves with gimp Austrian knots similarly trimmed, the body with hook-and-eye fastening and bearing 24 loops of Heavy Russia and three rows of small woven buttons, backseam ornaments and false pockets also of Heavy Russia, edged with fine scroll-and-eye decoration, quilted black lining

£800-1,200

VARIOUS OWNERS 293 AN OFFICER’S UNIFORM OF THE ROYAL NAVY comprising a mess jacket with gilt KC buttons and three gold lace stripes to the cuffs, indicating the rank of Commander; two companion waistcoats also with KC gilt buttons, a pair of Full Dress trousers with 1 ¼ - inch gold lace stripes; a pair of white drill trousers; a blue cape; and two Undress sword-belts and slings, of black leather with gilt fittings and circular clasps (qty)

£70-100

£150-200 290 A SENIOR NCO’S BLUE FULL DRESS TUNIC OF GERMAN ARTILLERY with black cloth facings and scarlet piping, gold lace edging to collar and cuffs, and plain tombak buttons, white shoulderstraps bearing a grenade and numeral ‘62’ in red embroidery (severe moth damage, mainly to the skirt)

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294 A ROYAL NAVAL CADET’S JACKET the blue “Round Jacket”, with a gold braid loop and button to the upright collar, seven gilt KC buttons to the front, and black braid loops on cuffs, together with a black leather sword-belt with a pair of slings (2)

£30-40

295 A VICTORIAN EARLY FOREIGN SERVICE HELMET AND UNIFORM OF PRINCE ALFRED’S GUARD (BANDSMAN) the well-made helmet, believed to be late 19th Century, with a brass chin-chain (the lining partially detached) and spike on a domed base, 6-fold puggaree and roan leather internal headband; a scarlet tunic with blue facings and white piping to cuffs, skirt-slashes and backseams, brass buttons and regimental collar-badges, red shoulder-straps, embroidered with the regimental title, and bandsman’s wings, white belts, the shoulder-belt holding a music-pouch (badge absent), and the waist-belt clasp with ornate brass loops and KC centre

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296 A QUANTITY OF COURT DRESS CLOTHING comprising a Victorian cloth uniform coat, the collar, cuffs and pocketflaps edged with narrow gold embroidery as for 5th Class Civil Uniform, together with a pair of trousers with 5/8in gold lace stripes, a pair of black cloth knee-breeches (slightly mothed), the remnants of a pair of white buff knee-breeches, and a very fine pair of white leather gloves (qty)

£50-80 297 A COLLECTION OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN MILITARY BADGES on two cards, the first mounted with some 40 assorted brass capbadges; the second with approximately 70 South African and Rhodesian cap-badges and shoulder-titles

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298 A QUANTITY OF MILITARY AND NAVAL EMBROIDERED AND CLOTH BADGES a large assortment, including 6 pilots’ brevets in gold/silver embroidery, and 5 in worsted; 7 gold-embroidered cap-badges of naval officers and 14 of Petty Officers; 14 naval and military officers’ shoulder-boards; and 9 gold-embroidered arm-badges of military warrant officers and SNCOs

£250-350 299 A COLLECTION OF MILITARY BADGES on three cards, containing some 80 Canadian, US and UN badges in white metal and enamel

£200-300 300 A QUANTITY OF MILITARY AND NAVAL EMBROIDERED AND CLOTH BADGES an ornate wood and gilt frame containing 25 maritime officers’ goldembroidered cap-badges, including that of the Royal Indian Marine; the remainder mainly for those of commercial lines, together with two figurines

£150-200 301 A QUANTITY OF MILITARY AND NAVAL BADGES a very large assemblage of insignia, mainly of Other Ranks’ arm-badges and shoulder-titles, showing branch, trade or employment, in worsted embroidery on cloth

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302 A LARGE COLLECTION OF MILITARY AND NAVAL BUTTONS including items of various Naval services, including the RN, RNR, RMLI and the Australian Navy, civil and commercial lines including the Shipping Federation, Cunard, the African Royal Mail, Clyde Navigation, Aberdeen Harbour Commission and the Pacific Steam Navigation Co.; buttons of foreign military interest, with examples from the USA, Trinidad and Tobago, France (including some Foreign Legion), Aden, Iraq, Rangoon, Libya, Ghana, Rhodesia, Kenya and Zambia; and items of British military interest, including some ten infantry regiments including the Artists Rifles, regular cavalry and yeomanry regiments, Royal Artillery and Corps, together with RAF and Police examples (qty)

£100-150 303 NAVAL RATINGS’ SPECIALIST BADGES a frame containing 29 arm-badges in scarlet embroidery on blue cloth, including those of Signalers, Divers, Communications operators, Gunners, Aircraft Handlers, etc

£60-90 304 ARMY SPECIALIST BADGES a frame containing 25 arm-badges in white embroidered initials on khaki backing within laurel sprays, including AFV, G, R, LG, DM, M, S, MM, MG, SP, C, P, T and LSO, plus a REME Hammer & Pincers, a Horse’s Bit, a Tank and a Cartwheel

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305 BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH INSIGNIA a frame containing 18 items, including shoulder-titles of the Canadian Perth and Seaforth regiments and the New Zealand SAS, together with items of the Royal Engineers and Royal Signals, and Warrant Officers’ Royal Arms badges of rank in worsted embroidery on khaki backing

£40-60 306 TWO BRITISH CAP BADGES comprising an officer’s KC white metal beret badge of the Royal Tank Regiment (fixing loops present but distorted), and a well-made white metal Dragon badge of The Buffs, complete with slide fixing (2)

£20-25 307 AN INDIAN CAVALRY OFFICER’S POUCH the black leather pouch of the 30th Lancers (Gordon’s Horse), with unmarked silver suspension loops and a rectangle of gold embroidery to the top, the flap also of unmarked silver, with engraved foliate border and mounted with crowned regimental title, number, and crossed lances in yellow metal

£450-600 308 A SHOULDER BELT PLATE OF THE 39TH ROYAL CARMARTHEN FUSILIERS an Other Ranks’ small but massive rectangular brass plate, the front engraved with regimental title beneath the Prince of Wales’s plumes, the rear complete with hook and studs

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ARMOUR 309 A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN CORSELET WITH ETCHED DECORATION PARTLY BY THE ‘MASTER OF THE CASTLE’ OF MILAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY comprising morion in the ‘Spanish’ fashion, with one-piece almond-shaped crown rising at its apex to a vestigial backward-directed ‘stalk’ (pierced with a small later hole at its rear), and slightly down-turned narrow integral brim, its edge formed with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a narrow groove with later rivets, the base of the crown encircled by fourteen later lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers; collar of a single deep plate front and rear; breastplate formed of a main plate of deep ‘peascod’ fashion, flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a pair of associated pendent tassets each of four lames (altered to match and partly disarticulated); well-matched backplate flanged outwards at its base; two large symmetrical pauldrons (not a pair), each formed of seven lames of which the lowest four extend inwards only to the armpit (both partly disarticulated), two large symmetrical pauldrons (not a pair), each formed of seven lames of which the lowest four extend inwards only to the armpit (the uppermost two of each associated), a pair of fully articulated tubular vambraces, each fitted at its upper end with a turner of one lame, and at its elbow with a winged bracelet couter of three lames; and a pair of gauntlets each formed of a flared tubular pointed cuff (the right with small rust perforations), four metacarpal-plates (the third of the left cracked and patched at its inner end), a shaped knuckle-plate, and hinged thumb-plate (finger and thumb-scales missing); the main edges of the armour formed almost throughout with file-roped inward turns, the vambraces and gauntlets with file-roped secondary borders and its surfaces decorated with etching on a stippled and blackened ground, that of the morion consisting of eight radiating bands of trophies of arms framed by cabling within plain lines, and the brim with stylised acanthus foliage (areas of wear), and that of the remainder consisting of bands and borders of trophies of arms generally enclosed by narrow bands of cabling and enclosing in the interspaces and volutes on the fronts and rears of the pauldrons, busts and full-length figures of classical warriors, and involving at the neck-opening of the breastplate the device of a two-towered castle; on a wooden stand with base Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent The device of a castle etched at the neck-opening of the breastplate represents the signature of one of the most important Milanese armourers of the late 16th century, know to scholars today as the ‘Master of the Castle’. It is possible that he, like his contemporary, Pompeo della Chiesa, was privileged to work in the Castello Sforzesco, residence of the Dukes of Milan. Other extant works bearing his signature include the fine garniture made for Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Prince Bishop of Salzburg, probably after 1587, and now divided between the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, the Wallace Collection, London, and the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, as well as various armours preserved in the Museo Civico L. Marzoli, Brescia, the Real Armeria, Turin, the Real Armeria, Madrid, the Musée de l’Armée, Paris, and the Wallace Collection, London. See Beard 1924, pp. 11-12; Norman 1986, pp. 29, 32-3 & 36-7; and LaRocca 2000, pp. 181-97.

A composite North Italian etched corselet with the same mark, formerly in the John Woodman Higgins Armoury Collection, Worcester Massachusetts, was sold in this room 7th May 2014, lot 138.

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310 A COMPOSITE ITALIAN HALF ARMOUR, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY comprising close helmet with rounded one-piece skull rising to a moderately high roped, medial comb, and fitted at its front with visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it by common pivots (the right replaced) with low domed heads, the forward-sloping visor cut with a single broad, later-enlarged vision-slit and fitted at its lower right edge with a projecting lifting-peg, and the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced at its right side with six circular ventilation-holes in rosetteformation, and fitted at the right of the chin with a transversely-pierced stud designed to receive a swivel-hook pivoted at the right of the chin of the lower bevor, the lower edges of the latter and the skull each fitted with an associated one-piece gorget-plate; collar of three lames front and rear, the uppermost in each case of earlier date and boldly roped at its upper edge, and the remainder associated; the medially-ridged breastplate of early peascod form, fitted with a moveable gusset at each arm-opening and pierced with a later hole at the centre of its neck-opening, its lower edge flanged outwards to receive an upwardoverlapping fauld of three lames, the lowest of which is cut at the centre of its lower edge with an arch separating a pair of pendent tassets, each of six upward-overlapping lames, the lowest of which are in part associated and reworked to match; later backplate of one piece flanged outwards at it lower edge which is formed with a shallow cut-out at its centre, and fitted at each side with a later rigid hasp; a pair of later large symmetrical pauldrons each formed of seven lames overlapping outwards from the third and largest, and connected by a turner to a fully articulated vambrace formed of a tubular upper and lower cannon linked to one another by a winged couter of five outward-overlapping lames, open at the rear; a pair of earlier mitten gauntlets. each formed of a short, slightly flared, straight-ended cuff, five upward-overlapping metacarpal plates, a transversely-roped knuckleplate and four upward overlapping finger-plates; the main edges of the amour roped, its surfaces variously decorated with recessed bands and borders, and incised lines, its bright surfaces patchily patinated, the gauntlets showing a few rust perforations

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311 A COMPOSITE HALF ARMOUR, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY, SOUTH GERMAN AND ITALIAN comprising Italian morion in the ‘Spanish’ fashion formed in one piece with a rounded almond-shaped crown rising to a slight ‘stalk’, and a flat integral brim projecting to an obtuse point front and rear (bent downwards at the front), pierced with a later wiring-hole, its edge formed with a plain inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by fourteen round-headed lining-rivets with copper alloy washers (two washers missing, one incomplete), the surface of the helmet retaining much of a rough from the hammer finish; South German medially-ridged one-piece breastplate of late peascod fashion, flanged outwards at its base, roped inward turn at the neck and arm-openings, engraved with pairs of lines at the arm-openings and a ‘V’ over the neck-opening, struck with Nuremburg city mark twice and the letter ‘N’, fitted with single-end iron buckle at each of the shoulders and two at the waist, well-shaped closely matching backplate engraved with pairs of lines at the neck, symmetrical Italian pauldrons of three broad upper lames and five narrower ones beneath them (some disarticulation), two Italian tassets each of nine lames (restorations), one painted ‘GP’ for Giocco del Ponte on the inside (areas of rust)

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312 A COMPOSITE NORTH EUROPEAN PIKEMAN’S CUIRASS, PROBABLY GERMAN, EARLY 17TH CENTURY comprising “Almain” collar formed of a single deep plate front and rear, each with an upturned neck-opening, and fitted to either side with an integral spaudler of seven downward overlapping lames; a medially ridged one-piece breastplate of late peascod fashion with an outward flanged lower edge supporting a fauld of two upward overlapping lames and a pair of large, slightly trapezoidal pendent one-piece tassets, each suspended on a pair of iron hinges and embossed to simulate eight upward-overlapping lames; and a one-piece backplate with a deeply flanged lower edge; decorated around the free edges of its tassets with recessed borders, and at their simulate secondary edges, the whole bearing a blackened finish

£2,000-2,500

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313 A PAIR OF COACHMAN’S LEATHER BOOTS, 18TH/19TH CENTURY extending to the lower thigh, with reinforced stitched soles (heels reduced), a single piece of leather enclosing the foot, a single large panel enclosing the leg, and one retaining its top strap , 75.5 cm high, (2)

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314 A COMPOSITE GERMAN CLOSE HELMET, EARLY 16TH CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull formed with a low slender medial comb (pierced at its centre to receive a later crest), associated ‘sparrow’s beak’ visor pierced with a centrally-divided vision-slit and at its right with six ventilation-holes arranged in two groups, associated bevor secured at the right by a spring-catch, and two associated neck-lames (bearing a light mottled patina overall), 26.0 cm high Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

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315 AN ITALIAN MORION IN THE ‘SPANISH’ FASHION, CIRCA 1590 formed in one piece with a rounded almondshaped crown rising to a slight ‘stalk’ and a flat integral brim projecting to an obtuse point front and rear, the latter struck with a mark contained within a crowned escutcheon, and pierced with a later wiring-hole, its edge formed with a plain inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by fourteen round-headed lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (areas of light pitting), 21.0 cm high

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316 AN ITALIAN MORION IN THE ‘SPANISH’ FASHION, CIRCA 1590 formed in one piece with a rounded almondshaped crown rising to a slight ‘stalk’ and a flat integral brim projecting to an obtuse point front and rear, the latter struck with a mark contained within a crowned escutcheon, and pierced with a later wiring-hole, its edge formed with a plain inward turn, the base of the crown encircled by fourteen round-headed lining-rivets with brass rosette-washers (areas of light pitting), 21.0 cm high

£400-600 317 TWO ITALIAN TASSETS, EARLY 17TH CENTURY each of five lames, decorated with incised line at the principle borders (rusted, small holes), 20.3 cm (2)

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318 A SOUTH GERMAN COLLAR, ORIGINALLY OF ‘ALMAIN’ TYPE, LATE 16TH CENTURY formed of a deep plate front and rear, each decorated at its upper and lateral edges with a pair of incised lines, the two plates joined at the left by a pivoting-rivet, fastened to one another at the right by a stud and keyhole-slot, and fitted at each side with a later buckle, the lowest front plate lightly incised at its centre with a rectangle (the upper two lames front and back missing), 10.5 cm Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

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319 A NORTH EUROPEAN BACKPLATE, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY PROBABLY FLEMISH formed in one piece with a slightly upstanding neck-opening and an outward-flanged lower edge, the main edges formed with plain inward turns, incised with a series of vertical lines in the centre, at each side and at the principle borders, all accompanied by punched circles, and studded with brass-capped lining rivets throughout (areas of pitting and light surface rust), 37.5 cm

£350-450 320 A NORTH GERMAN SKIRT FOR A BREASTPLATE, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-70 formed of three lames divisible between the first and second, the latter fitted with a hook on each side, and the lowest lame decorated with a roped edge accompanied by later pewter florette washers Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg Property from the Hanoverian Royal Collections, sold in this room, 8th December 2010, lot 166.

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322 A ZISCHÄGGE IN THE FLEMISH STYLE OF CIRCA 1620-30, 20TH CENTURY with hemispherical skull formed in two pieces, decorated around its base with a raised band and above it with fourteen flutes radiating from a finial screwed at its apex through a starshaped washer, the flutes separated from one another by roped ribs, fitted at the front to a broad peak pierced at the centre to receive a sliding nasal-bar retained by a staple and locking-screw (nasal bar missing) the rear of the skull fitted with a tapering tubular plume-holder and with a neck-guard of three lames, each with cusped upper edge, each side with a pendent cheek-piece, and in patinated aged condition, 25.0 cm high

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323 AN ELECTROTYPE COPY BY ELKINGTON OF THE ITALIAN MORION OF CIRCA 1535-50 IN THE ROYAL COLLECTION with roped comb, each side of the skull decorated with a pair of delicate scrolls centring on a spray of foliage terminating in an expanded flowerhead, with shaped plume-holder with traces of a depiction of Our Lord at supper at Emmaus beneath the inscription LAVDAMVSTE (‘We praise thee’), and with gilt finish (dents, worn), the interior with Elkington seal, 20.5 cm high The helmet from which this is copied (RCIN 61317) is recorded In the collection of George III and was sent to the armoury from Buckingham House on 20 September 1821. See Eaves & Norman 2016, pp. 236-237.

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324 AN ATTRACTIVE BURGONET AND FALLING BUFFE IN THE GERMAN STYLE OF CIRCA 1570-80 comprising burgonet with rounded crown rising to a tall comb, flanged outward at the base to form an integral neck-guard and fitted at each side with hinged cheek-pieces, the buffe formed of three plates, the lowest shaped to the chin and the upper two secured at the left side by sprung studs, and the whole decorated throughout with applied brass strips at its borders, 34.0 cm high (2) Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

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£2,000-3,000 326 A MINIATURE FULL ARMOUR IN LATE 15TH CENTURY GERMAN HIGH ‘GOTHIC’ STYLE, 20TH CENTURY comprising sallet, bevor, breastplate with plackart, skirt, a pair of pendent tassets, backplate, mail skirt, a pair of full arm defences (gauntlets missing), a pair of full leg defences with pointed sabatons, on a wooden dummy with stand (stand now detached) Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £150-200 327 A BREASTPLATE IN 15TH CENTURY STYLE, 20TH CENTURY formed in one piece, medially ridged, rising sharply in the centre, outwardly flanged lower edge, and with recessed borders and roped turns, 45.3 cm high

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328 A PAIR OF FINGERED GAUNTLETS IN 16TH/17TH CENTURY STYLE each formed of a slightly flared cuff with fixed inner plate and struck on the top with a mark, two metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate embossed for the knuckles and hinged thumb plate (fingers detached, losses), 24.7 cm (2)

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329 A CUISSE AND POLEYN FOR THE RIGHT LEG AND TWO TASSET-LAMES IN THE GERMAN LATE 15TH CENTURY STYLE, AND A BESAGUE IN LATE 16TH CENTURY GERMAN STYLE, ALL 19TH CENTURY the cuisse formed of two lames embossed to simulate four, fitted at the outside with a hinged extension-plate, and at its lower end with a poleyn of seven lames overlapping outwards from the shaped fourth decorated on its centrally-puckered wing with a spray of curved flutes contained within an inward turned edge accompanied by a recessed border, and formed at the lower edges of the final two lames with cusps; the lower edges of the tasset-lames similarly formed and pierced at their centres in each case with a pair of holes; and the besagues rising at their respective centres to a conical point and formed peripherally with a file-roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border enclosed to the inside by a narrow groove; the cuisse and poleyns, the right tasset-lame and, to a lesser extent, the besague, showing overall mottled corrosion, the first: 48.5 cm (4) Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £150-200 330 A DECORATED IRON BUCKLE, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FROM AN EQUESTRIAN HARNESS AND AN IRON POCKET WARMER, 19TH CENTURY the first with plain bar fitted with two pins, scrolling sideplates joined by a large rectangular panel pierced with a symmetrical arrangement of scrollwork enclosing the initials ‘AT’, and retaining some tinned finish; the second of near rectangular form, with hinged cover secured by a sliding bolt, the first: 17.8 cm wide Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

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331 A RARE NORTH GERMAN EMBOSSED IRON PATRON, NO.20, BRUNSWICK, DATED 1571, FOR A MEMBER OF THE GUARD OF JULIUS, DUKE OF BRUNSWICK AND LÜNEBURG IN WOLFENBÜTTEL (1528-89) with plano-convex body flanged at the base, domed lid hinged at the back and closed by a spring-catch at the front, embossed and chiselled with a cabled panel interrupted by the Ducal monogram, enclosing a lion mask supported by arched ribbons over the date, the crowned Ducal monogram and number, a pair of rampant lion supporters left and right, and all in low relief on a stippled ground, the lid embossed and chiselled with the crowned Ducal monogram and lion supporters, with an associated brass facing plate for a core of five apertures, and later wooden core, back and basal plate 14.0 cm Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg Property from the Hanoverian Royal Collections, sold in this room, 8th December 2010, lot 160.

Another patron from this group is illustrated R. Bohlmann 1915 p.24, abb. 56. A further example was included in the Exhibition of Arms, Armour and Militaria lent by H.R.H. The Duke of Brunswick at the Tower of London, April 10th-October 31st 1952, no.188, and another is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

£6,000-8,000

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332 A MOTHER-OF-PEARL MOUNTED MANICURE SET, MACDANIEL, OXFORD STREET, EARLY 20TH CENTURY AND A CASED PAIR OF FRENCH SCISSORS, 20TH CENTURY comprising signed scissors and two folding knives, matching corkscrew, tweezers, pick and button hook, a further pair of associated scissors, on a fitted tray contained within a matching case; the second of burnished steel, in their fitted case; together with a leather scabbard for a pair of scissors, three cased small blades with threaded hafts and a folding key spanner in burnished steel case, the first: 17.7 cm x 13.2 cm overall (5) Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006)

£200-250 333 A BRASS SCARIFICATOR, LATE 19TH CENTURY of bevelled box form, with twelve lancets operated by a trigger-shaped lever, circular button release and depth adjuster, 5.0 x 4.5 cm across, face Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 165.

£100-150 332

334 A PAIR OF HEAVY CAGE STIRRUPS, 19TH CENTURY with oval treads joined to the arched side-bars by a pair of bars, fitted at the front with an additional up-turned plate and at the top with a loop for suspension, 14.5 cm high (2)

£150-200 335 A PAIR OF SPURS, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY with minor differences, with chiselled U-shaped heel bands, short curved necks fitted with small star-shaped rowels (small chips), and large figure-of-eight terminals, 17.5 cm (2) Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

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336 A GERMAN STONEBOW (SCHNEPPER), FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY with slender steel bow fitted with later string of twisted cord incorporating a pocket for the pellets, a pair of fixed fore-sight pillars, built-in gaffle retained by a spring-catch at the rear, stamped with the maker’s mark, in a shield a prancing stag (Neue Støckel 5143 or 8442), carved fruitwood butt decorated with scrolls and linear frames, inset with an engraved plaque on the left charged with crowned Bavarian ducal arms (chipped) on the left, and with scenes from the chase on the right, steel loop, and trigger-guard 59 cm; 23 1/4 in tiller

337 AN ITALIAN STONEBOW, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY with slender steel bow retained by a pair of irons and fitted with a later string of twisted cord with pouch and wooden spacers, carved hardwood tiller of characteristic form, reinforced with a slender steel panel top and bottom at the front, the rear portion incorporating a carved openwork scroll decorated with lines and pellets, turned knop finial (small chips), fitted with iron forward prong finial, fixed two-prong steel fore-sight, moulded steel trigger operating the string release (terminal bent), and arched steel back-sight, 107.0 cm tiller

Provenance David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006)

£600-800

Ernst Schmidt, Munich, 5th June 1930, no. 24 John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester Massachusetts (inv. no 1106), sold in this room 20th March 2013, lot 259.

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338 A TUMBLER OF THE ROYAL FORESTERS, A CARRON IRON COMPANY WHITE METAL VESTA CASE AND A WHITE METAL PRIZE RING OF THE NEW FOREST ARCHERS DATED 1858 the first with blue rim, etched with the inscription, a strung bugle, and an archer in contemporary dress taking aim at a stag; the second inscribed ‘S. S. Forth’ beneath a steamer and with the details of the Carron iron company; and the third pierced, inscribed in a panel enclosed by scrollwork, the first: 10.5 cm (3)

£400-600

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339 TWO FLINT ARROWHEADS AND TWO MINIATURE SABATON TERMINALS IN LATE 15TH CENTURY STYLE the first with tapering head of flattened-diamond section and short tang (chipped); the second with broad head of flattened oval section and short tang (chipped); the third and fourth pointed, slightly downturned at the front, and with a hole for fixing to the sabaton, the first: 7.0 cm (4)

£50-70

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340 A MINIATURE BRONZE CANNON, 19TH CENTURY AND ANOTHER the first with tapering barrel formed in five stages divided by astragal mouldings, flared at the muzzle, plain vent field, rounded cascabel, and compressed spherical button and a pair of short trunnions, on an associated wooden naval type carriage with wooden trucks (two missing), and a miniature bronze cannon in 19th century style, the first: 24.7 cm barrel, 1.2 cm bore (2) Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £300-400 341 A MINIATURE BRASS NAVAL CANNON IN LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY STYLE, 20TH CENTURY with tapering multi-stage barrel swelling at the muzzle and formed with raised mouldings, globose cascable, pronounced button, on its stepped wooden carriage with wooden trucks and brass mounts, 22.4 cm barrel, 1.0 cm bore

£250-300 341

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342 A PAIR OF BRONZE SALUTING CANNON IN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with tapering multi-stage barrels cast with raised foliate mouldings, a crested mantled coat-of-arms enclosed by a motto and with the date 1671 over the first reinforces, a pair of dolphins, plain trunnions, and globose cascabels decorated with foliage: on ironclad wooden carriages fitted with iron-shod spoked wheels and iron fittings (small losses), 59.3 cm barrels 2.4 cm bores (2)

£2,000-2,500

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343 ACTON, JOHN An Essay on Shooting. Containing the various methods of forging, boring, and dressing gun barrels, printed for T. Cadell, London 1791, second edition octavo (218 x 128 mm), marbled boards, half leather with corners, armorial bookplate of Tollemache (worn) Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

£80-100

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344 AIDE-MEMOIRE TO THE MILITARY SCIENCES Framed from Contributions of Officers of the Different Services, and edited by a Committee of the Corps of Royal Engineers, in three volumes, published by John Weale, High Holborn, 1846, octavo (160 x 248 mm), with numerous plates and woodcuts, contemporary half leather with corners and marbled boards, gilt letters on spine (slight wear and foxing) (3)

£600-800

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345 ACKERMANN, R Loyal Volunteers of London & the Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms, representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon & Funeral exercise, 1799 quarto (265 x 336 mm), rebound in half leather with corners, reboxed, gilt lettering to spine and gilt edging to pages, 87 coloured plates all in very good condition

£2,500-3,000 346 XII. FONTE DES CANONS supplement to the Diderot Encyclopedia, undated, octavo (195 x 248 mm), with fold-out table, four folding and 17 single-page plates, half leather, gilt letters on spine

£200-300 347

347 FRANCIS GROSSE Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army from the Conquest to the Present Time, I Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1812, two volumes octavo (227 x 280 mm), later full leather, 67 plates across the two volumes, gilt lettering to spines, bookplates for St Benedict’s Abbey, Fort Augustus (light wear) (2)

£500-700

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348 MANESSON MALLET, ALLAIN Les Travaux de Mars ou la Fortification nouvelle tant reguliere, qu’irreguliere. Divisee en trois parties, Paris 1671 octavo (185 x 110 mm), later vellum covered boards (worn, foxing) Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

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349 JOHN MULLER A Treatise of Artillery, London 1768, Second edition crown octavo (138 x 203 mm), contemporary leather, gilt label on spine, stamped ‘T.S.H 47 Reg’ inside front cover, with 28 folding plates (backboard detached, front board becoming detached, one loose leaf, corners worn)

£300-400 349

350 CATALOGO HISTORICO-DESCRIPTIVO DE LA REAL ARMERIA DE MADRID for El Conde V.do de Valencia de Don Juan, Madrid 1908 cased, Imperial octavo (212 x 290 mm), later leather covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, label to inside cover for El Ateneo Librería Cientifica Literaria, Pedro Garcia, Buenos Aires (light foxing)

£400-600 351 REGULATIONS FOR THE ORDER AND DISCIPLINE OF THE TROOPS OF THE UNITED STATES. PHILADELPHIA 1809 duodecimo (172 x 104 mm), later marbled boards (front detached, foxing, wear), six folding out engraved images number (nos I, III, V, VI, VII and VIII), together with SCOFFERN, JOHN, Projectile Weapons of War and Explosive Compounds, London, 1845 (2)

350

Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

£80-100 352 RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE SWORD EXERCISE OF THE CAVALRY London 1796, octavo (158 x 240 mm), later half leather and marbled boards, rough cut pages, with 29 folding plates, gilt label on spine (rebound, light staining)

£200-300 352

353 SALE CATALOGUE (GALERIE HELBING) Kunstsammlungen des verewigten Herrn Geheimrats Dr. Jakob von Hefner-Alteneck, Munich, 1904 folio (240 x 320 mm), portrait, plates, some reproductions of marks, original boards (worn), with sale prices in dollars and dates on most lots Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

£150-200

354 SALE CATALOGUE, GALERIE GEORGES PETIT Catalogue des Armes & Armures faisant partie de la Collection Spitzer, folio (395 x 295 mm), plates, contemporary half leather with corners (losses), Paris 1895 Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

£150-200

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355 A GERMAN ENGRAVED STAGHORN POWDERFLASK, LATE 16TH CENTURY of bifurcated form, the inner face left natural, the outer engraved with a couple in contemporary dress, fitted with iron basal caps, iron nozzle with spring cut-off, the inner with belt hook, three loops for suspension (one missing) and brass inventory tag 1605, 22.5 cm

£400-450 356 AN ITALIAN POWDER-FLASK FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY with tapering body of ‘D’ section, elaborately fluted outer face enriched with very narrow engraved panels and ropework, engraved with scrollwork on the inner face and the base, fitted with engraved belt hook, engraved moulded nozzle hinged at the base for refilling, decorated en suite with the body, and with spring cut-off (spring loose, areas of pitting), 24.5 cm Provenance Angelo Peyron, Florence, Italy, sold Savoy Art & Auction Galleries, New York, 4th November 1954, lot 198 John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester Massachusetts (inv. no 3075), sold in this room 20th March 2013, lot 462.

£1,000-1,200

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357 A GERMAN ENGRAVED COWHORN POWDERFLASK, DATED 1615 with curved flattened body, the inner face engraved with a pattern of concentric rings, the outer face decorated with a central rondel filled with a sun-in-splendour flanked by two warriors in contemporary dress, iron mounts comprising belt hook, basal cap and top mount each fitted with a ring for suspension and the latter with spring closure and cut-off, 36.5 cm

£500-600 358 A GERMAN ENGRAVED COWHORN POWDERFLASK, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with dark stained curved flattened body numbered ‘71’ (warped), the inner face engraved with foliate borders, the outer face decorated with an architectural niche filled by a Halberdier in contemporary dress, and with iron mounts including nozzle with pivot closure, spring cut-off, and belthook (suspension rings missing), 30 cm

£300-400

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359 A NORWEGIAN ENGRAVED COW HORN POWDERFLASK, MARCUS PEDERSON, DATED 1664 with curved body of circular section, engraved over its surface with scenes from the Old Testament including Samson and Delilah and Daniel in the Lion’s den, signed Marcus Pederson and dated at the base, with turned nozzle (chipped, one small drilled recess) and wooden basal cap, 18.3 cm Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £400-600 360 A NORWEGIAN COW HORN POWDER-FLASK, MID17TH CENTURY with curved body of circular section carved in high relief with bold sprays of foliage, a stylised coat of arms surmounted by a papal tiara, reindeer and a traditional dwelling (small chips and holes), 19.5 cm

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361 A NORWEGIAN COW HORN POWDER-FLASK, MID17TH CENTURY AND AN ENGRAVED COW HORN FLASK, 18TH CENTURY the first with curved body of flattened circular section, the inner face plain, the outer carved in high relief with Christ crucified surmounted by a double eagle and with the instruments of the passion beneath, and wooden basal cap (a small number of small insect holes); the second with curved flattened body, engraved with a vase of flowers on each face, further floral sprays, an ibex and an angelic mask, fitted with carved wooded cap at each end, the top with tapering nozzle with later stopper, and later rings for suspension (two small holes), the first: 22.2 cm (2) Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £300-500

Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

‡ £350-450

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362 A GERMAN COMBINED POWDER-FLASK, WHEELLOCK SPANNER AND TURNSCREW, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with tapering faceted horn-shaped body, fitted at one end with nozzle decorated with fluting and fitted with spring cut-off and at the other end with combined spanner and turnscrew (restored), a single suspension loop and slender belt hook with foliate terminal, 21.5 cm For related examples preserved in the Historishces Museum Dresden see Lewerken 1988, p. 294, cat. nos 196-199.

£300-500 363 A GERMAN COMBINED PRIMING-FLASK, MEASURE, WHEEL-LOCK SPANNER AND TURNSCREW, 17TH CENTURY formed entirely of iron, with flat head forming the flask and incorporating two wheel-lock spanner heads, sprung pivoting turnscrew acting as a nozzle cover for the priming flask, tubular powder-measure with sprung locking catch, and a single loop for suspension (areas of pitting), 17.0 cm overall

£400-600

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364 TWO WHEEL-LOCK SPANNERS, 17TH CENTURY the first with double-ended head of square section and integral moulded shank interrupted by a pronounced central moulding; the second with flattened head and integral shank with angular globular terminal, the first: 11.5 cm (2)

£200-250 365 A FINE AMERICAN POWDER FLASK, AMERICAN CAP & FLASK CO., CIRCA 1857-70 with two-piece American walnut body of flattened pearshaped form, fitted with signed brass top with spring cut-off and threaded brass nozzle graduated in halves from 4.5 to 6 drams, a pair of brass loops for suspension, and an early leather strap, 25.0 cm high

£500-800 366 A COPPER POWDER-FLASK FOR A PAIR OF PISTOLS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, A THREE-WAY FLASK AND FURTHER ACCESSORIES, 19TH CENTURY the first with oblong body and faceted sides, brass nozzle with blued spring, cut-off and cap; the second with copper body and brass mounts; two turnscrews, a bullet mould (one arm incomplete) and a cleaning rod (6)

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367 A FINE FRENCH EBONISED GUN CASE FOR A PRESENTATION RIFLE BY GASTINNE RENETTE ARQR DE S.M.L’EMPEREUR A PARIS, CIRCA 1852-70 the exterior inlaid with brass lines, a panel of engraved scrolling foliage about the white metal escutcheon, the lid with rounded borders (one detached but present, small areas of wear and losses), profusely inlaid with further engraved scrolling foliage around a central vacant German silver escutcheon, the corners each with a crowned imperial eagle standing on bound thunderbolts, the interior lined in green velvet, the lid tooled and gilt with elaborate scrolls, flowers and foliage, the crowned imperial letter ‘N’, and the maker’s details, gilt hinges and furniture, and with a single tooled and gilt compartment lid, two further associated compartment lids for a pistol case, and with provision for a rifle with barrel of approxmately 77.5 cm length and accessories, 82.3 cm x 23.0 cm x 8.2 cm Gastinne-Rennette are recorded in Paris from 1839. They made pistols for the Emperor Napoleon III and the King of Spain and were awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Nationale of 1839.

£1,500-1,800 368 A MAHOGANY FITTED GUN CASE FOR A PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE BY GEORGE GIBBS, 24 CLARE STREET, BRISTOL, CIRCA 1840 the outside of the lid with vacant rectangular brass escutcheon, the interior with trade label (stained), lined in purple velvet (minor stains, light wear), provision for 81.0 cm barrel, retaining its compartments and a key (lid warped), 87.0 cm x 25.5 cm x 6.5 cm

370 A FINE GILT BULLET MOULD FOR A PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE OF PRESENTATION QUALITY BY E. M. REILLY & CO., 502 NEW OXFORD STREET, LONDON, CIRCA 1870-72 for conical bullets, engraved with scrolling foliage, signed on one side of the head, and with no provision for a spru-cutter, 25.0 cm Edward Michael Reilly is recorded at 502 Oxford Street, circa 1848-60 becoming E. M. Reilly & Co in 1861 and opening a branch in Paris at 2 Rue Scribe 1870-72. A cased pair of presentation quality Adams revolvers by this maker were sold in this room, 29th June 2016, lot 463.

£500-800 371 TWO DETACHED PISTOL BARRELS, 18TH CENTURY the first Spanish, second half of the 18th century, swamped and formed in two stages, polygonal muzzle section, octagonal breech section struck with the mark of Antonio Rovira (Neue Støckel 948), platinum lined vent, and engraved tang; the second perhaps Italian, formed in three stages, the first: 23.3 cm overall (2) Provenance Joe Kindig III (1923-2021), thence by descent

‡ £80-120

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369 A DETACHED BARREL FOR A GUN, LATE 17TH CENTURY, ALSACE OR EASTERN FRANCE AND ANOTHER, SPANISH, DATED 1847 the first formed in three stages, with raised slender ribs divided by large panels of scrollwork centring on flowerheads, tapering breech of square section decorated with crossed staves beneath an arch surmounted by a cross; the second formed in two stages, struck with a series of marks, an inscription and the date over the breech and long tang, the first: 117.0 cm (2)

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THE BERNARD DICKENS COLLECTION From early boyhood I have been fascinated by the technical development and aesthetics of muzzle-loading firearms.

These were the days when local antique shops were selling flintlock long arms from a basket at a 'fiver' each, and pocket money was as much as half a crown. With hindsight, questions of quality and condition clearly did not apply; the resulting collection was fun in a haphazard way though perhaps questionable in terms of quality and condition.

In adolescence, I began reading the works of the relatively few authors, many of whom were also collectors, and from them I learned the importance of provenance as well as rarity of particular systems and their significance to the development of the craft. One such example was the search for a solution to the overwhelming disadvantage of reloading after each shot. Ingenious solutions were found by gunmakers such as Lorenzoni and Collier, but their expense precluded general adoption to all but the very wealthy. My research into a number of areas within this field led to greater discernment when purchasing and in the consequent quality of the collection. Over nearly fifty years I have derived much pleasure from these pieces; it is with reluctance and sadness that I have decided to offer it for sale and I hope others will now share the pleasure it has brought me and continue the tradition of care and custodianship of these fine artefacts.

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372 A 1796 PATTERN HEAVY CAVALRY OFFICER’S DRESS SWORD with double-edged blade of flattenedhexagonal section (light pitting), regulation gilt-brass hilt including boatshell guard with foliate engraved border, knuckleguard and pommel chiseled with designs of conventional foliage, the grip bound with plaited silver wire between gilt moulded collars, in leather scabbard with engraved gilt-brass locket, chape, and middle-band, en suite with the guard (rings missing) and retaining much early gilding, 74.2 cm blade

373 A 1796 PATTERN HEAVY CAVALRY OFFICER’S DRESS SWORD, CIRCA 1828-38 with double-edged blade formed with a short central fuller and etched with foliage over the forte on each face, regulation gilt-brass hilt including boatshell guard, the grip bound with plaited silver wire between gilt moulded collars, in leather scabbard with giltbrass locket, chape, and middle-band, the locket inscribed by the retailer ‘Moore, late Bicknells Moore, Old Bond Street, London’, and retaining much early gilding, 75.3 cm blade

374 AN 1803 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER’S SWORD RETAILED BY GRIFFIN & ADAMS, SWORD CUTLERS TO HRH THE DUKE OF CLARENCE, 76 STRAND, CIRCA 1803-27 of regulation type, with curved blade etched and gilt with foliage, the crowned Royal arms and Royal cypher on a blued panel over the lower half (light wear), gilt-brass regulation hilt with crowned GR cypher, wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in brass-mounted leather scabbard, the locket signed by the retailer, 76.5 cm blade

£400-600

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375 THREE THREE-WAY FLASKS FOR PISTOLS, CIRCA 1775-85 the first with dark red leather covered brass body, nozzle with spring cut-off and two further compartments; the second larger, with brass body, graduated nozzle with spring cut-off, and swivel cover cast ‘J. Dixon & Sons, Sheffield’; the third slightly larger (small dents); the first: 7.5 cm (3)

£200-300

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376 SEVEN LEATHER SHOT-FLASKS, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURIES the first of black leather embossed with a hunting vignette on one face, with Dixon & Sons spring cutoff, with a loop at the base; the second with brown-leather bladder-shaped body, the outer face tooled with a neo-rococo hunting scene, fitted with Dixon & Sons spring cut-off, and with a loop at the base; the third with flattened bag-shaped body embossed with a series of concentric rings on each face, fitted with brass nozzle with spring-cut-off; the fourth, with plain leather body and Britannia metal nozzle by Dixon & Sons; and three further shotflasks, the first: 21.0 cm (7)

£150-200

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377 A HORN POWDER-FLASK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY AND A WOGDON STYLE POWDER-FLASK FOR A SPORTING GUN the first with curved body of flattened horn, German silver patent hinged graduated nozzle with spring cut-off, and German silver basal cap; the second of stitched leather, with graduated brass nozzle with spring cut-off, the first: 25.0 cm (2)

£200-300

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378 A POWDER-FLASK, DATED 1820 with flattened brass body formed with a pronounced bevelled edge, inscribed ‘John Farrington’ and dated on the front, and fitted with graduated nozzle with cut-off (spring incomplete), 17.3 cm

£80-100

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379 A RARE SILVER POWDER FLASK, LONDON 1821, MAKER’S MARK MB FOR MICHAEL BARNETT with flattened pear-shaped body, struck at the neck with London marks and the maker’s mark (rubbed), fitted with silver graduated nozzle with spring-cut-off, and struck with further marks inside and out, 20.5 cm overall For an account Michael Barnett’s work and the attribution of his marks, see Dickens 1999, pp. 86 – 117.

£400-600

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380 TWO SILVER BUTT-PLATES AND TWO SILVER TRIGGER-GUARDS FOR SPORTING GUNS, LONDON 1815, MAKER’S MARK OF MICHAEL BARNETT the first engraved with a hound putting up a game-bird on the tang; the second decorated with a trophy-of-arms on the tang, the owner’s crest, a unicorn bust erased, and the motto ‘Erectus non Elatus’ on the heel (not identified) above ‘No. 2’; the third decorated with a Britannia trophy on the bow; and the fourth decorated with a hound on the bow and with a pillar terminal at the front, the first 12.5 cm high (4) For an account Michael Barnett’s work and the attribution of his marks, see Dickens 1999, pp. 86 – 117.

£200-250

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381 FIVE POWDER-FLASKS, 19TH CENTURY the first medium sized, with copper body and Sykes patent graduated nozzle with spring cut-off; the second for a pistol, with copper body embossed with foliage, and G. & J.W. Hawksley patent graduated nozzle with spring cut-off; the third smaller, with copper body and brass nozzle and the fourth for a pocket pistol, with copper body stamped ‘Sykes’ and brass nozzle; the fifth with bevelled oblong body and brass nozzle with spring cut-off; together with seven further powder flasks in 19th century style, and four powder measures, the first: 15.7 cm (16) 381

£250-350 382 FIVE GUN-SIZED POWDER-FLASKS, 19TH CENTURY the first with pigskin covered body and G. & J.W. Hawksley patent graduated nozzle with spring cut-off; the second and third with copper body and Sykes patent graduated nozzle with spring cut-off; the fourth with copper body and G. & J.W. Hawksley patent graduated nozzle with spring cut-off; and the fifth with black painted body and G. & J.W. Hawksley patent graduated nozzle with spring cut-off, the first: 20.5 cm (5)

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£200-250 383 THREE GUN-SIZE POWDER-FLASKS, 19TH CENTURY the first with embossed copper body decorated with foliage inhabited by game birds on the outer face and further foliage on the inner face, and Bartram patent ‘extra quality’ graduated nozzle; the second and third with plain copper body and Syke’s patent graduated nozzles with spring cut-off; two powder-flasks in 19th century style decorated with a scallop shell and beadwork respectively, the first: 20.7 cm (5)

£150-250 383

384 THREE GUN-SIZE POWDER-FLASKS, 19TH CENTURY the first with copper body embossed with a game vignette carried by foliage and a net design, with G. & J.W. Hawksley patent graduated nozzle with spring cut-off; the second with copper body embossed with a chain and scroll design, with G. & J.W. Hawksley patent graduated nozzle with spring cut-off; the third with plain copper body and G. & J.W. Hawksley patent graduated nozzle with spring cut-off; and two later flasks; the first: 21.0 cm (5)

£150-250

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385 A LARGE GUN FLASK AND A FLASK WITH PATENT NOZZLE, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY the first with brass body embossed with bold flutes over its surface, fitted with G. & J. W. Hawksley patent nozzle graduated from 3 to 4½ drams, with spring cut -off; the second with brass body and graduated angular nozzle with cutoff (spring incomplete); the first: 25.8 cm (2)

£80-120 386 A LARGE GUN FLASK, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with brass body embossed with oak foliage decorated with a fox head at the base and a stag’s head at the top on each face, fitted with G. & J.W. Hawksley patent nozzle graduated from 3½ to 5 drams, cut -off with blued spring, and with four rings for suspension, 24.5 cm

£100-150 387 TWO LEATHER SHOT POUCHES AND BELTS the first of stitched red leather, with two compartments each with brass nozzle with spring cut-off and removable measure cap; the second similar, of black leather, the first: 47.5 cm (body) (2)

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388 A FITTED MAHOGANY CASE FOR A D.B. FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY JOSEPH MANTON, CIRCA 1812-19 the exterior with brass flush-fitting carrying handle, the interior lined in green baize (small losses), the lid with trade label, and with associated lock tray

~ £400-600 389 A TWIST BARREL PRODUCTION DISPLAY PIECE, A LEATHER SHOT BANDOLIER, A TURNSCREW AND A QUANTITY OF LOADING RODS the first formed as a finished barrel at one end and with three twisted rods at the other; the second with stitched leather body, brass combined stopper and measure with spring catch; the third with two screw heads, pricker and flattened bag-shaped wooden grip; seven brasstipped ramrods, 19th century, two further ramrods with horn tips and a quantity of loading rods

£300-500

390 TWO DETACHED FLINTLOCKS, THE FIRST BY H. W. MORTIMER, CIRCA 1800 the first with stepped bevelled main plate signed in block capitals beneath the pan, fitted with bevelled cock and sliding bolt safety-catch; the second for the left hand side, with flat lock plate, engraved border, the tail decorated with a trophyof-music, signed beneath the pan (refreshed), fitted with ‘French’ cock (restored), rainproof pan and bolt safety-catch; together with a small quantity of lock elements including three steels bearing inscription ‘Manton & Son patent’, the first: 8.5 cm (qty)

£200-250 391 A FINE PERCUSSION CAP DISPENSER, SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY of gun lock form, with hinged lid secured by a central stud with pivoting hook, sprung release catch, inlaid with large game in gold and with silver scrollwork on the front and a further hunting scene in silver on the reverse, all on a blued ground (refinished), 9.8 cm

£50-80 392 A MINIATURE BRASS CARRONADE, 20TH CENTURY with tapering barrel formed with raised astragal mouldings, cascable with breeching loop and elevating screw, on its brass bed carriage with small brass trucks, 18.5 cm barrel, 1.8 cm bore 391

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393 A PAIR OF BRONZE CANNON, LATE 19TH CENTURY each with tapering, multi-stage barrel, flaring at the muzzle and formed with raised astragal mouldings, raised scalloped vent with a mark on each side, globose cascable drawn-out to a prominent button, and a pair of plain trunnions, each on its stepped wooden carriage, with wooden trucks, brass cap-squares, and a wedge for elevation, 71.0 cm barrels, 5.5 cm bores (2)

£2,000-3,000

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394 A FINE AND RARE 10-BORE FLINTLOCK DUCK GUN BY JAMES BARBAR, LONDON, CIRCA 1755, ALMOST CERTAINLY MADE FOR WILLIAM CONSTABLE (1721-91) OF BURTON CONSTABLE with heavy swamped browned barrel retained by four sliding bolts, signed on a raised top flat drawn-out to a loop over the breech and decorated with engraved border and foliage, struck on the left with the barrelsmith’s mark and London proof marks, fitted with silver fore-sight and gold-lined vent, shaped bright steel tang finely engraved with foliage, rounded lock signed in capitals beneath the pan, the interior retaining some early polish and without detent, moulded figured walnut full stock swelling and carved with rococo shell ornament behind the rear ramrod-pipe, further shells and asymmetrical foliage about the tang, finely engraved and chiselled steel mounts, comprising butt-plate engraved on the tang with a classical trophy of arms and a rococo scroll, pierced side-plate involving a scallop-shell and a baldachin carried by foliage, engraved trigger-guard with chiselled foliate finial, large chiselled vacant escutcheon surmounted by a scallop-shell, four ramrod-pipes, original horn-tipped wooden ramrod with worm, and in very good, probably unfired, condition throughout, 120.6 cm barrel Provenance William Constable (1721-91), Burton Constable William Keith Neal Collection sold Bonhams 10th November 2005, lot 35 Literature W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers 1740-1790, pp. 88-89, 91-92, plates 246-249, described as “a magnificent example, perhaps the finest to survive, of a 1755 period best large-bore steel-mounted gun”.

An invoice from James Barbar of 1755/56 survives for three ‘very large bore steel mounted’ William Constable guns at £8.13.0 each. Though they are described as having a ‘bolt lock’ it seems likely this gun is one of them.

£7,000-9,000

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395 A RARE 11 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY EDWARD NEWTON, GRANTHAM, LONDON 1743, MAKERS MARK JA with rebrowned swamped barrel formed in four stages, fitted with chiselled silver fore-sight (rubbed), two-stage breech octagonal then polygonal, the former signed ‘E. Newton, Grantham’ within a frame of houndstooth, struck with the barrelsmith’s marks, a flowerhead and the initials ‘EN’ and private proof mark on the left, gold lined vent, engraved breech tang decorated with scrolls and grooved for sighting, banana shaped lock signed ‘E. Newton’ on a tasselled scroll beneath a rococo shell, fitted with broad engraved sliding bolt safety-catch, moulded cock chiselled with foliage (top-jaw and screw replaced), raised pan with water drain and moulded steel (refaced), figured walnut full stock carved with a raised moulding involving a rococo shell about the tang (the fore-end with a small repaired crack, small filled repairs and dents on the butt), finely chased full silver mounts comprising buttplate decorated with rococo fronds, a cockle shell and acanthus foliage, side-plate formed as a pike, trigger-guard with acanthus forward terminal, a flower at the rear and engraved with a further large cockle shell on the bow (rubbed), escutcheon chiselled with a leafy branch inhabited by a large pheasant, three ramrod-pipes (the forward-most an early replacement) and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, perhaps the original, 106.8 cm barrel Provenance Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton (1723-1769) Eglinton Castle, sold Dowell’s Edinburgh, 1st – 5th December 1925, lot 903 The Rev. E.C. Alston W. Keith Neal (no. G331), sold Bonham’s 10th November, 2005, lot 19 Literature W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Great British Gunmakers, 1740 – 1790, 1975, p. 108, plates 378 – 380.

W. Keith Neal & D.H.L. Back, Messrs.

Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes, 1989, p.18.

Fred Buller, The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike, Stanley Paul & Co., 1979, p.181 (sideplate illustrated).

John A. Atkinson, The British Duelling Pistol, p.45.

Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton (1723-1769) was a politician, reformer and close friend of James Boswell who records his time with Doctor Johnson in his London Journal 1762-1767.

Eglinton took considerable interest in national and local affairs, particularly in the welfare of his tenants, and was described as the reviver of agriculture in Ayrshire. In the family archives there is a letter to his brother stating that a duel took place between him and a Mr Bathurst with apparently no consequence of note. His life came to an untimely end when he was accidentally shot by Mungo Campbell, an excise officer on Ardrossan beach. Eglinton saw Campbell with a musket, having already warned him against carrying a weapon on his land. The earl rode up with some servants and challenged Campbell to hand over his piece, while chiding him for suspected poaching. Campbell refused and backed away from the earl, who continued to demand the weapon. The stand-off continued, Campbell stumbled and discharged his weapon as he fell. The ball struck the earl in the stomach, inflicting what he himself immediately recognized as a fatal wound, he died in the early hours of 25th October.

Campbell was found guilty of murder at the high court of justiciary in Edinburgh on 27th February 1770, but escaped execution by hanging himself in his cell on the night of 1st March.

Edward Newton of Grantham (1718-1764) has been described as a pivotal gunmaker, in terms of the quality, diversity and technical innovations in the weapons he made and of the next generation of illustrious gunmakers who were apprenticed to and influenced by him.

These include Robert Wogdon, John Fox Twigg, John Manton (to William Edson, Newton’s foreman) and Thomas Manton. See Wimsey 2000, pp. 281-289.

£4,000-6,000

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396 A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY JOHN FOX TWIGG, WITH SPANISH BARREL, CIRCA 1775-7 with Spanish barrel formed in two stages fitted with silver ‘spider’ fore-sight, chiselled girdle, and octagonal breech stamped with the gold-lined mark of A. P. Esteva and Barcelona town mark (Neue Støckel 328 and 8512), further gold-lined decorative marks and inlaid on each side with silver-inlaid scrolling foliage (small losses, areas of light pitting), gold-lined vent, engraved breech tang decorated with a flower, scrolls and foliage, stepped bevelled lock with second form of signature beneath the pan, fitted with bevelled cock (top-jaw replaced) and moulded steel, iron trigger retaining traces of early blued finish, figured walnut half-stock carved with a raised moulding involving a rococo shell behind the tang, cut with pineapple chequering over the grip, iron mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with scrolls and border ornament, trigger-guard with acorn finial and engraved with a rococo flower on the bow, three ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod, perhaps the original, 104.7 cm barrel Provenance Christie’s, King Street, 29th March 1995, lot 190 John Fox Twigg was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire in 1732, he is recorded Gunmaker at Angel Court, Charing Cross 1755-60; 132 Strand (opposite Catherine Street), 1760-76; Piccadilly, 1776-90. He was contractor to the East India Company, worked in partnership with John Bass from 1788, and died in 1790.

£2,500-3,500

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397 A 10 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY JONATHAN STANTON, LONDON, CIRCA 1750-60 with swamped barrel signed in a panel within a linear frame terminating with a flourish on the flat at the breech, stamped on the left with London proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark, fitted with silver ‘spider’ foresight, gold-lined vent, moulded tang grooved for sighting and engraved with scrolls and border ornament, rounded lock with moulded border, signed in block capitals beneath the pan, figured walnut full stock with take-down fore-end, full brass mounts comprising butt-plate engraved with border ornament and foliage on the tang, openwork side-plate decorated with foliage en rocaille, trigger-guard with early form acorn finial and a rococo flower on the bow, vacant rococo escutcheon, three moulded ramrod-pipes (later horn-tipped ramrod), 96.5 cm barrel Provenance Peter Dyson 1994 Jonathan Stanton was the nephew of William Turvey to whom he apprenticed in 1739. He was free of the Gunmakers’ Company, 1747, proof piece and mark, 1754, elected Assistant, 1761 and Master, 1765. He died the following year in 1766.

£1,500-2,000

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398 A 12 BORE FLINTLOCK PARK RIFLE BY NOCK, CIRCA 1770-75 with browned sighted barrel rifled with nine grooves, stamped with a single London proof mark and the initials ‘HN’ beneath a star under the breech, fitted with blued back-sight, casehardened breech inlaid with a gold line and gold-lined vent (probably an early association), engraved case-hardened tang decorated with foliage, stepped bevelled lock signed beneath the pan (refreshed), fitted with bevelled cock (associated) and blued steel spring, figured walnut full stock, carved with a raised scallop moulding behind the tang, engraved brass mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with foliage inhabited by a bird, trigger-guard with acorn finial and decorated with a rococo bouquet on the bow, plain trigger-plate, three ramrod-pipes and early steel ramrod (refinished throughout), 86.5 cm barrel Provenance Peter Dyson, 2011

£1,200-1,800

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399 A 12 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY GRIFFIN & TOW, CIRCA 1775 with rebrowned swamped sighted barrel signed ‘Griffin & Tow, London’ on the flat within a linear border drawn-out to a loop over the breech, struck with Tower private proof marks on the right and with London view and proof marks on the left, each with the barrelsmith’s mark ‘IG’ between, gold-lined vent, border-engraved tang grooved for sighting and decorated with foliage on the tail, border-engraved bevelled lock retaining some early finish, signed ‘Griffin and Tow’ in capital letters beneath the pan and stamped with the letter ‘G’ on the inside, bevelled cock engraved en suite, figured walnut full stock (small bruises), borderengraved brass mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with a rococo flower on the tang, shaped side-plate, trigger-guard formed in one piece with acorn finial and a rococo flower on the bow, three ramrod-pipes, and iron trigger-plate (associated wooden ramrod), 99.3 cm barrel

£2,000-2,500

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400 A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY WOGDON, WITH PRESENTATION SPANISH BARREL DATED 1782 with browned Spanish barrel formed in two-stages, swamped muzzle section fitted with silver ‘spider’ fore-sight, octagonal breech stamped on the top with gold-lined maker’s marks of Francisco Bustindui (Neue Støckel 137 and 138), a series of gold-lined decorative marks, the owner’s initials ‘HG’, the date in gold and, on the underside ‘Given me by Richard Cumberland Esq.r and brought from Madrid by him in 1782’, gold-lined vent, engraved tang, stepped bevelled lock engraved with scrolls on the tail and signed in script enclosed by fronds within an oval beneath the pan, figured walnut full stock, carved with a scrolling moulding with a scallop shell behind the tang, chequered grip, inlaid with the owner’s initials ‘HG’ in silver wire opposite the lock, engraved iron mounts comprising butt-plate, trigger-guard with acorn terminal, three ramrod-pipes, and horn fore-end cap (later horn-tipped ramrod), 90.7 cm barrel Provenance Probably presented by Richard Cumberland to the Irish Nationalist Henry Grattan Peter Dyson, circa 1998 Literature John O’Sullivan & De Witt Bailey, Robert Wogdon, Wogdon & Barton, John Barton, London Gunmakers 1764-1819, Bonhams 2019, p. 252-253

Richard Cumberland (1732-1811) was a spy and diplomat during the government of Lord North and is best known as a dramatist, playwright and poet. After leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, Cumberland in 1761 became private secretary to the Earl of Halifax in the Duke of Newcastle’s ministry and later held other government positions. His first success as a dramatist came with The Brothers (1769), a sentimental comedy whose plot is reminiscent of Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones, and he continued to write prolifically. The West Indian (1771) was first produced by the great actor-manager David Garrick and held the stage throughout the 18th century. He regarded an early tragedy, Tiberius in Capreae, as his masterpiece but could persuade no management to produce it and his serious works were not successful, with the exception of The Jew (1794) and The Wheel of Fortune (1795). Cumberland was querulous in the face of criticism and quarrelled with many famous contemporaries, notably Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith, both of whom were opposed to sentimentalism in the drama. (abridged from Brittanica, accessed September 2023).

Cumberland made a number of trips to Spain and Madrid, including a secret mission to the capital in 1780 as Secretary to the Board of Trade. For a full account see Memoirs Of Richard Cumberland, written by himself, Henry Flanders ed. 1826-1911.

Spanish barrels, particularly those from Madr, were prized in the 18th century, as described in Acton’s essay on Shooting (1789) ‘…..The Spanish barrels have always been held in great esteem, as well on account of the quality of the iron, which is generally considered as the best in Europe, as for they pass for being forged and bored more perfectly than any others. It should be observed, however, that of the Spanish barrels, those only that are made in the capital are accounted truly valuable…..’ and ‘…..After the barrels of Madrid, those of Bustindui and St. Olabe at Placentia in Biscay; and of Jean and Clement Pedroestevo, Eudal Pous, and Martin Marèchal, at Barcelona, are the most esteemed; these usually sell in France for 80 French livres, or 3l. 10s…..’

£2,000-3,000

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401 A 12 BORE FLINTLOCK WILDFOWLING GUN BY ROBERT WOGDON, CIRCA 1765-70 with rebrowned barrel of so-called ‘Spanish’ form, fitted with silver ‘spider’ fore-sight, struck with two barrelsmith’s marks retaining traces of gold lining, in a rectangle ‘Wogdon/London’ and a rampant lion, over the breech, gold-lined vent, struck beneath with London proof marks, engraved tang decorated with rococo scrolls and foliage, stepped bevelled lock signed in script, bevelled cock en suite (top-jaw replaced), figured walnut half-stock carved with a rococo shell behind the tang, pineapple chequered grip, ‘skeleton’ butt, engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate, decorated with foliage, triggerguard with acorn finial of early form and a rococo flower on the bow and three ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap and engraved silver barrel bolt escutcheons (associated ramrod, iron parts with areas of pitting), 92.2 cm barrel Provenance Privately acquired, 1993 Literature John O’Sullivan & De Witt Bailey, Robert Wogdon, Wogdon & Barton, John Barton, London Gunmakers 1764-1819, Bonhams 2019, p. 255

£800-1,000

402 A 12 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY BARKER, WIGAN, CIRCA 1775-80 with rebrowned two stage barrel swamped towards the muzzle and octagonal over the breech, the latter stamped with gold-lined Spanish style barrelsmith’s mark ‘Barker Wigan’, London proof marks and a further barrelsmith’s mark, ‘WB’, engraved grooved tang, signed stepped bevelled lock with some later case-hardened colour (the pan with later gold lining, steel relined), figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, iron mounts comprising skeleton butt-plate formed of a series of engraved strapwork panels decorated with beadwork and small flowerheads, trigger-guard with very short finials and engraved bow, three ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod (perhaps an early association), 94.7 cm barrel Provenance Brian Boys, 2003 Literature Albert Littler, “An Old Wigan Trade”, Journal of The Society of Archer – Antiquaries, vol. 34 (1991), pp. 30-41.

William Barker is thought to have come to Wigan circa 1738-40 where he apprenticed to Jonathan Johnson serving until 1748 when he became a Freeman and traded in his own right at Standishgate until his death around circa 1786-7. He is principally known for his clocks and crossbows; the latter were numbered up to 416. Firearms by this maker are rare.

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403 A FINE 22 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY DURS EGG, CIRCA 1790 with rebrowned octagonal twist barrel rifled with eight grooves, fitted with reblued folding back-sight and silver-gilt fore-sight, signed ‘D. Egg, London’ in gold capital letters over the breech, inlaid with two gold lines, and struck beneath with London proof marks, gold-lined vent, engraved case-hardened breech tang decorated with foliage inhabited by two game birds and a sunburst, engraved stepped bevelled lock retaining some early case-hardening colour, decorated with a hound putting up a game bird on the tail and signed beneath the pan, fitted with blued sliding bolt safety-catch, bevelled cock decorated with a spray of foliage, goldlined semi-rainproof pan and border-engraved steel chiseled with a central triangular panel, the interior fitted with blued main and sear spring, figured walnut half-stock, finely chequered grip, the butt with raised cheek-piece on the left, case-hardened iron mounts, comprising butt-plate engraved with a hound putting up a game-bird on the tang, trigger-plate with stylised pomegranate finial, trigger-guard with a moulded pillar at the front, engraved with a game vignette on the bow and a star on the rear scroll, fore-end-cap decorated with a sunburst, vacant gold escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, iron sling swivels, original wooden ramrod with chequered brass tip, iron sling swivels, vacant gold escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons and some early finish throughout, 69.6 cm barrel Provenance Bonhams 23rd April 2008, lot 371.

Exhibited The Rowland Club, Cotswolds weekend, June 2008.

Durs Egg, son of Leonz a gunmaker in Oberbuchsiten, Switzerland, was born in 1748 and, after a short stay in Paris, is recorded working with John Twigg in London around 1772. He was granted denization in 1791, worked as Gunmaker and Sword Cutler, 24 Princes Street, Leicester Fields, 1778 - 86; 1 Coventry Street, Haymarket, 1786 - 1804; 132 Strand (near Somerset House), 1804 - 16; 1 Pall Mall Colonnade, 1816 - 32. He had a factory at 35 Mansell Street, 1794 – 11, his house and workshop was at 9 Kensington Gore, 1797 – 1802 and Knightsbridge Green, 1802 - 30. He was Contractor to Ordnance, 1784 – 1820, was granted patents for a breech loading gun, waterproof locks, recoiling barrel, pistol shoulder butt, tubular sights in 1803; and improved flintlocks, 3 & 4 barrelled guns, stick gun and safety powder flask in 1812. He was Gunmaker to George IV & Duke of York. A silver-mounted flintlock breechloading rifle by Durs Egg, made around 1784, is preserved in the Royal Collection, Windsor. He became blind in 1822 and died in 1831.

See Blair 1973, pp. 266-299 and 305-353.

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404 A 48 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN FOR A BOY OR A LADY BY DURS EGG, PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1785-90 with rebrowned barrel formed in two-stages, fitted with silver ‘spider’ fore-sight, signed in gold letters over the breech, inlaid with two gold lines, gold lined vent and stamped with private proof marks beneath, engraved grooved tang, stepped bevelled lock engraved with flowers on the tail, signed in script beneath the gold-lined pan, fitted with engraved bevelled cock (top-jaw replaced), bolt safety-catch, semi-rainproof pan and steel spring with roller, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip, engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate with a Britannia trophy on the tang, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, triggerguard with a pillar at the front and engraved with a hound on the bow, two ramrod-pipes, fore-end-cap and two sling swivels, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and horn-tipped ramrod with brass terminal, probably the original, 81.2 cm barrel See footnote to Lot 403.

£1,500-2,000

405 A 10 BORE FLINTLOCK WILDFOWLING GUN BY DURS EGG, NO. 212, CIRCA 1800-5 with browned twist sighted barrel signed in gold letters over the breech and engraved with a star, struck beneath with London proof marks, case-hardened patent breech inlaid with two gold lines, gold-lined vent, engraved case-hardened tang decorated with foliage, engraved case-hardened flush-fitting lock decorated with border ornament, a trophy-of-music on the tail and signed in script, fitted with engraved bolt safety-catch, ‘French’ cock, gold-lined rainproof pan, patent steel with safety vent and inscribed ‘Egg Patent’, blued steel spring with roller, and the inside with much early finish, highly figured walnut half-stock, finely chequered grip, engraved case-hardened steel mounts comprising butt-plate with a retrieving hound on the tang, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, blued trigger-guard with pillar forward terminal and a hound on the bow, blued fore-end cap, vacant gold escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and brass-tipped ramrod with worm, probably the original, and much early finish throughout, 99.5 cm barrel Provenance Lord Home of the Hirsel Christie’s South Kensington, 15th July 1994, lot 104 See footnote to Lot 403.

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406 A ROYAL 22 BORE D.B. FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY JOHN PROBIN, LONDON PROOF MARKS CIRCA 1809-11 with rebrowned sighted barrels signed ‘Maker to His Majesty the Prince of Wales’ in gold letters on the rib, struck with proof marks beneath, ‘narrow twisted’ and ‘Nephew to the late IP’, case-hardened breeches inlaid with a thick and thin gold line at the top and bottom and struck with the gold-lined barrelsmith’s stamps, engraved case-hardened tang decorated with foliage and a sunburst, engraved flush-fitting locks decorated with border ornament and a hound putting up a game bird on the tails, gold-lined maker’s stamps, fitted with ‘French’ cocks and gold-lined rainproof pans, figured walnut half-stock, finely chequered fore-end and grip, the butt with raised cheek-piece on the left, engraved steel mounts retaining some early colour, comprising butt-plate decorated with a hound putting up a game bird, trigger-plate with Prince of Wales’ ostrich feather terminal, trigger-guard with a Brittania trophy on the bow, and two ramrods-pipes, silver escutcheon engraved with the Prince of Wales’ feathers issuant from a crown and motto ‘Ich Dien’, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and silver-tipped ramrod with silvered worm, 82.4 cm barrels

Provenance Peter Dyson & Son, 1994 John Probin, nephew of the gunmaker of the same name, is recorded working in Birmingham circa 1802-17. He is recorded as an apprentice circa 1809 and by 1816 he was insolvent, a debtor in Fleet prison. For an account of the Probin Gunmaking Dynasty see Godwin, Evans and Williams 2016, pp. 14-23. The engraving is perhaps from the workshop of William Palmer.

£4,000-6,000

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407 A FINE 18 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY JOHN CALVERT, LEEDS, CIRCA 1797-1805 with rebrowned barrel formed in two stages, fitted with gold bead fore-sight enclosed by gold scrolls, chiselled at the median, inlaid with elaborate gold scrolls and foliage, formed with a two-stage flat over the breech and signed ‘Calvert Leeds’ in a gold oval enclosed by gold fronds, with a further flat on each side of the breech adjacent to the left and right of the stock, engraved grooved tang inlaid with gold en suite, stepped bevelled lock engraved with flowers on the tail and a hound putting up a bird behind the cock, signed on a gold oval carried by gold foliage and a trumpet beneath the pan, fitted with engraved bevelled cock enriched with gold including a sunburst on the top-jaw, gold-lined pan, border-engraved steel and blued steel spring, figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip and fore-end, engraved and gilt steel mounts en suite with the barrel and lock, comprising buttplate decorated with game birds, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, trigger-guard with a festoon on the bow and pillar front terminal, three ramrod-pipes, gold shield-shaped escutcheon engraved with the owner’s crest, a stag’s head, enclosed by a pair of silver fronds, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, silver fore-end cap and horn-tipped ramrod, perhaps the original, 101.2 cm barrel Provenance Peter Dyson, 1996

£2,000-3,000

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408 A RARE D.B. 20 BORE SINGLE TRIGGER FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY CHARLES GRIERSON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, LONDON, NO. 92, CIRCA 1800-10 with rebrowned sighted barrels signed in gold capitals on the rib, cased hardened patent breeches stamped ‘Grierson Patent’ and inlaid with gold lines, stamped with the serial number beneath, gold-lined vents, engraved grooved breech tang decorated with dense foliage, engraved flush-fitting locks decorated with a hound on the tails, sunbursts and signed in block capitals, fitted with semi-rainproof gold-lined pans and engraved ‘French’ cocks (top-jaws replaced), border-engraved steels (now separate, currently fitted with working replacements) figured half-stock, chequered grip (rubbed), the butt with raised cheek-piece, engraved blued steel mounts comprising butt-plate, trigger-plate with pineapple terminal trigger-guard decorated with a trophy on the bow, three ramrod-pipes, two sling mounts, silver barrel bolt escutcheons and brass-tipped wooden ramrod, perhaps the original, 77.2 cm barrels

409 A 10 BORE FLINTLOCK WILDFOWLING GUN BY BEES, PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1800 with associated browned two-stage sighted barrel, engraved grooved case-hardened tang, stepped bevelled lock signed within a scrollwork panel, figured walnut half-stock (repaired behind the tang), chequered grip, engraved case-hardened iron mounts comprising butt-plate, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, trigger-guard, three ramrod-pipes (refinished throughout) and associated horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, 137.2 cm barrel Provenance Brian Boys, 2000

£1,200-1,800

Provenance Douglas B. (“Bunny”) Tubbs, 1996 The single trigger fires the left barrel first.

Charles Grierson, a former workman of John Manton, is recorded at 10 New Bond Street, 1793-1841. He was Gunmaker to George III and granted English Patent No. 2566 in 1801 for his ‘Improved Taper Breech’.

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410 AN UNUSUAL 34 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY EZEKIEL BAKER WITH FINE INDIAN BARREL, NO. 1937, CIRCA 1815 with earlier Arabian or Indian barrel formed in five moulded stages, with faceted vase-shaped muzzle, decorated behind with a spiralling design of silver and copper alloy lines, a section filled with hatched panels within diamond frames of copper alloy behind, a further spiral section and octagonal over the breech, the latter inlaid with a gold line and with gold-lined vent added at the time of its incorporation into the gun, struck beneath the breech with private view and proof marks of Ezekiel Baker, engraved tang decorated with flowers and foliage, numbered 1937 and stamped ‘EB’, stepped bevelled lock decorated with a flower on the tail, a pair of game birds behind the cock and signed in gold capital letters beneath the pan, fitted with pierced cock, rainproof pan and steel spring with roller, figured walnut full stock, finely chequered ‘pistol’ grip, inlaid with a hound in pursuit of a hare in silver opposite the lock, the butt with raised cheek-piece on the left, steel mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with a hound, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, trigger-guard signed by the maker and decorated with a hound and a game bird, three ramrod-pipes, vacant shield-shaped silver escutcheon and a further silver escutcheon set into the grip, three ramrod-pipes, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, a silver band over the fore-end, and early horn-tipped wooden ramrod, 114.3 cm barrel Provenance Christies Arms & Armour Sale, 12th December 1997, Lot 133

£1,000-1,500

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411 A RARE 0.66 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK VOLUNTEER CARBINE WITH ENCLOSED LOCK BY HENRY NOCK, CIRCA 1800, NO. 59, COMPLETE WITH ITS BAYONET with two-stage barrel rifled with seven grooves, octagonal patent breech, fitted with bead foresight and associated back-sight, relined platinum vent, patent screwless lock signed ‘H Nock’ in script in front of the cock and with a starburst over the front retaining hook (steel replaced), figured walnut full stock, with leather-covered padded cheek-piece (the surface crackled, very small losses), the butt with patchbox with Baker patent brass cover on the right, full length ramrod channel, full brass mounts of regulation type comprising butt-plate engraved ‘No. 59’ on the tang, trigger-guard forming an additional ramrod-pipe, two ramrod pipes, and fore-end cap, iron sling swivels and iron ramrod with button head, probably the original, complete with its bayonet numbered en suite, of regulation type, with straight blade double-edged towards the point, iron stirrup hilt with curling quillons, back-strap numbered ‘59’ and with ‘GR’, and wire-bound grip, 77.0 cm barrel (2) Provenance Peter Dyson

£3,000-4,000

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412 A 25 BORE D.B. FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY SAMUEL NOCK, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, NO. 531, CIRCA 1805-15 with rebrowned sighted heavy barrels signed ‘S. Nock London Gunmaker to his Majesty’ on the rib, struck with the serial number and London proof marks beneath, engraved case-hardened patent breeches struck twice with the gold-lined maker’s mark and decorated with a hound between on top, platinum lined vents, the rear stamped ‘S. Nock Patent’, engraved breech tang decorated with a Brittania trophy and the sighting groove decorated with a hound, engraved stepped bevelled case-hardened locks decorated with foliate borders, a sun burst and stamped with the gold-lined maker’s stamp beneath the rainproof pans, fitted with pierced cocks, and blued steel springs with rollers, highly figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip (small dents, an early silver reinforce ahead of the locks), the butt with raised cheek-piece, engraved steel mounts probably from William Palmers workshop, comprising butt-plate, trigger-plate with pineapple finial, signed trigger-guard decorated with a hound on the bow, two ramrod-pipes, foreend cap with a further pineapple and a game bird, silver escutcheon engraved with the owner’s initials ‘DMB’, silver barrel bolt escutcheons and brass-tipped wooden ramrod with worm, perhaps the original: in its original fitted oak case, the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle, the interior lined in green baize, lid with trade label of Samuel Nock trade label for 1806-26, fitted with lock tray (restored), and complete with some accessories including embossed copper flask by Dixon & Sons, mainspring clamp and wad-cutter, 71.5 cm barrels

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413 A 24 BORE D.B. FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY SAMUEL NOCK, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, NO. 137, CIRCA 1806-10 with browned twist sighted barrels signed ‘S. Nock London’ on the respective breeches and ‘Gunmaker to his Majesty’ on the rib all in gold capitals, struck with the serial number and London proof marks beneath, engraved case-hardened breeches inlaid with three gold lines and decorated with a pair of hounds divided by a sunburst, platinum-lined vents, engraved case-hardened breech tang decorated with scrolls and foliage, the sighting groove decorated with a rabbit, engraved stepped bevelled case-hardened locks decorated with foliate borders, a flourish on the tails, signed in block capitals beneath the gold-lined rainproof pans, fitted with ‘French’ cocks, engraved steels and blued steel springs with rollers, highly figured walnut half-stock, chequered grip (rubbed, small dents), the butt with raised cheek-piece, engraved steel mounts, probably from William Palmers workshop (rubbed), comprising butt-plate, trigger-plate with bee hive finial sur-mounted by a pineapple, trigger-guard with engraved bow, two ramrodpipes, fore-end cap with a further pineapple, vacant gold escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons and brass-tipped wooden ramrod with worm, perhaps the original: in its original fitted mahogany case, the exterior with flush-fitting brass carrying handle, the interior lined in green baize, lid with trade labels of Henry Nock (cut-down) for circa 1789-1804 with Samuel Nock trade label above for post 1806, fitted with lock tray, and complete with early leather bandolier and cleaning rod, 71.5 cm barrels Samuel Nock apprenticed to his uncle, Henry Nock in 1791. He was Free of the Gunmakers’ Company 1800, took livery 1820, was elected assistant 1833, became Master 1836. . He was appointed Gunmaker-in-Ordinary to George III in 1805, George IV, 1822, William IV, 1830 and Queen Victoria in 1837, and died 1851.

An accompanying green card is inscribed ‘LOT 89, WW MAY 51, £2.10, DB F.L. S. NOCK 1812 – 1832, 180 FLEET ST. 1812, 116 GERMAIN ST. 1812 – 1832, + SB. FL. SQUIRE & OLD F.L. PRIMITIVE’

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414 A .300 CALIBRE NORTH AMERICAN FLINTLOCK PLAINS RIFLE, THE BARREL

BY WILLIAM GARDNER, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with heavy octagonal barrel rifled with seven grooves, fitted with silver blade foresight, standing back-sight, stamped with the gold-lined barrelsmith’s mark ‘William Gardner’ at the breech and inlaid with two gold lines, gold-lined vent, engraved grooved breech tang, stepped bevelled lock signed ‘Squire & Co.’ in block capitals, engraved with border ornament, a trophy-of-music on the tail, and a sunburst, fitted with engraved cock, rainproof pan, engraved steel and steel spring with roller, the inside stamped ‘WA’, closegrained figured full stock with take-down fore-end, finely chequered grip, the butt with raised cheek-piece on the left enriched with an inlaid silver star above and a pierced silver panel beneath, and, on the right, with patch box with hinged brass cover on a skeleton mount, the cover operated by a button beneath, brass mounts comprising curved butt-plate with faceted tang (the upper terminal slightly bent, trigger-guard with faceted terminal four ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, silver vestigial sideplate, silver diamond-shaped barrel bolt escutcheons vacant silver escutcheon, some original finish, and original horn-tipped wooden ramrod, 103.7 cm barrel

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415 A PAIR OF 14 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS BY W. TURVEY, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS AND SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1752, MAKER’S MARK OF JEREMIAH ASHLEY with slightly swamped barrels signed on the top flats within an engraved border drawn-out to a hatched and foliate terminal over the breeches, struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark on the left, fitted with silver fore-sights chased with foliage, engraved tangs decorated with rococo scallops and foliage, signed rounded locks with slender raised borders, rounded cocks en suite, moulded highly figured full stocks (small repairs) carved with a raised moulding involving a shell behind the barrel tangs, silver mounts cast and chased in low relief comprising spurred pommels with engraved spurs and flowerhead caps, pierced side-plates decorated en rocaille, trigger-guards with scallop shell finials and engraved with rococo shells and foliage on the bows, vacant rococo escutcheons, and moulded baluster ramrod-pipes (later silver-tipped ramrods, the iron parts with light patination), 25.8 cm. barrels Provenance Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 22nd April 2009, lot 339 William 2 Turvey was apprenticed to George Turvey in 1742, and free of the Gunmakers’ Company in 1750.

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416 A PAIR OF 20 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S PISTOLS BY JAMES BARBAR, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1762 with three-stage barrels signed ‘Barbar’ on the breeches and struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark on the left, signed rounded locks, full stocks (small repairs, one grip cracked through and repaired), full silver mounts comprising spurred pommels fitted with grotesque mask caps, respectively engraved ‘4th or Royal Regt. of Irish Dragoon Guards, 1793 A. D. Capt.

John Clarke’ and ’4th or Royal Regt. of Irish Dragoon Guards, 1793 A. D. Lieut. & Adjt. Joseph Clarke’, solid side-plates decorated with foliage and ‘1st Regiment of Horse’ on a scroll, escutcheons formed as three ostrich feathers with the inscription ‘Ich Dien’ (restorations), and two ramrod-pipes (later horn-tipped ramrods), 25.7 cm barrels (2)

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417 A PAIR OF 28 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK RIFLED TARGET HOLSTER PISTOLS BY HARVEY WALKLATE MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, LONDON PROOF AND SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1788, MAKERS MARK OF MICHAEL BARNETT with octagonal swamped sighted polygroove-rifled barrels signed in block capitals and fitted with standing back-sights with elaborate urn-shaped finials, engraved with a band of foliage at the breeches, gold-lined vents, engraved tangs decorated with a symmetrical design of thistles, engraved stepped bevelled locks decorated with foliage on the tails, signed on a scroll carried by a spray of thistle foliage beneath the gold-lined pans, fitted with bevelled cocks (one neck cracked), sliding bolt safety-catches, rollers engraved with thistles en suite and fitted with steels, set triggers retaining some blued finish, figured walnut half-stocks, finely chequered butts, full engraved silver mounts comprising spurred pommels and flush-fitting side-plates decorated with thistles, trigger-guards with elaborate pineapple finials (fitted with spurs in their early working life), escutcheons engraved with the owner’s crest, a falcon’s head above the initials ‘JM’, rear ramrod-pipe, barrel bolt escutcheon and steel forward ramrod-pipe, early ramrods, probably original, comprising one with horn tip and iron worm and the other with iron tip incorporating a powder measure, and some early finish, 28.5 cm (2) Provenance Robin Wiginton, Arbour Antiques, 21st March 2001 Harvey Walklate Mortimer (1753-1819), was appointed Gunmaker to George III, 1783, contractor to the East India Company, 1796 – 1806, and specialised in repeating pistols and goldmounted guns for the Eastern market. He advertised “For the Inspection of the Curious, just finished, Three Pair of Elegant Pistols, mounted in solid gold value 547£ intended as a present to a foreign Prince”, in the Morning Herald, 20th August 1784. He made gold mounted firearms set with diamonds for the U.S. Government as presents for Bey of Tunis, 1801–2.

£6,000-8,000

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418 A FINE SMALL 90 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL

BY PETER BARBER, NEWARK, CIRCA 1750 with turn-off cannon barrel engraved at the breech end, rounded breech numbered ‘1’ and struck with London proof marks and the maker’s mark beneath, engraved box-lock action signed within rococo scrolls carried by martial trophies on the right, with a further trophy and inscribed ‘Newark’ on the left, engraved sliding thumb-piece safety-catch, swelling figured walnut butt profusely inlaid with silver wire scrolls, chased silver butt-cap decorated with a grotesque mask, engraved steel trigger-guard, and in fine condition throughout 3.0 cm, barrel Provenance Bonhams Knightsbridge, 20th April 2011, lot 383 Peter Barber (circa 1716-67) married Sarah Marfleet, his second wife, in 1748. Their son Isaac was christened 14th September 1750 and also worked as a gunmaker in Newark.

£1,000-1,200

419 A 60 BORE D.B. SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK SINGLE TRIGGER TURN-OFF PISTOL BY BARBAR, LONDON, PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, MAKER’S MARK OF CHARLES FREETH, CIRCA 1771-3 with reblued turn-off cannon barrels, faceted breeches and box-lock action boldly chiselled with scrolling rococo flowers and foliage, inscribed ‘London’ on a scroll and struck with proof marks on the right, signed on a scroll and fitted with sliding pan cut-off with lever on the left, cock, top-jaw and steel chiselled en suite, walnut butt profusely inlaid with silver wire scrolls and pellets, silver butt-cap cast and chased with a grotesque mask, and silver escutcheon engraved with owner’s crested initials ‘RD’, 11.3 cm barrels Provenance Privately purchased from Mrs. Bernice Hoath, 8th March 2011 James (1) Barbar was the son of Lewis to whom he was apprenticed in 1714. He became free of the Gunmakers’ Company 1722, was elected Assistant, 1737 and became Master in 1742. He was appointed Gentleman Armourer to George II, 1741. He retired in 1767 and died in 1773.

The crest is that of Durham.

£2,000-2,500

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420 AN UNUSUAL PAIR OF 22 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS WITH BRASS BARRELS BY SAMUEL BRUNN, NO 55 CHARING CROSS, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1797, MAKER’S MARK OF MICHAEL BARNETT with octagonal brass barrels inscribed ‘No 55 Charing Cross London’, bronze fore-sights and gold-lined vents, engraved steel breech tangs incorporating the back-sights and decorated with Brittania trophies, signed engraved stepped bevelled locks fitted with engraved sliding bolt safety-catches, gold-lined pans, detents, and steel springs with roller (one cock replaced), blued set triggers, figured walnut half-stocks inlaid with chased sheet silver scrollwork enclosing a shield-shaped escutcheon behind the breech tang and with further arrangements of pineapple scrolls and foliage over the fore-ends, chequered swelling butts, engraved silver mounts comprising chased silver butt-caps, chased silver trigger-plate with pineapple finials, engraved silver trigger-guards decorated with foliage, silver fore-end caps, ramrod-pipes engraved with a sunburst and carried by a silver rib, engraved barrel bolt escutcheons, original ramrod (horn tip and the other ramrod restored), 24.7 cm barrels (2) Provenance W. Graham Lewis, formerly on loan to the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland (1971-2001) Sold Sotheby’s Olympia, 7th December 2001, lot 264 For the an account Michael Barnett’s work and the attribution of his marks, see Dickens 1999, pp. 86 – 117.

Samuel Brunn, took over John Knubley’s business at 7 Charing Cross Road on his death in 1795. He continued as John Knubley until 1797, registered silver maker’s mark as hilt maker with Goldsmiths’ Company in 1796. Under his own name, Sword Cutler and Gunmaker, Opposite the Mews Gate, 55 Charing Cross, 1798 – 1804; 56 Charing Cross, 1805 – 1820. By Appointment to Prince of Wales, 1800 – 1811; to Prince Regent, 1812 – 1820. Contractor to Ordnance, 1797 – 1809.

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421 A FINE CASED PAIR OF 36 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY DURS EGG, NO. 1 PALL MALL COLONNADE, LONDON, NO. 823, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1816-20 each with browned twist octagonal sighted barrel signed in gold capitals, case-hardened patent breech inlaid with a pair of gold lines and platinum-lined vent, struck beneath with the serial number and London proof marks, breech hook stamped en suite, engraved case-hardened tang incorporating back-sight, engraved flush-fitting flat lock engraved with a Britannia trophy on the tail, border ornament and a sunburst, signed in script beneath the rainproof pan, each fitted with engraved blued bolt safety-catch also locking the steel, engraved bevelled ‘French’ cock, patent steel with safety vent and blued steel spring with roller, the inside fitted with detent and numbered en suite, blued triggers, highly figured walnut half-stock, small rounded chequered butt, finely engraved blued iron mounts comprising trigger-plate with elaborate pineapple finial, trigger-guard applied with a spur and engraved with a Britannia trophy, fore-end cap decorated with a sunburst, vacant gold escutcheon engraved with the owner’s crest, silver barrelbolt escutcheons, original horn-tipped ramrod, and much original finish throughout: in original lined and fitted mahogany case, the lid with flush-fitting brass carrying handle and escutcheon engraved with the owner’s initials ‘F.C.’, the interior with trade label and lined in green baize (small areas of wear), complete with early accessories including red leather-covered three-way flask, bullet mould and rammer, 26.0 cm barrels Provenance Frederick Cass (1787-1861) of Beaulieu Lodge, Winchmore Hill, Edmonton, second son of William Cass (1743-1819), who inherited on the death of his childless elder brother, Charles, in 1825.

William Keith Neal, no. C51. sold Christie’s, King Street, 5th November 1995, lot 325 Literature William Keith Neal & David H. L. Back, British Gunmakers, Their Trade Cards, Cases and Equipment, 1760 – 1860, plate 346, pp..42-3, plate 116.

A manuscript note in the case reads ‘Mem: Dec.r 15th 1826. Mr. Durs Egg, told me that these Pistols loaded with the small charge of Powder, would carry a ball 50 yds. & upwards, sufficiently strong to kill, & if loaded with two full charges of Powder, would do execution at 200 yds. & if more powder was used 300 yds. When shot is used instead of Ball put in about the weight of a Ball & a half to the usual charge of powder.’

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422 A FINE CASED PAIR OF 32 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY DURS EGG, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1790 with browned twist octagonal swamped sighted barrels signed in script along the top flats, breeches fitted with back-sights and engraved with a band of foliage behind, gold-lined vents, stamped beneath with proof marks, German silver fore-sights, border engraved case-hardened tangs each decorated with foliage, engraved case-hardened flat bevelled locks decorated with border ornament, a Brittania trophy on the tail, and signed in scripted beneath the pans, fitted with engraved blued safety-catches, engraved bevelled cocks and blued steel springs, the interiors fitted with detents and retaining much early blued and burnished finish, blued adjustable set triggers, highly figured walnut stocks, ‘pineapple’ chequered butts (light bruising), engraved blued steel mounts comprising pear-shaped butt-caps engraved with a flowerhead, trigger-plates with pineapple finials, large trigger-guards with a Britannia trophy on the bows, horn fore-end caps, early horn-tipped ramrods, one with steel worm, probably the original, much original finish throughout, perhaps unused: in contemporary fitted mahogany case, the lid exterior with brass flush-fitting carrying handle, the interior with trade label for 1827-31, lined in green baize (some old repairs, one compartment lid replaced, ring handles missing), 25.2 cm barrels Provenance Dr. Robert Rabett, sold Bonhams Knightsbridge, 30th November 2011, lot 554 Exhibited The Craft Of The Gunmaker 1640-1870 (cat. no. 28) Durs Egg, the son of the gunmaker Leonz, was born in Switzerland in 1748. After a short stay in Paris he came to London and worked for John Twigg at 132 Strand. He was gunmaker to George IV and the Duke of York. He became blind in 1822 and died in 1831. A silver-mounted breech-loading Ferguson rifle by this maker is preserved in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. A pair of silver-mounted flintlock sporting guns by Durs Egg, marked for 1789 and made for Frederick, Prince of Baden (1756-1817) were sold in this room, 4th December 2012, lot 415. For a full account of the Egg family see Blair 1973, pp. 266-299 and 305-353.

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423 A PAIR OF 20 BORE FLINTLOCK LIVERY PISTOLS BY ISAAC BARBER, NEWARK, LONDON PROOF MARKS, LATE 18TH CENTURY with rebrowned barrels formed in two stages, engraved moulded medians, octagonal breeches inscribed ‘Newark’, struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark on the left, engraved tangs incorporating the back-sights, stepped bevelled borderengraved locks signed in script beneath the pan (steels refaced, engraving rubbed), figured full stocks, swelling flat-sided butts, brass trigger-guards engraved with a rococo flower and border ornament on the bow, early wooden ramrods with iron worms and ivory and horn tips, 20.1 cm barrels Provenance Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 26th November 2014, lot 588 Isaac Barber (1750 - 1828) was the son of Peter, a gunsmith, and Sarah. He worked in partnership with Joseph Boaler 1804-16 and died in Newark 26th February 1828, age 77 years leaving an estate estimated around £12,000.

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424 A 20 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED LONG FLINTLOCK PRESENTATION PISTOL BY H.W. MORTIMER, LONDON, MAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, BIRMINGHAM SILVER HALLMARKS FOR 1803, MAKER’S MARK OF JOSEPH BUNNEY with three-stage barrel inlaid with a spiralling design of two alternating patterns of foliage over its forward half, a series of celestial motifs enclosing a scroll inscribed ‘London, Gunmaker to His Majesty’ at the median, an elaborate spray of silver flowers over the full length of the breech, (rubbed), fitted with silver ‘spider’ foresight, gold-lined vent and much blued finish, stepped bevelled lock inlaid with silver, decorated en suite with the barrel and incorporating the maker’s signature on a scroll, fitted with bolt safety-catch, gold-lined pan, and steel spring with roller, figured walnut full stock profusely inlaid with silver wire and chased silver plaques, involving an elaborate design of scrolling tendrils filled with cornucopiae, celestial motifs and pierced trophies-of-music (the inlay with expert restorations), chased full silver mounts comprising spurred pommel with chased spiral cap of characteristic form and engraved with the owner’s name in Arabic, solid side-plate decorated with a Britannia trophy, trigger-guard with pineapple finial and a Britannia trophy on the bow, two engraved ramrod-pipes, and vacant shield-shaped escutcheon (light wear throughout, ramrod replaced), 37.7 cm barrel Provenance W. Graham Lewis, formerly on loan to the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland (1971-2001) Sold Sotheby’s Olympia, 7th December 2001, lot 265 Harvey Walklate Mortimer (1753-1819) specialised in repeating pistols and gold-mounted guns for the Eastern market. The Morning Herald of 20th August 1784 advertised “For the Inspection of the Curious, just finished, Three Pair of Elegant Pistols, mounted in solid gold value 547£ intended as a present to a foreign Prince”. In 1801-2 he made gold mounted firearms set with diamonds for U.S. Government as presents for Bey of Tunis. The auction of stock by Harvey Walklate Junior in 1816 included ‘2 cases of grand ornamented pistols with their stocks, locks and barrels richly inlaid with gold and silver ornaments’.

The Arabic inscription reads ‘S. Hussein’.

£3,000-4,000

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425 A 16 BORE FLINTLOCK OVER-AND-UNDER OFFICER’S PISTOL WITH DETACHABLE SKELETON SHOULDER STOCK BY STAUDENMAYER, LONDON, NO. 1224, CIRCA 1810 with browned tapering sighted barrels signed on the upper flat and engraved with a band of foliage at the breeches, platinum-lined vents, engraved breech tang fitted with standing back-sight and decorated with a trophy-of-music, stepped bevelled locks engraved with foliage on the tails and a sunburst, fitted with sliding bolt safety-catches, ‘French’ cocks decorated en suite (top-jaws and screws replaced), semi-rainproof pans, and steel springs with rollers, highly figured walnut half-stock with finely chequered butt, engraved blued spurred trigger-guard decorated with a trophy-of-music on the bow, vacant silver escutcheon, engraved steel escutcheon for the shoulder stock, and swivel ramrod, together with figured walnut skeleton stock, with engraved blued spring-catch and mount, signed on the top ‘ Staudenmayer, London’, 20.0 cm barrels

Provenance William Keith Neal, sold Christie’s 8th November, 1995, lot 264.

The Christie’s catalogue records an accompanying note by Neal that states ‘this pistol belonged to Richard Preston, K.C. (1769-1852 ) of Leigh House, Chulmleigh, Devon , through the Cole family to an A. Cole from whom the pistols was purchased for £9’.

Literature Richard Akehurst, The World of Guns, 1972, p. 21.

Shaun Brown, Samuel Staudenmayer, Gun Maker, Cockspur Street, London, in, The Canadian Society of Arms Collecting, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2002, p. 92 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.

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426 A 21 BORE D.B. FLINTLOCK CARRIAGE PISTOL BY JACKSON MORTIMER & SON, CIRCA 1813-16 with browned twist sighted barrels signed in gothic script on the rib, engraved breech decorated with a sunburst, inlaid with gold lines, platinum vents and struck beneath with proof marks, engraved breech tang decorated with a further starburst, foliage and grooved for sighting, flush-fitting flat locks engraved with foliage, border ornament and signed in script, fitted with rainproof pans, bevelled ‘French’ cocks decorated en suite, sliding bolt safety-catches, and steel springs with rollers, figured walnut half stock, chequered butt, engraved steel mounts comprising trigger-plate with pineapple finial, trigger-guard decorated with a Brittania trophy on the bow, and ramrod-pipe, vacant silver escutcheon, silver barrel bolt escutcheons and some early finish (later ramrod), 20.6 cm barrels Provenance Privately acquired from the estate of the late John Hoath, June 2009.

Literature H. Lee Munson, The Mortimer Gunmakers·1753 – 1923, 1998, p. 79 and pl. 116.

Jackson Mortimer (1762-1834) used the marking ‘Mortimer & Son, St. James’s Street’ circa 1811-22. He was appointed Gunmaker Extraordinary to the Prince of Wales, on 8th July 1811 though he seems to have failed to take advantage of the appointment’s full commercial potential as reference to it on extant firearms is apparently unrecorded. See Munson 1998, p. 149, 152.

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427 A FINE PAIR OF 50-BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOLS SIGNED H. NOCK, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1815 with engraved case-hardened turn-off barrels each decorated with a band of acanthus around the muzzles, signed engraved case-hardened rounded actions decorated with trophies-ofarms and flowers on each side, engraved case-hardened sliding thumbpiece safety-catches with blued frames and bolts also locking the steels, blued folding triggers, chequered finely figured rounded walnut butts, vacant diamond-shaped silver escutcheons, and much original finish, each in contemporary woollen ‘shoddy’, 3.8 cm barrels (4)

428 A RARE 44 BORE OVER-AND-UNDER SELF-PRIMING PERCUSSION PISTOL SIGNED FORSYTH & CO., NO. 3311, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1820-30 with octagonal barrels with engraved linear borders and conventional foliage at the muzzles, the top barrel fitted with silver bead fore-sight and inscribed ‘London’ in gothic script over the breech, fitted with signed sliding primer mechanism on each side (restorations, springs reblued, screws replaced), engraved box-lock action decorated with foliage en suite with the barrels, fitted with engraved hammers decorated en suite and bolt safety-catches, finely chequered highly figured walnut butt, engraved numbered steel trigger-guard, engraved silver butt-cap fitted with reblued loading rod, reblued belt hook, and vacant silver escutcheon (the steel parts re-engraved, restorations), 11.2 cm barrels The mechanism is a combination of the sliding and swivel principles, comprising a priming reservoir which oscillates around a cam-like, protruding ignition chamber on an arc. The priming reservoir is swivel-linked to the hammer: at full bent, a charge of fulminate is deposited into the ignition chamber.

When fired, the priming reservoir is rotated forward, sealing the reservoir and simultaneously revealing the ignition chamber to the nose of the hammer.

Provenance William Keith Neal, sold Bonhams, Knightsbridge, 10th November 2005, lot 80

£1,500-2,000

Provenance Peter Dyson, 1995

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EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN FIREARMS VARIOUS OWNERS 429 A 42 BORE SARDINIAN MIQUELET-LOCK MUSKET, 18TH CENTURY with tapering barrel formed in two stages retained by two slender copper alloy and one iron band, flat iron lock with external mechanism and engraved details, three-quarter stock, the foreend partly encased in a large copper alloy panel extending to a pierced panel beneath the muzzle decorated with scrolling foliage, further pierced and solid engraved iron plaques ahead and about the lock, curved iron-bound butt of characteristic form, and brass-tipped iron ramrod brass, 132.4 cm barrel

430 A 34 BORE SARDINIAN MIQUELET-LOCK MUSKET, 18TH CENTURY with slender octagonal barrel (slightly bent and expertly repaired) retained by two slender iron bands, flat iron lock with external mechanism and engraved details, three-quarter stock, the fore-end partly encased in large panels of chiselled iron decorated with flowers and foliage, a further pierced panel decorated with elaborate scrolls of foliage opposite beneath the lock, curved butt of characteristic form overlaid with a decorated iron plaque along the comb, iron trigger-guard inlaid with brass, and iron ramrod, 122.5 cm barrel

431 A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK TRADE MUSKET SIGNED REDFERN, MID-19TH CENTURY with rebrowned sighted barrel formed in three stages, border-engraved stepped lock decorated with foliage on the tail, signed beneath the pan and fitted with ring-neck cock, double-set trigger, full stock with slightly curved butt with carved cheek-piece decorated with a large scroll on the left, and brass mounts in the American taste, including butt-plate with tang of shaped outline, trigger-guard with square finial and three ramrod-pipes and iron ramrod, 88.0 cm barrel

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432 AN 18 BORE VIENNESE FLINTLOCK FOWLING-PIECE BY IOHANN WAASS IN WIEN, CIRCA 1720 with swamped barrel of “Spanish” form, fitted with silver “spider” fore-sight, and stamped with the barrel smith´s mark (Neue Støckel 8386 and 8503), and a series of decorative marks all lined in gold over the breech, gold-lined vent (areas of light pitting), engraved barrel tang, signed lock engraved with scrolling foliage and a rabbit pursued by a mounted hunter taking aim, figured walnut half-stock carved with an elaborate arrangement of scrolls about the barrel tang and over the butt, gilt-brass mounts chiselled and engraved in low relief with rococo scrolls and foliage, including side-plate pierced with an arrangement of scrolling foliage inhabited by three putti and serpent heads, trigger-guard, butt-plate and crowned vacant escutcheon, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod, 111.0 cm barrel Provenance The Royal House of Hanover, sold Sotheby’s Marienburg, 6th October 2005, lot 857 The Hanoverian Royal Gunroom, Königliche Waffen 1895 inv. nr. 569, one of a pair A pair of guns signed Joh: Waas in Wien with gilded mounts and damascus barrels are recorded in The Hanoverian Royal Rüstkammer inventory of 1751 (inv. nrs. 38 & 39).

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433 A RARE AMERICAN 40 BORE JENNINGS PATTERN PERCUSSION GUN, CIRCA 1830 converted from flintlock, with octagonal sighted brass barrel stamped ‘12’ beneath the breech and fitted with a broad pierced sleeve fitting over the action, the latter of brass, inscribed ‘New York’ (rubbed) on top, extending to an iron breech block with six protruding teeth corresponding with the breech apertures, engraved stepped iron lock fitted with engraved side-hammer (screw replaced), brass grip, hardwood butt, brass butt-cap and triggerguard, 83.0 cm barrel Isaiah Jennings invented his all-metal breech-loading rifle in New York in 1818. It would appear that relatively few examples are extant.

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434 A .700 CALIBRE PERCUSSION MUSKET, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, MID-19TH CENTURY with sighted barrrel, border-engraved lock plate with ‘Tower’ and crown (hammer and other components missing), regulation full stock, and regulation brass mounts (worn) 65.0 cm barrel

£80-100 435 A BRASS BARRELLED FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS SIGNED BASS, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1830 with brass barrel formed in three stages and moulded at the muzzle, fitted with spring bayonet on top, octagonal breech inscribed ‘London’ and struck with proof marks on the left, engraved tang fitted with bayonet release, signed stepped bevelled lock engraved with foliage and a sunburst, fitted with cock en suite and steel spring with roller, figured full stock, engraved brass mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with foliage and a drum, trigger-guard with pineapple finial and a rococo bouquet on the bow and two ramrod-pipes, and early brass-tipped ramrod with iron worm, probably the original, 36.0 cm barrel Provenance Acquired by the owner’s father circa 1970

£1,200-1,800 190

436 A BRASS BARRELLED FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY BARBER, NEWARK, CIRCA 1770 with brass barrel formed in four stages and moulded at the muzzle, inscribed ‘Newark’ on the flat and struck with private proof marks on the left of the breech, fitted with topmounted spring bayonet released by a catch on the tang, signed stepped bevelled lock fitted with bolt safety-catch fitted with bevelled cock decorated en suite, figured walnut full stock, pineapple chequered grip (fore-end split), borderengraved brass mounts (patinated) comprising butt-plate with tang of shaped outline and trigger guard with acorn finial of early form, a pair of ramrod pipes, and complete with an early horn-tipped ramrod with iron worm, 36.0 cm barrel

£800-1,200 437 A BRASS BARRELLED FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY FIELD, LONDON, CIRCA 1790 with brass barrel formed in three stages and moulded at the muzzle, inscribed ‘London’ and engraved with a band at the breech, border-engraved tang, engraved stepped bevelled lock signed in an oval (pitting), figured walnut full stock (extensive repairs), later chequered grip, engraved brass mounts comprising butt-plate with a rococo flower on the bow, skeleton side-plate, trigger-guard with pineapple finial (repaired), and a rococo flower on the bow, and two ramrodpipes (associated ramrod), 35.7 cm barrel

£600-800

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438 A BRASS-BARRELLED FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY ASTON, MANCHESTER, PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1790 with barrel formed in four stages and belled at the muzzle, fitted with spring bayonet above (catch restored), octagonal breech inscribed ‘Manchester’, on the top flat, border-engraved tang with bayonet release catch, signed border-engraved stepped bevelled lock fitted with bolt safety and large roller, figured full stock, pineapple chequered grip, , border-engraved brass mount comprising butt-plate, trigger-guard and a pair of moulded ramrod-pipes (associated horn-tipped ramrod), 36.5 cm barrel

439 A PERCUSSION BLUNDERBUSS, CLOUGH & SONS BATH, CIRCA 1855-60 with re-browned iron barrel formed in three stages, and fitted with top-mounted spring bayonet, engraved breech, tang with bayonet release, stepped bevelled signed lock engraved with scrolling foliage, fitted with bolt safety-catch and scrollengraved hammer, figured walnut full stock, chequered grip, engraved brass mounts comprising butt-plate and trigger-guard (associated ramrod), 36.5 cm barrel John Clough & Son are recorded at 9 New Bond Street, Bath, circa 185561.

£500-700

£700-1,000

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440 A 28 BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, NUREMBURG, MID-17TH CENTURY with tapering barrel formed in three stages, octagonal breech struck with the maker’s initials ‘GPS’, bevelled lock retained by three side nails (two associated) over engraved foliate washers, fitted with external wheel retained by a small delicate pierced scrollwork basal bracket, moulded dog and sliding pan-cover with button release, engraved with foliage and a scrolling serpent on the tail, a large bouquet of ball flowers adjacent to the wheel and a pierced scrolling mermaid bracket on the dog, struck with Nuremburg town mark and the maker’s mark (Neue Støckel 2697) on the inside, full stock moulded over the fore-end (small restorations), a raised foliate moulding about the tang, iron mounts comprising spurred pommel decorated with foliage and a flower on each side, trigger-guard with an oval flowerhead on the bow, moulded ramrod-pipe, and fore-end cap and early iron-tipped ramrod, 39.3 cm barrel

£3,000-3,500

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441 A FINE 40 BORE SILESIAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, CIRCA 1680-1700 with tapering barrel formed in two stages, moulded at the muzzle and girdle and octagonal over the breech, engraved and gilt with scrolls and foliage against a blued ground over much of it surface (rubbed, the bluing faded to brown), tang en suite, engraved lock decorated with a conventional flower on the tail and a spray of foliage beneath the pan, engraved cock decorated en suite, figured full stock profusely inlaid in staghorn with scrolling tendrils, hounds and monsters within segmental lines, all enriched with pellets and engraved mother-of-pearl ball flowers, a shield charged with three mullets and the letter ‘V’ beneath the fore-end (the stock with minor repairs and restorations), steel mounts comprising moulded trigger-guard, spurred pommels and moulded ramrod-pipe with traces of gilt blued finish, engraved staghorn fore-end cap and rear ramrod-pipe and associated ramrod with engraved stag horn tip, 31.8 cm barrel A related pair of pistols, previously in the collection of Charles Drager, were sold in this room 29th June 2011, lot 440. For a summary of Silesian gunmaking and the Teschen workshops in particular see J. Kruczek 2001, pp. 321-327.

£4,000-5,000

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442 A PAIR OF 60 BORE PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOLS, LIÈGE, MID-19TH CENTURY with browned twist turn-off barrels, rounded breeches numbered ‘R571’ beneath and struck with proof marks on the left, scroll-engraved box-lock actions, folding triggers, swelling figured butts, and German silver butt-caps with scalloped trapcovers, 5.0 cm barrels (2)

£250-350 443 A 22 BORE FRENCH FLINTLOCK PISTOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND AN 8 MM CONTINENTAL PIN-FIRE REVOLVER, CIRCA 1870 the first with octagonal sighted barrel struck with the marks of Jean Nicolas Leclerc (Neue Støckel 182), bevelled lock (cock replaced), full stock, chequered butt with flat spine (fore-end cracked), and iron mounts including trigger-guard with terminal of shaped outline; the second with scroll-engraved fluted barrel group, scroll-engraved action with folding trigger, chequered butt with screw-in ramrod (rusted), the first: 16.0 cm (2)

£250-400

445

444 A 40 BORE WHEEL-LOCK PISTOL IN GERMAN LATE 16TH CENTURY STYLE, 20TH CENTURY with tapering barrel (vent blocked), flat lock fitted with external wheel retained by a brass bracket, moulded dog decorated with filed fluting, blackened stock with ball pommel, and copper alloy side-plate formed as a marine monster, together with a spanner en suite with the dog, 28.8 cm barrel (2)

£200-300

445 A FINE PAIR OF 16 BORE VIENNESE LONG FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOLS MADE FOR A MEMBER OF THE BRUNSWICK AND LÜNEBURG FAMILY BY PLONER IN WIENN, CIRCA 1720 each with swamped etched twist barrel in the Turkish taste, signed in gold and set with silver bead fore-sight on a long flat, decorated with a panel of slender gold strapwork and moulded over the breech, engraved barrel tang fitted with chiselled gilt-brass back-sight, brass-lined vent, signed gilt-brass locks decorated with a stag and a doe within a wooded landscape and a pair of hunters, figured walnut full-stock carved with rococo scrolls and foliage about the barrel tang and rear ramrod-pipe, gilt-brass mounts comprising side-plate pierced and chiselled with scrolling foliage involving a gaping serpent head, trigger-guard with rococo scrollwork terminal, spurred pommel chiselled and engraved en suite and with a stylised city vignette on each side, a pair of faceted ramrodpipes, crowned gilt-brass escutcheons engraved with an addorsed monogram, carved horn fore-end caps and original horn-tipped wooden ramrods, 40.0 cm barrels Provenance The Hanoverian Royal Gunroom, Königliche Waffen 1895 (inv. nos. 164 & 165).

The Royal House of Hanover, sold Sotheby’s Marienburg, 5th October 2005, lot 875

442

Exhibited Exhibition of Arms, Armour and Militaria lent by H.R.H. The Duke of Brunswick at the Tower of London, April 10th-October 31st 1952, nrs.183 & 184.

£8,000-10,000 194

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446 A PAIR OF SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BY JOSEPH GRIFFIN, LONDON, LONDON SILVER HALLMARKS, MAKER’S MARK JA, CIRCA 1770 each with swamped barrel signed within a linear frame drawn-out to a loop over the breech, border and foliate engraved barrel tang, signed rounded lock engraved with border ornament, figured walnut full stocks carved with shell ornament about the barrel tang (one fore-end replaced), swelling bulbous butts, silver mounts comprising butt-cap cast and chased with grotesque masks, pierced strapwork side-plate involving flowers and conventional foliage, escutcheon en suite with the side-plate and engraved with the owner’s crest, a stag, engraved moulded ramrod-pipes, and steel trigger-guards engraved with shell terminals and expanded flowers on the bows (the steel parts with areas of pitting, later ramrods, restorations), 19.8 cm barrels (2)

£1,400-1,800

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447 A PAIR OF 22 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS BY TWIGG, PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1780 Reconverted from percussion, with octagonal swamped sighted barrels inscribed ‘London’ in block capitals and engraved with a band of beadwork at the breeches, engraved tangs, engraved stepped bevelled locks with first form signature figured walnut full stocks, flat-sided butts, engraved blued steel trigger-guards with pineapple finials and a pair of ramrod-pipes (refinished, associated ramrods), 26.0 cm barrels (2)

£1,000-1,200

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448 AN IRISH 22 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL BY CLARKE, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1800 with slightly swamped twist octagonal sighted barrel signed on a gold-inlaid oval at the breech and inlaid with an engraved gold line, gold-lined vent, engraved tang decorated with border ornament and foliage and incorporating the back-sight, signed stepped bevelled lock engraved with foliage and a line of beadwork, fitted with gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, steel with roller and detent (cock replaced), set trigger, figured full stock (minor bruising, fore-end chipped on each side and split along the ramrod-channel), chequered rounded butt, engraved steel mounts including butt-cap centring on a flowerhead, triggerguard with pineapple finial and a flower-head on the bow, oval silver escutcheon opposite the lock engraved with the owner’s initials, and ramrod with iron powder-measure, probably the original, 25.7 cm. barrel

£700-900

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449 AN IRISH 16 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL BY CLARKE, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1800 with slightly swamped rebrowned octagonal sighted barrel signed on the flat and engraved with a band of beadwork at the breech, engraved tang decorated with border ornament and foliage, signed stepped bevelled lock engraved with foliage, fitted with semi-rainproof pan, steel spring with roller (cock replaced), figured full stock (cracks and repairs), engraved refinished steel mounts including butt-cap centring on a flowerhead, large trigger-guard with pineapple finial and a flower-head on the bow, and vacant copper escutcheon (associated ramrod), 25.0 cm barrel

£500-700

450

450 A CASED PAIR OF 15-BORE FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOLS BY HAMPTON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1815-20 with re-browned twist octagonal sighted barrels, engraved tangs decorated with foliage, signed engraved stepped bevelled locks decorated with border ornament, foliage on the tail and a sunburst behind the semi-rainproof pans, steel springs with rollers (one cock replaced one top-jaw missing), figured full stocks with chequered rounded butts (minor bruising), steel mounts comprising trigger-guards with pineapple finials and engraved bows decorated with scrollwork, belt hooks, moulded ramrodpipes, vacant silver escutcheons, and brass-tipped ramrods with iron worms, probably original (steel parts with areas of wear and pitting): in a later lined and fitted case with a modern copper flask embossed with a trophy-of-arms, 20.6 cm barrels (2)

451 A CASED PAIR OF 16 BORE FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S PISTOLS SIGNED CUFF, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1830 with twist octagonal sighted barrels inscribed ‘London’ over the breeches (rubbed, light pitting), struck beneath with proof marks and ‘Stubbs twisted’, platinum-lined vents, foliate engraved tang incorporating the back-sight, signed engraved flush-fitting lock decorated with border ornament, foliage and a sunburst, fitted with bolt safety-catch, semi-rainproof pan, steel spring with roller (one cock and steel replaced), figured full stocks (small cracks and dents), chequered rounded butts, engraved iron trigger-guards, stirrup ramrods and vacant German silver escutcheons: in a later lined and fitted case, 20.5 cm barrels (2)

Probably by Thomas Hampton (active 1807, died 1824) recorded in Birmingham at Love Street (1807-17) and Legge Street (1818-24) as ‘Manufacture of arms to His Majesty’s Honourable Board of Ordnance, and of all kinds of fine fowling pieces, guns & pistols for exportation’.

£1,000-1,400

£1,200-1,800

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452 A 24 BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, CIRCA 1790 with octagonal sighted barrel, signed stepped bevelled lock (signature indistinct), full stock, flat-sided butt cut with panels of chequering, and engraved iron mounts including triggerguard with pineapple finial (pitted throughout), 21.5 cm barrel

£300-400 453 A 16 BORE FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S PISTOL BY DUTTON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1780 with octagonal swamped sighted barrel signed in block capitals on the flat, signed border-engraved lock with semi-rainproof pan and roller, full stock, iron mounts including trigger-guard with pineapple finial (the iron parts pitted), vacant white metal escutcheon, and horn-tipped ramrod with iron worm, probably the original, 22.7 cm barrel

£400-600 200

454 A CASED PAIR OF BRASS BARRELLED FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS PISTOLS SIGNED H. NOCK, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1820 with brass barrels formed in three stages, moulded at the muzzles, inscribed ‘London’ on the flats and struck with proof marks on the left at the breeches, blued foliate engraved tangs, signed stepped engraved bevelled flat locks (refreshed), full stocks with rounded butts, brass mounts comprising triggerguards with pineapple finials, ramrod-pipes and vacant German silver escutcheons and brass-tipped ramrods with iron worms, perhaps the original: in later lined and fitted case, 12.0 cm (2)

£1,500-2,000

456

455 A 16 BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY RICHARD WILSON, MINORIES, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1750 with swamped brass barrel, inscribed ‘Minories, London’ in a linear panel drawn-out to a loop over the breech and struck with the barrelsmith’s mark and proof marks on the left, engraved steel tang, signed rounded lock engraved with sprays of foliage and border ornament (worn, top-jaw and steel replaced), figured walnut full stock (small repairs), carved with a moulding about the barrel tang, full brass mounts comprising engraved spurred pommel, pierced rococo side-plate, triggerguard with acorn finial, escutcheon engraved with the owner’s initials ‘JAB’, a pair of ramrod-pipes and associated ramrod with iron worm, 20.3 cm barrel

456 A PAIR OF 40 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS BY W. CLARK, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1770 with turn-off cannon barrels (seized), rounded breeches struck with proof marks beneath, box-lock actions engraved en rocaille, and signed on the right (one top-jaw and screw replaced), scroll-engraved tangs (one tang-screw missing), figured walnut butts profusely inlaid with silver wire scrolls (small losses, one cracked through), silver butt caps chased with demon masks in low relief, and engraved sliding steel trigger-guard safety-catches (the steel parts with light pitting), 7.0 cm barrels (2)

£1,000-1,200

Richard (1) Wilson (1703-66) is recorded at the Minories from 1730. He was contractor to Ordnance from 1746, the East India Company 1733-6 and the Royal African Company from 1739.

£300-400 201

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457 A CASED PAIR OF 60 BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOLS BY BASS, LONDON, LATE 18TH CENTURY with turn-off brass barrels each engraved around the muzzle, rounded breeches struck with proof marks beneath, borderengraved brass actions signed and inscribed ‘London’ on the respective faces within ovals carried by a rococo shell on crossed flags, sliding thumb-piece safety catches, steel trigger-guards each engraved with a rococo flower-head on the bow, and flat-sided figured butts: in a later lined and fitted case, 7.3 cm barrels (2) John Bass, worked in partnership with his uncle, John Fox Twigg, as Twigg & Bass between 1788 and 1790, is recorded working on his own at 19 Green Park Row, Piccadilly, between 1793 and the year of his death in 1794

£700-900 458 A PAIR OF 120 BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOLS SIGNED SMITH, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1820 with turn-off barrels engraved with a band of foliage around the muzzles and a further slender band around the breeches, rounded actions struck with proof marks and the barrelsmith’s mark beneath, engraved with trophies-of-arms, signed on the left on a curve and inscribed ‘London’ on the right, fitted with sliding thumb-piece safety-catches also locking the steels and folding triggers (cocks replaced, one steel chipped), finely chequered butts, and vacant diamond-shaped escutcheons, 3.5 cm barrels (2)

£800-1,200 458

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459 A 28 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL BY RANSFORD, DUBLIN, CIRCA 1770 with turn-off brass barrel (shortened), rounded breech, brass box-lock action signed on a scroll on the left and inscribed ‘Dublin’ on the right, engraved tang, flat-sided walnut butt, and iron trigger-guard, 7.5 cm barrel

£400-600

460 A PAIR OF 54 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS

BY T. TREACHER, CHESHAM, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1790 with turn-off cannon barrels, box-lock actions engraved with foliage and rococo scrolls, signed on the left and inscribed with the address on the right, fitted with engraved ring-neck cocks (one top-jaw and the steels replaced), flat-sided figured walnut butts, border-engraved silver escutcheons inscribed ‘JJ’, and sliding trigger-guard safety-catches each engraved with a rococo flower on the bow, 6.3 cm (2) A Thomas Treacher, chair manufacturer, is recorded in High Wycombe in 1839.

£800-1,000

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461 A 24 BORE FLINTLOCK TRAVELLING PISTOL, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS CIRCA 1830 with tapering barrel, engraved lock with roller on the steel spring, full stock (repaired) and brass mounts (worn, polished bright), 11.7 cm barrel

£80-100

464 A 32 BORE CONTINENTAL BRASS BARRELLED PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL, MID-19TH CENTURY with octagonal barrel inscribed on the left ‘J. Loeste’, scrollengraved integral action, rounded figured burrwood butt, two ramrod-pipes and iron trigger-guard (later ramrod), 9.5 cm barrel

£100-150 462 A 12 BORE FLINTLOCK EAST INDIA COMPANY PISTOL, 19TH CENTURY AND TWO FURTHER PISTOLS of regulation type, with tapering barrel, rounded lock, full stock (repairs), brass mounts and iron ring for a lanyard (worn throughout); the second a composite percussion long holster pistol, with sighted barrel fitted with stirrup ramrod, flat lock, full stock and brass mounts (worn throughout); and the third a copy of a flintlock regulation pistol, the first: 24.2 cm barrel (3)

465 A RARE .56 CALIBRE 1756/81 PATTERN LAND SERVICE FLINTLOCK PISTOL of regulation type, with tapering barrel struck with Ordnance marks at the breech, border-engraved rounded lock with ‘GR’ crowned and ‘TOWER’, rounded cock (associated), full stock (a portion of the fore-end and the area behind the lock replaced), and brass mounts (later ramrod), 30.6 cm barrel

£900-1,200

£150-200 463 A 40 BORE FLINTLOCK BOX-LOCK POCKET PISTOL SIGNED NOCK, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1820 with turn-off barrel, box-lock action signed within an oval carried by trophies-of-arms, fitted with sliding thumb-piece safety-catch also locking the steel, flat-sided walnut butt and trigger-guard engraved with a star, 4.0 cm barrel

£150-200 204

466 A .65 CALIBRE NEW LAND PATTERN FLINTLOCK PISTOL, CIRCA 1800 of regulation type, with tapering barrel stamped with Ordnance marks at the breech, bevelled lock with ‘GR’ crowned, ‘Tower’ and Government ownership broad arrow mark, walnut full stock with inspector’s stamps, brass mounts, and restored steel stirrup ramrod, 23.0 cm barrel

£400-600

467

467 A CASED PAIR OF 40 BORE PERCUSSION RIFLED TARGET PISTOLS BY GASTINNE RENETTE ARQR DE L’ EMPEREUR A PARIS, NO. 941, DATED 1856 with browned octagonal swamped sighted barrels chiselled with vine foliage within a gothic framework around the muzzles and the breeches (small areas of light pitting), signed in encrusted gold on the flats, struck beneath with the serial number, the date and initials ‘GR’, chiselled case-hardened breeches decorated en suite and stamped beneath with the barrelsmith’s mark, the initials ‘GR’ crowned in an oval, chiselled tangs decorated with foliage on a matted ground and incorporating the back-sights, flush-fitting locks chiselled en suite with the breeches and signed in script within a shaped panel, fitted with matching hammers, detents and blued triggers, ebony half-stocks finely carved with neo-rococo scrolls, flowers and shell ornament on a matted ground over the fore-end, the same design centring on a vacant escutcheon and fluted over the butts, engraved case-hardened mounts comprising trigger-plates, spurred trigger-guards and moulded pommels all decorated en suite with the locks, case-hardened barrel bolt escutcheons, and some early finish throughout: in original fitted ebonised case, the exterior of the lid inlaid with brass bands, a central foliate panel and the crowned initials ‘CL’ beneath the coronet of a Marquis, the interior lined in blue velvet, the lid with the gilt maker’s name and coat of arms (compartment lid damaged, areas of wear, the lid forced and lock damaged), complete with accessories including ‘G & J. W. H. Fireproof’ white metal flask, bullet mould, turn-screw, nipple-wrench and loading rod, 26.7 cm barrels The firm of Gastinne-Renette was one of the leading target and duelling pistol makers in Paris during the 19th century. They won medals at the Paris exhibitions of 1839 and 1844, as well as holding appointments to Napoleon III and the King of Spain. Duelling lessons were still available at the firm’s premises in the Champs-Elysées until the outbreak of the First World War, where it is still represented to this day. The champion shot, Walter Winans devotes a chapter to “Gastinne-Renette’s gallery in Paris”, in The art of Revolver Shooting (1911), where he concludes ‘in regard to galleries where one can get pistol practice, that of Gastinne-Renette in Paris stands easily first, and not only is it lit up in the best style for all sorts of shooting, but the weapons supplied are the best in the world’.

~ £4,000-6,000

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468 A CASED PAIR OF GERMAN (SAXON) 54 BORE PERCUSSION RIFLED TARGET PISTOLS BY ULBRICH, DRESDEN, CIRCA 1840 with blued octagonal sighted barrels cut with polygroove rifling and additional wide grooves, inlaid with a thin and thick gold line at the breech and muzzle, inscribed ‘Canon d’acier anglais’ in gold script on the flats, engraved breeches fitted with pierced platinum plug on the right and chiselled with a gold-eyed dolphin bust on the left, scrollengraved tangs with adjustable back-sights and numbered ‘1’ and ‘2’ in silver respectively, engraved back-action locks signed in gold, decorated with scroll and border ornament, fitted with hammers en suite and detents, varnished figured half-stocks carved with foliage on the fore-ends, fluted butts,, engraved iron mounts including side-plates en suite with the locks, and spurred triggerguards and shaped moulded butt-caps, and some early case-hardened finish: in a later lined and fitted case with modern embossed copper flask decorated with game and a hound, 21.5 cm barrels (2)

468

£1,800-2,200

469

469 A CASED PAIR OF FRENCH 50 BORE PERCUSSION RILFED TARGET PISTOLS SIGNED DEVISME A PARIS, NO. 929, MID-19TH CENTURY with octagonal sighted barrels (light wear and pitting) rifled with ten grooves, engraved with scrolling foliage and numbered ‘1’ and ‘2’ in gold over the respective breeches, engraved tangs decorated and numbered en suite and incorporating the back-sights, signed stepped flush-fitting border-engraved locks, fitted with hammers decorated en suite (one hammer nose repaired) and detents, figured half-stocks with carved fore-ends and fluted butts, engraved steel mounts decorated en suite, including spurred trigger-guards and moulded butt-caps, and no provision for ramrods (some wear throughout), in a later case with embossed copper flask decorated with foliage, 24.2 cm barrels (2)

£800-1,200

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470 A CASED BELGIAN 60 BORE RIFLED PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOL SIGNED LT GHAYE FABT D’ARMES A LIÈGE, LIÈGE PROOF, CIRCA 1850 with reblued barrel signed in a gold frame, decorated with gold linear ornament at the muzzle and over the breech, the latter numbered ‘1’ in gold, struck with proof marks beneath and with engraved screw-in plug, tang inlaid with a gold border, numbered en suite and fitted with an early working sight, stepped flush-fitting lock inlaid with gold border ornament and foliage, fitted with hammer decorated en suite, blued trigger, figured half-stock with foliate carved fore-end and fluted butt, spurred trigger-guard and moulded butt-cap each decorated en suite with the lock, and German silver barrel bolt escutcheons: in later lined and fitted case with copper powderflask with brass nozzle by W. Bartram, 26.0 cm barrel

471 A 36 BORE BELGIAN PERCUSSION RIFLED TARGET PISTOL, LIÈGE PROOF, CIRCA 1840 with etched twist octagonal multi-groove rifled barrel, engraved tang incorporating the back-sight, scroll-engraved stepped flush-fitting lock, ebonised half-stock carved with foliage over the fore-end, fluted butt, engraved steel mounts including trigger-guard and butt-plate, vacant German silver shield-shaped escutcheon, and no provision for a ramrod (worn throughout), 26.3 cm barrel

£200-300

£800-1,200

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472 A CONTINENTAL 24 BORE PERCUSSION PISTOL, MID-19TH CENTURY with earlier barrel chiselled with foliage and inlaid with brass over the breech, scroll-engraved stepped flush fitting lock, figured half-stock, fluted butt, and engraved brass mounts, (worn, polished bright), 20.2 cm barrel

£150-200 473 A 70 BORE D.B. CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION PISTOL, MID-19TH CENTURY with turn-off barrels, engraved action, folding triggers, figured butt carved with a scallop design behind the tang and chequered butt, 7.5 cm barrels

£60-80

474 A RARE PAIR OF 54 BORE PERCUSSION PISTOLS FOR THE AMERICAN MARKET WITH GERMAN SILVER BARRELS AND MOUNTS SIGNED W. CHANCE & SON, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1850 with octagonal white metal sighted barrels inscribed ‘London’ in gothic script within a scrollwork frame on the flats at the breech, scroll-engraved steel tangs inlaid with two German silver lines and fitted with German silver plug, scroll-engraved German silver tangs fitted with back-sights and extending in a slender panel engraved with wrigglework over the spine of the butt, signed engraved flush-fitting back-action locks (light pitting, one signature partly obscured), fitted with dolphin hammers engraved en suite, figured half-stocks (one fore-end with small cracks), chequered rounded butts, engraved German silver mounts comprising trigger-guards (one repaired on the rear strap) and butt-caps with hinged circular engraved steel covers, barrel bolt escutcheons (one barrel bolt missing) and fore-end caps, and brass-tipped ramrods with iron worm, probably the original (one repaired): in a later lined and fitted case with embossed copper flask decorated with a scallop shell, 15.7 cm barrels (2) William Chance, Son & Co. are recorded in London circa 1842 and 1856 as ‘American merchants’. Their main premises were at 152 Great Charles Street, Birmingham, though they marked their guns London. Between 1835 and 1845 they supplied the American Fur Company with ‘Chiefs and North West’ guns.

£1,000-1,400

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475 A PAIR OF 16 BORE PERCUSSION BELT PISTOLS SIGNED W. ADAMS, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1840 with signed octagonal sighted barrels engraved around the muzzles and fitted with stirrup ramrods beneath, scrollengraved side-hammer actions incorporating the back-sights on the top and with long tangs, blued triggers, finely chequered walnut butts, vacant German silver escutcheons, engraved steel mounts comprising butt-caps with traps decorated with expanded flowerheads, trigger-guards decorated with scrolling foliage and plain belt hooks, 15.4 cm barrels (2)

476 A CASED 18 BORE PERCUSSION TRAVELLING PISTOL SIGNED H. SMITH, CIRCA 1840 with signed browned sighted barrel fitted with stirrup ramrod beneath (links replaced), engraved case-hardened breech inlaid with a platinum line, scroll-engraved tang, signed scrollengraved lock (hammer replaced), figured walnut butt cut with a fine pattern of chequering, engraved blued mounts comprising side-plate, trigger-guard and butt-cap, and vacant escutcheon (refinished throughout): in later lined and fitted case with brass flask and oil bottle, 13.0 cm barrel

£500-600

£600-800

476

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478

481

477 AN 18 BORE PERCUSSION PISTOL BY ISAAC SMITH, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1750 converted from flintlock, with brass barrel formed in two stages, signed in a frame drawn-out to a loop over the breech and struck with proof marks on the left, signed borderengraved rounded lock, full stock (cracked through and repaired), brass mounts including spurred pommel with grotesque mask cap, trophy-of-arms side-plate, trigger-guard with acorn finial of early form, vacant escutcheon, and a pair of moulded ramrod pipes, 20.4 cm barrel

£250-350 478 A 36 BORE D.B. PERCUSSION PISTOL BY WILLIAM ROBERTS, LONDON, CIRCA 1840 with octagonal sighted barrels signed on the flats, fitted with sprung top-mounted spring bayonet, engraved with a scroll on the rib at the breech, scroll-engraved tang with bayonetrelease catch, scroll-engraved locks fitted with border-engraved hammers with adjustable noses (a working replacement), finely chequered butt, scroll-engraved steel trigger-guard and butt-cap, the latter with trap, and vacant German silver escutcheon (ramrod and links restored), 11.6 cm barrels

£300-400

479 A CONTINENTAL 28 BORE PERCUSSION TRAVELLING PISTOL, CIRCA 1840 with twist octagonal sighted barrel, engraved stepped flushfitting lock, three-quarter stock with fluted butt, engraved German silver mounts including trigger-guard, butt-cap and ramrod-pipe (ramrod missing, areas of pitting), 17.0 cm barrel

£150-200 480 A 100 BORE PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL SIGNED SMITH, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1840 with octagonal turn-off barrel, signed engraved brass box-lock action, rounded figured butt and iron trigger-guard engraved with a star, 4.5 cm barrell

£80-120 481 A 16 BORE PIN-FIRE SPORTING PISTOL BY PERRINS & SONS, WORCESTER, CIRCA 1860 with twist sighted barrels inscribed ‘Worcester’ on the rib, rounded rotary underlever action engraved with a hound on each side, signed scroll-engraved flush-fitting back action locks, associated moulded dolphin hammers, figured half-stock, chequered butt, engraved steel mounts (the steel parts worn areas of light pitting) and ivory fore-end cap, 22.2 cm barrels

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484

482 A 16 BORE PERCUSSION PISTOL BY I. P. ADAM, CIRCA 1850 with octagonal sighted barrel, engraved tang incorporating the back-sight, scroll-engraved signed back-action lock, full stock, iron mounts and vacant white metal escutcheon (associated ramrod, the iron parts pitted, worn), 14.3 cm barrel

£150-200 483 A 28 BORE PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS CIRCA 1840 with octagonal sighted turn-off barrel, scroll-engraved sidehammer action, finely chequered butt, steel trigger-guard engraved with a star, the butt with hinged German silver trap cover engraved with a star, and vacant German silver escutcheon, 7.7 cm barrel

£150-200

484 A 16 BORE PERCUSSION OFFICER’S PISTOL BY H. W. MORTIMER, LONDON, GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY, CIRCA 1820 converted from flintlock, with sighted barrel signed on the flat at the breech, engraved tang decorated with a flower and a drum, signed stepped bevelled lock with bolt safety-catch and with a brief inscription behind the hammer (rubbed), figured walnut full stock, engraved brass mounts, flush-fitting sideplate decorated with a sunburst, trigger-guard with stylised pineapple finial and a trophy-of-arms on the bow, two ramrodpipes, escutcheon engraved ‘A Sleed’ and horn-tipped ramrod with worm, probably the original, 23.0 cm barrel

£600-800 485 A 16 BORE VICTORIAN PERCUSSION SERVICE PISTOL, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, THE LOCK DATED 1861 AND THREE FURTHER PISTOLS the first of regulation type, with tapering barrel struck with proof marks on the left of the breech, dated lock struck ‘Tower’ and with a crown on the tail, full stock, brass mounts, steel belt hook, and stirrup ramrod (worn, pitted); the second a composite percussion pistol, with tapering barrel fitted with stirrup ramrod beneath, lock signed ‘Lacy’, full stock and brass mounts; the third a copy of a Victorian percussion service pistol; and the fourth a copy of an Irish percussion constabulary pistol, the first: 20.2 cm barrel (4)

£300-400 211

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486

486 A 120 BORE SIX-SHOT PERCUSSION PEPPERBOX REVOLVER SIGNED T. REDFERN MAKER LONDON, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1845 with fluted barrel group engraved around the muzzles, numbered breeches, scroll-engraved rounded German silver action signed on a panel on the left, fitted with engraved bar hammer, chequered butt (rubbed), engraved iron trigger-guard, engraved German silver back-strap, and some early finish throughout, 7.5 cm barrels

£350-450 487 AN 8 MM CONTINENTAL PIN-FIRE SIX-SHOT REVOLVER, CIRCA 1870 with sighted barrel, scroll-engraved cylinder, scroll-and borderengraved action (loading-rod missing, action defective), carved butt decorated with scrolls and foliage, and traces of plated finish, 8.3 cm barrel

£80-120

212

488 A .36 CALIBRE COLT MODEL 1851 NAVY REVOLVER, NO. 25872 FOR 1853 of standard production specifications, the 7 1/2 in blued barrel with single line New York address, blued cylinder and frame, the latter stamped ‘Colt’s Patent’ on the left, brass back-strap and trigger-guard, and later grips (action inoperative, areas of pitting, refinished throughout), 35.0 cm overall

£300-400

489

489 A FINE AND RARE 54 BORE KERR PATENT FIVE-SHOT DOUBLE-ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVER BY THE LONDON ARMOURY COMPANY, LONDON PROOF MARKS, NO. 11,438, CIRCA 1860 with border-engraved octagonal blued sighted barrel with slender top flat, struck with proof marks and ‘L.A.C.’ on the left, border-engraved blued grooved top-strap, border-and scroll-engraved frame with patent inscription and number on the right, fitted with engraved blued numbered cylinder, burnished rammer and scroll-and border-engraved case-hardened lock signed ‘London Armoury’ within a scroll, fitted with blued safety-catch, chequered walnut butt, scroll-engraved blued trigger-guard buttcap, and much original finish throughout: in its fitted oak case, the lid with vacant circular escutcheon on the outside, the interior lined in green baize, complete with accessories including patent bullet mould, copper powder-flask by James Dixon & Sons, loading rod and loading instructions inscribed with serial number, 14.0 cm barrel Provenance Acquired by the owner’s father, circa 1967.

£2,000-3,000

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490

490 TWO FINE CASED 54 BORE DEANE-HARDING PATENT FIVE SHOT DOUBLE ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVERS, NOS. 7079L AND 15349P, RETAILED BY DEANE & SON LONDON BRIDGE AND THOMAS FLETCHER, LONDON RESPECTIVELY, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1865-72 with blued sighted barrels, border-engraved blued top-straps signed by the retailers, border-engraved blued wedge frames signed and numbered on the right and fitted with blued safety-catches, burnished hammers, burnished rammers, finely chequered walnut butts, blued trigger-guards and butt-caps, and much early finish throughout: in a contemporary fitted oak case, the lid with vacant circular escutcheon on the outside, the interior relined in green baize, complete with accessories including two bullet moults, two powder-flasks by G. & J. W. Hawksley, two oil bottles and nipple wrenches, 15.5 cm and 16.0 cm barrels Provenance Acquired by the owner’s father, circa 1976.

£6,000-8,000

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491

491 A CASED 80 BORE FIVE-SHOT PERCUSSION PRIZE REVOLVER BY JAMES WORRAL, FOREGATE ST, CHESTER, PRESENTED BY MRS J. WORRAL TO THE CHESTER RIFLE VOLUNTEERS, OCTOBER 1ST 1860 AND WON BY MR J. G. CHURTON with octagonal sighted silver-plated barrel of ‘hog’s back’ form, engraved with a band around the muzzle, signed by the maker over the forward portion, stamped ‘patent’ in capital letters on the left and inscribed ‘J. G. Churton’ within a frame of foliage on the top-strap, silver-plated frame engraved with border ornament, grapes and vine foliage, inscribed ‘no. 1624’ on the left, plain numbered cylinder, finely chequered butt, engraved silver-plated trigger-guard and butt-cap, the latter with trap-cover, silver-plated trigger, and in untouched condition with much silver-plating throughout: in its fitted mahogany case lined in blued velvet (small areas of wear), the case lid with engraved trade label on the inside and fitted with a large rectangular presentation plaque on the outside, complete with accessories including bullet mould with spru-cutter retaining some blued finish, powder-flask by Dixon & Sons with some silver-plated finish, oil bottle and turn-screw, 11.3 cm barrel The presentation inscription reads: ‘Prize Revolver presented by Mrs J. Worrall to the Chester Rfle Volunteers, October 1st 1860. Won by Mr J. G. Churton.’

~ £1,200-1,800 END OF SALE

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SALE RESULTS FOR 28TH JUNE 2023 The following prices are the hammer prices GBP/£. Unsold lots are not shown.

Olympia Auctions is not responsible for typographical errors or omissions 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 40 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62

£900 £900 £1,350 £1,100 £700 £1,000 £1,700 £1,100 £260 £2,200 £1,500 £550 £320 £500 £900 £4,800 £1,400 £420 £380 £1,600 £900 £1,000 £950 £1,400 £2,400 £750 £400 £250 £1,400 £1,300 £1,300 £2,200 £1,800 £450 £1,800 £1,000 £500 £400 £3,500 £260 £180 £850 £170 £170 £170 £220 £240 £800 £1,100 £350 £1,200 £70 £130 £550 £400

63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 79 80 81 82 83 84 86 87 88 89 90 91 94 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124

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126 127 128 129 130 131 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 152 153 154 155 158 159 160 162 163 164 165 166 168 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 184 186 187 188 190 191 192 193 194 195 196

£700 £700 £850 £2,000 £800 £380 £100 £2,000 £160 £480 £100 £40 £300 £400 £190 £1,100 £600 £1,000 £700 £600 £550 £1,300 £480 £320 £240 £420 £700 £300 £90 £850 £550 £350 £10,000 £3,800 £260 £200 £700 £250 £400 £550 £200 £220 £150 £200 £400 £4,500 £1,200 £500 £150 £800 £450 £400 £300 £160 £5,500

197 198 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 251 252 253 254 256 257

£600 £240 £650 £100 £100 £1,300 £150 £180 £1,300 £1,600 £850 £650 £180 £320 £280 £700 £350 £4,500 £1,500 £1,800 £2,000 £1,800 £1,800 £1,600 £2,000 £1,300 £900 £2,100 £1,200 £800 £500 £400 £2,400 £1,400 £900 £1,300 £950 £800 £1,000 £1,200 £1,400 £750 £350 £600 £380 £320 £500 £2,600 £1,100 £380 £650 £400 £460 £480 £480

258 259 260 261 262 263 265 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 276 277 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 291 293 294 295 297 298 299 300 301 303 304 305 307 308 310 311 312 314 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 328 329 330 331

£650 £800 £3,200 £580 £450 £350 £400 £450 £400 £450 £500 £450 £850 £450 £260 £220 £35,000 £1,200 £5,200 £1,200 £4,800 £3,200 £5,000 £13,000 £9,000 £9,000 £5,000 £1,100 £100 £1,800 £2,600 £380 £260 £1,400 £350 £450 £1,500 £700 £900 £80 £480 £250 £2,000 £1,100 £350 £600 £3,000 £450 £1,300 £450 £75 £1,100 £320 £100 £2,800

332 333 334 336 338 340 341 342 343 348 349 350 351 352 354 355 356 357 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 374 375 376 377 378 379 381 382 384 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 394 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403

£380 £350 £20 £100 £50 £50 £4,200 £4,000 £450 £300 £220 £1,200 £520 £350 £100 £300 £480 £220 £35,000 £28,000 £20,000 £4,500 £8,500 £19,000 £900 £550 £2,200 £650 £950 £6,500 £260 £180 £140 £120 £380 £110 £350 £30 £60 £500 £550 £500 £240 £320 £320 £1,200 £160 £300 £100 £320 £420 £40 £600 £1,400 £2,800

404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 416 417 418 419 420 422 423 424 426 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 453 455 456 457 458 459 460 462 463 464 465

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SALE RESULTS FOR 29TH JUNE 2023 The following prices are the hammer prices GBP/£. Unsold lots are not shown.

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£350

543

£140

584

£500

624

£500

665

£2,200

706

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503

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544

£100

585

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625

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666

£1,200

707

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751

£320

504

£170

545

£700

586

£1,900

626

£650

667

£550

708

£650

752

£850

505

£260

546

£400

587

£5,200

627

£550

668

£190

709

£260

753

£420

506

£260

547

£850

589

£500

628

£420

669

£700

710

£550

754

£1,400

507

£550

548

£480

590

£320

629

£170

670

£500

711

£4,200

755

£1,300

508

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549

£220

591

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630

£1,900

671

£2,400

712

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756

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509

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592

£550

631

£1,000

672

£1,000

714

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758

£750

510

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551

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593

£450

632

£280

673

£3,200

715

£3,800

759

£220

511

£95

552

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594

£4,000

633

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674

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716

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£900

512

£160

553

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595

£260

634

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675

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717

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761

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513

£190

554

£120

596

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635

£400

676

£170

718

£500

762

£380

514

£190

555

£190

597

£950

636

£2,400

677

£260

719

£260

763

£240

515

£260

556

£600

598

£900

637

£18,000

678

£400

720

£550

764

£1,900

516

£190

558

£110

599

£600

638

£3,800

679

£800

721

£1,100

766

£300

517

£120

559

£140

600

£260

639

£2,200

680

£650

722

£950

767

£1,100

518

£60

560

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601

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640

£550

681

£650

723

£750

768

£1,100

519

£280

561

£150

602

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641

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682

£900

724

£700 769

£260

520

£180

562

£220

603

£4,800

642

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683

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725

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521

£450

563

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604

£1,100

643

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684

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726

£900 771

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522

£4,800

564

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605

£4,500

644

£380

685

£600

727

£350 772

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524

£170

565

£420

606

£1,000

645

£280

687

£1,500

728

£300

525

£650

566

£120

607

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646

£320

688

£170

730

£480

773

£650

526

£300

567

£240

608

£260

647

£380

689

£420

731

£500

774

£220

527

£190

568

£260

609

£950

648

£350

690

£220

732

£320

775

£420

528

£2,400

569

£260

610

£480

649

£300

691

£280

733

£800

776

£220

529

£400

570

£550

611

£1,600

650

£5,800

692

£400

734

£400

777

£550

530

£650

571

£240

612

£1,300

652

£7,000

693

£420

735

£600

778

£500

531

£3,200

572

£200

613

£750

653

£2,000

694

£170

737

£80

779

£500

532

£1,900

573

£1,100

614

£850

655

£2,200

695

£380

738

£1,400

780

£480

534

£2,000

574

£12,500

615

£600

656

£350

697

£1,300

739

£1,800

781

£400

535

£13,000

575

£1,500

616

£260

657

£1,200

698

£650

740

£750

782

£280

536

£13,000

576

£450

617

£750

658

£1,100

699

£320

742

£1,800

784

£300

537

£2,600

577

£240

618

£380

659

£1,600

700

£170

744

£3,300

786

£260

538

£800

578

£350

619

£260

660

£380

701

£1,100

745

£250

787

£500

539

£3,200

579

£100

620

£340

661

£700

702

£450

746

£40

788

£320

540

£260

580

£480

621

£180

662

£1,300

703

£480

747

£150

789

£1,800

541

£140

581

£2,400

622

£1,800

663

£750

704

£240

748

£1,200

790

£2,200

542

£150

583

£800

623

£2,000

664

£4,800

705

£180

749

£700

791

£1,900

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(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.

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).

(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.

9. 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 one 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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(a) What is the legal basis on which the Auctioneers rely to process your data?

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, Olympia Auctions Ltd. who 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 anti-money 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.

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

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. (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. (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.

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.

(F) COMPLAINTS If you have any queries or complaints in relation to the Auctioneers processing your personal data please contact the Auctioneers.

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

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