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1001 - AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA HANGER WITH SLOTTED GUARD. Blade Length: 27 - 1/4” Overall Length: 32 - 3/4” For another example with a similar pierced iron D-guard, see plate 318.S on page 167 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. Third-quarter, 18th century. The slightly curved blade is of American manufacture and has a narrow fuller along the top on both sides. D-shaped guard has seven piercings, including two hearts. Iron backstrap and integral bird’s head type pommel with leather-wrapped wooden grip. CONDITION: Rough and dry as found condition. Blade retains a dark surface with some heavy corrosion. Hilt retains a pitted dark surface, top of guard bent forward. A generous portion of the loose leather grip remains present. A nice blacksmith-forged American sword. DMG 400 - 800

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1002 - AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR HORSEMAN’S SABER Blade Length: 34 - 1/4” Overall Length: 40” For a similar example, see figure E-13 on page 136 of “Weapons of the American Revolution” by Warren Moore. Nearly straight, unfullered, single-edged American blade. Heavy brass stirrup hilt with forward turned quillon. Sheet brass pommel cap with integral backstrap. Grooved cherry grip. CONDITION: Blade retains a dark brown patina and has a couple minor nicks to edge. Two nails have been put into the blade slot in front of the guard to hold the blade tight. Hilt has some scattered marks from use and a dark mustard patina. Grip shows scattered marks from use and a crack on right side. A nice heavy-duty American cavalry saber. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

1003 - AMERICAN SHORT SWORD. Blade Length: 29” Overall Length: 35” For an identical hilt, see plate 349.S on page 178 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. The wide single-edged blade is slightly curved and has a narrow shallow fuller along the top on both sides. The blade is German and has date “1774” on both sides. Left side also stamped with an “IK” cartouche and both sides feature a V-shape with other letters and markings. The guard has five piercings and originally had two outward branches on the right side, the top branch on this example was removed during the period of use. The knucklebow connects to the olive-shaped pommel. Pommel features an integral capstan. The bone grip features a design of spiraling flutes. CONDITION: Blade retains a grey patina with heavier darker patina towards the tip. A couple battle nicks to edge. Hilt retains a dark mustard patina and is tight to blade. Grip shows a couple of hairline age cracks. A very attractive American Revolutionary War period sword. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 3,000 - 6,000

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1004 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA SHORT SABER, PROBABLY AMERICAN. Blade Length: 28” Overall Length: 34” Slightly curved single-edged double-fuller blade. Plain stirrup hilt with conical faceted pommelled turned cherry grip. Pommel is engraved with simple decoration on every other facet. Knucklebow engraved in large block letters the initials “H S”. CONDITION: Old black paint on blade and hilt. Cherry grip very good. The “S” is only partially visible. An attractive Revolutionary War period saber. DMG 1,800 - 3,000

1005 - AMERICAN COPY OF A MID-18TH CENTURY ENGLISH GRENADIER HANGER. Blade Length: 24 - 1/2” Overall Length: 30” This is an American copy of the classic mid-18th century brass-hilted grenadier’s hangers. The American manufactured slightly curved blade has a slightly crude fuller along the top on both sides. The heart-shaped guard was made sans quillon and is fabricated rather than cast. There are two outward branches on the right side, the top branch is now absent. Spiraling brass grip with integral well-turned pommel. CONDITION: Completely as-found and untouched. Blade retains a dark dry surface. Hilt retains a brown patina. Top branch was broken off during the period of use. A very nice American hanger. DMG 800 - 1,500

1006 - AMERICAN REVERSE-P HILTED NCO SWORD WITH SCABBARD. Blade Length: 29 - 1/4” Overall Length: 34” This late 18th century sword has a slightly curved, single-edged, tapered, and unfullered blade. The brass reverse-P hilt has a forward turned quillon. The flat pommel cap has two engraved lines. Reeded ebony grip. Complete with its original brass mounted black leather scabbard. CONDITION: Blade retains a mostly grey patina with scattered areas of heavier brown patina, a couple nicks to cutting edge. Hilt retains a pleasing dark mustard patina and shows some scattered marks from use. Grip shows some marks from use and minor crack from shrinkage on top of left side. Scabbard very good with only some minor scuffs and crazing to sturdy leather. Mounts retain a pleasing dark mustard patina. A very nice American sword. DMG 600 - 1,200

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1007 - FRENCH NAPOLEONIC MOUNTED OFFICER’S SABER. Blade Length: 33” Overall Length: 39” This pattern of French-import saber, with Lion-head pommel, was highly popular among U.S. Army officers during the War of 1812 as seen in numerous portraits, including that of General Andrew Jackson. The single-edged, curved blade is 33” long by 1 - 1/8” wide at ricasso, with a single wide fuller and a 5” false edge; 39” overall length. Matching all-brass scabbard, with integral bands for suspension rings, each decorated with a center band of oak leaves, flanked by beaded edges. CONDITION: The brass hilt and scabbard are now devoid of any gilding and the cross-hatched, bone grips have lost 50% of their original black finish. The blade has been heavily cleaned over time and no traces of decoration are readily seen; finish is a mottled grey with light pitting. The scabbard has numerous dents but the blade still fits well. JLK 600 - 1,200

1008 - POTTER TYPE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR HORSEMAN’S SABER. Blade Length: 36 - 1/4” Overall Length: 42 - 1/8” For a sword with the same sheet iron four-slot D-guard with a “POTTER” marked blade, see plate 168.SS on page 359 of “Battle Weapons of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. The pommel is also a shortened version of the same type found on “POTTER” marked examples. There is also a wide ferrule beneath the pommel and another at the base. Wooden grip with uneven bulbous sections and wrapped with brown leather and two strands of thick iron wire. The long, slightly curved blade has three narrow partial fullers on each side. CONDITION: Blade retains a dark even patina with some scattered darker spots. Hilt retains a dark heavy patina with scattered pitting, right side of guard bent slightly forward. Grip leather shows cracking and flaking, some minor losses towards base. Iron ferrule at base of grip may be replaced. A very nice and massive American Revolutionary War cavalry saber. DMG 3,000 - 6,000

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1009 - LOT OF 2: PILLOW POMMEL SWORDS, ONE WITH SCABBARD. Blade Length: (A) 25 - 1/4” (B) 28” Overall Length: (A) 31” (B) 33 - 1/2” Comprising: (A) An attractive circa 1790 ivory-gripped, iron-mounted pillow pommel sword. The slightly curved blade has a wide shallow fuller on both sides. Both sides feature a large dragon-like monster, towards the ricasso. Iron stirrup hilt with counter guard bar on right side. Iron pillow pommel and faceted ferrule at base of grip. Faceted and reeded grip. CONDITION: Blade tight to hilt, retains a grey patina with some scattered dark spotting, blade has been sharpened during its period of use. Hilt retains a very dark heavy brown patina. Grip retains a very pleasing honey patina, some scattered age cracks and marks form use. A very attractive sword. (B) Untouched pillow pommel saber with scabbard. Unengraved slightly curved blade with wide, shallow fuller on both sides. Brass stirrup hilt with faceted pillow pommel, reeded cherry grip. Complete with its original, black leather scabbard with tooled 18th century designs. Shaped brass mounts. CONDITION: Completely as-found and untouched. Blade retains a pleasing even grey patina, one nick to cutting edge. Blade tight to hilt. Hilt retains a very dark brown patina. Grip has two minor hairline age cracks. Scabbard very good with two small repairs and scattered crazing and minor flaking. A very nice attic-condition sword. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

1010 - AMERICAN LIGHT HORSE LION POMMEL HORSEMAN’S SABER, TESCHE BLADE. Blade Length: 34 - 3/8” Overall Length: 39 - 1/2” This circa 1785-1790 dragoon saber is of the same pattern as the examples found marked on the blade “American Light Horse Dragoons” or “Pennsylvania Light Horse”. The slightly curved blade has a wide shallow fuller on both sides. The spine is inscribed “WM TESCHE PETERS SOHN IN SOLINGEN”. Gilt brass six-slot D-guard with cast grip with integral chased and engraved lion head pommel. CONDITION: Blade retains a pleasing brown patina, a few scattered battle nicks to edge. Blade markings partially worn. Hilt retains generous amounts of original gilt finish, exposed areas retain a dark patina. Grip and pommel retain a pleasing dark mustard patina. Hilt tight to blade. A very attractive sword. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

1011 - SILVER HILTED ENGLISH SMALL SWORD WITH SCABBARD, MARKED BY RETAILER FAYLE. Blade Length: 32 - 1/4” Overall Length: 38 - 7/8” This desirable boat-guard silver hilt dates to about 1750. These were used by British and American officers alike during the Revolutionary War. The tapered straight diamond section blade is unmarked. Solid silver hilt with boat guard chased with gadrooned edges and a shell quillon. S-shaped guard behind pas d’ane rings. Knucklbow with gadrooned center section. The pas d’ane rings have indistinct British hallmarks. Elongated ball pommel with spiraling chased gadrooning. Grip wrapped with ornate braided strands of silver wire and silver strips. Complete with its original brown leather scabbard with silver throat mount marked “FAYLE / Fleet Street”. CONDITION: Blade retains a grey surface with some scattered heavy corrosion and losses to edges. Hilt excellent showing some light wear to guard edges and a pleasing pewter patina. Grip wrap slightly loose and hilt slightly loose to blade. Scabbard mount very good. Leather has a repair to secure the bottom 13 - 7/8”. Some losses to edges and stitching. Tooled decoration still visible. A nicer than usual silver hilted small sword complete with its scabbard. DMG 1,200 - 2,400

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1012 - VERY FINE CHISELED AND GILDED FRENCH SMALL SWORD WITH MILITARY MOTIFS. Blade Length: 32” Overall Length: 39” This early 18th century small sword displays the art of the premiere European swordmakers. The triangular blade has a deep center fuller on the back. Both sides inscribed in French, translating to “By the swordmaker to the King” and his Paris address. The iron hilt features a chased and gilded clamshell guard, decorated on both sides with detailed foliate and military motifs on a stippled and gilded ground. Large pas d’ane rings, knucklebow, and quillon are all chased with floral, shell and foliate motifs. The pommel is also chased with panoplies of arms. Rectangular grip is wrapped with bands of copper and braided copper wire. CONDITION: Blade with crisp inscriptions and engraving with grey even patina, a couple minor nicks to edges. Hilt is tight to blade. Hilt retains much of original gilt and shows only minor wear to high relief designs on pommel and knucklebow. Hilt retains a dark patina. A very high quality officer’s small sword. DMG 1,400 - 2,400

1013 - THOMAS GILL MARKED 18TH CENTURY BRITISH INFANTRY SHORT SABER. Blade Length: 28” Overall Length: 34” For an example with a similar hilt, see plate 156.S on page 113 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. Straight tapered single-edged blade with narrow single fuller along top on both sides. Ricasso on left side marked with a crown over “TG” for sword maker Thomas Gill of London. Iron stirrup hilt with forward turned quillon. Egg-shaped iron pommel with integral turned capstan. Ebony grip with gadrooning, top ferrule on grip is faceted. CONDITION: Very good, blade retains a grey patina with very good markings and some scattered darker areas. Hilt retains a pleasing dark grey patina. Grip very good with a few scattered marks from use. Hilt is tight to blade. A very attractive maker-marked sword. DMG 600 - 1,200

1014 - BRITISH PATTERN 1796 INFANTRY NC OFFICER’S SWORD WITH SCABBARD KNOT. Blade Length: 26” Overall Length: 32 - 1/2” Standard British 1796 Pattern with straight single-fullered blade with blued panel displaying gilded floral motifs and panoplies of arms. Gilt brass hilt with folding counter guard on left side. Twisted silver wire-wrapped grip. Complete with its original black leather scabbard with gilt brass mounts. Complete with original gilt sword knot. CONDITION: Blade retains about 50% original faded blue and gilt. Some scattered frosting. Hilt retains about 75-85% original gilt wash with some high edge and handling wear. Grip wrap present but slightly loose. Scabbard very good with some minor cracking to surface. Mounts show generous traces of gilt finish. A very attractive example. DMG 700 - 1,400

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1015 - COMPOSITE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD AMERICAN CAVALRY SABER. Blade Length: 33” Overall Length: 38 - 1/2” Slightly curved Spanish-type blade with three partial fullers on each side. Brass stirrup hilt with counter guard on right side and a forward turned quillon. Later iron flattened ball pommel. Plain cherry grip with brass fuller at base. CONDITION: Blade retains a light grey patina with some dark spots and light pitting overall, shows several battle nicks to and sharpening to cutting edge. Brass components retain a very dark patina. Pommel has a brown patina. Grip shows marks from use and restoration on right side. Part of ferrule at base absent. DMG 600 - 1,000

1016 - SILVER HILTED SMALL SWORD WITH HALLMARKS FOR 1761, JOHN CARMAN. Blade Length: 34 - 1/4” Overall Length: 41” For a nearly identical example, see plate 211.S on page 132 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. George Washington carried one of this specific design during the Braddock Campaign in 1755. The straight triangular Colichemarde blade with engraved designs on all three sides. Solid silver hilt with disk guard featuring gadrooned edges and shells at top and bottom on both sides. Hallmarked pas d’ane with date letter for 1761, lion, and maker’s mark “IC” for John Carman. Knucklebow features panel of gardrooning on both sides. Olive-shaped pommel is gadrooned and has an integral turned capstan. Ornate grip wrapped with bands of silver and braided silver wire. CONDITION: Blade retains a grey patina and shows some wear to engraving, blade bent slightly to the left and is slightly cocked at guard. Hilt is tight to blade and retains a pleasing grey patina, some minor denting to front of guard. A very attractive officer’s small sword. DMG 1,200 - 1,800

1017 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA GILT OFFICERS SMALL SWORD WITH SCABBARD AND KNOT. Blade Length: 29 - 3/4” Overall Length: 36” For a nearly identical example, see plate 213 on page 132 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. Neumann dates the European example in the book between 1755 and 1770. Probably French, the tapered straight double-edged diamondsection blade features 8-3/4” blued and gilded sections of decoration at the top on both sides. The engraved designs include scrolls, stands of arms, and panoplies of arms. The gilt brass hilt features a boat guard with a shell quillon. Grip decorated with spiraling gardening. The round pommel is Aldo gadrooned. Complete with its original tooled brown leather scabbard with brass mounts. CONDITION: Blade retains perhaps 90% original polished, blued, and gilded surfaces. Some minor frosting and thinning. Hilt retains about 90-95% original gilt finish with some high edge wear and scattered dark spots. Scabbard very good with generous amounts of gilt remaining on mounts. Some minor scuffing to leather. A very attractive military officer’s small sword. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1018 - MID 18TH CENTURY GRENADIER’S HANGER MARKED HARVEY. Blade Length: 24” Overall Length: 29 - 1/2” For an identical example, see plate 19.S on page 68 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. The slightly curved blade has a narrow single fuller along the top on both sides. Blade is stamped with a running fox with “SH” within the body on both sides. Brass hilt with heart-shaped guard with two branches on right side. Round pommel with integral capstan. This is one of the most recognizable widely used British swords of the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars. CONDITION: Blade retains a dark grey patina with scattered light pitting and some heavier pitting towards tip. Markings excellent. Hilt retains a pleasing dark mustard patina, quillon is absent. DMG 600 - 1,200

1019 - ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED MILITARY OFFICER’S SMALL SWORD. Blade Length: 29 - 1/2” Overall Length: 36 - 1/2” For a nearly identical example, see plate 207.S on page 130 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. Straight triangular Colichemarde blade. Solid silver hilt with pierced boat guard featuring chased ornate military motifs including cannons, flags, and polearms. Hallmarked on left side of knucklebow with date letter for 1761. Knucklebow features chased designs and military motifs on both sides. Olive-shaped pommel is pierced and features military motifs on both sides. Ornate grip wrapped with bands of silver and braided silver wire. CONDITION: Blade retains a grey patina and shows professional polishing under a grey frosted patina. Hilt is tight to blade and retains a pleasing grey patina, guard slightly loose. Hilt shows some high edge wear and retains a grey patina. A very attractive French and Indian War officer’s small sword. DMG 1,200 - 2,400

1020 - AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA SWORD WITH BRASS LION HEAD. Blade Length: 25” Overall Length: 31” This sword was illustrated in the April 1957 edition of the magazine “The American Arms Collector” as part of the Colonel Robert F. Wheeler Collection. Slightly curved single edge blade with single fuller towards top on both sides. Brass “D” guard with forward-facing quillon. Spiraling cast brass grip. Chased smiling lion pommel of brass. CONDITION: Blade has been polished and sharpened, showing some darker areas and scattered pitting. Hilt retains a mustard patina. Chip missing at tip of capstan and there is a vacant hole on right side of Lion’s head, probably drilled to hang the sword. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection, Ex. Robert Wheeler. DMG 1,800 - 3,600

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1021 - BRASS HILTED AMERICAN CAVALRY SABER Blade Length: 30” Overall Length: 35” For a similar hilt, see plate 351.S on page 178 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. Probably circa 1780-85. The slightly curved Spanish-style blade has three narrow partial fullers. Brass D-guard with forward turned quillon and two outward branches on right side. Cherry grip wrapped with twisted copper wire. Flat pommel cap with integral brass backstrap. CONDITION: Blade retains a dark heavy patina. Hilt retains a mustard patina, shows scattered marks from use. Backstrap is cracked. Grip shows scattered marks from use and minor age cracks. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 1,200 - 2,500

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1022 - AMERICAN SHORT SABER ATTRIBUTED TO JEREMIAH SNOW. Blade Length: 26” Overall Length: 32” For a sword with an identical hilt, see plate 192.S on page 125 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. Neumann dates the sword 1775-1790. This sword is attributed to Jeremiah Snow based on identical signed hilts. Slightly curved American manufactured blade with narrow single fuller along top on both sides. Brass stirrup hilt with counter guard on right side. Brass urn pommel with two engraved lines. Cherry grip with carved spiraling grooves. Brass ferrule at top and bottom. CONDITION: Blade retains a grey patina with scattered darker areas and several battle nicks to edge. Brass hilt retains a pleasing mustard patina. Grip very good with minor age cracks and a couple small chips along bottom ferrule. A very attractive American Revolutionary War era sword. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 1,400 - 2,800

1023 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR AMERICAN HANGER. Blade Length: 26” Overall Length: 32” For a similar example of this hilt, see plate 180.S on page 121 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. The blade is slightly curved with a partial fuller along top on both sides. Brass guard with two piercings and forward turned quillon, stirrup hilt. Solid brass grip engraved to appear as wire wrap. Ovoid brass pommel with small capstan. CONDITION: Blade retains a mostly dark grey patina with some scattered areas of heavier patina. Hilt retains a pleasing dark mustard patina. Hilt is tight to blade. Blade shows a few battle nicks. A very attractive form. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

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1024 - AMERICAN LION POMMEL HANGER Blade Length: 23” Overall Length: 29” This Revolutionary War period hanger features a tapered slightly curved blade with false edge and wide center fuller. Arms motifs are engraved in a rectangle on both sides at ricasso. Brass four-slot guard with knucklebow connecting to pommel just below mouth of Lion. The chased brass pommel features a smiling lion. Cherry grip with brass ferrule at base and a single strand of brass wire wrap. CONDITION: Blade retains a dark grey patina with engraving worn and some areas of scattered light pitting. Grip excellent. Brass retains a dark mustard patina. An attractive American hanger. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 2,400 - 5,000

1025 - GERMANIC SHELL GUARD CUTTOE. Blade Length: 22” Overall Length: 27 - 1/4” For a similar example of this hilt, see plate 85.SS on page 332 of “Battle Weapons of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. This is the type that Hessian and Brunswick Jaeger units would have carried. Straight tapered blade with wide shallow center fuller and false edge. Relief clamshell guard on right side. Brass knucklebow and pommel cap with antler grip. CONDITION: Blade retains a grey patina and has a couple nicks to edge. Hilt retains a pleasing dark mustard patina. Knucklebow and pommel cap are bent. Grip very good. DMG 1,200 - 2,500

1026 - TARGET EYE SILVER HILTED PHILADELPHIA EAGLE POMMEL SABER. Blade Length: 31” Overall Length: 37” The American manufactured blade is slightly curved with a clip point blade and single partial fuller along the top on both sides. Solid silver reverse-P hilt with forward-facing quillon. Distinctive aggressive hollow eagle pommel with target eye. Shaped ivory grip with relief gadrooned panel on right side, silver ferrule at base. CONDITION: Blade retains a dark heavy patina with a 12” section corroded and with a heavier patina. Hilt retains a pleasing patina, pommel shows some minor dents. Grip very good with a pleasing light honey patina, one small chip above ferrule on right side. A very attractive Philadelphia silver hilt. DMG 2,500 - 4,500

1027 - AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA HORSEMAN’S SABER. Blade Length: 35 - 1/2” Overall Length: 41 For another American horseman’s saber with a hilt of this style, see plate 311.S on page 165 of “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. Neumann dates this style to between 1775 and 1790. This example has a massive nearly straight blacksmith-forged blade of 35 - 1/2” with a width of 1 - 5/8”. The brass reverse-P hilt has a forward-facing quillon. Sheet brass backstrap with integral pommel cap. Wooden grip with bulbous sections and traces brown leather and twisted brass wire wrap. CONDITION: Untouched and as found. The blade retains a dry untouched surface with dark brown patina throughout. Scattered deep battle nicks to cutting edge. Brass retains a brown patina, some slight bending to quillon and knucklebow. Hilt tight to blade and tang is undisturbed. Grip dark and showing some scattered nicks and marks from use. A very heavy duty early American cavalry saber. DMG 2,000 - 4,000 14

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1028 - MASSACHUSETTS SILVER HILTED EAGLE POMMEL SHORT SWORD WITH TARGET EYE. Blade Length: 26 - 7/8” Overall Length: 32 - 1/4” This fine sword features a total of four eagles. For an identical example of this pommel, see figure 230 on page 254 of “Silver-Hilted, Revolutionary and Early Federal Swords” by Dan Hartzler. This late 18th century example features an early slightly curved American blade with single narrow partial fuller along top on both sides. Brown leather washer at top of blade. Silver S-shaped guard with double eagle head quillons. Silver chain guard connects to beak of silver eagle head pommel. The pommel is engraved with a target eye and simple neck feathers. Turned capstan on top. Reeded bone grip with silver band with an engraved eagle in center. CONDITION: Blade retains a mostly bright surface with some scattered dark spots, a couple battle nicks to cutting edge. Hilt very good and tight to blade. Retains a pleasing grey patina showing some minor wear and marks from use. Grip excellent with a couple horizontal hairline age cracks and wonderful honey patina. A very early example in very good condition. DMG 3,000 - 6,000

1029 - SALEM ATTRIBUTED AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR CUTLASS OR SHORT SABER. Blade Length: 25 - 3/4” Overall Length: 31 - 7/8” For another example of hilt with a pommel of this type, see plate 72.SS on page 327 of “Battle Weapons of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. The unfullered American-made blade is wide, measuring 1 - 3/4”. The four-slot guard is brass, as well as the knob-shaped pommel, which has engraved bands. Walnut grip with bulbous sections. This style hilt is attributed to Salem, Massachusetts. CONDITION: Blade retains a heavy brown as-found surface with some pitting and a couple nicks to edge. Hilt retains a dark brown patina, quillon bent slightly forward. Grip and hilt are slightly loose. A very attractive American Revolutionary War sword. DMG 2,500 - 4,500

1030 - SILVER HILTED AMERICAN SABER WITH SCABBARD, INSCRIBED TO MAJOR WM. WATTS, EX. MEDICUS COLLECTION. Blade Length: 27 - 1/2” Overall Length: 33 - 3/8” Slightly curved single-edge blade with clip point and a wide shallow fuller on both sides. Silver reverse-P hilt with chased eagle head quillon and scalloped guard. Bird’s head pommel with chased designs on top and silver backstrap. Ivory grip with relief carved spirals, silver ferrule with bands of decoration at base. Front of knucklebow inscribed “Major Wm. Watts”. Complete with its original silver-mounted leather scabbard. CONDITION: Blade has been somewhat polished and has a lacquer coating, a couple nicks to cutting edge. One small area of light pitting on top of blade on both sides, towards the top. Hilt has also been lacquered and retains some bright surfaces beneath lacquer and some areas of dark patina where lacquer has deteriorated. Knucklebow has some bending. Grip very good with a pleasing patina and a couple dark hairline age cracks. Scabbard mounts retain a partially lacquered surface with frog stud loose. Leather shows some losses to surface, minor cracks and crazing, and some minor losses, but is overall very stable. A beautiful identified American silver hilt with its original scabbard. PROVENANCE: Ex. Medicus Collection, This sword is featured in Norm Flayderman’s “American Swords From the Philip Medicus Collection” published in 1999. DMG 4,000 - 8,000

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1031 - CHARLES HALL SILVER EAGLE POMMEL CUTTOE OF CAPT. MICHAEL WHITELY MORTALLY WOUNDED 1777. Blade Length: 30” Overall Length: 36” Historically important silver eagle-pommel cuttoe by Charles Hall, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, carried by Captain Michael Whitely, Pennsylvania Militia, mortally wounded at White Marsh 1777. Hall’s ‘CH/(rectangle)” touchmark appears on scabbard cap below the upper quillon. The sword is complete with scabbard and mounted in a shadow box with engraved Tiffany & Co. sterling silver plaque outlining the provenance and officer’s record: “This sword was carried by Captain Michael Whitely great great grandfather of William Fahnestock // Captain Michael Whitely, Seventh Company, Col Robert Elder’s Fourth Battalion, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Militia, was wounded and taken prisoner by the British at Chestnut Hill Battle of Germantown, December 6th 1777. Died several days later in Philadelphia at age 47. His daughter Martha married Isaac McKinley; his son Isaac G. McKinley was father of Margaret A. McKinley, mother of William Fahnestock.” PROVENANCE: Fahnestock family to William Guthman. Hall (1742-1783) worked as a silversmith in Philadelphia 1759-1762 and at Lancaster 1763-1783. A lieutenant in the Pennsylvania militia, he also held civil offices including Burgess and Agent for Confiscated Estates. Whitely (1730-1777) was commissioned Captain July 1777. White Marsh was fought December 5 to 8, 1777, as the British attacked Washington’s camp 13 miles outside Philadelphia after the fall of the city and Battle of Germantown. Whitely’s wounding and capture likely date to December 5, when 600 Pennsylvania Militia scouting the British advance at Chestnut Hill fought British light infantry, suffering about 40 casualties, including 24 captured. Two further days of maneuver and fighting decided Howe to return to Philadelphia. CONDITION: Excellent. Silver cast and chased eaglehead pommel with chain guard to eaglehead quillon finial. Spiral grooved bone grip, one narrow crack on underside and small chip at silver ferrule, but stable. Quillon block cast and chased with Wild Pig on reverse; Dog attacking Deer on obverse. Reverse-S crossguard articulated with feathers and second animal head as upper quillon finial. Scabbard cap has minor loss to rim. CH within rectangle visible on scabbard cap next to quillon block. Black leather scabbard with silver mounts in very good condition, slight waviness to leather at bottom and narrow seam opening on reverse. A significant eagle head sword in the transitional period from its use as predator on hunting swords to an American national symbol on military arms. 30,000 - 50,000

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1032 - CAPTAIN SAMUEL CHANDLER’S REVOLUTIONARY WAR AMERICAN SILVER HILTED SMALL SWORD MARKED “HURD” WITH PROVENANCE TOGETHER WITH A GOLD-GILT, FRAMED COPY OF HIS PORTRAIT WHILE HOLDING THIS VERY SWORD, THE Blade Length: 27 - 1/4” Overall Length: 33 - 1/4” This sword descended through the Chandler family beginning with Samuel Chandler’s wife, then to his wife’s nephew John Paine and descended from there, as detailed extensively in a notarized statement from the family and other documentation provided. The chain of provenance is solid and detailed. Samuel Chandler (1735-1790), a farmer and tavern keeper in Windham County, Connecticut, was “established” by the General Assembly as Lieutenant of the 18th Company of the 11th Regiment of Connecticut Militia in October 1772 and Captain, May 1774. A manpower pool for Continental Army and State Line regiments, the militia served mostly in state defense against British raids by land and sea. Chandler does not seem to have taken part in the Lexington Alarm, an informal and limited march initiated by local commanders, but was likely at the Siege of Boston. He does not seem to be among the 146 Killingly men led there by Major Danielson of the 11th, but two notes cited in a family genealogy referring to him as “Mr. Chandler” also connect him with Col. Thomas Mifflin, Washington’s Quartermaster General in late 1775, suggesting he may have have been acting as a civilian employee or volunteer with the Quartermaster Department, where his business experience as a tavern owner would have been useful. He likely saw active field service when the regiment was dispatched out of state. In the Fall of 1776, two large Connecticut militia contingents temporarily reinforced Washington at New York. Records of the 11th Regiment call it their “march to Westchester,” suggesting participation in the fighting at White Plains. Several Connecticut militia regiments were again sent out of state in August 1778 to counter the British attack on Rhode Island. Secondary sources refer to Chandler as Captain of the regiment’s 11th Company and place the regiment on Tiverton Heights in the battle. This gains additional support from the Winthrop Chandler (Samuel’s brother) 1780 painting of Samuel, actually holding this sword, with a battle scene (also painted by Winthrop Chandler) in the background, perhaps adapted from a 1779 published print of the battle. He may also have answered subsequent alarms within the state occasioned by British activity such as Arnold’s 1781

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raid at New London. The sword itself features a triangular blade with each side crudely engraved with florals and vines, as well as a folky bird on each side. The clamshell guard has relief borders, the remnants of an inscription beginning with “C” are visible on the front of the guard on the right side. It is probable that Chandler’s name was inscribed there in block letters originally. The inside of the guard features the well-known hallmark “HURD” on the left side. Jacob Hurd was a Silversmith and Sword-maker in Boston from 1702 – 1758. 10 or 12 Hurd swords are known to exist, with perhaps the best known as that of Colonel William Prescott, commander of the Patriot Forces at Bunker Hill, famous for his cry of “Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” Grip wire has been properly re-wrapped. Complete with a framed high quality color reproduction of the original painting by Winthrop Chandler, who is recognized by art experts as one of the very first portrait painters in the American Colonies. The reproduction shows Chandler seated in his military uniform with this very sword clearly visible and his tricorn hat on the table next to him, all in great detail, measuring 22 - 1/4” x 26 - 1/4” including frame. The battle in the background appears to be the Battle of Rhode Island, which can be found depicted in a 1779 published engraving titled “The Siege of Rhode Island” and dated August 28, 1778. The landscapes are nearly identical and records indicate that the 11th was present. The engraving and painting both depict rolling hills in both, house and smoke at right. Winthrop Chandler substituted battle lines for tents, perhaps to increase martial background for Chandler with his sword. The original oil painting is now housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. There is also a binder with information on the painting, family background, notarized provenance statement, and other relevant information. This is certainly a rare sword, but even more desirable with a portrait of the Revolutionary War Veteran that carried it. Rare indeed. CONDITION: Hilt is tight to blade. Blade retains a grey patina with some scattered darker areas, engraving shows some wear. Hilt retains an oxidized, silver patina with some variation and shows some wear and scattered marks from use. A fine and extremely rare, identified and American marked silver-hilt small sword with an excellent provenance. DMG 10,000 - 20,000

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1033 - (A) IMPORTANT IDENTIFIED REVOLUTIONARY WAR NEW ENGLAND FUSIL INSCRIBED “DB FOR B. BACON 1776”, RESPONDED TO LEXINGTON ALARM. Caliber/Bore: .64 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 42 - 3/8” Benjamin Bacon (Sr., 1726-1807) of Canterbury, Connecticut, served throughout the war as a captain in the 21st Connecticut Militia, part of the states’ defensive forces, and also sent as reinforcements to Washington in New York September 1776. Bacon was “established” by the Connecticut General Assembly as Ensign of the 9th Company (or Train Band), 11th Regiment of Militia, Col. Ebenezer Williams, in 1771; promoted Lieutenant, May 1774; and Captain, March 1775, the company by then part of Col. John Douglas’s 21st Regiment as militia regiments increased in number and their geographical boundaries changed. Bacon was a prominent member of his community, several times a representative to the colony and state General Assembly and rising to Lt. Colonel in the militia by 1790, by which rank he was later known. He commanded the company throughout the war with documents showing him as its captain from 1775 to at least September 1781. He answered the Lexington Alarm, marching, “to the relief of Boston,” in April 1775 along with other Canterbury members of the 21st Regiment, with service lasting six days, shorter than many from the town, but none served more than twenty. In Fall 1776 the 21st Regiment was called to reinforce Washington in New York, serving from September 7 to 20 March 1777, part of Saltonstall’s brigade of Connecticut Militia, at one point attached to Sullivan’s Division. A casualty report of Saltonstall’s command for October 28-30 shows light losses, but suggests participation in the Battle of White Plains. A November 1776 travel abstract lists Bacon in command of a lieutenant and 24 men. Thereafter the regiment seems to have been kept ready to respond to British coastal raids on Connecticut in 1777, 1779, and 1781 and may have seen service in response to the British attack on Rhode Island in August 1778. They were called up for two days service on September 4 on reports of British shipping off New London and the papers of Obediah Johnson, Colonel of the 21st from May 1777 to 1783, place him in Rhode Island in 1778. The regiment did not reach New London in time to take part in the defense against Arnold’s 1781 raid in early September, but a regimental return of 25 September 1781 at Canterbury lists Bacon as captain of a company with a lieutenant, ensign, 3 sergeants, 4 corporals, and 37 men, all under fifty years of age, with another 22 exempt and 2 on a tour of duty in a state regiment, indicating he was still active in the state’s defense forces. Also on that roll is Ephraim Lyon, having risen from lieutenant to adjutant and to captain of his own company. A second, almost identical Fusil is known via private collection, with coin silver thumb-piece inscribed in virtually identical style, “Ephraim Lyon, 1777”. Given similar fusils inscribed to the two men, but dated a year apart, it’s more than likely that Lyon saw and appreciated the Fusil owned by Bacon, and subsequently ordered one for himself by the same maker. An exhaustive search of known rifle makers during the period and of the area attributes the fusils’ construction to “Deacon Barrett” of Concord, Massachusetts whom Bacon likely had the occasion to visit in 1775-1777 during the Lexington Alarm. The fusil itself features a three-stage barrel with bayonet lug mounted on bottom towards muzzle, and a small silver front half-moon sight on top. There is a small notched iron rear sight mounted on the front of the barrel tang. Convex banana lockplate shows worn engraved maker’s name in block letters. The brass furniture is of American manufacture and includes a stylized “Brown Bess” type triggerguard, but much fancier. Trigger guard has a hole for sling swivel. Stepped two-stage buttplate tang. Engraved brass ribbon sideplate. Unusual elongated trumpeted brass ramrod ferrules. Brass nose cap. Silver wrist escutcheon inscribed “MADE / BY DB / FOR / B. BACON / 1776”. This inscription tends to imply that this Fusil was a special order by Bacon and that he was quite proud to have the makers initials on the gun, with the maker in turn, proud to identify it but prudently not presenting his full name to prevent British reprisal, a common trait among most weapon makers after the British incursion to Lexington and Concord. Most collectors and historians of the Revolutionary War and specifically the Battles at Lexington and Concord are familiar with Colonel James Barrett,

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one of the primary figures in the events surrounding the first Battle of the American Revolution at Concord. On April 19, 1775 at the Battle of North Bridge in Concord, Colonel Barrett was the highest ranking officer in the field and was in command at the fight. His farm was the stored sight of all the town of Concord’s militia powder, weapons, and two pairs of bronze cannons according to secret British intelligence. His barn was one of the chief objects of the British march command by Colonel Francis Smith of the 10th Regiment of Foot through Middlesex County on April 19, 1775. The British soldiers who reached the farm that morning found no weapons, as they had been moved or hidden by Barrett’s nephew and son who had spent most of the night and early morning plowing under the remaining contraband not taken westward by their militiamen. What is not commonly known is that James Barrett’s brother was Deacon Thomas Barrett, who was born in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts in 1707 and died in 1779 in Concord, Massachusetts was also a British target. Both he and his son Deacon Samuel Barrett were blacksmiths and also operated a gun manufactory in Concord, Massachusetts during the time of the Battle at Concord and are listed in Colonel Arcadi Gluckman’s American Gun-makers as follows; Barrett, Samuel “Deacon” A Committee of Safety gunsmith of Concord, Mass. Born 1726, died March 10, 1800. “We hear from Concord that a fine laboratory for gun making is set up there by Deacon Barrett, where every branch of the business is carried on. As the laboratory has the advantage of a stream, the boring, grinding and polishing is performed by water/ ’ New England Chronicle, Cambridge, December 14, 1775. In Willard Cousins article published in The Gun Report in April, 1975, Cousins reported that on April 19, 1775, the elder Deacon Barrett was interrogated, denounced as a traitor and threatened with execution by British Troops after their search of his properties and Barrett’s sharp retorts criticizing the mother country’s indignities and persecution of Colonists. He was spared due to lack of evidence, allowing he, his son, and their workmen to continue to produce and repair muskets for the cause. The fusil has a slender cherry stock of beautiful New England form and a pleasing deep flute above wrist on each side. Stylized bold relief-carved shell surrounding barrel tang. Two lines engraved along ramrod channel and top edge of forend on each side. Small relief shell carved behind ramrod entry ferrule. Brown Bess “bulge” at forearm above ramrod entry ferrule. Relief teardrop panels carved around lock and sideplate. Accompanied with documentation and copies of Bacon’s Revolutionary War muster sheets. CONDITION: Retains a pleasing untouched appearance. Barrel retains a dark heavy brown patina, some minor losses and bending at muzzle face from period use. Lock retains a dark heavy patina with some scattered pitting. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration. Brass retains a pleasing mustard to dark mustard patina, showing minor scattered marks from use and light wear. Wrist escutcheon shows clear markings. Consigner states that the stock has a professionally repaired wrist break that we were not able to discern. Stock shows some wear to carving and scattered marks from use. Some minor chips around lock and a long thin splinter absent along barrel on each side. A very historic, identified and dated Revolutionary War Weapon. DMG 30,000 - 60,000

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1034 - (A) MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTE OF SAFETY MUSKET SIGNED EB, ATTRIBUTED TO EDMUND BEMIS. Caliber/Bore: .80 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 41” Edmund Bemis is listed in “The New England Gun” by Merrill Lindsay as a maker of Committee of Safety muskets in Boston, Massachusetts. It states that Bemis worked between 1746 and 1785 at his Boston shop, and that he was a maker of muskets and fowling pieces. A pistol is also known with similar identifying features and is marked “EB” on the barrel and “EDMUND BEMIS” on the lock. The American manufactured round barrel features heavy rings at the breech and a bayonet lug mounted on top, towards the muzzle. The flat American manufactured lockplate features double-line engraving and a period-replaced top jaw and top jaw screw. The brass furniture is American manufactured and shows similarities to British military furniture. The S-shaped convex sideplate is the style of the British Pattern 1779 Emergency S-Type. It is deeply marked with an “EB” with a feather design stamped in the middle. Buttplate with three-stage tang. Trigger guard is American-made in the British style, but more slender. Brass ferrules and nose cap. Cherry stock showing New England influence as well as Brown Bess influence. Bulge at ramrod entry ferrule and carved with an apron in relief around the barrel tang. There is an 1870’s yellowed label with red border, which is no longer legible. Complete with its period American ramrod with old repair. CONDITION: Very good untouched condition throughout. Barrel retains a pleasing brown patina. Lock retains a matching brown patina and is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. Brass retains a dark unpolished mustard patina. Stock retains an untouched surface with a period repair above the back of the lock. Otherwise showing scattered small age cracks and marks from use, sling swivels absent. A very rare and historic signed Revolutionary War Committee of Safety musket. DMG 10,000 - 20,000

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1035 - EXTREMELY RARE BRITISH 5TH REGIMENT SILVER DOUBLE LOBE GORGET, LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. There are only a few known surviving examples of this rare double lobe pattern, which was only used by a couple regiments during the Revolutionary War. This gorget is featured on page 43 of “Insignia of Independence” by Don Troiani and James L. Kochan. The gorget is composed of sheet silver wrapped around sheet brass backing. The gorget is inscribed along the bottom “VTH REGT” with the British Royal Crest and banner reading “DIEU ET MON DROIT” engraved above. This is for the 5th Regiment of Royal Fusiliers. Above that is the 5th Regiment’s crest engraved a dragoon below a banner with their motto, which reads “QUO FATA VOCANT”, a latin phrase translating to “Whither Destiny Takes Me”. The 5th Regiment arrived in Boston in July of 1774. The regiment fought at Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and several later battles in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Some of these include White Plains, New York in October of 1776, Fort Washington, New York in November 1776, Brandywine in September 1777, and Germantown in October 1777. They departed America for duty in the West Indies in 1778. A rare and historically significant gorget. CONDITION: Silver shows some tarnishing and engraving shows some light wear but remains crisp and clear. There is a minor crack along the top edge in the center on the gorget and a couple minor dents on the left side. Brass lining on back retains a dark mustard patina. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. 10,000 - 30,000

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1036 - RARE ENGRAVED EARLY 19TH CENTURY BRITISH GEORGE III STERLING SILVER ROYAL SEAL BOX WITH HALLMARKS. Measures 6 - 3/4” in diameter by 1 - 3/16” tall. Weight is 1 lb 6.8 oz. The side of the exterior is hallmarked with London marks and the date letter for 1813. It is also hallmarked “HN” for Henry Nutting/Hannah Northcote. The box’s lid is engraved with the Royal Coat of Arms that was used between 1801 and 1816. The interior of the lid is also hallmarked with London mark and date letter “S” for 1813. The inside lip of lid is also hallmarked “HN”. These boxes were used for enclosing the Royal Seal for important documents, especially world treaties. CONDITION: Excellent, polished bright and with excellent crisp engraving. Some light wear to hallmarks on side of box. A very rare and desirable solid silver seal box. DMG 4,000 - 6,000

1037 - SCARCE GEORGE IV GILT BRASS SEAL BOX. Measures 6 - 3/4” in diameter with a height of 1”. These seal boxes protected the was seal of England on important documents and world treaties. Silver gilt. Of circular form with a hinged cover chased in great detail with the Royal coat of arms that was in use between 1816 and 1837. CONDITION: Excellent showing no loss or wear to detail. Retains perhaps 80-90% gilt finish with some thinning. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

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1038 - HALLMARKED VICTORIAN SILVER SEAL BOX HALLMARKED JOSEPH ANGEL. Hallmarked for London and date letter for 1867, as well as “JA” maker’s mark for Joseph Angel. This rare seal box is solid sterling silver and measures 7 - 1/4” in diameter with a height of 1 - 1/2”. The lid has a relief chased foliate border and is convex. Center features the Royal Coat of Arms chased in great detail. Hinged on top. Hallmarked along left side, towards hinge. It is weight is 20.65 ounces. CONDITION: Excellent showing no loss to chased and engraved details. Polished bright, hallmarks are crisp and excellent. A very fine and rare Royal seal box. DMG 5,000 - 8,000

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1039 - LOT OF 2: REVOLUTIONARY WAR BUTTONS. Comprising: (A) Pewter coat button measuring 15/16” in diameter with convex face crudely inscribed “9R / 1777”. Loop in back is still present. CONDITION: Some chipping along edges and showing some wear. (B) Royal Americans regimental coat button measuring 7/8” in diameter and with a relief crown at the top, circular center has had markings intentionally removed, during the period. Bottom with “AMERICAN” in relief. CONDITION: Missing loop on back, dark patina, some bending. A nice lot of American buttons. DMG 300 - 600

1040 - SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI MEDAL, ARTHUS BERTRAND EAGLE, BAILEY BANKS & BIDDLE. This 20th century medal was manufactured by the firm of Arthus Bertrand of Paris for “BAILEY BANKS & BIDDLE”, as marked around the center, below Indian. For an identical example, see page 78 of “The Insignia of The Society of the Cincinnati” by Minor Myers, Jr. The medal is silver gilt with a 51mm height and 31mm width. Enameled details on both sides. Complete with its original spiral loop suspension for ribbon and original French blue and white ribbon. CONDITION: Excellent, showing no wear. Ribbon bright and excellent. DMG 1,400 - 2,800

1041 - SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI MEDAL, THE DELAWARE EAGLE. For another example, see number 68 on page 104 of “The Insignia of The Society of the Cincinnati. The medal itself measures 51mm in height with a width of 31mm. The Delaware Eagle about 1920 and is the largest single regular issue eagle. The Arthus Bertrand type is based upon it. These were made in the Philadelphia-Jenkintown area. Complete with a later associated French blue and white striped neck ribbon. CONDITION: Ribbon shows some yellow staining. Medal very good with some light green patina on some areas. All enamel is intact. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1042 - SCARCE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI BLAZER PATCH. This patch was worn by society officers while in session. The eagle is embroidered in silver and gilt bullion wire, in various textures, with black threading, giving definition to the eagle’s head and tail, the Eagle has a red embroidered eye, the wreath in green and red embroidery and trimmed in rolled bullion wire, centerpiece in light blue and green embroidery, the centerpiece ring in white embroidery with the text in Latin “OMNIA RELIQUIT SERVARE REPUBLICAM” (He left everything to save the Republic) in fine gold-colored bullion wire, on a black wool base, black cotton backer with four pushpin attachments, measuring 4 - 1/8” by 3” wide. CONDITION: Very good showing minor fraying to edges. DMG 500 - 1,000

1043 - SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 22 KARAT GOLD MEDAL. The Society of Colonial Wars is a hereditary society composed of men, who trace their descents from forebears who, in military, naval, or civil positions of high trust and responsibility, by acts or counsel, assisted in the establishment, defense, and preservation of the mainland American colonies of Great Britain. The General Society presently comprises some 32 constituent state societies. The organization was founded in New York in 1892, originally as a state society. The General Society was founded in 1893. The circa 1900 medal is solid 22 karat gold with red, white, and blue enamels. The ribbon is red with white stripes. The weight is 27.2 grams including the ribbon and hanger. CONDITION: Very good. All enamel is present, original ribbon with original pinback. DMG 600 - 1,200

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1044 - AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR SHOULDER CARTRIDGE BOX. For a nearly identical example from the George Neumann Collection, see the American shoulder box at the top of page 29 of “Battle Weapons of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. Measures 10” x 4” x 2 - 3/4”, flap measures 10” by 6 - 1/2”. Deep pouch of black leather construction with a 24 hole block for .69 caliber cartridges with large bag space under the block. The oversized flap is engraved with tooled semi-circle designs and neatly executed initials “J.N.H.” Flap retained by an inner tab and squared leather button. Complete with its original leather strap. CONDITION: An extremely nice American box and one that serious collectors would love to add to their collection. All components are original. Leather is still pliable, some crazing to surfaces and minor flaking. Body is very fine. Strap shows a couple minor 1/4” tears. In wonderful condition showing no attempts to clean or enhance. DMG 4,000 - 8,000

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1045 - EARLY 19TH CENTURY PATRIOTIC GREAT SEAL WAFER IRON. Circa early 19th century wafer iron featuring a nice patriotic Great Seal mold. The wafer iron is composed of circular cast iron molds that are fastened to a set of iron tongs. The tongs are secured together when the wafer iron is closed by a fishing weight shaped catch. The scissors-like joint secures the tongs together with a rivet and both of the circular cast iron molds are secured to the tongs with a rivet. Each circular mold is cast with the impression of the Great Seal of the United States that is contained within a small beaded border. Both Great Seals feature a spread-winged federal eagle with a patriotic striped shield protecting its chest while holding olive branches and arrows in its talons. The Eagle is holding a banner that reads “E PLURABUS UNUM” between its wings, the tips of the wings being connected by clouds that hover above 16 six-pointed stars. CONDITION: The wafer iron exhibits a pleasing chocolate patina on the tongs and a grey patina on the discs. The tongs exhibit delamination marks and areas of pitting. The discs exhibit casting flaws and the Great Steal remains bold with areas of pitting. Overall very good. JLD 600 - 1,200

1046 - RARE EARLY 18TH CENTURY TYPE I NEW ENGLAND HALBERD HEAD, EX. FLAYDERMAN. Blade Length: 8 - 3/4” Overall Length: 19” For a similar example of this form with pierced daggers and diamonds, see plate 30 on page 35 of “American Polearms” by Rodney Hilton Brown. The iron head measures about 16 - 3/8” in height with 2 - 1/2” remaining of the original iron straps. Measures 9 - 7/8” in length. Crescent blade measures 8 - 3/4”. Of classic early 18th century New England form with pierced circles, S-shapes, crescent moons, diamonds, and the initials “S C” for the owner or maker. Vase and ring turning towards straps. CONDITION: Retains a very heavy dark patina, scattered areas of heavy corrosion throughout. A very rare and desirable form of an early American halberd. Complete with a letter from Norm Flayderman in regards to the provenance. DMG 3,500 - 7,000

1047 - LOT OF 3: 18TH CENTURY BELT AXE AND TOMAHAWK HEADS. Blade Length: Various Overall Length: Various Comprising: (A) A small belt axe with maker marks. Head measures 4 - 1/8” with a crescent 2 - 3/4” cutting edge. Indistinct maker’s name and touchmark on left side of blade. Complete with its original hand-carved haft of 9 - 3/4”. CONDITION: Head retains a dark heavy brown patina. Haft shows reinforcing nails on top and shows some sc altered age cracks and marks from use. (B) Spike tomahawk head of 7” overall, inclusive of the 3 - 1/4” downward curled spike. The slightly crescent cutting edge measures about 2”. Narrow oval-shaped eye. CONDITION: Heavy dark brown patina, some areas of corrosion. (C) Diminutive spike tomahawk of only 4 - 1/2” overall with a 2” blade with 1 - 5/8” crescent cutting edge. The 1 - 1/2” spike is round and tapers to a point. CONDITION: Heavy dark patina and pitting overall. A nice grouping of circa 1750-1780 tomahawk heads and belt axe. DMG 800 - 1,500

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1048 - CONTEMPORARY KRA PIPE TOMAHAWK FOR GERALD DICESARE, PRESIDENT, 1983-1985. Blade Length: 2 - 3/8” Overall Length: 18 - 1/2”

Fine copy of a Revolutionary War brass-headed Pennsylvania pipe tomahawk. The brass head is an accurate copy, and has a dovetailed steel cutting edge. Both sides of the head are engraved with foliate motifs, as well as the same around the bowl. The tiger maple haft features engraved brass and silver bands and an inlaid silver plaque on one side inscribed “K.R.A. President / 1983-1985”. On the opposite side is a silver inlay inscribed “Gerald DeCesare”. CONDITION: Excellent showing no wear. Head retains a pleasing dark mustard patina. A very nice Kentucky Rifle Association presentation pipe tomahawk. DMG 800 - 1,500

1049 - MISSOURI WAR AXE OR HATCHET WITH ORIGINAL HAFT. Blade Length: 5 - 1/8” Overall Length: 23”

For a similar example with pierced head and four grooves around the eye, see Fig. 3 on page 104 of “Tomahawks and Frontiersmen Belt Axes” by Hartzler & Knowles. The example featured in the book is in the National Museum of the American Indian. The head measures 9 - 1/4” overall with a wide flaring blade of 7 - 7/8” with a crescent cutting edge of 5”. The head features four star piercings as well a crescent moon. Around the back of the eye there are four grooves. Blade also shows 29 total “kill” notches along the top of blade on both sides. The original round haft measures 22 - 7/8” overall and has a drilled hold towards the bottom for ornamental feathers and beads. Towards the head, there are three columns of four brass tacks. A square nail is hammered into top of haft. CONDITION: Head retains a pleasing brown patina with some light pitting, a couple edges marred. Haft is very dry and tacks have dark patina. A small piece of composite was added in front, below head to keep it in place due to shrinkage. A fine Missouri War Hatchet. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

1050 - LOT OF 2: SCARCE “GR” CYPHER WESTERWALD 18TH CENTURY STONEWARE JUGS. These early 18th century grey salt-glazed stoneware jugs feature bright blue glazed decoration and both have the “GR” cypher for Georgius Rex II, King of England. These were manufactured in Westerwald, Germany in the first half of the 18th century for export to Great Britain and the 13 American Colonies. Broken shards of these exact patterns have been found and restored at both Mount Vernon and Colonial Williamsburg. Both feature decorative foliate designs in cobalt blue surrounding the Royal Cypher in the center of the front. They have a bulbous, ovoid-shape with handle on the back. The throats show reeding with blue glaze. Handles both have a hole on the top, which originally retained the pewter lids, almost never found intact. (A) Measures 9 - 1/2” in height with a “2” inscribed on the back for 2 liters. CONDITION: Very good with no chips, only a few scattered flaws from manufacture. (B) Measures 7 - 1/2” tall. The number “4” inscribed around top edge, probably for 4 pints. CONDITION: Very good with some wear to glaze on top edge from lid. Two attractive and decorative Westerwald jugs. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1051 - (A) FINE AND SCARCE PAIR OF BRITISH SILVER MOUNTED RIFLED SWIVEL BREECH FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BY H. PETITJEAN. Caliber/Bore: (BOTH) .50 Rifled Barrel Length: (BOTH) 5” Circa 1770-1780. Petitjean began his unmaking career in Belgium, but obviously later relocated to England, where he adapted his style to a more traditional British approach. He was obviously a skilled engraver and extraordinary mechanic. This pair of ornate flintlock pistols marked are both marked “#43” on the breeches, as well as “H. PETITJEAN”. The fully rifled barrels swivel by pulling back the trigger guard and both barrels feature pans and frizzens. Both sets of breeches are stamped on one side with private London view and proof marks as well as crown over “F” markings. This denotes that Petitjean was a foreigner to the gunmaker’s guild. The boxlock actions are stepped and engraved with scrollwork on both sides. Both pistols have tang safeties. The walnut grips are profusely inlaid with silver wire scrollwork and the sterling silver pommel caps feature grotesque masks. CONDITION: Excellent with original polished surfaces, showing little use and nearly no wear. Actions are tight and function properly. Some silver wire is loose or raised on both pistols. A very fine and rare pair of silver-mounted swivel breech pistols. DMG 9,000 - 18,000

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1052 - (A) PAIR OF ORNATE FLINTLOCK PISTOLS BELONGING TO THE DUKE OF SAXONY. Caliber/Bore: (BOTH) .58 Smoothbore Barrel Length: (BOTH) 13” This pair was sold in the August 2, 1927 sale of “Collection of Muskets and Guns at the Grand Ducal Castle Ettersburg, Saxony” by T.H. Fischer, Lucerne and E. Kahlert & Son, Berlin. An original copy of the catalog is included, although they are not listed, as only the long arms were shown and described for this sale. This fine pair of pistols date about 1730-1750, and feature Italian barrels signed by renowned maker “LAZARINO COMINAZZO” on tops, toward breeches. Both two-stage barrels have a multi-fluted section followed by rings and round sections with swamped muzzles and half-moon front sights. Early banana lockplates with unbridled pans. Lockplates, cocks, faceted pans, and frizzen faces are all profusely scroll engraved and featuring Wolf’s heads in the centers of lockplates. The frizzen springs, top jaws, top jaw screws, barrel tang screws, and sideplate screws all retain their original fire-blued finishes. Fine relief-chased gilt brass mounts with engraved military motifs and scenes. The thumb pieces are chased with the Ducal crown and a bust of the Duke of Saxony above a double-headed Eagle. Walnut stocks profusely carved with relief rococo carving, especially around barrel tangs and around ramrod entry ferrules. Relief cameo carving around locks, trigger guards, and sideplates. Wooden ramrods with gilt brass tips. CONDITION: Excellent, showing little to no use overall. Both retaining original bright polish on barrels and locks. Mounts retain 90-95% gilt finishes. Stocks very good with a couple minor repairs and replaced slivers in front of pommel caps. These breaks probably occurred due to shrinkage. A fantastic, attractive, and historic pair of pistols. DMG 12,000 - 25,000

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1053 - (A) AMERICAN STOCKED FLINTLOCK PISTOL, LOCK MARKED SMITH. Caliber/Bore: .60 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 6” The round tapered barrel is swamped at the muzzle and engraved “GLASGOW” on top with a border and teardrop towards the muzzle. The convex lockplate is marked “SMITH” in the center. The pistol is amateurishly stocked in American walnut. Brass furniture includes an American sideplate with the shape and engraving closely resembling the work of York, Pennsylvania gunsmith George Eister. The brass grotesque mask pommel cap has been altered and American-engraved on the reshaped tang. The trigger guard has an American replaced trifed finial with a brass pin. The symmetrical wrist escutcheon is also American manufactured. CONDITION: Barrel retains a grey patina with some scattered light pitting and dark spots. Lock is in its original configuration and is functional, retains a dark grey patina. Brass furniture retains a pleasing dark mustard patina and shows some cracks, chips and wear. Stock shows scattered age cracks and minor pieces replaced, including above lockplate and a couple of thin vertical strips on grip. A very nice and interesting American Revolutionary War period pistol. DMG 1,400 - 2,800

1054 - (A) LARGE SILVER MOUNTED ENGLISH BOXLOCK FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY T. KETLAND & CO. Caliber/Bore: .58 smoothbore Barrel Length: 7” Round removable screw barrel with several turnings and a cannon muzzle, bottom of breech shows London view and proof marks, as well as “TK” for Thomas Ketland. The scalloped boxlock action is engraved on the left side with scrolls and on the right side with rococo designs and “T. KETLAND & Co.” in a large banner. The silver-mounted walnut grip is profusely inlaid with silver wire scrolls. The grotesque mask pommel cap and pierced wrist escutcheon with military motifs are silver. Wrist escutcheon inscribed with initials “AB”. CONDITION: Barrel and action have been cleaned and remain bright. Proofmarks and engraving show wear. Action functions properly and is crisp. Grip shows some scattered marks from use and a couple minor pieces of inlay absent. An attractive silver-mounted pistol. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1055 - (A) SILVER MOUNTED BRITISH FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S PISTOL BY OSMOND. Caliber/Bore: .62 caliber smoothbore Barrel Length: 8” This fine silver mounted officer’s pistol is hallmarked for 1775. The two-stage swamped brass barrel has private London view and proof marks on the left side of the breech. The top flat is inscribed “D OSMOND LONDON”. The flat lockplate is lightly engraved and inscribed “HALE” in a decorative banner in the center. The sterling silver furniture includes a pierced floral sideplate, hallmarked grotesque mask pommel cap, chased floral wrist escutcheon, and hallmarked trigger guard with Birmingham hallmarks and date letter “C” for 1775. The ramrod ferrules are also silver. Figured walnut stock with relief carved shell surrounding barrel tang. Complete with its original horn-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a pleasing dark mustard patina. Lock retains a grey patina, cock screw is a contemporary replacement. Silver furniture retains a light pewter patina, sideplate, and wrist escutcheon show some high edge wear. Ramrod entry ferrule has a minor chip at opening from ramrod. Stock has about 2 - 5/8” replaced at forend and a repaired wrist break. Stock otherwise shows scattered marks from use, bruising, and some minor losses. A handsome gentleman’s pistol. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 1,200 - 1,800

1056 - (A) AMERICAN-ATTRIBUTED RIFLED FLINTLOCK PISTOL. Caliber/Bore: .69 caliber Barrel Length: 10” Possibly New England, Revolutionary War period. This pistol has an unmarked rifled barrel with a brass half moon front sight. The convex lockplate is also unmarked and has simple double-line engraved borders. The brass furniture includes a plain pommel cap, an engraved sideplate, and an engraved trigger guard terminating in an acorn finial. The walnut stock features a well-carved fan in relief around the barrel tang, similar shells have been seen on other New England arms. There are also relief panels around the lock and sideplate, terminating at the rear in a teardrop. Wooden ramrod is a replacement. CONDITION: Very good and untouched. Barrel and lock retain a pleasing brown patina. Lock functions properly and is in its original flintlock configuration. Brass retains an unpolished dark mustard patina. Stock shows some minor bruising. A very attractive pistol. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

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1057 - (A) FRENCH FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S PISTOL WITH BRASS BARREL AND LOCK. Caliber/Bore: .56 smoothbore Barrel Length: 7” This circa 1750 pistol has a tapered brass barrel with turned cannon muzzle and a large engraved panoply of arms in the center, towards breech. The brass lockplate features a brass pan and is inscribed in the center “Boys en Cadet / St. Etienne”. Engraved brass furniture of classic French form. The oval-shaped wrist escutcheon has been replaced with an old German silver plate with a relief pelican. Walnut stock with relief flower around barrel tang and complete with its associated wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Very good, as found and untouched. Barrel, lockplate, and all furniture retain a dark unpolished patina. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration. Stock shows some scattered marks from use. A very nice pre-Revolutionary War French pistol. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

1058 - (A) FLINTLOCK DOUBLE BARREL PISTOL BY PATRICK WITH BAYONET AND CASE INSCRIBED TO CHARLES CALDECOT, ROYAL NAVY. Caliber/Bore: .52 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 2 - 1/2” The Caldecot family crest is on both the wrist escutcheon of the pistol and the presentation escutcheon on the case lid, as well as “Charles Caldecot / R.N.” The twin steel barrels are unmarked and have stiff leaf engraving at the breeches. There is a folding triangular spring bayonet mounted on the right side. Brass scalloped boxlock action engraved on the left side in an oval “PATRICK / LIVERPOOL” surrounded by arms motifs. Right side features engraved foliate motifs as well as the bayonet release, which also holds the bayonet in place when folded. Iron reinforced cock and frizzen. One-piece walnut grip with silver wrist escutcheon featuring a griffin and her young perched in a nest. This is the family crest of the Caldecot family. Accessories include a brass-mounted mahogany case measuring 8” x 11” x 5 1/4”. A brass escutcheon with folding handle in the center of the lid is engraved with the same crest that appears on the pistol escutcheon. The name inscribed below the crest is “Charles Caldecot, R.N.”. Lieutenant Charles Caldecot enlisted in the navy in 1808. He served on several vessels under many captains until leaving the service in 1828. The case is inlaid on all sides with brass strips and has a brass key escutcheon. The casing is a converted patented writing desk on bottom level. The interior is lined with royal blue velvet. A paper file folds into the lid, held in place by a silver catch. The inside has an attached paper label which reads “THOMAS WOOLFIELD, DESK & DRESSING CASE MANUFACTURER No. 71 & 72 CHURCH ST. LIVERPOOL.”. The partitioned case is partitioned for the pistol, several lead balls, a bullet mold, and a small powder flask. Other accessories include a small traveling ink well engraved with nautical motifs, a folding wood coin scale, and a two-piece brass snuffbox with a bust of Napoleon and “BONAPARTE PRIMVS CONSVL” on the lid. The box is dated on the bottom “ANNO VIII”. This translates to the eighth year in the Napoleonic calendar, which would be 1799. CONDITION: Barrels show some wear and retain a light grey patina. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina. Engraving shows some minor wear. Lock functions properly and is in its original flintlock configuration. Grip shows some wear and marks from use, as well as a minor crack extending about 3/4” back from the action on the right side. The case shows light wear with a minor hairline crack in the center of the front running through the key escutcheon. Interior and accessories very good. A very nice identified naval pistol. DMG 3,000 - 6,000

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1059 - (A) FINE PAIR OF SILVER INLAID ENGLISH FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS BY JACKSON. Caliber/Bore: (BOTH) .50 Smoothbore Barrel Length: (BOTH) 1 - 3/8” This early 19th Century pair of pocket pistols features removable 2” round .50 caliber smoothbore barrels with lugs on the bottoms and stiff-leaf engraving at the muzzles. The bottoms of both actions are marked with two London proofs. The right sides of the scalloped boxlock actions are engraved with “London” in a cartouche surrounded by arms motifs. The left sides are inscribed “Jackson” and are decorated en suite. Both pistols feature hidden folding triggers, reinforced cocks, and sliding safeties on the tangs, with pins that engage with the frizzens. Both grips are profusely decorated with engraved silver floral inlays and silver wire scrollwork. The bottoms of the grips have silver caps and both are hallmarked. Both pistols have silver shield-shaped vacant wrist escutcheons. CONDITION: One barrel is frozen, the other still removable. All iron components retain a bright surface. Locks are in their original flintlock configurations and function well, with tight actions. Grips are excellent with some minor storage marks and a couple very small slivers of wire absent. One pistol has a minor dent to the right of the wrist escutcheon. A very ornate pair of silver-mounted English pocket pistols. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

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1060 - (A) EXTREMELY FINE PAIR OF FRENCH FLINTLOCK GREATCOAT PISTOLS, CIRCA 1750 BY ALLARY. Caliber/Bore: (BOTH) .54 Smoothbore Barrel Length: (BOTH) 6” These pistols are in exceptionally fine condition and have been well stored since the early to mid-17th Century when they were made. Both pistols have tapered 5 - 7/8” two-stage swamped .52 caliber smoothbore barrels, which are blued and profusely decorated with gold overlays and engraved designs. Some designs include floral motifs, suns in splendor at the muzzles, and perched eagles at the breeches surrounded by floral motifs. Both polished barrel tangs are engraved with scrollwork. Both locks have flat faces with beveled edges and are decorated with engraved borders and marked in the center “A. ALLARY/ A ST. ETIENNE”. Both locks feature faceted unbridled pans, decorated screw faces, and chiseled frizzen faces decorated with shell motifs. Both feature ornate iron furniture with its original bright polish, along with silver chased relief wrist escutcheons. Sideplates are engraved with shell and floral designs and trigger guards terminate in a flame finial at the fronts. The pommel caps feature Greek busts on a stippled ground, surrounded by a ring of chased floral motifs. Both are stocked in striped fruitwood and feature relief scrollwork and floral motifs around the barrel tangs and ramrod entry ferrules, as well as cameo carving around the trigger guards. CONDITION: Extremely fine. Barrels retain nearly all of their original blued and gilded finishes. Barrel tangs retain their original polish. Locks retain all their original polish and frizzens show no signs of ever having been fired. Muzzle faces and bores are also bright and touchholes show no signs of use. Both are in their original flintlock configuration and mechanisms are as tight as when the pistols were made. Iron furniture is excellent, retaining nearly all of its original polish with some light grey patina on pommel caps. Both pistols retain their original iron ramrods with iron caps at the tips. Stocks are excellent, showing a couple minor hairline cracks and both retain a pleasing dark honey color. There is one minor chip at the front lock tang of one pistol, which has been professionally restored and one screw retaining the ramrod entry ferrule shows minor reinforcement. A fantastic pair of early French pistols in remarkable condition. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

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1061 - (A) SMALL FRENCH BOXLOCK PISTOL BY SOVICHE LE CADET (SOVICHE THE YOUNGER). Caliber/Bore: .34 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 2 - 3/4” This fine high-quality pistol has a multi-ringed tapered barrel. The bottom is chiseled and engraved with floral scrolls. There are inlaid gold accents applied on stippled areas. The stepped boxlock action is chased, engraved, and gilded en suite. The left side is inscribed “Le Cadet” and “Soviche” on the opposite side. The action tang, swan-neck cock, top jaw, and frizzen face are also chased, engraved, and gilded. Trigger guard bow decorated en suite. The figured walnut grip is checkered and carved at the pommel with a scowling eagle in great detail. Relief carved with floral scrolls around the barrel tang. CONDITION: Very good overall. Barrel and action retain a light grey patina. Mechanism is crisp and functions well. Engraving is excellent and crisp. Grip shows some wear and scattered marks. A very detailed and well-decorated French pocket pistol. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

1062 - (A) FINE ENGLISH REVOLUTIONARY WAR OFFICER’S PISTOL BY PAGE & CHRISTIAN. Caliber/Bore: .62 Caliber Barrel Length: 8 - 1/4” Officers on both sides carried British officer’s pistols like this example during the Revolutionary War. This circa 1770-1780 pistol has a swamped round barrel with teardrop-shaped cartouche around “NORWICH” engraved on top, left side of breech marked with private view and proof marks and “TP” for Thomas Page. Beveled lockplate with convex face engraved with scrolls and “PAGE & CHRISTIAN” in the center. Features a detached pan. Brass furniture in the classic Georgian style includes a pierced sideplate chased and engraved featuring military motifs, a castle and artillery. Full stirrup pommel cap with grotesque mask in center. Early mult-ringed ramrod ferrules. Ornate wrist escutcheon with helmet, cannons, and flags. Trigger guard terminates in an acorn finial with fine engraved details. Walnut stock of Georgian form with a relief carved shell design surrounding the barrel tang. There are also relief panels terminating in teardrops around the lock and sideplate. Complete with its original horn-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a light grey patina, markings crisp and excellent. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Markings excellent and retains a pleasing light grey patina. Brass shows no wear and retains a pleasing mustard patina. Stock very good with a couple scattered minor storage marks, one hairline 1 - 1/8” crack on bottom, beneath front of lockplate. A very fine military officer’s pistol in wonderful condition. DMG 2,500 - 3,500

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1063 - (A) A HIGH CONDITION CASED PAIR OF JOHN BLANCH FLINTLOCK PISTOLS. Caliber/Bore: .67 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 8” John Blanch is recorded as working in London at various addresses with cumulative dates of 1809-1849; from 1850-1900, the business is John Blanch & Son. These pistols are in identical configuration, and clearly were manufactured as a pair with 8” octagonal Damascus barrels with “LONDON” in script across top flat, silver bands at rear. Bead front sights, notch rear sight on tang. Key-and-pin fastened barrels. Brass trumpet-headed ramrod retained by a single ferrule that feeds into a reinforced mouth. Case colored locks with waterproof bridled pans, roller frizzens, reinforced cocks of smaller size than normally encountered, English push on safeties. Stepped lock is decorated with florals and rays, and engraved with stiff leaves around perimeter. Platinum blowouts. Trigger guard with stand of arms, pineapple finial. Bag grips with point-and-wave checkering. Silver oval at wrist engraved “JM”. In a walnut case with simple warded lock and lined in green baize. Plaque set in lid reads ‘JRF Burnett / Vauxhall”, probably a previous owner. Other accessories include a loading mallet, turnscrew, combination bullet mold and sprue cutter marked “18”, patch cutter, two part lead pour with detachable handle, small ivory-handled knife marked “INDIA”, mainspring vise, combination brush and pricker, Dixon and Sons powder measure, ivory mop, rod with jag, oil bottle, tin with flints, two wooden heads with female threading and a wooden head with vacant shaft for affixing tools. Interesting combination powder measure, patch holder, and ball holder still has four balls in it. Other lead balls in their own compartment. CONDITION: Overall very good to excellent, with metal appearing to have been period restored, with clear Damascus twist on barrels. Locks are excellent with good case colors and crisp engraving. Trigger guards are excellent with some minor spots of oxidation on the inside of the grip. Bores excellent. Stocks have scattered impressions and handling marks throughout, with a small chip ahead of locks. Mechanically fine. Accessories are very good with evidence of use throughout. Case is good, baize appears original, with numerous bumps and scuffs throughout, one complete crack across top of lid. Blanch is well regarded for his craftsmanship and attention to detail, which this pair shows beautifully. EMW 6,000 - 9,000

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1064 - (A) EXTRAORDINARY PAIR OF SILVER MOUNTED HALBACH & SONS FLINTLOCK PISTOLS. Caliber/Bore: (BOTH) .57 Smoothbore Barrel Length: (BOTH) 8” Halbach & Sons made and imported swords and firearms for the American market in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They had a retail outlet on Dock Street in Philadelphia and their pistols are most often found with patriotic American symbols like American federal eagles with shields and 13 stars. This fine pair feature unmarked brass barrels with stars stamped across the breeches. The flat lockplates have ferns engraved on the tails and are inscribed “Halbach / & Sons” in the centers. The solid silver furniture includes engraved triggers guards, ramrod ferrules, and oval wrist escutcheons inscribed “IE”. Finally, and most importantly, the pommel caps are hallmarked “AH” and feature relief federal period “Chicken” Eagles with shields on their breasts and 13 stars stamped around the heads. Plain walnut stocks of English form. Complete with their original wooden ramrods. CONDITION: Excellent overall, showing little to no use. Brass retains a pleasing honey patina. Locks are in their original flintlock configurations and have crisp markings and strong actions. Stocks excellent showing a couple of scattered storage marks. Silver mounts excellent turning to a pewter patina. A very fine and attractive pair of silver-mounted patriotic flintlock pistols. DMG 15,000 - 30,000

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1065 - (A) PAIR OF FLINTLOCK OFFICER’S PISTOL-CARBINES BY WOGDON C. 1789. An extremely rare and unusual pair of carbine-pistols by this leading London maker, each pistol complete with a pair of interchangeable barrels: one being 9 - 1/4” long and the other 14” with a 4 - 1/2” under-rib and double-collared ramrod pipe. All four barrels are key-fastened, swamped octagonal barrels of .507 bore, with steel, dovetailed bead front sights, and U-notch rear sights set on the false breeches. There are bands of circular beading on the barrels and false breeches at junctures with outer border of dog-tooth work. The barrels are engraved on the top flats “Wogdon London”, while the bottom flats bear the maker’s touchmark “RW” between the stamped view and proof marks of the London Gunmaker’s Company. The beveled, flat locks have double-line edging, are furnished with safety bolts, and have internal hammer screws; both are engraved “Wogdon” beneath the pans and have set triggers. The furniture is all polished iron, the trigger guards with flanged bows and acorn finials. The butts have a pronounced drop and tapering side flats and each is fitted with an oval, slotted-iron mount for the detachable shoulder-stock. One mount has an oval cover engraved with the initials “WW.” Of the three original ramrods, two (one long and one short) are wooden with horn tips, while the other long one is furnished with a German silver powder measure tip and steel worm tail. The detachable or “shifting” shoulder-stock, of matching English walnut to the stock, has an iron socket-plate screwed to its front and a steel sling-swivel at the heel of the butt. The “boot shape” form of which is the same which Henry Nock produced for the Pattern 1793 Horse Artillery Double-barreled Pistol-Carbines. Robert Wogdon is one of the most famous English pistol makers of the 18th century, noted for his fine dueling pistols. He was apprenticed in Edward Newton in 1748, made free in 1756 and was setup at Charing Cross, London that year. He later relocated to Haymarket and worked there from 1774-1802. With John Barton, he traded as Wogdon & Barton from 1794 until succeeded by the latter in 1803, dying the following year. The poem “Stanzas on Duelling” published in 1783 opens with “Hail Wogdon! Patron of that Leaden death….” CONDITION: The barrels were originally browned, but now bright finished. One ramrod, as before noted, has been missing since at least 1964. The engraving work remains sharp and crisp, the set triggers and lock mechanisms are crisp and in very good working order (except one of the latter does not hold half-cock well). PROVENANCE: Listed as item 408 in Catalog 21 of Jackson Arms in 1964; thence to private collection; sold as lot 2547 at James Julia Spring 2011 Sale; private collection. Literature: This pair is illustrated and discussed at length in O’Sullivan and Bailey’s seminal book, “Robert Wogdon, Wogdon & Barton, John Barton, London Gunmakers, 1764-1819” (2019) on pp. 81, 87, 112-114, and 219. 15,000 - 25,000

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1066 - LATE 18TH CENTURY BRONZE SWIVEL GUN WITH IRON YOKE. This swivel gun has an approximately 1 - 3/4” bore, firing a 1 lb. shot or, more likely canister or langrage for close-in work. Unmarked, but with tubular cascabel for a tiller suggesting a Spanish origin, though naval cannon moved from captured vessel to victor, often for use against the former owner. The muzzle has a good swell and face, single muzzle astragal, and doubled reinforcing rings forward of the trunnions. A vent field astragal is set slightly forward of the touch hole, which rests against the base ring. Comes complete with original iron yoke and a modern wood display pedestal. CONDITION: Very good. Even deep green bronze patina with some rubbing to high points. Minor dings to bronze. Shallow divot at left breech, and deeper ding on the underside forward of the trunnions from the square iron join of yoke to pintle. Small, thin white paint museum or collection number “W64.” Yoke and pintle solid but brown surface and pitting. An impressive artifact from the age of fighting sail. 5,000 - 8,000

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1067 - A CAST BRONZE REPRODUCTION NAPOLEONIC MORTAR ON CARRYING SLED. A cast version of a Napoleonic mortar with GR cypher, indicating English use. Cylindrical chamber. Affixed to a solid wood block with a hewn out insert for the cannon, with brackets retained by wedges for the firing sequence. Carry handles on either side. No maker marks observed. CONDITION: Brass has a deep untouched patina, with some verdigris forming around touch hole and tube. Casting flaws visible throughout. Sled has some handling marks and evidence of use throughout, with a few chips at edges. Air flows freely through touch hole. EMW 800 - 1,400

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1068 - SCALE MODEL LANTAKA ON ORNATE CARRIAGE. Of distinct form with swamped barrel, reinforcing rings, and dolphin form lifting handles. Ornate designs around the reinforcing rings and above the breech, cast and chased. Cascabel is decorated en suite. Measures 18 - 1/4” from muzzle to cascabel, 3 - 5/8” across trunnions, with a muzzle measuring approximately 7/8”. Mounted a wooden carriage with iron strapping throughout, with wheels retained by lynchpins, and brackets to retain the cannon with fixing wedges. Wood was been painted red long ago, while iron straps were painted gold. CONDITION: Overall very good. Brass has a lovely untouched gold color, with verdigris visible at the touch hole. Some casting marks are visible, but do not detract. Air flows through freely, and tube is free of obstructions. Carriage is very good, with losses from age throughout and toning to paint. Crack through wood at rear of the trail handle. A really well presenting cannon. EMW 4,000 - 8,000

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1069 - SMALL BRONZE “GR” MONOGRAMMED REPRODUCTION COEHORN MORTAR ON BASE. Reproduction Iron “Coehorn” Mortar with 2 - 1/2” bore with 1/4” steel sleeve installed for strength when firing. Mounted on green painted wooden base with iron carry handles and hardware. Mortars like this one were originally designed for siege warfare, most fortifications in the early part of the 18th century were vulnerable to “lobbed” fire which made mortars a devastating weapon with similar but more modern interpretations even still used into the American Civil War. Belt of mortar marked “GR” in cursive red enamel paint. Approximate dimensions of mortar on baseplate are 25” x 20” x 21”. Exact date of manufacture and manufacturer are unknown. CONDITION: Good with areas of heavy wear and pitting. Green wooden base is good with high edge wear, dents and dings, and iron mountings showing some moderate to heavy rust. Bore is good with rust and pitting. Overall a serviceable condition “Coehorn” mortar, ready for display or firing. TN 1,000 - 2,000

1070 - SCALE MODEL OF CANNON. Of American form, measuring approximately 18 - 1/4” from muzzle to cascabel, 3 - 1/4” across the trunnions, and .68 bore. No markings observed. Turned muzzle. 2 stage barrel with step just ahead of trunnion, and reinforcing rings behind muzzle and over breech. Mounted on a carriage with wooden box on right side of axle. Slots for brackets and wedges present, but actual brackets and wedges are missing. Very detailed brackets along axle. Brass plaque along spike reads “No. 11”. Elevation screw turns appropriately. Wheels with iron bands. CONDITION: Very good. Brass is a deep golden color, very clean, with some light casting marks visible. Air flows through freely. Carriage is very good with some handling marks throughout, box has a small crack across top. While unmarked, this cannon has a very attractive homogenous appearance. EMW 3,000 - 6,000

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1071 - PAIR OF SWISS IRON SIGNAL CANNON TUBES, MARKED FOR THE HALLEFORS MILL. Lot consists of a pair of Swiss iron signal cannon tubes. Both cannons with raised reinforcing rings and a heavily swamped muzzle. Smaller cannon has a single rod marking, probably designating it as “1”, while the other has two rods, designating it as “2”. The larger measures 13 - 1/2” from cascabel to muzzle, and 3 - 3/4” across the trunnions, with a .75 caliber bore; the smaller measures 11 - 1/4” from cascabel to muzzle, 3 - 1/2” across trunnion, .75 caliber bore. Both cannons have an intertwined “HF” logo between the trunnions, standing for Hallefors Mill, a known foundry which produced other cannons. CONDITION: Both cannons have a pleasing chocolate patina with evidence of casting throughout. Hallefors crest softened but visible. Bores are clear of obstructions and air flows freely to muzzle. A well presenting pair of Swiss signal cannon tubes. EMW 1,000 - 2,000

1072 - PAINTING OF THE CONTINENTAL FRIGATE TRUMBULL. Contemporary oil painting on canvas of the Continental Frigate Trumbull, 28-guns. Mounted on stretcher and panel frame. Shown from the stern with sails set, small sailing craft at left and towing a small boat, flying a 13-stripe US naval ensign from the stern. Painted titles on frame, “1776 The American Revolution 1783” at top and at bottom, “Continental Navy Frigate Trumbull- 28.” Signed lower left “WNVP / 1970” by artist William Van Norland Powell (1904-1973) of Memphis, Tennessee. Signed and dated twice on the reverse also with written description on panel: “Continental Navy Frigate Trumbull, 28 guns, built by John Cotton, Chathan, Conn., dimensions not known, after launching, had to be floated out of the river, over a bar on 200 barrels. Under Capt. Nicholson fought the heavy-armed British merchantman Watt in one of the fiercest battles of the war - 3 hours, to a draw - “A very attractive, bright painting and frame that displays well. SR 700 - 1,400

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1073 - EARLY 19TH CENTURY RENDERING, FAMOUS POSE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AT TRENTON, OIL ON POPLAR PANEL. This large full-length portrait is painted after John Trumbull’s famous 1792 depiction of Washington at Trenton, New Jersey on January 2, 1777. The original is located at the Yale University Art Library in New Haven, Connecticut. This painting was done in the first half of the 19th century and is mounted in a period frame. General George Washington is shown in his full military uniform, a blue coat over buff waistcoat and pants. He is holding a spyglass in his extended right hand and his left hand rests on his sword. In the background is Blueskin, his white horse, restrained by an aide. Further in the distance is the bridge over the Assunpink Creek and nearby mill, along with artillery and campfires. A destroyed cannon and broken carriage lays behind him. CONDITION: Various layers of varnish and minor inpainting. A beautiful painting with great eye appeal and prestige. Measures 42-1/2 x 31-3/4” overall, view measures 36” x 25-3/8”. DMG 50,000 - 100,000

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1074 - PELHAM’S 1777 MAP OF BOSTON. Upper sheet of Henry Pelham’s extremely rare map of Boston executed 1775-1776 and published in 1777. A dozen or fewer examples this important map are recorded. Titled at top center: “A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs, Including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brooklin, Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, Parts of Malden, and Chelsea. With the Military Works Constructed in those Places in the Years 1775. and 1776. Loyalist Henry Pelham (1749-1806) was son of Peter Pelham, an artist in mezzotint, and half-brother to John Singleton Copley. Pelham received permission from General Gage to make the map, and included a facsimile of the pass given him by the Town Major on 28 August 1775 to plot the geography and, “to take a plan of Boston & Charlestown and of the Rebel works round those places.” Pelham uses a mapmaker’s compass as a paperweight in the facsimile, guaranteeing his skill and accuracy as a cartographer. Pelham’s business as a painter in Boston had ceased and in July 1775 was surveying Charlestown with the permission of Gage and Howe and provided with a guard, with the ultimate goal of sending his work to London for publication. He seems to have been thinking both of a battle scene (Bunker Hill) and a picture of the ruins of Charlestown with the British camps subsequently erected on the peninsula. In August Gage put a stop to that idea lest a “plan” of the area give the Americans knowledge of the British works, but supported his broader cartographic efforts as the 28 August 1775 pass from Town Major Urquhart illustrates. He was still working on it in the new year as the caption “new works 1776” in one spot illustrates. Pelham joined the evacuation of Boston in March 1776, landing first in Nova Scotia and then London, where he was finally able to publish through engraver Francis Jukes on June 2, 1777. Dedicating the map “To the Right Honourable Lord George Germain, One of his Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State,” some of the maps included the artist’s signature at bottom. As well as recording the fortifications erected in and around Boston in 1775 and 1776, Pelham includes the Shawmut Peninsula Charlestown, Cambridge, Brookline, Roxbury, Dorchester and parts of other towns, with street plans of Boston, Charlestown and Cambridge and included a key to locations in Boston at the bottom of the map. “Topographically accurate and handsomely executed” in one critic’s words, the map benefits from Jukes’s use of aquatint, making possible a wide range of tonal variation and degrees of darkness, imparting texture and depth complimenting the line engraving. CONDITION: Very good, especially for a wall map of the period. Minor stains on the borders. Remnants of a tape repair at lower right edge, some wear at top center perhaps from tacks, but the holes are not obvious. Interestingly, in the facsimile pass, the word “Rebel” in line 5 has been rubbed out, likely regarded as disparaging by an American owner. 50,000 - 80,000

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1075 - PAINTING OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AS A MASON, OIL ON CANVAS. First quarter of the 20th century. Unframed, unstretched, illegible signature lower right, dated 1921. CONDITION: Poor. 5,000 - 15,000

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1076 - THE PRAYER AT VALLEY FORGE. Unsigned oil on canvas, probably about 1870, inspired by the H. Brueckner painting, widely distributed in prints by John McRae about 1866. In this version Washington kneels on one knee, praying in a grove of trees, with soldiers gathered around a campfire on the right, a house, and other figures at right rear. The story of a Quaker named Potts with loyalist leanings being converted to the patriot cause by coming upon Washington praying alone in the woods shows up as early as the 1816 edition of Parson Weems and was alluded to in Woodman’s 1850 “History of Valley Forge.” It was vouched for by the Reverend Snowden, who claimed to have heart the story from Potts himself and transferred by statements of a pension agent in 1878 that it was Lafayette and Gen. Muhlenburg who came across the general in prayer. The scene evokes the nativity and St. Jerome praying in the wilderness. In this version, Washington’s horse has been transformed into a dragoon’s mount at right rear and Quaker Potts’ mill, sometimes shown at left, has been transformed into a house at right. The left side shows some abrasions, perhaps obscuring a hiding observer in the shadows of the trees. Here, Washington rests his hands on one thigh and looks upward with a somewhat satisfied smile implying he knows his prayer has been answered, something confirmed by the patch of blue sky appearing at top right as the clouds part. CONDITION: Very good. Minor losses along left edge. 20,000 - 30,000

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1077 - FRAMED OIL PAINTING OF FAMED CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE HERO JAMES THOMAS BRUDENELL, 7TH EARL OF CARDIGAN, CIRCA 1840 James Thomas Brudenell, the 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868) was a British General who led the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade of light cavalry against the Russians in the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. This relatively youthful image of him is depicted on an enamel tile that was painted c. 1840. The plaque underneath the painting states: “JAMES THOMAS BRUDENELL 7TH EARL of CARDIGAN, 1797 to 1868, Charge of the Light Brigade Commander who led the charge of the Light Brigade on October 25, 1854 at Balaclava - Crimean War, ENAMEL ON TILE PLAQUE / CIRCA 1840”. An old newspaper article attached to the rear of the shadowbox mentions the Centenary of a Duel between the Earl and one Captain Tuckett, which Brudenell won. The black stained wooden shadowbox measures 12 - 3/4” x 17” x 3 - 1/4”. The gold ornamental frame measures 9” x 10 - 1/4”. The image measures 4” x 5 - 1/4”. CONDITION: Excellent. Painting, in general, is well-executed and in excellent condition, including gold antiqued frame. DRG 2,000 - 4,000

1078 - LOUIS-CHRÉTIEN DE HEER (1760-C. 1808), ATTRIB. “PORTRAIT OF A 4TH OR ‘KING’S OWN’ REGIMENT OFFICER”, C. 1794. De Heer was born in Bouxwiller, France, and came to Canada in 1776 as an ensign in the Regiment von Specht and by 1787 was living in Quebec where he advertised that “He will draw Pictures either in Oil or in Pastel.” This officer was probably painted shortly after the 4th Foot arrived in Quebec as part of its garrison in 1794 and the background scene is likely the north bank of the St. Lawrence River outside Quebec, according to Rene Chartrand, retired chief curator of Parks Canada, to whom we are grateful for the strong attribution of this work to de Heer, considered “one of the best primitive portrait artists in Lower Canada” during the 18th century. “Portrait of an Officer of the 4th or “King’s Own Regiment” of Foot, circa 1787” Oil on canvas, 27 - 1/4” x 20”, within carved and gilded frame. A highly interesting, full-length portrait of a flank company officer (or possibly the sergeant major) of the 4th Regiment of Foot as they would have appeared while serving in Canada during 1787-1793. He wears a scarlet uniform with blue facings, the silver-laced buttonholes and buttons arranged “by 2s” or pairs, and his collar or “cape” or the “stand and fall” form popular from the mid-1780s through early 1790s. He has been painted without gorget or sash, indicating an off-duty or more informal dress and the paired epaulettes indicate that he is a member of a flank company, either grenadiers or light infantry (battalion company officers wearing but one on the right shoulder). His white swordbelt bears a silver, oval belt plate bearing a “(Crown) / 4” device upon it, and his silver- or steel-hilted sword has a sword knot of silver lace with scarlet lines. Suspended from the 3rd buttonhole on his left lapel is the medal or badge of the “The Loyal and Friendly Society of the Blew and Orange.” The Society, anti-Jacobin in nature, was founded between 1733 and 1736 by officers of the King’s Own Royal Regiment to commemorate the Revolution of 1688 and the accession of the House of Hanover to the English throne in 1714. The Blew (the archaic spelling of blue) symbolizing the Royal connection and the Orange signifying the link with King William III (William of Orange). The last recorded meeting of the Society was in 1801. In the background is an encampment scene along a body of water, with low mountains beyond, probably a Nova Scotia or Newfoundland view, where the regiment was largely quartered. CONDITION: the work relined and cleaned, probably in the last ten years, with some inpainting noted on the sleeves of coat and on the waistcoat below. JLK 3,000 - 5,000

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1079 - DOUBLE SIDED PORTRAIT MINIATURE ON IVORY, BRITISH GRENADIER OFFICER AND HIS WIFE. The gold oval frame measures 2 - 1/2” tall by 2 - 1/8” wide without the hanger, convex glass on both sides. One side depicts an unidentified Napoleonic period British officer with white sash with flaming bomb belt plate and gold epaulettes. The portraits were done by a professional artist and are done in great detail. A handsome double miniature. CONDITION: Excellent. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1080 - LOT OF 5: PORTRAIT MINIATURE, WAX BUSTS, AND PAINTING OF A BRITISH OFFICER. Comprising: (A) 6 - 3/4” x 7 - 5/8” framed wax bust, back with Christie’s tag and Borghese tag. CONDITION: Very good. (B) A wax bust in a matching frame to the previous wax bust, same dimensions and tags on back. CONDITION: Very good. (C) Painted wax bust in a round frame measuring 5 - 3/4”, back inscribed “Captain Cooke”. CONDITION: Excellent. (D) Wax Bust of Admiral Jervis (St. Vincent), circa 1780. Measures 5 - 1/2” x 6 - 1/2”. CONDITION: Very good. (E) Framed watercolor and pencil drawing of an American Continental Officer. Measures 4 - 1/2” x 4” in frame. CONDITION: Very good, some losses to frame on upper left side. (F) Limoges France-marked ceramic portrait of Napoleon, late 19th or early 20th century. Measures 6 - 3/4” by 5 - 1/4”. CONDITION: Very good, some loss of gilding to upper left corner of frame. A very nice group of miniatures. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1081 - MUSTER ROLLS OF THE REGIMENT VON LOSSBURG AND LOEWENSTEIN IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Lot consists of six muster rolls, four from the Von Lossburg regiment and two from the grenadier battalion Lowenstein. All are double-sided in ink and fully legible with only minor foxing. Text is in French, as a common language between the German troops and British authorities. All are in excellent condition, large, very displayable with great eye appeal as well as historical importance. (A) Major Bauermeister’s company, 25 Dec. 1781 to 24 June 1782. Lists officers, servants, NCOs, privates, etc, with effective strength at end and changes from last return. CONDITION: Excellent. (B) As above, for Major Wilmousky’s company. CONDITION: Excellent. (C) As above, for the Lt. Colonel’s company. CONDITION: Excellent. (D) As above, for the Colonel’s company. CONDITION: Very good. Partial separation line on one fold. (E) Same period as above but for de Biesenrodt’s company of the Lowenstein battalion. CONDITION: Excellent. (F) Same period, Capt. Mondorff’s company. CONDITION: Excellent. SR 1,000 - 2,000

1082 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR RETURNS FROM HAND’S BRIGADE. Lot consists of five pages from a 19th century ledger book mounted with Revolutionary War and other documents. (A) One sided. A Return of Military Stores Wanting in Genl. Hand’s Brigade July ye 3d 1779. List of guns, bayonets, bayonet slings, cartridge boxes, etc. from the German Regiment, Capt. Spalding’s company, and Lt. Goar’s detachment. CONDITION: Good. Foxing and water stains. Fully legible. (B) Return of Camp Equipage and Stationary wanting in Hand’s Brigade 14 July 1779. Listing of tents, knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, etc. for the above units plus the 11th Pennsylvania Regt. CONDITION: Very good, foxing and water stains. Reverse mounted with 1815 bond or tax documents for a leather manufactory. (C) Return of Stationary Wanting in general Hand’s Brigade July 23d, 1779. Listing quires of paper, quills, etc., needed by the German Regt., 11th Pennsylvania Regt., Capt. Spalding, Lt. Goar’s detachment, Capt. Sealing. CONDITION: Very good. Upper left corner missing. Minor edge chips. Foxing along folds. Nothing on reverse. (D) Return of Arms & Accoutrements and Camp Equipage Wanting in the German Regt. July 2d 1779. Lists guns, bayonets, cartridge boxes etc. Mounted on the same page with two 1814 provision returns for an infantry company of Capt. Shafer. CONDITION: Good. Minor stains and foxing. Fully legible. Nothing on reverse of ledger page. (E) 1814 paymaster document for the 118th PA Militia, mounted with 1816 tax receipt and on reverse an 1815 license for leather manufacture, 1814 tax receipt for a gig, and a newspaper clipping. CONDITION: Good. 1,000 - 2,000

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1083 - FRAMED CURRENCY FROM THE THIRTEEN ORIGINAL COLONIES. Currency notes from the 13 original colonies, of various measurements. The notes range in denomination from various dollar and shilling amounts and are from the colonies of New Hampshire (1780), New York (1775), Massachusetts (1784), Pennsylvania (1778), Connecticut (1781), Rhode Island (1786), Maryland (obscured), New Jersey (1776), Delaware (unmarked), North Carolina (1760), South Carolina (1776), Virginia (1777), and Georgia (1777). Some notes exhibit authoritative signatures at the conclusion of the ornately designed slip, while others are unsigned. The notes range in date from 1760 through 1786. The New York, Georgia, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Delaware notes are all certified by PMG. The Delaware note was printed by Benjamin Franklin and the Massachusetts note was engraved by Paul Revere. Matted and framed with an image of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and a small plaque reading “Currency of the Thirteen Original Colonies” the notes in their frame measure to an overall size of approximately 31 - 1/2” x 31 - 1/2”. CONDITION: The notes exhibit wear and blemishes which are typical of old paper. Some are missing corners and exhibit fading and light soiling. The Maryland note is in two pieces. Typical cancellation hole through the center of the New Hampshire note and irregularly trimmed edges which are commonly encountered on colonial currency. The notes are wonderfully presented behind protective UV filtering Plexiglas. Each note has been archivally encapsulated in mylar for protection. The currency is very presentable and ready for display. Overall good. JLD 2,000 - 4,000

1084 - THREE MUSTER ROLLS AND AN EXPENSE RETURN FOR GERMAN TROOPS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Lot consists of four documents relating to German troops in the employ of Britain in America during the Revolutionary War. All are in excellent condition, fully legible, in English for use by British authorities, and have great eye appeal in addition to historical importance. (A) Muster Roll, Lieutenant Colonel’s company 24 October 1781 to 24 June 1782. Double-sided. A full roster with notes on sick and deserters during the period, including names of officer, NCOs, a captain of arms and soliciteur, as well as privates. CONDITION: Excellent. Minor foxing on vertical fold. (B) Muster roll for Lt. Col. de Mengen’s Brunswick Grenadier Battalion at Fort Brooklyn, Long Island 20 July 1781. Double-sided. Names given for men of four companies, totaling 1 captain, 2 lieutenants, 2 drummers, 16 privates, and 2 servants. CONDITION: Excellent. (C) Muster roll of the Hesse Hanau artillery detachment at Brooklyn, Long Island, 20 July 1781. One page listing two officers, their servants, 3 drummers, 3 privates, 1 blacksmith and 2 battmen. Interestingly, the lieutenant’s servant and 3 drummers are listed as “negroes.” CONDITION: Excellent. (D) Return of “emendments” (repairs) to the quarters of the 1st Battalion, Col. Woelworth’s brigade 6 April 1778. Covers repairs to quarters, construction of stables, and construction of bedsteads for men of different companies, apparently 5 to a bedstead. One page, docketed verso. CONDITION: Excellent. A valuable source for understanding the Hessian troops in America. 800 - 1,600

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1085 - THE HOLSTER ATLAS: REVOLUTIONARY WAR BRITISH 1776 MILITARY ATLAS OF AMERICA BY SAYER AND BENNET, COMPLETE. Very good copy of Sayer and Bennet’s atlas for military officers fighting in America, nicknamed the Holster Atlas from its intended use by officers on campaign in the field. From the advertisement: “Surveys and Topographical Charts being fit only for a Library, such maps as an Officer may take with him into the Field have been much wanted. The following Collection forms a Portable Atlas of North America, calculated in its Bulk and Price to suit the Pockets of Officers of all Ranks.” Schwartz and Ehrenberg, Mapping of America, regard it as, “one of the most important atlases of the American Revolution designed for use in the field. The Holster Atlas was issued at the suggestion of Governor George Pownall and included the ‘maps that the British high command regarded as providing essential topographical information in the most convenient form.’” Full title: “The American Military Pocket Atlas; Being An approved Collection of Correct Maps, Both General and Particular, of The British Colonies; Especially those which now are, or probably may be The Theatre of War: Taken principally from the actual Surveys and judicious Observations of Engineers De Brahm and Romans; Cook, Jackson, and Collet; Maj. Holland, and other Officers, Employed in His Majesty’s Fleets and Armies. London. Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennet, Map and Print-Sellers (No. 53) Fleet-street.” Fly leaf, title page, dedication, advertisement, list of maps: North America; The West Indies; The Northern Colonies; The Middle Colonies; the Southern Colonies; Lake Champlain. All six maps are present and in excellent condition, with good color, folded and bound in quarter leather binding with “The American Military Atlas” gilt blind stamped on spine. The three maps of the northern, middle, and southern colonies are interestingly captioned “the seat of war.” The map of Lake Champlain is significant for its role in American efforts against Canada and British efforts to split off the northern colonies climaxing in the Saratoga campaign. Reference: Streeter 73; Nebenzahl Atlas of the American Revolution; Fite & Freeman A Book of Old Maps; Howes; Phillips; Rumsey; Sabin; Schwartz & Ehrenberg. CONDITION: Very good. All maps in place, tightly bound, and complete. Minor folds. Chipping to end papers and minor wear to bumped leather corners and spine. 10,000 - 20,000

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1086 - 1789 NEW YORK LAND DEED SIGNED BY GOV. CLINTON WITH SEAL. Large deed containing survey and transfer of lots on a “tract between the Cookguago branch of the Delaware and the Susquehanna River,” 17 August 1789. Lots numbered at center to correspond with map on file in the Secretary’s office. Details of transfers, etc. at bottom, with bold “Geo. Clinton” signature and large attached seal. CONDITION: Fair to good. Separation along fold of bottom third. Short separations along horizontal fold above. Minor foxing. Some losses to top edge of lower third. Losses to edge of seal. Not mounted or stabilized. Could display nicely. 5,000 - 10,000

1087 - WARTIME LETTER OF GENERAL VON STEUBEN TO PHYSICIAN GENERAL GLENTWORTH. Very legible letter of 26 February 1780 from Von Steuben in Philadelphia to Physician General George Glentworth regarding a French officer who is sick and unable to obtain sufficient provisions. Von Steuben asks he be supplied on the same basis as the sick in Continental Army hospitals. “Sir, There is a French officer Mr. Marcellin who has been sick in this Town upwards of a month, & has received from the Continent nothing but his Rations of Salt provisions. This gentleman has been extremely sick & is now somewhat better & should want at this time some comforts as wine, sugar, tea, chocolate &c. and good fresh meat and bread. These things are granted to the sick in all the Continental Hospitals. I will be very much obliged to you, Sir, as I interest myself very much to this Officer & as I hear you are now the head of the Medical Department, if you will be so good as to let me know by a few lines where this Gentleman is to address himself to procure these articles so necessary to him in his situation. The present dearness of things does not by any means permit him to procure them with his own money. I have the honor to be Sir your most obedt. & very humble Servant, Steuben / Maj. General.” Von Steuben (1730-1794) and his contributions to the war effort and American independence need no summary. Glentworth is Doctor George Glentworth of Philadelphia, 1735-1792. Studied at University of Edinburgh, founder Phil. Med. Society 1766. Senior surgeon and physician in the Middle Department from 1 Nov. 1777 to September 1780. Reportedly treated Lafayette for a wound at Brandywine and set up a hospital for smallpox inoculation. The French officer may be Capt. Claude Antoine Villet de Marcellin, early member of the Society of the Cincinnati and later professor at Columbia. He served as Ensign 2nd Pennsylvania 28 July 1779; Lieutenant 1 Jan. 1781; transferred 3rd PA 1 Jan. 1783; PA Battalion June 1783; Brevet Capt. 6 Feb. 1784; discharged 20 June 1784. CONDITION: Excellent. Nicely laid out, matted, and framed with a portrait of Von Steuben. Minor dirt and few small edge nicks. An interesting document with connections to the Continental Army high command, French officers serving in America, and early medical practice in America. 5,000 - 10,000

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1088 - BEAUTFUL 1790S NEW HAMPSHIRE MILITIA BATTALION FLAG. Beautifully painted colorful central panel of a New Hampshire militia battalion flag, oil paint on white linen. The 1784 state seal of New Hampshire is in an oval cartouche at center, flanked by a laurel wreath of leaves and berries, and topped by a five-pointed star on a glory background in gold and brown. The seal depicts a warship under construction on stocks at left with water extending into the distance at right, where a rising sun with long rays disperses storm clouds overhead. Construction materials are on the ground beside the ship, which flies along commissioning pennant on the main mast and U.S. naval ensign at the stern. The central cartouche is bordered by a blue band with gold and brown shaded borders, and lettering reading, “1784 SIGILLUM REPUBLICAE HATONIENSIS.” A horizontal oval below the state seal reads “1st Battn./ N-H / 2d REGT.” rendered in gold on medium on a medium blue ground, shadowed in subdued gold and brown. The flag dates to the December 1792 decision of the state legislature that regiments of the militia would consist of two battalions (under the command of majors,) with the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment composed of the companies in the towns of Dover and Somersworth. The regiment was assigned to state’s second brigade, itself part of the second division, and allowed “one standard and one suit of regimental colors,” with appropriate inscriptions at state expense. This was modified 17 June 1793 to specify one standard for each regiment and one suit of regimental colors for each battalion. Commanders of the first battalion are known to have been Major Andrew Wentworth in 1796 and Daniel Henderson in 1808 and 1812. The flag is a great combination of art and history dating to the new Republic setting foot on the international stage and rising tensions with France in the Quasi-War and again with Britain, resulting in the War of 1812. CONDITION: Excellent. Professionally conserved in an oval frame and a very displayable size. Bright colors with minor paint losses along old fold lines at left on the ship and extending from the right at two points. Perimeter irregularly trimmed to retain all of the wreath. Horizontal seam visible at top. 15,000 - 30,000

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1089 - (A) A RARE FRENCH MODEL 1763 MUSKET MARKED TO THE 3RD NEW HAMPSHIRE BATTALION. Caliber/Bore: .69 smoothbore Barrel Length: 45” This fine example of a French Model 1763 “Fusil” or musket in its original configuration is extremely rare, without even taking into account its important, wartime American markings. It was originally part of a clandestine shipment from France aboard the Mercure, which arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire on March 17, 1777. 2,016 of these muskets were released to New Hampshire for its three Continental battalions the following month and shipped to John Ward Gilman, an Exeter silversmith, to have state ownership markings applied. This musket bears Gilman’s stamps applied on the left side near the breech: “NH 3B No. 611”, one of 672 muskets engraved and intended for the 3rd New Hampshire Battalion, all numbered in sequence from No. 1 to No. 672, the paired bayonets engraved with the number only; the two other battalions had their respective 672 stands of arms similarly marked, but distinguished by “1B” or “2B” battalion stamps on the musket barrels. By June 1777, most of the NH-marked arms had arrived at Fort Ticonderoga and were issued out to the three battalions, who first carried them into action at Hubbardton and subsequently, Saratoga. By late fall, the New Hampshire Line, including the 3rd Battalion or Regiment, had joined the Main Army and wintered with it at Valley Forge, before fighting at Monmouth on June 28, 1778. The musket has a tapered round smoothbore barrel with bayonet lug mounted on the bottom near muzzle. The flat lockplate has beveled edges and is stamped in the center with Maubeuge markings, designating the royal manufactory where it was produced. Opposite it, the iron sideplate is stamped “LD”. The musket features the early Model 1763 mounts, including a trumpeted band at the muzzle and stepped middle band (both spring-fastened) and a pressure-mounted rear band (later spring-fastened from 1766 onwards). The musket has an associated iron ramrod that is too short. The full-length walnut stock is deeply carved with the initials “BK”. In addition, a brass wrist escutcheon was added during the period of use and is inscribed “BB / 1775 / NH” and was probably added by the individual who took the musket home after the war. CONDITION: All iron components retain a mottled grey patina with some scattered light pitting and good markings; the lock in original flintlock configuration and good working order; cock is a period replacement. The stock shows scattered marks from use and minor chips. It would be difficult to find a Revolutionary War musket of comparable importance in the desirable state of this identified and marked example. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection, purchased from Jim Dresslar in 1986. DMG 20,000 - 40,000

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1090 - (A) FRENCH MODEL 1766 FLINTLOCK MUSKET BY MAUBEUGE. Caliber/Bore: .69 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 44” This model was the most commonly used French musket by American troops during the Revolutionary War. Of standard configuration throughout with a tapered round barrel with bayonet lug on bottom. Retained by three iron spring-retained barrel bands. Standard French Model 1766 iron furniture. Lock marked “Maubeuge / Manuf Rle.” and stamped with a crown over “B”. Plain walnut stock carved with American initials on both sides of the buttstock. Right side marked “W - D” and other side “L.B.P.” CONDITION: Retains a brown patina throughout with scattered pitting. Heavier pitting at breech. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and markings are very good. Cock is a good period replacement. Stock very good with scattered wear and marks from use, some thin. Splinters absent along barrel on both sides. A very nice example of this iconic Revolutionary War musket. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

1091 - (A) IMPORTANT AMERICAN STOCKED MUSKET MARKED TO THE 53RD REGIMENT Caliber/Bore: .76 smoothbore Barrel Length: 44” The 53rd Regiment arrived in America from Cork, Ireland on June 1, 1776 at Quebec and helped fight off the colonial attack on the city. The Regiment was then part of the Burgoyne invasion that reached Fort Edward on the Hudson River. However, they were deemed unfit for service because four of the eight companies were ill (probably from smallpox). While the Light Infantry and Grenadier companies stayed with Burgoyne and were taken prisoner at Saratoga, the remaining eight companies were sent back to Ticonderoga as part of the 910 men left to guard the supply route. The four companies unfit for service were quarantined at Mount Independence on the Vermont side of Lake Champlain. The remaining four companies of the 53rd were stationed at the portage, near Lake George. On September 18, 1777, the colonial force under Colonel John Brown, attacked the portage and captured nearly all of the detachment left there, including the commanding officers of all four companies. Existing reports show that almost 300 British and Canadian prisoners were captured with their small arms. It is well documented that many of the muskets surrendered by Burgoyne’s troops at Saratoga were damaged by the British before handing them over to the Americans. This musket is most likely one of the captured muskets, which was broken and was restocked. There are only seven of these 53rd marked muskets known. Three of them, this example included, being American stocked. The round barrel is fitted on top with a bayonet lug, towards the muzzle. The left side of the breech is stamped “IB” and the top shows a worn “US” surcharge. The convex lockplate is inscribed “DUBLIN CASTLE” at the tail and is stamped with a “US” surcharge. All markings had been intentionally removed during the period of stocking. The Irish manufactured brass furniture includes the buttplate with four-stage tang engraved with “53 / D / 17” for 53rd Regiment, Company D, musket number 17. Flat Short Land Pattern sideplate. Signature Irish trumpeted ramrod ferrules. Shortened Irish manufactured trigger guard of Land Pattern style. The musket is professionally stocked in tiger maple in the British style. Complete with a later iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel has been cleaned and retains a peppered patina with some pitting towards breech, “US” marking heavily worn. Lock retains a matching patina, cock is a period replacement. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well, some filing on top edges of pan due to heavy corrosion. Brass is mostly polished. Sling swivel is a replacement. Stock shows scattered age cracks, marks from use and some thin splinters along barrel on both sides of forend. A very important and historic American captured and stocked regimentally marked musket. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. Featured on pages 65-68 of “British Military Longarms of Colonial America” by Bill Ahern and Robert Nitollo. DMG 8,000 - 15,000 58

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1092 - (A) AMERICAN STOCKED 23RD ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS MARKED FLINTLOCK MUSKET Caliber/Bore: .80 caliber smoothbore Barrel Length: 46” In 1773, the 23rd Regiment was sent to North America. The light infantry and grenadier companies suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775. The 23rd participated in nearly every campaign up to the Siege of Yorktown in September of 1781.At the conclusion to the Battle of Yorktown, they were the only British regiment not to surrender their colors, which were smuggled out by a junior officer. The musket features a 46” full-length Long Land Pattern barrel with engraved three-feather crest and banner with “ICH DIEN” for the 23rd Regiment. The barrel also has Tower proof and view marks stamped on top of the breech. The British Lock is from a Pattern 1756 Carbine, as well as the brass sideplate. Lock is marked “EDGE / 1761” at the tail and has a large engraved British crown over “GR” in the center along with the British ordnance crown over broad arrow, signifying government ownership. The brass trigger guard is also from a British carbine and the back tang is American-modified. The brass British carbine wrist escutcheon is half present and isnscribed “IB / SB”. The buttplate tang is from a Long land Pattern Brown Bess, as well as the two center ramrod ferrules. The ramrod entry ferrule and ferrule nearest to the muzzle are from a British carbine. Musket is American-stocked in the British style and has a relief apron carved around barrel tang. The comb was period-modified. Complete with its period-replaced iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina, clear regiment markings, and proof marks. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, retains a grey patina with light cleaning to tail section. Markings show some wear at tail but are still visible. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina. Old crack repaired long ago on trigger guard. Half of wrist escutcheon is absent and nose cap has been replaced. Stock shows scattered marks from use, age cracks, and splinters missing along forend. A historically important Revolutionary War musket with Regimental markings. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

1093 - (A) AMERICAN STOCKED MUSKET WITH EARLY DUTCH COMPONENTS, EX. DUMONT Caliber/Bore: .72 smoothbore Barrel Length: 43” This musket is stocked with British form and is composed of British, French, and Dutch components. The tapered round two-stage barrel is fitted with a bayonet lug on top, towards the muzzle. The breech is stamped on left side with private London view and proof marks, as well as an indistinct maker’s mark. European banana lock with convex face and some light engraved designs. Frizzen is an American-made period replacement. Brass furniture includes a classic French trigger guard terminating in a pointed finial at both ends. The sideplate, buttplate, and ramrod ferrules are probably Dutch or French. Sideplate and buttplate tang have engraved borders and foliate designs. Ramrod entry ferrule is from a Brown Bess. Maple stock shows classic British Brown Bess form with a relief carved apron around the barrel tang. Marked on bottom of buttstock, behind trigger guard with carved “U STATES”. CONDITION: Barrel retains a pleasing brown patina. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and retains a brown patina. Top jaw and frizzen are period American replacements, rear lock bolt is a replacement and is slightly long. Brass retains a pleasing patina. Front tip of trigger guard shows a small repaired break. Stock shows scattered age cracks, marks from use, and a couple splinters absent along forend on both sides. Marking on stock shows heavy wear. A nice Revolutionary War American-assembled musket with excellent and attractive form. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection, purchased from John duMont at his home in 1978. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

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1094 - (A) AMERICAN STOCKED PATTERN 1756 BROWN BESS MUSKET. Caliber/Bore: .75 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 46” All of the components and furniture of this period American-stocked musket are from a Pattern 1756 Long Land Brown Bess. The barrel has a bayonet lug on top, towards the muzzle. The lock is marked “HASKINS / 1758” at the tail. Lock markings were intentionally removed by Americans when the musket was stocked after capture. It has a full-length plain walnut stock. This musket has an associated iron ramrod. CONDITION: Lock and barrel retain a dark heavy brown patina, some scattered pitting. Lock functional and in its original flintlock configuration, shows some pitting. Some corrosion at breech. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration. Buttplate has been modified to fit a narrower stock. There is a thin sliver of wood missing at the rear bottom of the buttplate and some cracks. There are two minor cracks in front of lockplate screw and a chip of missing wood behind the barrel tang and above top of lockplate. Replaced sling swivels and ramrod. A nice Revolutionary War American-used musket. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

1095 - (A) REVOLUTIONARY WAR BRITISH OFFICER’S FLINTLOCK FUSIL. Caliber/Bore: .65 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 36 - 3/4” This is a classic officer’s fusil of exact dimensions, including an almost 37” barrel of .65 caliber. Other fusil characteristics include the gun being fitted with a bayonet lug and iron sling swivels. These fusils were purchased and used by military officers from both sides during the Revolutionary War. Officer’s were not issued arms and therefore had to purchase their own privately. This example turned up in the estate of a Revolutionary War officer’s family in Winchester, Virginia. The two-stage iron barrel features a bayonet lug mounted on the bottom towards the muzzle and a silver front sight. Marked with two Birmingham proofs on the left side of the hooked breech. Barrel is retained by three iron barrel keys. The period-replaced lock is in its original flintlock configuration and has a flat unmarked plate with a molding at the tail. The brass furniture includes a trigger guard with relief chased military motifs, including a cannon, helmet, and sword. The large wrist escutcheon features a chased helmet, cannon, and sword around a vacant inscription panel. The five-stage buttplate tang is engraved with a panoply of arms and intricate borders. The sideplate is engraved with panoplies of arms with flags and a drum. Brass nose band and ramrod ferrules. Walnut stock in the classic English form with a relief clamshell carved around the barrel tang. There is an 8 - 1/2” period splinter repaired with iron pins on the left side of the forend. Complete with its original iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a heavy brown patina, proofs excellent, some light corrosion at breech. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and retains a patina matching that of the barrel. Brass retains a pleasing dark mustard patina, shows some minor high edge wear. Stock retains an original surface with scattered minor marks from use. Revolutionary War officers’ fusils are extremely rare and this is a very nice example that almost certainly saw use here. DMG 4,000 - 8,000

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1096 - (A) REVOLUTIONARY WAR AMERICAN MUSKET WITH ‘IP’ MARK. An American pin-fastened musket with a 45 - 7/8” long, tapered barrel of .81 bore which transitions from octagonal to round, with traces of illegible view or maker marks near the breech. The lock is of German manufacture and copied from those used since the 1740s by the Prussian Army; it bears no cipher or marks but is a pattern heavily used by a number of the Hessian and other Germanic principalities whose troops fought in the Revolutionary War, musket bearing such in numerous museum collections and the parts found archaeologically on Revolutionary battlefields and campsites. This example has a large “U S” struck on the tail of the flat, beveled lock. The buttplate, trigger guard, and ramrod pipes are all forged iron. There is no sideplate. The stock is of American black walnut, carved with an extremely long “small” or grip to the handrail-type butt and no swell to the forestock. The stock was originally carved to receive a different lock form, but it was remortised instead during setup to utilize this captured German military lock. The left cheek of the stock bears a large “I+P” (1 - 1/2” high) painted upon it with yellow ochre paint. The architecture and form of this musket suggests that it might have been originally intended to have been furnished during or following the Revolutionary War as a gift arm to native American allies, such as the Delaware or Oneida nations, although the cutback of the forestock and the top-mounted, bayonet lug still allows for fixing a bayonet. CONDITION: This musket is in superb, desirable “attic” condition, with the iron parts with a pleasing, dark gunmetal grey patina and the musket with original surface, marred only by an occasional bruise or ding. PROVENANCE: This musket was long in the collection of noted collector and arms historian William Guthman, who sold in the late 1980s to a Maryland collector, from whose estate it was recently released. It is illustrated and discussed on page 47 of Guthman’s book “U.S. Army Weapons, 1784-1791” (1975). JLK 10,000 - 15,000

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1097 - (A) MASSACHUSETTS COMMITTEE OF SAFETY FLINTLOCK MUSKET AND BAYONET. An American-made, pin-fastened musket that conforms to those produced for Massachusetts Bay with an unmarked, 43” long, tapering round barrel of .72 bore, with top lug for bayonet set 1 - 1/2” from muzzle. The “banana-shaped”, unbridled lock appears to be of the British Pattern of 1730, 6 - 7/8” x 1 - 1/4”, the plate convex in profile and with its maker and crown/ GR devices purposely effaced, although the Tower inspection mark remains under the pan. The ramrod is iron and original to the piece. The cast-brass mounts consisting of buttplate, trigger guard, rounded and tailed sideplate, thumbpiece and three ramrod pipes and ramrod tailpiece. There were originally three tubular ramrod pipes, each 1 - 13/16” long and made of heavy brass sheet, with three concentric, engraved border lines at each end, but the front pipe is now missing. The stock is of American cherry wood, the butt in classic British handrail form and the forestock with pronounced swell at the tailpiece and originally terminating within 3 - 1/2” - 4” of the muzzle. Its bayonet, although of British form, is probably American-made, the blade 13 - 1/8” long x 1” wide with a “70” engraved on the flat above the elbow join. The socket is 3 - 3/8” long and a 3-turn slot, the ring attachment rather crudely forged and the join has separated for approximately 3/4” to the right of the slot. CONDITION: The arm is in “attic” condition as found, the ironwork with light freckling and dark brownish-grey patina throughout (moderate pitting to the pan interior), while the brass mounts are a deep brownish-bronze in hue. Some light surface rust near the muzzle where the bayonet had been attached. The lock is in original flintlock configuration and in very good working order; the top jaw screw a later replacement. The cherry stock is original surface, now a deep, rich, reddish-brown. Approximately 2” of the forestock is missing near the muzzle, corresponding with the aforementioned missing front pipe. There is a light crack extending 3 - 1/2” from the front of the plate, a narrow splinter along the upper edge of the right forestock 6” forward of the lock and extending 12” (with 1/4” loss at its widest point), and a 4” crack just forward of the top pipe. PROVENANCE: Deaccessioned from the Essex Institute and sold to noted antiquarian William Guthman in 1979 (three Guthman Americana labels still attached to the left forestock, relating to its provenance); sold in 1988 to a Maryland collector, from whose estate this was recently acquired. JLK 10,000 - 15,000

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1098 - (A) RARE NEW JERSEY MARKED FLINTLOCK FUSIL BY RICHARD WILSON. The colony of New Jersey made at least two sizeable orders for muskets from the London and Birmingham gunmaking firm of Richard Wilson during the French and Indian War. The first order was for muskets similar in form to the Pattern 1742 Long Lands, with 46-inch barrels and wooden ramrods, the majority of which were issued to Schuyler’s New Jersey Regiment or “Jersey Blues.” Many of these arms were lost in the ambush of a 300-man detachment of that regiment at Sabbath Day Point on 27 July 1757. A subsequent order with Wilson was made 2,000 additional “light arms” in 1757, this time made configured with iron ramrods and featuring a double-bridled lock, and barrel of smaller caliber. These muskets were issued to the Ranger companies raised by the colony and the reorganized and expanded “Blues.” After the war and subsequent, so-called Pontiac Conspiracy, many of these arms were returned to the colony arsenal, only to be issued out again during 1775-1776 to the 1st and 2nd New Jersey Regiments. This fine example is of the second New Jersey contract with Wilson and is one of only a handful still surviving without being restocked or altered from flint to percussion. It now measures 54” overall, with a 38 - 1/4”, tapering round barrel of .72 bore, although it originally probably had a barrel length of 44-46”--part of the muzzle and forestock being cutback during its period of service. On the top of the barrel is engraved “LONDON” and the view and proof marks of the London Gunmakers’ Company and the RW touchmark of Wilson are struck on the left side of the barrel near its breech. The rounded lockplate has “WILSON” engraved before the gooseneck cock. With exception of the rounded sideplate and thumbpiece, all of the brass mounts are lighter and plainer in style than that found on Tower arms, including the buttplate, which has a 3-stepped tang, on which is engraved “NEW=JERSEY.” The thumbpiece is similarly engraved by the same hand “L / 4” and are probably ownership and issue markings engraved by the Wilson firm before shipping to New Jersey. CONDITION: The lock is in good working order, the cock being a period replacement of Tower form. There is a pleasing dark, uniform patina to all of the ironwork, the English walnut stock with considerable wear, including bruises and dings, as well as a long crack running from the small of the stock under the entire lock. There is also what appears to be an early repair to a crack across the wrist of the stock, including a reinforcement of tightly wrapped linen cording. PROVENANCE: From the estate of a Maryland collector; purchased by him from noted author and dealer William Guthman, who stated it was the only example of a Wilson New Jersey-marked musket known to him still in original flintlock configuration. JLK 15,000 - 30,000

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1099 - (A) DUTCH REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA FLINTLOCK FUSIL. Caliber/Bore: .78 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 39” For a nearly identical fusil, see plate 62.MM on. page 112 of “Battle Weapons of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. The round barrel features a half-moon brass front sight and a bayonet lug mounted on bottom, towards muzzle. Engraved “No 109” on top in front of sight. Unmarked Germanic lock, frizzen sleeved during period of use due to wear. Classic German/Dutch brass furniture including trigger guard terminating in an arrow, long faceted buttplate tang, and serpentine sideplate. Stocked in walnut in the classic Germanic form with relief carved teardrop panels around lock, sideplate, and barrel tang. The iron ramrod is correct and original to this model but is marked “No. 119”. CONDITION: Barrel retains a pleasing brown patina, a couple of areas cleaned to find markings. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and retains a brown patina, functions properly. Brass retains a dark patina on most components. Stock shows scattered marks from use, age cracks, and minor slivers absent along barrel on both sides. A series of numbers is carved lightly into bottom of forearm. A very nice and untouched 18th century Dutch musket. DMG 2,000 - 3,000

1100 - (A) AMERICAN STOCKED BROWN BESS STYLE FLINTLOCK MUSKET. Caliber/Bore: .79 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 42” This musket is composed of primarily British Brown Bess comments, with the sideplate, wrist escutcheon, and stock of American manufacture. The British barrel is marked on the tang with a crown, on top of breech with British ordnance proofs in center, a crown over “9” above touch hole and “FG” on left side of breech for Farmer and Galton. There is a bayonet lug mounted on top, towards muzzle. The early British military lockplate has had the maker’s name and date intentionally removed at the tail. In the center, there is an engraved crown over “GR” and a stamped crown and broad arrow ordnance mark, denoting British government ownership, stamped below the pan. Frizzen spring and frizzen spring screw are modern replacements. The brass buttplate, ramrod ferrules, trigger guard, and nose cap are all from a British Pattern 1756 Brown Bess musket. The sideplate is of the Long Land Pattern style but is of American manufacture, as well as the wrist escutcheon. The crude walnut stock is American and features a relief carved beavertail around the barrel tang, a swell at the ramrod entry ferrule, and relief teardrops behind lock and sideplate. Complete with a period iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina with very good markings. Lock retains a grey patina and remaining markings are very good, lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Brass retains a mellow patina and a couple of ramrod ferrules have losses at openings from contact with ramrod. Stock has scattered splintering along barrel on both sides and hole below front lock tang from an original mis-drilled lock screw slot. Stock shows scattered marls from use and age with a nice dry surface. A nice Revolutionary War American stocked musket. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

1101 - (A) EARLY AMERICAN CLUB BUTT FOWLER WITH DOG LOCK. Caliber/Bore: .80 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 45” Circa 1780, probably Massachusetts. The two-stage European barrel features a silver front spider sight and two brass bands at the breech. There are two indistinct continental proofs on the left flat near the breech. Early iron dog lock with flat lockplate and safety catch. The brass furniture includes a trigger guard, buttplate with two-stage tang and lock retaining screw escutcheons. Ramrod entry ferrule, modified trigger guard and buttplate appear to be from a Brown Bess Short Land Pattern musket. Other two ramrod ferrules appear to be American manufactured, as well as the sideplate escutcheons. Walnut stock with relief carved club butt and stock recessed at the muzzle. Wooden ramrod appears to be original to the fowler. CONDITION: Barrel retains a dark patina with some light scattered pitting. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, retaining a dark heavy brown patina. Brass has been polished and now retains a pleasing mustard patina. Stock has scattered marks from use and retains a mostly dark heavy surface with some areas of crazing and a crack at tip on right side. A very nice Massachusetts club butt fowler. DMG 4,000 - 8,000 64

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1102 - (A) NEW ENGLAND FLINTLOCK RIFLE. Caliber/Bore: .62 Rifled Barrel Length: 46 - 1/4” Probably circa 1780-1790, this rifle features a round rifled tapered barrel with half-moon front sight and notched iron rear sight mounted on top, towards breech. The English lockplate is marked “KETLAND / & Co.” in the center. The brass furniture includes a buttplate with engraved four-stage tang, engraved sideplate, and trigger guard with acorn front finial tang. Ramrod ferrules are also brass. Cherry stock of classic New England form and displaying a French influence. Relief carved panels around lock and sideplate terminate in teardrops. Iron ramrod is a more modern replacement. CONDITION: Barrel retains a heavy brown patina, bore also heavily patinated with clear rifling grooves. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, retaining a matching dark undisturbed patina. Brass retains a mellow mustard patina and shows scattered marks from use. Ramrod entry ferrule tang is absent and ferrule dented. Stock has a chip at the toe, some thin splinters absent along barrel on both sides, and scattered marks from use. Stock retains an original untouched surface. A fine and early New England rifle. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

1103 - (A) DOCUMENTED JOHN HILLS ATTRIBUTED FOWLER INSCRIBED TO MUNSON COOK, VERMONT MILITIA. Caliber/Bore: .72 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 46 - 1/2” A handwritten letter accompanies the fowler and states that the writer purchased the fowler in 1968 from a family in Virginnes, Vermont. They said that it was in the rafters of the attic for as long as they could remember. On pages 96 and 97 of “The History of Weapons of the American Revolution by George C. Neumann, there is another fowler made by Hills and inscribed on the sideplate to “Leut. Thaddeus Cook”. Both men were related and were from Cheshire and Wallingford, Connecticut. Munson Cook was born in 1762 in Wallingford, New Haven Connecticut. He died in 1848, and he is listed on the 1800 Federal Census in Rutland, Vermont. He is listed on several Revolutionary War rolls as a private in Lee’s Regiment of the Vermont Militia. This Revolutionary War period fowler has been altered to a fusil with a bayonet lug added to the bottom, towards the muzzle. The fowler is attributed to famous New England maker John Hills. Although unsigned, his unique features make it easy to identify without question. For an example with this exact form, the same carving around the barrel tang, and a sideplate of this form, see plate NE42 on page 77 of “Flintlock Fowlers” by Tom Grinslade. Medad Hills and his brother, John Hills were prolific makers in Goshen, Connecticut. Shortly before the Revolutionary War, John Hills moved to Winchester, Connecticut, and stayed there until 1784. In Winchester in 1777, John was a member of the militia in Captain Hodges’ Company. The fowler itself has a two-stage barrel with bayonet lug on bottom, near muzzle. The convex lockplate is marked “WILSON” in the center and is engraved with a halberd at the tail. The furniture includes a flat sheet brass sideplate inscribed “Munfon Cook”, a buttplate with two-stage classic Hills buttplate, a crude teardrop-shaped unengraved wrist escutcheon, an American manufactured trigger guard in the British style, and not drilled for a sling swivel. Plain sheet brass ramrod ferrules. Figured tiger maple stock of classic New England form with a relief carved border and leaf design around the barrel tang. There is a period replaced section of wood at the toe on the left side. A crudely carved piece, showing a great amount of smoothing and honest wear from use. The piece is retained by three early hand-forged nails. Complete with iron ramrod replaced during its period of use. CONDITION: Barrel retains a dark brown patina and shows some heavy corrosion at breech. Fowler was converted to percussion during its period of extended use. Lock retains a dark patina. Brass furniture retains a dark untouched patina. Stock retains an untouched surface with scattered minor chips, cracks and marks to use. Period initials “JSE” carved on right side of butt. Carving shows wear and ramrod entry ferrule is absent and was lost long ago, showing smoothing from use where ferrule once was. There is a long, tapered 10 - 1/2” replaced splinter stemming from the bottom of the front lock tang and tapering to the barrel. There is also a section of the forend towards the muzzle that is replaced, 19” on right and about 11” on left side. A binder of documentation accompanies the piece, including hand-written letters found in the muzzle, copies of original pay records and muster rolls for Munson Cook, and other relevant information on the Cook family. A very important documented and identified fowler made by a Revolutionary War soldier for another. A fine New England fowler. DMG 5,000 - 15,000

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1104 - (A) RARE FERGUSON BREECHLOADING FLINTLOCK RIFLE BY DURS EGG, WITH BAYONET, EX. NEUMANN. Caliber/Bore: .65 Rifled Barrel Length: 31 - 1/2” The Ferguson rifle is one of the great rarities of historic arms collecting. This example, according to its previous description at Pook & Pook in 2013, this was from the George C. Neumann Collection. The two makers of the original Ferguson rifles and the pattern guns were D. Egg and J. Hunt. This example, made for private purchase, most likely for an officer, is made by Durs Egg. It dates to the last quarter of the 18th century. The tapered round barrel features seven-groove rifling. There is a front sight on top and a bayonet lug on the right side. The rear sight is mounted on the front of the barrel tang. Top of breech screw is engraved with a flower, as the military examples are. Tapering top flat inscribed “D. Egg LONDON” and one on side the London view mark and on the other, the London proof mark. The flat lockplate has beveled edges and is secured with a screw on the front, just behind the pan. The center is inscribed “D. Egg”. The revolving trigger guard is engraved with arms motifs on the bow, suggesting use by an officer. This example has a unique feature. There is a slot cut in the trigger itself that allow the guard to pass. At one full rotation, there is a protruding bar, which catches on the trigger so that the breech plug cannot fall out the bottom. Plain iron ramrod ferrules and bosecap. Three-stage iron buttplate engraved with arms motifs. Walnut stock of classic English form with a slight Brown Bess-like swell at the ramrod entry ferrule. Complete with its probably original wooden ramrod with iron cap. The rifle is accompanied by an associated bayonet that is slightly large and has a 24” triangular blade and 4” socket. CONDITION: Barrel retains a grey patina with scattered light pitting and brown spots overall, markings excellent and rifling strong. Mechanism functions very well and is tight. Lock is in its original flintlock configurations and functions well. Lock markings are excellent and lock retains a grey patina. Mounts retain a grey patina with some scattered light pitting. Stock has a partially cracked wrist and a crack between bottom of lockplate, in center, and trigger floorplate. Stock has scattered wormholes at checkered wrist and a crack through the lower left side for the wrist. Barrel has strong, seven-groove rifling. Bayonet retains a brown patina with some old yellow paint. A very nice example of these rare and desirable Ferguson breechloading rifles. DMG 25,000 - 50,000

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1105 - (A) REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA NEW ENGLAND CLUB BUTT FLINTLOCK FOWLER STAMPED E. JERRY JR. Barrel Length: 41 - 5/8” The thick-walled three-stage barrel is unmarked and features a brass front bead. Early convex British lock with unbridled pan and some scroll engraving. The American-manufactured brass furniture includes a shaped wrist escutcheon with vacant inscription, buttplate and trigger guard terminating at front with engraved acanthus leaf. Club buttstock with relief carved apron around barrel tang and around lock and sideplate. Left side on flat behind wrist, stamped “E. JERRY JR”. Iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a heavy brown patina. Lock retains a dark patina and has scattered pitting. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. Brass retains a pleasing mellow patina. Wood replaced around entirety of lock and sideplate, as well as in front of lock and a 5” section on each side of forend, between rearmost ferrule and center ferrule. Stock shows scattered cracks and marks from use. An attractive fowler with a homogenous appearance. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

1106 - RARE PATTERN WAR OF 1812 ERA AMERICAN BOARDING AXE. Blade Length: 3 - 1/8” Overall Length: 13 - 1/2”

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This rare example of an early 19th-century American boarding axe appears to be a third variant in form for what is commonly known to collectors as a “U.S. Navy Boarding Axe, Type III” and for many years was wrongly placed in the chronology of development and use as post-War of 1812, although more recent documentation and study has proven that this form predates the “Type II” and is most definitely a form used prior to and during the War of 1812. It differs from the two versions of US Navy marked, Type III axes in that there are no “teeth” cut into the bottom of the blade. Otherwise, it is nearly identical in overall form and method of forged construction, including the side-ears or langets terminating in capped cover over the eyelet or poll opening at top, this axe’s cap being split, eg., each langet having a separate half-cap end over the axe. Its spike-end is also slightly shorter and more curved than the two other versions. The cutting edge of the blade is 3 - 1/8” wide and 4 - 1/4” long to the poll, while the overall length from blade to spike tip is 8 - 3/4”. The langets or side-straps are 6 - 3/4” long and the axe depth from top of the cap to bottom of the haft is 13 - 1/2”. The haft appears to be made of ash or another, straight-grained hardwood. While possibly a third contract variant of US Navy axes of this form, it is just as likely a private contract boarding axe made for privateers and private armed ships. CONDITION: the metal has been cleaned bright, with forging marks and some light pitting evident, while the haft (which is probably original) has been reduced to probably half of its original length. PROVENANCE: Found on the North Shore and formerly in the collection of the late Jack Weil of Marblehead, Massachusetts. JLK 2,000 - 4,000

1107 - 18TH CENTURY BRITISH DOUBLE DISK NAVAL CUTLASS BY HARVEY. Blade Length: 28 - 3/8” Overall Length: 33 - 1/4”

For a nearly identical unsigned example, see plate 181.SS on page 364 of “Battle Weapons of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. Straight blade with single partial fuller along top on both sides. Iron “figure eight” or “double disk” hilt with iron grip. “HARVEY” stamped within a running fox on front of cover second (knucklebow) disk along with “216” in punched dots. CONDITION: Dark heavy patinas overall. Blade shows some wear, pitting, and nicks to edge. A very nice Revolutionary War naval cutlass. DMG 1,200 - 2,400

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1108 - ‘PRAHL’ TYPE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TRENCH SPEAR OR BOARDING PIKE. Blade Length: 6” Overall Length: 74” A Revolutionary War pike of American make, almost certainly Pennsylvania in origin. This American Revolutionary boarding pike or trench spear has an overall length of 74 inches, inclusive of the head and iron shoe. The head is 11 - 1/2” long inclusive of the langets or side-straps, while the blade portion is 6 - 7/8” long and 1 - 1/8” wide, with a diamond profile. It is well-forged, turned and file-finished--equal in quality of workmanship and nearly identical in form to the surviving “PRAHL”-marked examples of the 1000 ordered by Pennsylvania in 1776. The original wooden haft is painted with a salmon-red or “Spanish brown” paint, as are all of the surviving ones on Prahl pikes. The head is attached to it by its socket with integral side-straps, secured with three riveted pins down the side-straps. The conical butt-cap is 2 - 5/8” long and similarly secured with one iron pin. Almost certainly of Pennsylvania origin, it was likely made by one of a number of talented German-American smiths working in close proximity to Prahl in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia. These arms appear to have been used by Pennsylvania’s military and naval forces, as trench spears among the former and as boarding pikes among the latter. CONDITION: Complete and very good overall; the forged metal with a handsome, dark grey metallic patina and haft with a few scrapes, scars and bruises and some rubbing and scattered loss to the paint. JLK 2,000 - 3,000

1109 - ROYAL NAVY CUTLASS BY SAMUEL HARVEY, 1750-1780. Blade Length: 28 - 1/2” Overall Length: 34”

By the 1730s, the Board of Ordnance shifted from procurement of brass-hilted “hangers” or cutlasses to ones with iron hilts for the Royal Navy. Iron hilts, more resistant to hacking blades, provided greater protection to a sailor’s hand in close combat and with the burgeoning of the industrial revolution in England, water-powered, rolling mills and trip hammers provided a cheaper mechanism for providing such arms, which had heretofore proved more expensive to produce than brass-hilted cutlasses. Always referred to in Board of Ordnance (BO) records as “Sea Service Swords”, this pattern of Royal Navy cutlass had a straight blade, with a single, narrow fuller and a hammered and forged, sheet-iron hilt of “figure-8” form, with a wooden grip, also wrapped with iron sheet. Contracts for such were first given to Thomas Hollier, who seemed to have a virtual monopoly for supplying cutlasses to the BO, but following his death, Samuel Harvey I (fl. 1748-1778) seems to have enjoyed similar status, in that he was the sole contractor for most Sea Service swords procured during the French & Indian War through Revolutionary War periods. Overall length of this Harvey cutlass is 33 - 1/4”, while its straight blade is 28 - 1/2” long and 1 - 1/4” wide at ricasso, with a single, narrow fuller terminating approximately 6 - 1/2” from the spearpoint tip. It bears the maker’s mark of a running fox with “HARVEY” within on both faces of the blade, with a partially-obscured inspection mark, crown/[?], on the left face at ricasso. The hilt consists of a well-forged figure 8 or double-disk form guard of robust iron stock (1/8” thickness), the front lobe (acting as the crossguard) has a rudimentary quillon, being a short tab emanating from the lobe and turned down in loose curl to the front, 1 ¾ inches wide at the apex. The lower lobe of the “knucklebow” is well-cupped and the overall hilt well forged and finished (those of the French Revolutionary era generally flatter and of thinner stock, which was initially die-cut, then hammered and filed). The iron-wrapped grip is wider at the front lobe, tapering slightly to the rear. CONDITION: The point is slightly blunted and the sword overall demonstrates uniform light-moderate freckling expected from salt-air use and storage. The blade is a dull gunmetal grey and the hilt a mixture of that and black, as approximately 60% of the original japanning remains, mostly on the grip and inner surface of the guard. 2,000 - 3,000 1110 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA ROYAL NAVY OFFICER’S SWORD. Blade Length: 25” Overall Length: 30 - 7/8”

A Georgian Royal Navy commissioned officer’s sword, circa 1775, with a straight or spadroon-form blade of 25” length, with wide and narrow fullers, false edge, and terminating in a spear point tip. The gilt, slotted hilt of stirrup form, the outer bars of the crossword of which incorporate a fouled anchor device, with a fluted knucklebow with pierced panel with fouled anchor motif, terminating at the fluted, ovoid pommel. The scabbard has gilded brass mounts consisting of throat, middle band, and drag with engraved edge lines, the two former with suspension rings. A classic and desirable pattern that is found depicted in the wartime portraits of Royal Navy officers and also known to be carried by their American opponents (a near-identical sword and scabbard, carried by Lieutenant Charles Bulkely of the Continental Navy, is now in the collection of the US Naval Academy Museum). CONDITION: The grip retains its original wrapping of silver-on-copper wire and banding and 60-65% of the brass hilt’s original gilding remains; the scabbard leather is a later replacement, but skillfully done. JLK 3,000 - 5,000

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1111 - BRITISH PATTERN 1804 SEA SERVICE SWORD (CUTLASS). Blade Length: 27” Overall Length: 31 - 3/8”

In 1804, Birmingham cutler Henry Osborn’s proposal to modify the pattern Sea Service Sword was accepted by the Board of Ordnance. Although the pattern specifications have not been located, it is clear from extant examples that the principal changes were an improved grip of cast, ribbed iron and the introduction of a wider, unfullered blade that was also both heavier and thicker--making it altogether a far more effective cleaving weapon. Tens of thousands of these were produced by various contractors between 1804-14. This example shows heavy period use, including modification of the hilt by removal of the outer lobes of the figure-8 guard by cutting and filing work (observed on other surviving 1804 cutlasses, including excavated specimens). This practice lightened the arm and more importantly, gave the sailor greater ease when wearing one slung while boarding a vessel or while on boat service. A large “GR” denoting Crown ownership is found on the flat of the blade. CONDITION: light to medium pitting overall; perhaps 60% of the original japanning of the hilt still survives. A true fighting cutlass. JLK 600 - 1,000

1112 - 19TH CENTURY BOARDING PIKE OF THE ROYAL NAVY. Blade Length: 4” Overall Length: 91” The term “boarding pike” is somewhat a misnomer, as they were generally considered too unwieldy for boarding ships and were instead used to repel boarders. The iron butt caps tended to scar the wooden decks and were frequently cut off, but the Royal Navy introduced a new form in the 19th century, as seen on this fine example, that had a 3/4” diameter hole in its based, allowing a “shoe” of wood to jut-out approximately 1/2” beyond, thereby preventing both splitting of the shaft or deck scarring. The tapering wooden haft appears to be of ash and retains its original fabrication length of 91 - 1/4”, while its triangular head (inclusive of side-straps or langets) is 14 - 3/4”. One side strap of the head is stamped with various Royal Navy and Crown ownership marks, including an ‘N’, [broad arrow] / EFD/[crown]/30/E”, and “66”, while stamped into the shaft just above buttcap is “(Crown) / M”. CONDITION: Very good and complete overall condition, traces of black japanning remain visible on the shaft; the buttcap with moderate pitting and the head with spots of light surface oxidation. A handsome example of the classic boarding pike form used by the Royal Navy from Napoleonic era to the close of the Victorian era. This pike was fabricated at the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield, which began producing firearms, swords, and other edged weapons for the Crown in 1816, as indicated by the ‘EFD” stamp used at Enfield, previously noted. CONDITION: The metal of head (blade and side-straps) is a dark, gunmetal grey and the haft is a mellow wood tone, showing the grain under a very old (original?) varnish. JLK 400 - 800

1113 - EARLY AMERICAN NAVAL BOARDING PIKE. Blade Length: 11 - 5/8” Overall Length: 95 - 5/8” A late 18th to early 19th century American boarding pike that shares the overall characteristics of form and construction with those known to be contracted for the US Navy during and following the War of 1812, but which differs in having an unusually long, spike-style blade of 11 - 5/8” with diamond profile. Overall length of the pike, including haft and blade with inset side-straps or langets, is 95 - 5/8”, the haft tapering from the head to its butt. CONDITION: This handsome boarding pike retains 80-90% of its original black japanning or tarring, applied to both haft and head; there is perhaps 1/2” of loss to the tip of the blade. JLK 800 - 1,200

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1114 - PATTERN 1804 ROYAL NAVY CUTLASS. Blade Length: 28 - 1/2” Overall Length: 33 - 1/4”

The wide unfullered blade comes to a fairly abrupt point. The iron “double disk” guard has a forward-turned quillon and a cast iron grip. Leather washer present between guard and blade. CONDITION: Blade retains a mottled grey patina. Exterior of hilt retains a darkened surface, interior a heavy brown patina. Grip very good with dark patina. A very nice example. DMG 700 - 1,400

1115 - A REVOLUTIONARY WAR AMERICAN CUTLASS. Blade Length: 27 - 1/2” Overall Length: 32”

This rudimentary, yet efficient, design for a cutlass is seemingly a standard pattern by an unidentified American cutler. Near-identical examples are known in American museum and private collections, most with New England provenance or origin. All feature iron hilts that have oval disc-shaped crossguards of sheet iron, riveted to a D-shaped knuckle bow of forged iron; at its other end, the knuckle-bow is hammered out into a small, disk-shaped, convex pommel cap where it is attached to the grip or handle by putting the tang of the blade through a hole drilled in its center, and peening the tang over. This 33” cutlass has a wooden grip with ringed channels turned or carved into it and the entire guard is japanned black (other examples are painted with white lead or red oxide). Its curved blade with single, narrow fuller is 27 - 5/8” and 1 - 1/8” wide at ricasso and bears the running wolf or fox mark, crosses or X’s, and a ‘1745’ date. This style of blade is of Solingen origin and was heavily imported into the American colonies and states during the second half of the 18th century; nearly all cutlasses examined with this style of hilt also share the same blade form. CONDITION: There is light pitting and some surface oxidation to the hilt where the japanning has worn off, while the blade appears to have been recently cleaned. JLK 1,600 - 2,400

1116 - 19TH CENTURY MAHOGANY NAVAL CAMPAIGN DESK. Measures 19 - 1/2” x 10” x 6”. Mahogany with brass exterior straps and corner protectors. Carry handles on sides, right side has a large hidden drawer. Interior features a decorated red velour pad. Partitioned front section with two ink wells with brass lids embossed with large crown and “PATENT LONDON”. Complete with its original key. CONDITION: Exterior very good with scattered scratches and marks from use. Interior shows fading to pad and some fraying at edges in center. Accessories very good. DMG 600 - 1,200

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1117 - FINE EARLY 19TH CENTURY CAMPAIGN DESK. Early 19th century campaign box of mahogany with brass edges and inlays. Center of lid with a brass escutcheon with a heraldic lion and the word “ESSAYEZ” in a banner and below are the large initials “RD” Brass key escutcheon on front. Inside of lock marked 99 PICCADILLY ST.” Partitioned interior partially lined with Moroccan leather. Tray is not covered. CONDITION: Case shows scattered age cracks and marks from use, losses to lacquer on brass. Interior shows some scuffing. A very nice campaign box. DMG 400 - 800

1118 - 13 DRAWER CAMPAIGN CHEST ON FRAME. Early 18th century with dovetailed construction and 13 drawers with brass pulls. Large brass carry handles on both sides. Mounted on a later frame. Measures 30 - 7/8” high by 28 - 7/8” wide by 14 - 1/2” deep. CONDITION: Very good, brasses replaced and shows some minor marks from use. A very attractive and useful piece of furniture. DMG 700 - 1,400

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1119 - FINE LARGE CASED 1812 DATED NAUTICAL COMPASS. Measures 6 - 7/8” by 7 - 3/8” by 1 - 1/4”. Housed in a mahogany box with sliding cover. The back has a rotating wooden stand to prop the compass in a more upright position. The interior of the lid is inscribed “Francois Morin / de Lassenay” The round compass has a diameter of 5 - 3/8” and is under glass. The perimeter strip is brass with engraved coordinates. The face of the compass is decorated and inscribed with the name of the Paris maker. There is also a small brass fixture to hold the blued compass needle in place to the glass. CONDITION: Very good show some scattered marks from use to exterior. Some minor chipping to top edge of glass, but not visible. Compass functions properly and is in very good condition. A fine very high quality and well-made nautical compass. DMG 400 - 800

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1120 - (A) LOT OF 2: PAIR OF BELGIAN BOXLOCK FLINTLOCK PISTOLS WITH SPRING BAYONETS. Caliber/Bore: .50 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 4” These attractive boarding or couch pistols feature octagonal brass barrels with cannon muzzles and iron spring bayonets engaged by pulling back trigger guards. There are Liege “ELG” proofs in an oval on left sides of breeches. The scalloped boxlock actions on both pistols are professionally engraved on both sides. The left sides are engraved with eagles holding olive branches in their beaks and the other sides are engraved with a quiver of arrows and a harp. The locks feature sliding half-cock tang safeties. Floral engraved iron trigger guards. One-piece checkered walnut grips with silver-inlaid wire scrollwork on panels at tops on both sides. CONDITION: Very good overall, brass barrels and actions retain a pleasing surface, left side of one action. shows some wear to engraving. Both actions and bayonet mechanisms function properly and well. Grips show some scattered marring to checkering and some minor losses to silver wire inlay. A very fine and attractive pair of bayoneted pistols. DMG 2,000 - 4,000 1121 - (A) AMERICAN USED PATTERN 1756/77 BRITISH SEA SERVICE PISTOL. Caliber/Bore: .62 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 12” This Revolutionary War pistol has several American alterations including: British crown and government ownership markings intentionally removed on lockplate, period replaced iron American hand-forged frizzen spring, the top jaw screw is a period American replacement and the belt hook was removed and the hole in the sideplate was filled with a brass inlay. Otherwise, this is a standard Pattern 1756/77 Sea Service pistol. The round barrel is marked on top in center of breech with government crown over “GR” over broad arrow and with crossed scepters. There is also a faint partial “FG” for makers Farmer and Galton. The flat lockplate is inscribed “TOWER” on the tail section. Standard Sea Service brass furniture, the right side of the pommel cap is deeply engraved with the number “4”. Plain walnut stock with relief-carved beavertail around barrel tang. Complete with its period wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina with some scattered light pitting, proof marks are very good. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly, retains a matching patina to barrel. Brass furniture retains a brown mustard patina. Stock has scattered minor pieces of wood replaced, most notably a section below front of lockplate and around barrel pins and pommel cap, where chipping had occurred. A very nice American-used Revolutionary War Sea Service pistol. DMG 1,400 - 2,800

1122 - (A) ENGLISH BRASS BARRELED FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY BRANDER. Barrel Length: 16 - 1/8” Stockel records two Branders, both in London and likely related, with cumulative working dates of 1752-1801. 2-stage brass barrel with a raised ring approximately 2 1/8” behind flared cannon muzzle, which measures approximately 1 - 1/4” across at bell. Engraved “LONDON” over breech, offset view and proof marks. Flat iron lock marked “BRANDER” in center with waterproof pan and swan neck cock. Brass serpentine sideplate. Brass-tipped ramrod, probably the original, retained by a single ferrule and feeding into a reinforced mouth with simple finial. The brass furniture is of the exact military style of a Pattern 1759 Brown Bess musket. Brass trigger guard with orb fore finial, and marked “989.1.116”, a museum number. Professionally executed period iron wrist repair inlaid on top of the wrist and conforming to the carving at the end of the comb, where it lays on the wrist. This repair was due to a crack that runs through wrist. Brass buttplate with long topstrap. CONDITION: Very good. There is a triangular 7/8” sliver of wood replaced above the tail of the lock plate. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration, frizzen spring is a later replacement. Brass has a deep untouched mustard coloration with some marks from handling and use, including some burnout around touchhole. Lock is very good with crisp legends and a smooth chocolate patina. Stock is very good, with aforementioned crack at wrist and a period repair, a long sliver (5”) missing on right side of forearm with a following grain separation (another 5”), and an extra layer of varnish applied. Action functions as it should, bore is very good with a minimum of oxidation. Frizzen spring replaced. This is a very attractive example of a popular weapon, with an interesting period repair. EMW 1,500 - 3,000

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1123 - (A) ENGLISH BRASS BARRELED FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY WILLIAMS, CIRCA. 1750. Barrel Length: 17” The mid-18th century weapon has a flared three-stage brass blunderbuss barrel is deeply stamped on the left side of the breech with private London view and proof marks as well as the maker’s cartouche. Engraved on the breech section with a foliate cartouche inscribed “LONDON”. The early convex banana lockplate is engraved with scrolls and marked “WILLIAMS” in the center. Lock features an unbridled pan. Early brass furniture including a flat serpent sideplate, multi-ringed ramrod ferrules, early nail fastened engraved buttplate, symmetrical wrist escutcheon, and trigger guard terminating in a symmetrical foliate finial. Walnut stock of early form with a relief apron carved around the barrel tang. CONDITION: Barrel retains a mellowing mustard patina, markings and engraving very good, shows some scattered marks from use. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Retains a dark brown patina, inside of pan shows heavy corrosion. Stock retains a dark finish with some scattered marks from use and age cracks. One crack stemming from below lockplate cracked to trigger guard. A very early and handsome English blunderbuss. DMG 3,000 - 6,000

1124 - (A) BRASS-BARRELED BRITISH FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY GRICE. Barrel Length: 14” This circa 1770 blunderbuss features a four-stage brass barrel with cannon muzzle. There are two large Birmingham proofs on the left side of the breech and “London” inscribed on top flat. Flat lockplate with beveled edges, inscribed “Grice” in center. The brass mounts include a full sideplate, chased wrist escutcheon with shell motif atop, trigger guard terminating in an acorn and a four-stage buttplate tang. Stocked in walnut in the classic British style, relief carved apron surrounding barrel tang. Complete with its original brass-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: As found and untouched. Markings excellent throughout. Brass retains a dark mustard patina, lock retains a grey patina and is in its original flintlock configuration, functions well. Top jaw screw and jaw are replacements. Stock retains an untouched surface with crazed areas throughout. Some scattered marks from use and a minor crack on left side of forend has been repaired. A very nice Revolutionary War British blunderbuss. DMG 3,000 - 5,000

1125 - (A) LARGE BRITISH FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS WITH SIDE-MOUNTED BAYONET, ATTRIBUTED TO WATERS. Barrel Length: 24” The massive flared iron barrel is marked on the left side of the breech with Birmingham proofs. There is a massive, heavy-duty spring bayonet with triangular blade on the left side. The bayonet is released by pulling back on the sliding brass lever on the sideplate. There is also an iron safety that secures the bolt so that the bayonet does not accidentally discharge. This particular style of mechanism was patented by Waters & Co. Another bayonet with this mechanism can be found on the Waters & Company pistol in this sale. The flat lockplate has beveled edges. The brass furniture includes a flat sideplate, an oval wrist escutcheon, buttplate with 4-stage tang, and trigger guard terminating in an acorn finial. The hinge and the base of the bayonet are also brass. Plain walnut stock. Brass-tipped wooden ramrod probably a replacement. CONDITION: Barrel and lock cleaned bright in the European fashion. Lock functions well and is crisp, lock in its original flintlock configuration. Brass polished. Stock retains a pleasing surface with some scattered bruises. Bayonet mechanism is very strong and functions properly. A very nice massive blunderbuss with a rare bayonet mechanism. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

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1126 - (A) REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA PISTOL WITH SPRING BAYONET BY WATERS. An impressive and early version of a private purchase boarding pistol with spring-bayonet by John Waters (fl. 1767-1781), the British gunmaker credited with inventing the spring-bayonet for pistols and who obtained a patent for such in 1778. Its tapering, round barrel of 9” length has a bore of .69 and has the vestigial remnants of what appear to be a pair of private proofs of the London Gunmakers’ Company and the IW touchmark of the maker. A spring-mounted bayonet is attached to the left side of the barrel by a swivel mount, the blade of which is triangular in profile and 5 - 3/8” long. When not in use, the bayonet is folded back and its tip retained by a sliding catch on the flat sideplate of scalloped, triangular shape. The convex lockplate has engraved, double-line edging and before the goose-neck cock is engraved “WATERS / & Co.” The brass mounts also include trigger guard with bulbous, front finial, a buttcap, thumbpiece, and a tailpipe and small forepipe. The walnut stock has a raised apron around the iron barrel tang and raised edging around lockplate and sideplate flats ending in teardrops to the rear of both. The ramrod is wood with a horn tip. In overall form and mounts, it is highly reminiscent of a Pattern 1759 light dragoon pistol and was clearly intended to be a robust and functional, fighting weapon. CONDITION: The iron mounts a dull, gunmetal grey with some light and scattered areas of freckling to barrel and lock. The lock and spring bayonet components in very good working order. The stock overall good, but a pressure crack ranging from the thumbpiece to the rear of the lock and a similar, but fine one of 1 - 1/2” on the left side from the thumbpiece towards the sideplate. JLK 6,000 - 8,000

1127 - (A) FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL BY GRICE WITH SPRING BAYONET. This fine blunderbuss pistol, with turned, brass cannon barrel and brass box-lock, was made by William Grice (fl. 1765-1781) and features a triangular, folding, spring-bayonet mount similar to that patented by rival Birmingham gunmaker John Waters in 1781, which stirred up controversy during the period. In fact, Thomas Gill and William Grice both challenged this patent, claiming that they’d been producing such some years earlier. The early form of this particular pistol indicates that it was likely setup sometime in the early 1770s, would seemingly justify Grice’s argument. The turned, brass “cannon” or “bell-mouth” barrel is 9” long, with a .75 bore. The right side of the barrel has Birmingham proof and view touchmarks stamped on it, while it is engraved ‘GRICE / LONDON’ on the left side Fastened by a ring mount near the muzzle and folded down on the right side of the barrel is the spring-action, triangular bayonet the tip to the rear. The boxlock and the iron trigger guard both bear decorative engraving and the original, horn-tip ramrod is secured below the barrel by two brass pipes. The butt is of English walnut, flattened on the sides. CONDITION: Gun and spring bayonet in very good working order, original bluing to the bayonet, the brass showing signs of a recent cleaning. JLK 3,000 - 5,000

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1128 - (A) A FLINTLOCK US NAVY MODEL 1813 BOARDING PISTOL. Round, plain, smoothbore barrel of 9” and .69 caliber, with “P/US” on left side near breech. Beveled, flat lockplate with rounded tail, brass pan, and rounded, reinforced cock, with worn stamp “S. NORTH / U. (Eagle) S. / MIDDLN. CON’ before cock. Walnut half-stock with iron mountings, including banded nose-cap, and (replacement) wooden ramrod; the belt hook was removed sometime during its historic usage and the hole plugged with wood, as observed on other examples. Only 1,000 of these pistols were contracted with Simeon North and subsequently delivered to the Navy between 1813-1815, making it one of the rarer and more desirable early US marital pistols, especially due to its wartime usage. CONDITION: A well-executed reconversion, the metal parts with good definition, lock in good working order, and wood with only minor dents or marks. JLK 2,600 - 3,600

1129 - (A) A FLINTLOCK TOWER PATTERN 1756/1777 SEA SERVICE PISTOL. Round, plain, smoothbore 12” barrel of .58 caliber bore, with centered Ordnance view and proof marks near breech and crown on tang; a plain, flat, beveled lock with plain, flat, reinforced cock, and unbridled pan, with ‘crown/GR’ before cock and inspection stamp under pan, with ‘TOWER’ across the tail; figured walnut, full stock with regulation brass mountings of butt-cap, trigger guard, sideplate and ramrod pipe, with original brass-tipped ramrod and iron belt-hook attached to sideplate. Setup marks inside ramrod channel, ‘WB’ behind sideplate, and “crown/6” inspection stamp on right side of butt above tail of trigger guard. A very fine specimen of an issue naval pistol of the Revolutionary War and a pattern that is becoming increasingly harder to locate in good condition. CONDITION: All iron parts crisp and with a uniform, pewter-grey tone, while the wood in very good condition, with only a few scattered, light dings or use marks, Lock in very good working order. JLK 4,000 - 5,000

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1130 - (A) FLINTLOCK P1757 SEA SERVICE MUSKET BY VERNON DATED 1758. An extremely rare Pattern 1757 Sea Service musket in original flintlock configuration. Round, tapered iron barrel bearing centered Ordnance view and proof marks before breech, 42” long overall and of .79 bore. Flat lock with faceted, unbridled pan with engraved edge lines and marked “VERNON / 1758 vertically on tail of lock, with crown/GR before flat, reinforced cock and crown/broad arrow inspection stamp under the pan. Original English walnut fullstock, with inspection marks behind trigger guard and setup markings within ramrod channel. Brass mounts include flat buttplate, flat side plate, characteristic Sea Service trigger guard, and 3 ‘barrel’ pipes for the brass-capped, wooden ramrod. The musket is intact in original 42” barrel configuration as a “bright-finished” musket, the shorter, 37” barrel version being japanned or finished “black.” Standard arm issued out for Royal Navy vessel to arm boarding parties and marksmen. Sea Service muskets of this form were issued out to American provincial regiments in the French & Indian War and again in 1775, when 2,000 Sea Service muskets were shipped to Nova Scotia to arm the new-raised Provincial (Loyalist) corps and militia being and another 5,000 shipped to New York the following year for the same purpose. CONDITION: The ironwork of barrel and lock now a dark gunmetal shade with uniform, light freckling to the barrel and lock and light to moderate pitting around vent and pan area; the lock in good working order. The stock with the usual age dings and bruises, with a “pinwheel’ star incised on the left face of the buttstock, the wooden ramrod possibly a later replacement. JLK 10,000 - 15,000

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1131 - (A) BRITISH PATTERN 1801 FLINTLOCK SEA SERVICE PISTOL. The Sea Service pistol of the Napoleonic War of 1812 period was but little changed from the pattern of 1756/77. It still had the characteristic flat lock plate in use since early in the 18th century a 12” barrel of .62 bore, and a long, iron “rib” or belt-hook screwed to the sideplate (now bearing a crown/GR stamp). The hardware and stock were now a little more robust in form, the lock was bridled, and the cock and lock plate had engraved edging lines; otherwise, the arm was virtually indistinguishable from those in use nearly 100 years earlier. One of these pistols, along with a cutlass or sometimes, a boarding axe, was typically issued out to a certain proportion of the sailors from a Royal Navy vessel detailed for boarding or landing parties, the others being armed with Sea Service muskets and bayonets. CONDITION: The ironwork now a deep, gunmetal grey and the figured walnut stock very good, less a few dings and bruises from age/use; the lock in very good working order, the wooden ramrod possibly a replacement. JLK 2,000 - 3,000 1132 - ENGLISH BLUNDERBUSS BOXLOCK PISTOL WITH SPRING BAYONET, BY WILLIAMS. Caliber/Bore: .78 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 6 - 3/8” The flared brass barrel has turnings at the muzzle. The bottom is fitted with a spring-loaded triangular bayonet measuring 5”. The breech is marked with two Birmingham proofs. Scalloped boxlock action of brass, left side engraved with “Williams” in an oval surrounded by florals and arms motifs. Opposite side engraved with florals and flags. Action features a sliding tang safety and reinforced cock. The iron trigger guard slides back, releasing the bayonet, which springs into place. Plain Circassian walnut grip. Original horn-tipped wooden ramrod mounted on right side with two brass ferrules. CONDITION: Brass polished and retains a mellowing patina, showing some wear to markings and scattered marks from use. Action tang screw is a replacement, in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. Grip is shy to action on both sides. Bayonet mechanism is strong and functions properly. A very nice turn of the century brass boarding pistol. DMG 1,500 - 3,000 1133 - (A) FINE BRITISH PATTERN 1756/77 SEA SERVICE FLINTLOCK PISTOL. Caliber/Bore: .60 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 12” This Pattern was widely used by British naval forces during the Revolutionary War. This example features a round barrel marked on top with stamped British Tower proofs, tang stamped with inspector crown. The flat lockplate has slightly beveled edges and is engraved “TOWER” at the tail. The center is engraved with large crown over “GR”, and it is also stamped with a crown over broad arrow ordnance stamp, denoting government ownership. Lock features a reinforced cock and unbridled pan. Standard brass Pattern 1756/77 Sea Service mounts and fitted with its original iron belt hook stamped on the tang with a crown over “6”. The walnut stock is carved with a relief apron around the barrel tang. Stamped above back tang of lock on left side with early(undated) British storekeepers stamp. Complete with its original brass-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Very good overall. Barrel retains a grey patina with some areas of heavier patina, markings excellent. Lock retains a light grey patina and is in its original flintlock configuration, functions well. Lock markings are excellent. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina and shows scattered marks from use including a series of period-punched dots on bottom of pommel cap and trigger guard bow. Stock very good showing scattered marks from use and minor denting. A very fine example of this Revolutionary War pattern. DMG 4,000 - 6,000

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1134 - LARGE ENGRAVED NAUTICAL POWDER HORN OF THOMAS FITZJERALD, DATED 1816. This large horn measures about 14 - 1/2” across the bow. Two rings at the spout, followed by a faceted scalloped section in relief. The maid body is engraved “THOMAS FITZJERALD / 18 16” There are many depictions on the horn, many are nautical. There is a man wearing a hat with a word bubble that says “tally ho”. There is a compass rose, a Scottish thistle, a Sea Serpent, an Eagle, a Mermaid, a Unicorn Mermaid, a Seal, several Fish, a Goat, a Fox carrying a Duck, two Dogs, and foliate motifs. The massive wooden plug is extensively chip carved throughout. CONDITION: Retains a pleasing honey patina and shows some wear to engraving. Some minor chipping along wooden plug and some chipping to rings at spout. A very attractive and folky dated and identified nautical powder horn. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

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1135 - SCARCE BRITISH “2ND DIVISION” MARKED NAVAL POWDER HORN. Late 18th century, these powder horns were painted with division number for naval use on ships. There were different divisions on a Royal Navy vessel. The horn measures about 16” overall with a brass charging spout and a turned wooden plug with threaded knob removable for refilling of powder. The front of the horn is stenciled “2ND DIVISION” in polychrome yellow on a dark background. CONDITION: Retains a dark untouched and as-found surface overall. Charging spout is slightly loose and spring is broken, retains a dark heavy brown patina. Horn itself retains a dark patina on its original paint and lacquer, some carry wear and marks from use. Plug shows a worn chip on the back along one edge, otherwise very good. A very scarce division painted Napoleonic British naval horn. PROVENANCE: ex. Bob Band Collection. DMG 1,800 - 3,000

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1136 - BRITISH NAVEL POWDER HORN, WAR OF 1812 ERA. With an overall length of 15” (on the curve), this naval priming horn consists of a cowhorn body closed by a turned oak, butt of 3” diameter at its lip, with threaded, oak stopper in the shape of a handle. The tip of the horn fitted with a conical charger formed of sheet-brass, with a cast-brass lever and steel spring. There are two suspension loops of iron wire, the shanks of which are threaded and set into the top of the horn before the plug and after the brass charger. This is the standard version of the artillery priming horn produced under contract with the Board of Ordnance, virtually unchanged in form from the early 18th century to the middle of the 19th. The horn has been painted with a patriotic motif or central device consisting of a panoply of arms, trumpets and British post-1801 naval ensigns, with the figure of Brittania with her oval shield resting before her, on which is further emblazoned the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew, as on the naval ensigns. The painted horn is covered with a period shellac, which has darkened and blistered with age. Painted horns of this type were done by sailor-artisans aboard Royal Navy vessels on the whim of the ship’s commanding officer and are known as early as the War of 1812—a very similar example having been captured aboard HMS Guerriere in 1812 and now in the USS Constitution Museum. The leather suspension cord looped to the stopper handle is of relatively recent manufacture, not original to the horn. CONDITION: Brass charging spout retains a pleasing dark mustard patina and functions properly. Horn body has been varnished long ago and has darkened paint. Some scattered chipping Some crazing and carry wear to original paint. Original wooden plug and threaded knob, original crazed black paint. A very scarce and attractive painted naval horn. JLK 1,000 - 3,000

1137 - A CANNON CARTIDGE CASE FROM THE EARY AMERICAN PRIVATEER “POLLY”. An extremely rare, early American cartridge case (sometimes called a “cartridge box”) for a flannel or paper cartridge or “bag” of gunpowder for a cannon, either a six- or nine-pounder (based on the 3 - 1/4” interior diameter of the case). The cylindrical form of the case interior mirrored the form of the powder cartridge it housed, preserving its shape for loading and more importantly, protecting the volatile composition from sparks or perforation during the journey of the “powder monkey” from the ship’s magazine to the gundeck. Wooden cartridge cases of near-identical form were excavated from the wreck of HMS Invincible (1758), as well as depicted in period diagrams and plans, but this unexcavated example is the only early American one currently identified. It survives with its wooden lid still affixed by the original carrying handle or lanyard, made of untarred, marline line (a double-strand, hempen cord). The case was turned and carved from complete, segmented section of a tree trunk or limb, leaving a lip with two jutting tabs or lugs opposite each other on the tapering, cylindrical body. Each lug has a hole drilled through it and two similar holes were drilled through the fitted wooden lid and by this means, the marline lanyard was knotted under one lug and carried up the cylinder through the corresponding lid hole, then down again through opposite lid hole and lug, leaving enough loose line to form the handle and to allow the lid to be opened or close with ease, with no ability to be lost. The case with lid is 16 - 1/2” tall, with a 4” exterior base diameter. Cartridge cases were usually made of poplar, which is what appears to be the wood used for this case. Poplar is an absorbent wood and thus, could help keep moisture from the cartridge and was also easy to work and lightweight. It still retains most of its red oxide paint, typically used on articles related to ordnance and munitions aboard ships of war. On the side of the body cylinder is crudely carved a flag on staff, on which is inscribed “Polly.” Found on the North Shore of Boston Bay and previously in the collection of the late Jack Weil of Marblehead (who collected only artifacts of local historical interest), it almost certainly came from a privateer or armed ship operating out of Salem, Marblehead or other port towns in Essex County in the Revolutionary through War of 1812 era. A handful of vessels bearing this name have been identified, but based on both known armament and respective histories, most have been eliminated. The most likely prospect is the privateer Polly of Salem, a 91 ton sloop that during the War of 1812, captured 19 prizes during 5 cruises. Her crew varied between 50-65 men and her armament between 4-9 guns, primarily 4-, 6- and 9-pounders. CONDITION: Overall very good and complete, with some slight losses to paint, the expected dings and bruises accumulated over more than 200 years, and some fraying to the marline line at its distal ends. 3,000 - 5,000

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1138 - (A) A RARE & EARLY EXAMPLE OF THE BRITISH P1757 MARINE MUSKET. Caliber/Bore: .79 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 42” As the Royal Navy put itself on a war footing in 1755, a permanent “Corps of Marines” was authorized to and by 1756, the Tower of London Small Arms Office had contracted for a new pattern arm designed specifically for these sea soldiers. Essentially, it was a shortened and streamlined version of the Land Pattern Musket, with a 42” long, tapering, round barrel of 0.72 caliber and with simplified brass mountings, including a flat sideplate, shorter buttplate with tang fastened by a screw, and the lack of a thumbpiece on the wrist of the stock. Far more practical and cheaper to produce, it was subsequently designated for issue to the independent companies of the British Army and standing militia regiments, as well, ceasing production in 1776 (when replaced by the Short Land pattern). This particular example is the only one known that utilizes the earlier Pattern 1742 ‘banana-shaped’ (all other known examples having the 1756 lock) and thus, must be among the first Marine muskets contracted for in 1756 and setup and delivered in early 1757. The musket is 57 - 3/4” long, with a 0.79 bore and bears Ordnance view and proof marks on top of the barrel near the breech. Both the barrel and lock bear the markings of Edward Jordan (fl. 1733-1758); the latter is engraved “JORDAN/1744” behind the cock. Jordan was a principal supplier of barrels and locks to the Board of Ordnance from 1738 until his death in 1758. The English walnut fullstock has setup marks in the ramrod channel, inspection marks behind the trigger guard, and a deep storekeeper’s stamp on the right face of the butt. The musket was altered from its original wooden ramrod configuration sometime following 1759 by the addition of a tailpipe with spring, which enabled it to accept an iron ramrod as ordered by the Admiralty Board. The cruder method of inletting for this rear pipe suggests that the later modification was done by an armorer at one of the Marine divisions or an arsenal, rather than at the Tower Small Arms Workshop. An extant 18th century account book for the Plymouth Division verifies this practice. CONDITION: This arm is in outstanding “attic condition” as found, with all original parts intact, with the exception of one of the two “side nails”, the lock in very good, working order, the ironwork all a dark gunmetal shade with some light pitting to the pan and vent areas and the wooden stock with a few bruises and scars. JLK 10,000 - 15,000

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1139 - (A) US MUSKET FOR MARINES, MODEL OF 1797. Caliber/Bore: .70 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 42” Tapering, round barrel of 42” length and .71 bore, bearing a crudely-filed “X” on top of the barrel two inches before the tang and a “US” ownership immediately before the same, as well as the Federal proof mark of Eagle head over P within a small, oval cartouch to the left at breech. The flat lockplate with reinforced cock, 6 - 1/2” L x 1 - 1/4” W, has “UNITED / STATES” is one of the pattern known to have been imported into the United States and sold to the Federal government by the Ketland firm in 1797. The iron ramrod appears to be original. The mounts of the musket are of brass and include buttplate (bearing a small “3” stamped on the tang), sideplate, trigger guard and three, springfastened, barrel bands—the middle-band of which has a sling swivel lug cast integral (the rear lug behind of iron and set through the front finial before the trigger guard proper. The walnut stock has a “34” incised on the right cheek, probably an issue number. Finial of the trigger guard being of iron, into it all are of American-maker stamped in an inverted arc across the pointed tail. Although commonly referred to in the collector’s literature as “1797 contract ship muskets”, this arm should be more properly known as the Model 1797 US Musket for Marines, for all known documents relating to their manufacture and issue make it clear that these arms were intended for the Marine Corps detachments aboard the frigates and other vessels of the fledgling US Navy. This is one of two known examples that are currently known to survive from those ordered to be setup by Philadelphia area gunmakers and are American copies of the French Model 1766 Marine Musket, primarily differing in point of mounting by the middle-band, which was iron on the French models. All of the brass mounts of American manufacture, cruder and heavier than the comparative French components. CONDITION: Barrel has been partially cleaned long ago, now has a light grey surface with scattered dark spots. The “US” surcharge and eagle head over “P” are clearly visible. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration, does not hold in full-cock position. Lock has been cleaned, some light pitting and heavy dark pitting at tail, some wear to the word “STATES” at tail. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina and shows some scattered denting and marks from use, hairline crack through rear tang screw of trigger guard. Stock shows edge wear and scattered bruises and marks from use. There are period repaired breaks in front of lock tang and between back lock tang and barrel tang. Upside down “V” carved on left side of butt. Some losses and chipping around barrel tang. Ramrod is slightly short. A very rare and important early American naval musket. 9,000 - 12,000

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The Richard Guckes Collection Lots 1140 through 1144

Richard Guckes was a man from a medium sized community who had a large love of Civil War history. He was a collector of many things and at the top of his collecting interest were Civil War items. He dedicated most of his adult life to not only collecting Civil War era items but to learning the history about those items as well. His primary interest was regarding the 83rd, 111th, and the 145th Pennsylvania infantry regiment out of Erie, Pennsylvania. Of course, Rich visited Gettysburg many times and if you were with him, you felt that you were on your own personally guided tour. Not only did he collect items of historical interest and learn the stories surrounding those items, he was also a storyteller. He enjoyed talking about the battle at Little Round Top, the site of General Strong Vincent’s death, and the battle that took place at the Peach Orchard. Time after time people visiting the Gettysburg battlefield would stop and listen to Rich as he talked about the events that had taken place. They would ask questions and he willingly answered their questions and engaged in conversation about the battle and the people who had fought there. As he acquired an interesting artifact, he would show those items to other collectors. His enthusiasm was always genuine when he managed to find a particular item for which he had been searching. He could be observed at the Mansfield, Ohio show wearing a cardboard sign, secured with a string around his neck, listing the types of items he wanted to purchase! As Rich travelled up and down the East coast, he always managed to find items that he may not have been “looking” for but may have contributed to his collection. His internal compass always got him back to Gettysburg where he could be found in the local shops or attending the Civil War shows held there. He spent time with his local reenacting group clearing the slope of Little Round Top and returning it the way it would have appeared during the Civil War. Of course, he especially looked forward to attending the Baltimore show. Most importantly he was highly regarded by all of his fellow collectors. He will be missed by all who knew him. But everyone will remember that when Rich asked about an item that he was interested in purchasing, his first words would always be: “ Can you do better than that?”

1140 - (A) US M1797 CP FLINTLOCK MUSKET. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1797 contract musket made by unknown maker. 42” smoothbore .69 caliber barrel with two iron bands, double strap iron end cap, and barrel marked at breech “No.7” in script. Original flintlock marked at rear with “CP” and marked on inside “IY”. Previous owner thought that this stood for John Young of Easton, Pennsylvania and that he was the possible maker of this rifle. Iron backplate is stamped “AH” at rear of plate. Walnut full military stock with no markings except under lock backplate which is stamped “VIII”. Comes with original steel ramrod. PROVENANCE: Rich Guckes Collection. CONDITION: Overall good with metal surfaces having some slight discoloration and fading to a silvery plum color. Lock appears to be original flint. Wood has dark appearance with no visible repairs or restoration. Dark bore with functioning mechanics. Missing sling swivels. DLM 1,500 - 2,000

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1141 - (A) US M1797 CP FLINLOCK MUSKET BY LETHER. 1 of 1,200 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania flintlock muskets contracted to Jacob Lether of York, Pennsylvania. 44” smoothbore .69 caliber musket with 2 iron barrel bands and double strap nosecap. Barrel marked at breech with “CP” and “P” with liberty cap proof. Original flintlock marked “Lether & Co” and “CP” at rear of lock. Walnut full military stock with iron furniture that appears to have been shaved in the period to lighten and conform to user’s usage specifications. Comes with original looking steel ramrod. PROVENANCE: Rich Guckes Collection. CONDITION: Overall fair with metal having some slight surface rust and metal parts having a generally brown appearance with some pitting. Lock appears to be original with some replaced wood around tang and lock area. Wood has dark appearance with aged look and all modification done in the period. 6” crack on right side of forearm near muzzle and missing sling swivels and middle band spring. Dark bore with good mechanics. DLM 2,000 - 4,000

1142 - (A) US M1797 CP FLINTLOCK MUSKET BY BAKER. One of 2,000 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1797 Contract muskets secured by Albert Gallitin and made by Melchoir Baker in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Made famous as guns used in defense of Erie, Pennsylvania in the War of 1812, with rumors of less than 10 existing today. 44” smoothbore .69 caliber barrel with two iron barrel bands and a double strap nosepiece with breech marked with “CP” and “P” with “(Liberty Cap)” proof. Original flintlock marked with “M. BAKER” and “CP” at rear. Walnut full military stock with iron furniture and “BB” initials scratched in left side of the comb. Comes with original steel ramrod. PROVENANCE: Rich Guckes Collection. CONDITION: Overall good with metal having a dark corroded appearance with some pitting in touchole area. Flintlock appears to be original with a dark plum appearance. Wood has dark age patina with slivers missing along forestock and repaired piece between tang and lock. Large chip out of buttstock on the right. Dark bore with good mechanics. DLM 4,000 - 6,000

1143 - (A) US MODEL 1795 FLINLTOCK MUSKET BY HARPERS FERRY DATED 1810. This Type II musket was made at Harper’s Ferry in 1810. The full length round smoothbore barrel is retained by two iron barrel bands, double strap iron nosepiece, and features a brass sight. Barrel marked with “US” sunken oval cartouche, “P / (Eagle)” sunken cartouche, and numbers 19812 and CP1260. Lockplate marked with Eagle and “US” in Shield in front of cock, and “HARPERS / FERRY / 1810” at tail. Walnut stock with type II iron furniture and stamped “CP1260” on stock behind sideplate. Complete with an original iron ramrod. CONDITION: All metal components retain a dark untouched and as patina. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. All markings are good to very good. Stock shows scattered marks from use and some chipping around lock as well as a period repair between top of lock and barrel tang. A very scarce “as found” 1795 Harper’s Ferry. DMG 2,000 - 3,000

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1144 - (A) U.S. MODEL 1803 FLINTLOCK RIFLE BY HARPERS FERRY DATED 1819. Caliber/Bore: .69 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 36” The two-stage rifled barrel with sights mounted at top. Breech stamped with “US” cartouche as well as an eagle’s head over “P”. Flat lockplate stamped in the center with an eagle and tail stamped “HARPERS / FERRY / 1819”. Standard brass furniture including two-piece patchbox. Walnut half-stock with inspector cartouches on left side, behind sideplate. Complete Wirth its original brass-tipped iron ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina with some heavier patinas, rifling has been removed during the period. Lock appears to be in its original flintlock configuration. Markings good throughout, showing some wear. Stock shows a repair between top of lockplate and barrel tang. Otherwise, shows some marks from use. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina. A very nice and honest example. DMG 3,000 - 5,000

1145 - (A) WHEELER & SON TRADE GUN CIRCA 1813-1814. Caliber/Bore: .67 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 36 - 1/2” One of 16 contractors hired by the British Board of Ordnance during the War of 1812, these Wheeler and Son flintlock rifles were manufactured for trade with friendly Native Americans and were produced between 1813-1816. The three-stage barrel has a silver front spider sight. On the top flat it is marked with the Northwest Trade symbol in a circle and is marked “LONDON”. There are two Birmingham proofs on the left side of the breech. The slightly convex lockplate is engraved with double line borders and is stamped in the center with the Northwest Trade symbol. The tail is stamped “WHEELER/ & SON”. The furniture includes a brass butplate and a crudely cast brass serpent sideplate. The trigger guard is iron and the ramrod ferrules are multi-ringed. There is brass tack decoration on both sides of the buttstock and both sides of the forend. CONDITION: Barrel retains a dark heavy brown patina, with some corrosion at the breech, especially at the touch hole. Touch hole has been rebushed. Lock functions properly and mechanism is strong. Markings are very good. Lock retains much of its original finish, now turning to plum. Rearmost lock bolt is a replacement. Iron trigger guard has a heavy brown patina. Rear tang screws are replacements. Three brass tacks along the right side of the forend are absent. Complete with its original horn-tipped wooden ramrod. Muzzle shows a bend. Brass retains a pleasing mustard and dark mustard patina. The rearmost lock bolt and the screw at the back of the sideplate are replacements. Walnut stock is very good, showing some scattered minor storage marks and age cracks. An attractive and decorative trade gun. DMG 5,000 - 8,000

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1146 - (A) SCARCE 49TH REGIMENT-MARKED PATTERN 1793 BROWN BESS MUSKET. Caliber/Bore: .79 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 39” This musket is in completely “as found” condition and is untouched. During its period of extended use, it was crudely converted to the more waterproof and popular percussion system. Regimentally marked War of 1812 muskets used in North America are quite scarce. The 49th Regiment Regiment of Foot was raised in 1743. They became known as “Princess Charlotte of Whale’s Hertfordshire Regiment of Foot in 1816. The regiment was deployed to Canada in 1802 and it served under Major-General Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights in October 1812. The regiment returned home in 1815 to undertake Royal guarding duties at Weymouth. The round barrel is clearly marked “49 RT 13” on top, towards the breech. There is a bayonet lug mounted on top, towards the muzzle. Stamped on left side of breech with partially visible Tower view and proof marks, as well as “SG” for maker Samuel Galton. The standard lock is stamped “TOWER” at the tail and is stamped with a large crown over “GR” in the center. Below where the bolster now lies, is a stamped crown and broad arrow, denoting British government ownership. The hammer is a hand-made blacksmith-forged component. Standard Pattern 1793 brass furniture, including convex S-shaped sideplate. The buttplate tang is engraved “G/2” for Company G, musket number 2. The walnut stock is of classic British “Brown Bess” form with a relief-carved apron around the barrel tang. Complete with its original iron ramrod and front sling swivel, rear swivel absent. CONDITION: Completely untouched and uncleaned. Iron components retain a dark patina with some scattered pitting, heavier at breech. Regiment markings and lock markings are excellent and clear. Mechanism functions, nipple nearly worn away. Brass retains a very dark unpolished patina with some scatted marks from use. Stock retains its original surface showing staining, wear and scattered cracks. Some chipping around barrel tang, small age crack stemming from buttplate tang, losses along barrel on both sides of forend and crack from rearmost lock retaining screw. This wear is to be expected on a well-used musket from this period that has not been restored. A very historic and well-marked War of 1812 musket. DMG 2,600 - 5,000

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1147 - (A) BRITISH PATTERN 1793 BROWN BESS FLINTLOCK MUSKET. Caliber/Bore: .79 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 39 - 1/2” This Napoleonic musket features a round barrel with bayonet lug mounted on top, towards muzzle. Left side of breech stamped with Tower view and proof marks, barrel tang stamped with inspection crown. Standard Pattern 1793 lock with engraved borders, swan neck cock, and stamped British crown and “TOWER” marking, as well as British ownership stamp of a crown over a broad arrow. Standard Brass “Third Model” furniture. Stocked in plain walnut in the classic British form with relief apron around barrel tang. Complete with its original ramrod and sling swivels. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina, some light pitting towards breech. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Brass furniture shows some marks from use and retains a dark mustard patina. Stock shows some scattered minor marks from use and small age cracks. One small repair under lockplate. A very nice example. DMG 1,800 - 3,600

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1148 - (A) EIC LARGE BRASS MUSKETOON WITH SWIVEL BY NOCK DATED 1802. A superb example of the British East India Company’s “large brass musketoon with swivel” (as it was referred to in all ordnance records) produced during two periods, 1779-1781 and 1802-1803. This musketoon of the second production is 38” long, with a 22”, brass octagonalto-round barrel of 1.1 bore (at breech and for about the first 16”), which flares for the last 3” to a cannon-type muzzle. It was manufactured with an iron tang and there is a large brass loop on the underside of the barrel for the swivel axle. The top flat of the barrel bears the EIC heart cipher and “NOCK . 1802”, with maker’s touchmark between London proof marks on the left near breech. The 6 - 7/8” x 1 - 1/4”, convex-faced lock is of the “Windus’s Pattern” and bears “1802” / EIC cipher on the tail, with “NOCK” before the cock. The brass mounts are of the same form as Tower Sea Service musketoon furniture, including flat buttplate, trigger guard with bulbous front finial, flat sideplate with tail, and one tapered and collared ramrod pipe. The stock is of English walnut, with handrail form to butt and stocked to within 3” of the muzzle, with a raised apron around the iron barrel tang and raised edging around lockplate and sideplate flats ending in “teardrops to the rear of both. The ramrod appears to be original to the piece. There is a corresponding carved and raised flat on the forend around the swivel mounting hole. The iron swivel mount is a hand-forged reproduction. Commonly said by collectors to have fired buckshot charges as with small commercial blunderbusses, these large musketoons were actually on the order of swivel cannon and fired a single, solid-cast lead ball of 7 bore, although alternately fired a cartridge containing multiple rounds of pistol ball. They were used by both the land and naval forces of the East India Company, as well as taken into Crown service during arms shortage emergencies during the Napoleonic epoch. CONDITION: Overall in very good to excellent condition, with the lock in superb working order. The metal showing recent cleaning and the wood with few blemishes, outside of a few bruises and dings, the various markings on metal and wood still strong and well-defined. JLK 8,000 - 12,000

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1149 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR BELT PLATE OF THE 4TH BATTALION, ROYAL ARTILLERY. A brass, oblong plate, 76 mm H x 60 mm W, engraved with a central device of a fieldpiece with its implements, surmounted by a royal crown flanked by a “G III” and an “R” (abbreviation for “Georgius III Rex” or King George III). Below the cannon is a centered “4” flanked to stacked cannonballs over “ROYAL ARTILLERY.” An incised line borders the plate, with diagonal-notched edging. The reverse with its original hook and two mounting studs, by which a piece of mid-20th century pressboard bearing the inked provenance of the plate is loosely attached. The 4th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery was ordered to America in 1773 and composed the backbone of the artillery serving on the Atlantic Seaboard for the entirety of the Revolutionary War. It is known that sometime during the course of the war the unit adopted a belt plate or “clasp” as they were commonly called. This probably occurred after James Pattison became colonel commandant of the 4th Battalion in 1777 and arrived in New York to take command of the Royal Artillery in America with the rank of brigadier general. This pattern is known from this fine example and period artwork (notably the portrait of Captain William Congreve of the 4th Battalion, painted shortly after his return from America). It is believed that these plates were fabricated in New York City, as they bear close resemblance in both pattern and style of engraving to the plates made for various Loyalist corps raised in New York and New Jersey, some of which bear the marks of silversmiths working in that city. CONDITION: some wear to the engraving on face from cleaning and period use; otherwise very good. PROVENANCE: Ex. Collection (sequentially): Peter Bull, Neville Tacey, and Major Peter Abbott. LITERATURE: Kochan and Troiani, “Insignia of Independence” (2012), pp. 21-22. JLK 14,000 - 24,000

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1150 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA ROYAL ARTILLERY OFFICER’S BUTTON. Large or “coat” sized button for a commissioned officer, 25mm diameter; the front of gilt repousse sheet copper over a bone back, the latter pierced with four holes and affixed with original catgut loop. The face of the button bears a raised motif of cannon on garrison carriage with a stack of cannonballs, surrounded by an edge border of raised leaves. CONDITION: Very good to excellent, unexcavated. PROVENANCE: Ex. Collection of Peter Bull, Neville Tacey, and Peter Abbott, sequentially. LITERATURE: Kochan and Troiani, “Insignia of Independence” (2012), pp. 21-22. 1,000 - 2,000

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1151 - EARLY AMERICAN PAINTED MILITARY CANTEEN. An exceedingly well-made American military canteen of the Federal-early Republic period, probably made for an elite volunteer corps. Rather than being of stave or “cheesebox” construction, the rim is lathe-turned from one piece of wood, with recessed channels on each edge for the addition of iron or copper alloy bands (now missing), with circular faces or sides set into grooved recess near the outer edges of the rim’s interior. A simple mouthpiece is drilled into the top of the canteen, flanked on each side by two cast-brass loops (one missing) which secured the suspension cord (probably of hemp). The canteen has an exterior diameter of 7 -1/2” with a depth of 3 - 1/16” and is painted a uniform, medium blue (probably Prussian blue and white lead mixed). An identical example is illustrated and described on p. 43 of O’Donnell’s US Army & Militia Canteens, 1775-1910 (2008). CONDITION: Very good, except as noted above. 400 - 600

1152 - COLONIAL AMERICAN BELT AXE. Blade Length: 3 - 1/8” Overall Length: 15 - 1/8” A forged, round-poll belt axe or hatchet of mid-18th century form, the head measures 8 - 3/8” across, with a blade width of 3 - 1/2”. From top of head to base of the original haft, the length is 15 - 1/8”. The left face of the blade is stamped with two decorative 5-petaled floral devices, with a maker’s touchmark “OF” [?] within a heart-shaped cartouche. The right face of the blade bears the initials “JMV” crudely scribed into it with a cutting tool, probably by its original owner. A classic example of a combination working tool and fighting arm as found on Colonial and Revolutionary War military sites. PROVENANCE: Found on the North Shore and formerly in the collection of the late Jack Weil of Marblehead, Massachusetts. JLK 300 - 500

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1153 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR SPONTOON. Blade Length: 8 - 1/2” Overall Length: 82” A spontoon dating from the 2nd half of the 18th century of classic British form, but possibly an American copy. The three-piece head consists of a 9 - 3/8” L (clear of socket) x 2 - 3/4” W, bulbous, leaf-shaped blade, a separate crossbar, both sent into a set and slender crossbar, both set into a 3 - 1/2” iron socket or base that once had side-straps, now filed off. The spontoon head is affixed to a 68 ½ inch-long, haft that appears to be ash or hickory, stained a reddish-brown, that is possibly a later replacement. Spontoons were carried by both British and American company-grade officers in infantry regiments during the Revolutionary War era and also by officers of the US Army in the Federal era until about 1802. CONDITION: Some pitting and brown spotting throughout head. Head still unscrews. Edges show sharpening and chipping. Some damage to bottom of socket. Blade “CH” clear on one side of blade. Hickory haft appears to be its original haft and retains a dark patina, heavy carry wear towards top. JLK 1,600 - 3,200 1154 - POINTED TREE CARVER ATTRIBUTED 1764 DATED ENGRAVED POWDER HORN. The so-called “Pointed Tree Carver” was a prolific horn engraver in the mid-18th century, named for his paintbrush-shaped trees that are characteristically found on his horns, including this example. In addition, there is often a man hunting a Deer. He was one of the finest professional engravers of the period. Examples with a name in the inscription cartouche are rare. This small horn measures only 7 - 1/2” overall, across the bow. Spout features a vase turning. Curved body is engraved with a cartouche inscribed “THOMAS / CLIFFORD / ANO DOMINI / 1764”. Above there are flowers originating from the top of the cartouche. Around the base, there is a hunter with smoke coming from his rifle, as his four Dogs chase an altered Deer and a Fox. Below the inscription cartouche, there is an engraved hunting lodge with a “pointed tree” in the shape of a paintbrush. CONDITION: Retains a pleasing honey patina, shows heavy wear to engraving overall. Just below the tip there is some flaking of the top layer of horn and some deterioration to top layer on back side of horn. There are a couple areas of scattered insect damage and some losses around the butt. Plug is absent. A very nice small Pointed Tree Carver powder horn with a dated identification that warrants further research. DMG 600 - 1,200 1155 - LOT OF 3: ENGRAVED PRIMING HORN OF BENJAMIN DEAKE OF REV WAR MERIT, DATED 1804 & TWO OTHERS. According to the Dake Home website “Benjamin was living in South Kingston, Rhode Island at the time he enlisted for service in the Revolutionary War, and returned there after his service. Benjamin Sr. enlisted in the Revolutionary War in the Spring of 1775 at Littlerest, South Kingston, Rhode Island and was assigned to duty as a Private under Captain Christopher Gardner and Colonel James Vernon (Varnum), 12th Company Rhode Island Troops, for a term of one year. His lieutenant was Nathaniel Hawkins and his Ensign, William Potter. He also served as the waiter of Col. Archibald Crary after he enlisted for a second term. His name appears in War Department Records in a list of Sick and Wounded in the General Hospital Convalescent Home from Nov. 22 to December 2, 1775. Benjamin received a written discharge from Colonel Crary in Morristown, New Jersey, but lost this document later. Since Benjamin lost the discharge papers, his petition was never granted. His heirs attempted to get the pension approved after Benjamin died on March 1, 1837. According to papers in his claim for pension in 1832, he was one of the 2200 men who crossed the icy Delaware with General Washington on the night of December 26, 1776 and defeated the Hessians at Trenton, N.J.” The diminutive priming horn has a curved tapered body and measures only 5 - 5/8” across the bow. The faceted spout section has serrated edges at the base. The body itself is engraved with the name “BENJAMIN DEAKE / 1804” in block letters. Other depictions include a heart, a snake, a squirrel, a large tree with a bird perched in its branches, a dog, a ship, and a sea creature. The convex wooden plug has a hole in the center and is retained by wooden pegs. With two plain associated priming horns of about 7” and 7 - 1/2”, both un-engraved, very good condition. CONDITION: Pleasing honey patina overall with some wear to engraving. Minor insect nip on right side, against plug. Hairline crack to spout. Minor scuffing to plug. A very nice identified small priming horn. DMG 800 - 2,000

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1156 - CANNONBALL AND WOOD TIMBER RECOVERED FROM A U.S. WARSHIP FROM THE BATTLE OF VALCOUR ISLAND IN LAKE CHAMPLAIN. Very nice display of a piece of wood timber and a cannonball which is noted to have been recovered from a US Colonial Warship that rests at the bottom of Lake Champlain in the 1960s. The timber and cannonball are mounted by metal wire which secure the relics to the back of the case. Accompanying the relics are 2 letters, which are framed in plastic and are secured to the upper left corner by hinges. The letters certify that both the timber and the cannonball were recovered from the bottom of Lake Champlain on August 4, 1965. Both letters are signed by Carroll Lonergan who operated “Lonergan’s Antiques”, an antique store in Ticonderoga, New York. A third letter, which is written on a sheet of notebook paper reveals the story of the Lonergan duo, a father and son who would recover cannonballs and other relics from the lake and how they would sell these pieces to the public. This letter states “He [Craig Lonergan] said he was about 21 when his dad [Carroll Lonergan] got the artifacts I have and that they came from ships involved in the battle of Valcour Island and from near there.” The Battle of Valcour Island, which is also known as the Battle of Valcour Bay, was a naval engagement which took place at Lake Champlain, on October 11, 1776. This early engagement is generally regarded as one of the first naval battles of the American Revolutionary War, as well as one of the first fought by the United States Navy. Resulting in an American defeat, most of the ships in the American fleet were captured or destroyed by British forces. CONDITION: Relic. The case presents well, and these relics would compliment an early military exhibit or naval themed display. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. JLD 1,000 - 2,000

1157 - LOT OF 3: LANCASTER SCREW TIP POWDER HORN, YORK POWDER HORN WITH BOTTLE TIP, AND PRIMING HORN. Comprising: (A) Lancaster County screw-tip powder horn measuring about 11” overall across the bow. Classic removable screw-tip spout. Classic wooden Lancaster plug with roped design. CONDITION: A couple of hairline age cracks along bottom of screw-tip. Horn retains a pleasing as found and untouched surface. Iron staple absent from plug, plug retains its original finish and shows some crazing, some losses to finish due to carry wear. A very nice Lancaster horn. (B) Fine bottle-nose York County priming horn measuring 7 - 3/4” overall. Tapered horn body with double lines engraved above plug. Horn bottle-nose tip with engraved lines. Convex wooden plug of classic York design and an iron staple in the center. CONDITION: Very good, showing very little use and only some areas of raised grain. (C) Small priming horn of about 5 - 7/8” overall. Tapered horn body with conical spout section and convex wooden plug. CONDITION: Very good with one minor insect bite. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 600 - 1,200

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1158 - FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR ENGRAVED POWDER HORN OF JOHN DEEN, HALF MOON 1758. This powder horn was drawn by renowned Lititz, Pennsylvania artist Rufus Grider on November 3, 1887. A color copy and a black and white copy of the drawing are included. The horn measures about 12” across the bow and the tapered main body depicts two men fencing, three glass containers on a table within a tavern, a man tying a horse onto a tavern sign depicting a half-moon, and a fortification. The horn is inscribed “March The -- de of NorWalk / John Dean His Horn 1758”. There is also an urn with protruding branches as well as a flag, two birds, and a fish. The name “david” was also added to the horn by a different hand during its period of use. The opening of the spout is scalloped and the spout itself is faceted, followed by a relief ring and another faceted section. The wooden plug is convex and has an iron staple in the center for strap attachment. Plug is retained by a series of wooden pins. John Deen has an extensive service record. He enlisted in 1755 in the 8th Company of Captain Thomas Hobby in the 4th Regiment of Colonel Elihu Chauncey. In the Campaign of 1756, he was in the 8th Company of Captain John Jeffry in the 3rd Regiment. In 1757, he was in the 6th Company of Captain David Waterbury in Colonel Phineas Lyman’s Regiment. Then in 1758, he is listed in the 8th Company of Captain Isaac Isaacs in the 4th Regiment of David Wooster. Finally, in 1762 he is listed in the Eighth Company of Capt. Samuel Elmore in the 2nd Regiment of Col. Nathan Whiting. An interesting statement by Rufus Grider on his roll out drawing of this powder horn says, “The HALF MOON TAVERN shown on this horn was a noted place in Colonial days, it was situated on the Hudson, N. of Troy, in Saratoga Co., N.Y. and was named after Henry Hudson’s ship in which he first sailed up the Hudson River, the HALF MOON.” Located where present-day Waterford in Saratoga County above Albany, where the portage to the Mohawk River began, a stockaded fort was started before 1692, and a palisaded stone redoubt was recommended in 1698. In 1703, the fort was rebuilt again for the French and Indian War, it was reconstructed. PROVENANCE: Illustrated by Rufus Grider, November 3rd, 1887; ex. Wayne McNeese, Tom Grinslade Collection. CONDITION: Horn is very good to fine overall, good surface and dark patina. Some carry wear to portions of engraving and three very small plugged holes on spout section. A pleasing and historically significant French and Indian War powder horn. 10,000 - 20,000

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1159 - BOX WITH 9 PIECES FROM FORT TICONDEROGA AND FORT TICONDEROGA BARRICKS BEAM PIECE. Comprising: (A) Wood-framed shadow box under glass measuring 6” x 8” x 1 - 3/8”. Mounted on red burlap are 9 relic objects including, two partial spoons, a large iron key, a small sleeve button, a coat button, two coins and two rose head nails. The back is inscribed in pencil “Relics of Fort Carillon during French & Indian War 1759. 1. Barracks Key, 2. British half-penny 1727-1759 3. 2 wrought iron nails off of barracks door 4. 2 rat tail spoons of pewter. 5. 2 buttons. 6. Spanish silver coin-Mex. Guat. Lina. 2 Reals 1750 +/- 20. (B) Large board fragment stamped on one end “FORT / TICONDEROGA / BARRACKS”. The piece measures 6- 7 /8” by 4 - 3/4” by 2 - 1/4”. Mounted with an iron ring and staple. PROVENANCE: Tom Grinslade Collection. DMG 200 - 400

1160 - LOT OF 2: LANCASTER SCREW-TIP POWDER HORNS. Comprising: (A) Lancaster screw-tip powder horn of about 11 - 3/4” overall across the bow. The tapered body appears to have had some paint decoration at one time, as the staining remains. Classic Lancaster screw-off tip. Wooden plug with roped Lancaster County design and a screw in the center. CONDITION: Very dry surface on horn, shows some staining and a couple small insect holes filled. Wooden plug has some additional small nail holes and some chipping around perimeter. (B) Brass-banded Lancaster County screw-tip powder horn of about 13” overall across the bow. Curved tapered horn body with brass bands below tip and above plug. The screw-tip spout is a modern replacement. Classic wooden Lancaster-turned plug. CONDITION: Horn shows some scattered marks from use and has a pleasing patina. Brass bands retained by brass nails show nice mellow patina. Plug shows some chipping to edges and other scattered marks. DMG 300 - 600

1161 - LOT OF 2: INSCRIBED IDENTIFIED GLASS BUTT PRIMING POWDER HORNS. Comprising: (A) Measures about 7” across the bow with a conical relief spout section. Recessed butt with glass over inscribed paper which reads “Warren / P Osgood’s horn / Louden / January th2 / 1860”. CONDITION: Horn has some black paint on one side, concealing repairs and another small repair along bottom edge. Glass has several cracks and surrounding bezel has been secured with grey composite. (B) Translucent priming horn measuring about 7” across the bow. Conical spout section. Glass covers the paper inscribed “Neil Osgood his hirn made in ye 1795”. CONDITION: Horn very good. Plug has been re-secured using a grey composite material, glass has a crack across center. Two interesting and related identified powder horns. DMG 600 - 1,200

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1162 - LOT OF 4: POWDER HORNS, TWO SCREW-TIPS. Comprising: (A) Screw-tip Franklin County powder horn measuring about 8 - 1/2” across the bow. Flat wooden plug with concentric circles in center. Threaded horn tip. Horn body is engraved with three lines towards plug. CONDITION: Some threading broken so tip is not secure. Some cracking and chipping on horn around plug. Plug shows some marks from use and minor chipping around edges. Horn retains a dark patina with some marks and carry wear. (B) Dauphin County screw-tip powder horn of about 10 - 1/2” overall across the bow. Ornate threaded tip with vase and ring turnings. Iron staple towards tip and in center of convex wooden plug. CONDITION: Some insect damage to right side. Some minor chipping around plug. (C) Translucent Lancaster powder horn of about 8 - 1/4” overall across the bow. Wooden classic Lancaster plug. CONDITION: Very good showing only minor marks from use. (D) Brass mounted horn powder flask of about 7 - 1/2”. Brass plug cap and charger. CONDITION: Good with dark patinas overall. A nice group of powder horns. DMG 400 - 800

1163 - LARGE PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN ENGRAVED FOLK ART POWDER HORN. This attractive horn measures about 14” overall across the bow. The curved tapered body terminates at the top in a relief-carved conical spout. The horn itself is profusely engraved with pinwheel “hex” sign style designs of various sizes. Hand-carved convex wooden plug. CONDITION: Nice untouched patinas overall, some wear to engraving and scattered marks from use. A very nice engraved horn. DMG 600 - 1,200

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1164 - REVOLUTIONARY WAR BRITISH ARTILLERY POWDER HORN WITH BROAD ARROW BRANDS. This powder pre-dates those marked “BO”. This Revolutionary War period example measures 13” overall across the bow, excluding the 2 - 5/8” threaded knob. The tapered horn body is marked with a branded broad arrow on both sides, towards the spout, denoting British government ownership. Iron lanyard loop mounted on top, towards spout. The conical brass charging spout is held shut with a spring. The concave wooden plug is deeply stamped with a broad arrow. Turned threaded wooden plug for replenishing the horn. CONDITION: Charging spout is original and functional, retains a pleasing dark mustard patina. Horn body retains a dark amber honey patina. Some scattered minor flaking to surface. Markings excellent. Plug excellent retaining a very old finish. A very well-marked British military powder horn. DMG 900 - 1,800

1165 - LOT OF 2: ATTRACTIVE ENGRAVED POWDER HORNS. Comprising: (A) Engraved powder horn dated 1794 with a long faceted spout section. The horn measures about 14-1/2” across the bow. The engraved portion has a scalloped edge at the top. The horn is engraved with “wampum” style semi-circles and circles in rows and patterns. Convex wooden plug. CONDITION Retains a pleasing light honey patina. Flange at base is absent, some chipping to ring at spout. Horn has a 1” crack stemming from plug on back. Wooden plug shows one large splinter missing and smoothed from wear. (B) Unique engraved powder horn with large recessed panel and foliate vine engraving, along with a folky horse. Plug contoured to horn’s unique shape of a Snake’s mouth at the base of the horn. The horn measures about 14” overall across the bow and has excellent form with its curved tapered body and multi-sectioned spout. CONDITION: Ring at spout pierced through with two holes on each side. One minor area of insect damage on back. Some scattered marks from use. A pleasing architectural horn with fantastic honey patina. DMG 800 - 1,400

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1166 - FINE AND LARGE ENGRAVED FRENCH & INDIAN WAR NEW YORK MAP POWDER HORN. This horn has particularly attractive form and architecture. The curved tapered body measures about 18” overall. The spout section is vase-shaped and carved with relief rings and incised lines above a thick gadrooned relief ring. The engraved portion of the body begins with a rounded relief-carved ring. The front of the horn is engraved with a massive British crest in great detail and surrounded by some folky floral designs. Below are two large cannon facing away from one another. There are several engraved flags and polearms below this. Around the bottom is a detailed unmarked cityscape of New York, showing the important landmarks, buildings, one inscribed above with date “1671”, perhaps when that building was erected. The back of the horn is engraved with a windmill, stemmed flowers, four folky trees, and the initials “W+W” done in another hand. Original flat wooden plug retained by wood pins, large hand-forged iron staple in center. CONDITION: Very good, retains a very pleasing honey patina. One period chip missing on center spout ring and now smooth from use. Some chipping to rounded ring above carved portion of horn. Some scattered scuffs and marks from use. Some natural raised grain from horn. A very attractive engraved French and Indian War American-made powder horn with beautiful patina. DMG 9,000 - 18,000

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1167 - ENGRAVED FORT EDWARD POWDER HORN SIGNED BY ROGER’S RANGER’S SGT. WILLIAM AKIN, MADE FOR JAMES LEKEY, DATED 1757. This French & Indian War dated horn is inscribed: “the 3 Day 1757” “FORT EDWARD APRIL” “JAMES LEKEY HIS HORN” “William Akin’s Writing”. Crudely engraved images include four animals including a Deer, Fish, a winged Griffin, and a large, long-necked Stag. There is also a colonist present, along with a four bastion fort, which is presumed to be Fort Edward, where the Roger’s Rangers were stationed at that time. William Akin is listed as an acting Sergeant who enlisted in 1755, according to “The History of Roger’s Rangers, Volume I” by Burt Garfield-Loescher. Other abstract, simplistic shapes were also engraved. There are no borders evident on either end. The pine butt plug, which is attached with iron pins, is very slightly domed and has a crude wire staple. This staple also penetrates the edge of the horn in two places. Below the spout is a carved ring. This horn measures 13 - 1/2” overall. CONDITION: Horn retains a dark brown and amber patina and is completely untouched. There is a 1 - 1/2 “ linear indentation, which starts below the letter “k” in “Akin’s”. There is 4 - 1/2” crack, which terminates at the butt plug in a “V” shaped 1/2” break, with a small chip absent. PROVENANCE: Ex. Walter O’Connor Collection. DMG 10,000 - 20,000 96

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1168 - (A) FINE RELIEF CARVED FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE ATTRIBUTED TO LEONARD REEDY. Caliber/Bore: .45 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 40” This near workbench condition rifle is featured as plate no. 50 on page 58 of “The Kentucky Rifle and Me” by Edith Cooper. The rifle features an unsigned full octagon barrel, with a dovetailed brass blade front sight and a notched iron rear sight. The hand-forged American lock has a molding at the tail and a flat plate. This lock was probably made by Reedy himself. The brass furniture includes a classic Reedy four-piece patchbox with finely engraved scrolls around the edges and on the top of the lid. The edges on all of the brass furniture are very sharp and show almost no use. The fine figured tiger maple stock is of classic Berks County form, with a Roman nose buttstock. There are relief carved panels around the lock and sideplate, terminating in with beavertails at the backs. There are also relief carved scrolls on both sides of the wrist, but much more extensive on the left side. There is an unengraved silver oval escutcheon inlaid on the top of the wrist. Around the barrel tang is Leonard Reedy’s classic carving, with scrolls surrounding an oval panel of punch dot checkering. There is a relief carved design below the molded cheekpiece. Behind the cheekpiece is a splendid display of the artwork that master Leonard Reedy was capable of. The relief carved “C” scrolls are masterfully carved with great detail and incised designs as well. There are also incised scrolls on both sides of the fore-stock, surrounding the ramrod entry ferrule. A relief molding continues on both sides of the forend, towards the muzzle. CONDITION: Barrel has sharp edges and retains much of the original brown surface below freckles of patination. Lock retains much of its original polish, with some scattered heavier patina. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration. Mechanism is very strong and functions properly. Brass furniture shows no wear or marks from use, and has a pleasing mustard patina. Stock is excellent, with no damage or restoration. There is a small age crack stemming from the center of the buttplate on the left side that extends somewhat into the carving. There is some areas around the lock with losses to finish due to black powder use. Stock retains its original finish and shows only a couple light storage marks. Rear sight is a contemporary replacement. Complete with its original striped wooden ramrod. Ramrod has a missing large splinter at the tip towards the muzzle. The carving and edges on this rifle are unbelievably crisp and well preserved. This rifle is in nearly the condition it was when it was made. A fine Golden Age relief carved Kentucky rifle featured in the book of a well-known collection. DMG 40,000 - 80,000

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1169 - (A)GOLDEN AGE RELIEF-CARVED FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE SIGNED J. ROOP. Caliber/Bore: .64 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 53 - 1/4” Early Jacob Roop Kentucky rifle, probably made in Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania circa 1810. The 53 - 1/4” half-round, half-octagon .64 caliber smoothbore barrel is signed “J.ROOP” in script. Features rifle sights. The H&H marked flintlock is controlled by a single sculpted trigger. Full curly maple stock with brass hardware including an engraved four-piece patchbox with floral finial similar to others used in that area, for instance, later Reedy rifles and also has unique dagger type inlay on cheek. Stock is beautifully carved with raised floral design behind cheek, beavertails behind locks, and floral design on each side of the wrist, with the typical Dauphin squiggle-style forestock carving rumored to symbolize the Susquehanna River. Roop further embellished this rifle with ten engraved silver inlays. A very nice early rifle by a well-known maker. CONDITION: Good, with no major visible repairs other than trigger guard having what looks to be a hole repaired with brass on front tang and two of the silver key-head/inlays on forestock appear to be replacements. Dark pitted bore with functioning mechanics. A very attractive Golden Age rifle. DLM 15,000 - 25,000

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1170 - (A) RELIEF CARVED GOLDEN AGE KENTUCKY RIFLE ATTRIBUTED TO FREDERICK SELL. Caliber/Bore: .50 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 42 - 1/2” Frederick Sell worked in York, Pennsylvania and is one of the premier and most desirable Kentucky rifle makers. This example features an octagonal barrel with a brass front sight and notched rear sight. The hand-engraved lockplate was engraved by Sell and designs correspond to those engraved on patchbox. It is in its original percussion configuration and is unmarked. Iron trigger has a rearward curl. The brass furniture includes a pierced and engraved four-piece patchbox and an engraved sideplate. Brass buttplate with inlaid extension at tang. The relief carved tiger maple stock is fastened to barrel with brass keys. The wrist is sleeved with relief carving on both sides. Left side of buttstock extensively carved with classic and unmistakeable Frederick Sell designs. Relief scroll carving on top, around barrel tang, and relief panels around lock and sideplate. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina with some corrosion at breech and around percussion bolster. Lock retains a brown patina and is functional. Brass retains a pleasing patina. Stock retains most of its period heavy coat of red-tinted finish. Some thin slivers replaced along both sides of fore-end, along barrel. A piece has been replaced above front of lockplate as well as the section between the top of the lock and barrel tang. Two small ovoid-shaped pieces replaced on right side of wrist. Stock shows some thinning and wear to finish, scattered marks from use. Ramrod is a modern replacement. A very nice relief carved Golden Age Kentucky rifle by one of the finest makers. DMG 20,000 - 50,000

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1171 - (A) SIGNED JACOB KUNZ RELIEF CARVED KENTUCKY RIFLE. Caliber/Bore: .58 Rifled Barrel Length: 44” The 44” full octagon barrel is inscribed “Jacob Kuntz”. The brass patch box features a Fleur-de-Lis finial and finely engraved including a Lehigh County “face” within the engraving. There are heavy brass wire inlay decorations above and below the patchbox lid. The rifle has four silver inlays and the typical arrow back side plate is heavy beveled brass. The relief carving on the cheek side of the butt is exceptional and the cheekpiece features a large finely engraved eight-pointed star inlay within an engraved oval silver ring. The rifle shows worn incised carving at the rear ramrod ferrule and extremely nice Fleur-de-Lis relief carving at the barrel tang. Jacob Kuntz was born in Lehigh Township in 1780. Jacob Kuntz is a very important maker who worked in Allentown, PA. He moved to Philadelphia in 1810, and in 1812 married Barbara Neihart, niece of the famous Allentown gunsmith Peter Neihart. In 1833 the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia awarded Jacob Kuntz a silver medal for his skill and ingenuity. Jacob died at the age of 95 years after becoming Philadelphia’s most sought-after gunsmith by wealthy customers in England, Scotland, and America. There are very few relief-carved Lehigh County rifles. One unusually fine example is the iconic unsigned rifle attributed to Jacob Kuntz that was used on the logo for the Kentucky Rifle Association’s 50th Anniversary in 2012 and is included in their Presidents display CD of Lehigh County rifles. This rifle has the same features and relief carving, but is signed. This very important rifle provides important evidence of the relief-carving style used on early Kuntz rifles. Jacob Kuntz rifles have been on display in the Arms and Armor exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for over a decade. CONDITION: The Kuntz signature is worn but legible. There is about 3” of brass wire inlay missing under the patch box door at the buttplate. There is a short insignificant break in the underside of the stock between the lock and trigger guard. Each of these rifles, this one, which is signed, and its unsigned twin, have had their fore ends painstakingly and professionally restored (front 35 - 1/2”) and their locks replaced. Ramrod is a modern replacement. The unsigned rifle traded hands on various occasions over the years finally selling at a James D. Julia Firearms Auction where it realized $ 55,000. These are the only two relief carved Jacob Kuntz rifles known to date with this high-quality relief carving. DMG 15,000 - 45,000

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1172 - (A) UNTOUCHED KENTUCKY RIFLE ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS BEYER. Caliber/Bore: .56 Rifled Barrel Length: 43” This Nicholas Beyer rifle was made circa 1815-1820 and has a very nice brass wrist repair dating to its period of use. Nicholas Beyer (1780-1850) was a prolific Kentucky rifle maker who worked in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. The rifle has an octagonal barrel with a brass front sight and notched rear sight. The hand-forged lock features a flat plate and a roller-frizzen. Unengraved classic Beyer furniture. There is a sheet brass wrist repair with dark patina and retained by handmade bronze screws. The tiger maple stock is of classic Lebanon form with Beyer’s signature relief-carved design around the barrel tang. There is also a relief c-scroll and incised scrolls in front of the cheekpiece. There are shaped relief-carved panels around the lock and sideplate. Moldings on each side of the forend terminate in incised scrolls on both sides of the forearm. CONDITION: Very good as found and untouched condition. Barrel retains much of its original brown finish with scattered heavier patina. Lock retains a dark patina and is in its original flintlock configuration, functions well. Brass retains a pleasing patina. A small 3/4” piece at the back of the toeplate is absent. Stock retains its original finish and shows some wear and scattered marks from use. Complete with its period ramrod. This is a very attractive untouched and relief-carved Kentucky rifle by a desirable maker. DMG 3,000 - 6,000

1173 - (A) IRON MOUNTED SOUTHERN FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE. Caliber/Bore: .45 Rifled Barrel Length: 46 - 1/2” Perfect example of a Tennessee iron-mounted Kentucky rifle with similarities to makers such as Elisha Bull, Bean Family, and Lawing made circa 1830. 46 -1/2” octagon swamped .45 caliber rifled barrel with rifle sights and silver inlay having no writing on it and a patent breech. Percussion lock marked “WARRANTED” controlled by double set trigger. Full walnut stock with sculpted patchbox area and forestock and cheekpiece. Stock is mounted with all iron furniture with screws engraved and unique iron inlays near comb. Comes with hardwood ramrod. CONDITION: Rifle has been heavily cleaned with some minor wood replaced around tang and lock. Rifle retains a beautiful used but not abused look. Dark shootable bore with good mechanics. DLM 2,000 - 3,000

1174 - (A) IN THE BLACK EARLY CARVED SMOOTH RIFLE KENTUCKY. Caliber/Bore: .60 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 37 - 3/8” Pre-Revolutionary War style Kentucky smooth rifle likely made in eastern Pennsylvania. The 37 - 3/8” octagon-to-round smoothbore barrel features rifle sights. Rifle has been shortened and converted from flintlock to percussion during its period of use. Walnut stock with iron hardware, original wooden sliding lid patchbox, and folksy floral and scroll carved in relief around the cheekpiece. Ramrod is absent. CONDITION: As is straight out of the attic in as-found condition. DLM 2,000 - 4,000

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1175 - (A) NEW ENGLAND FLINTLOCK TARGET RIFLE BY PAYSON AND NURSE. Caliber/Bore: .56 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 48” The thick-walled barrel is round and has sights mounted on top, adjustable rear sight. Below the barrel is a wooden rib with the brass ramrod ferrules mounted on it. The high-quality flat lockplate is engraved and marked in the center “PAYSON / & NURSE”. Lock features a roller-frizzen and waterproof pan. Brass mounts include trigger guard, two-piece patchbox with pineapple finial, ramrod ferrules, and lock retaining screw escutcheons. Cherry half-stock with carved cheekpiece on right side. Complete with its original brass-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Very good, barrel retains an even brown patina. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and mechanism is strong. Markings excellent. Lock shows one area below pan with light pitting, otherwise very good with its original polish. Brass retains a light mustard surface, some minor denting to patchbox lid. Stock very good with some scattered marks from use and signs of age. A very attractive New England Rifle. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

1176 - (A) FINE SILVER WIRE INLAID NEW ENGLAND RIFLE SIGNED MASON, HORSE HEAD PATCHBOX. Caliber/Bore: .60 Rifled Barrel Length: 45 - 1/4” For another signed example, previously in the Norm Flayderman Collection, see no. 12 on pages 120-121 of “The New England Gun” by Merrill Lindsay. The tapered round barrel has flats on sides and top. Silver front blade sight and notched rifle rear sight. Top flat inscribed “Mason”. Rifle features a hooked breech and double-set triggers. The converted lock shows traces of inscribed “Ketland & Co.” markings. Brass furniture including a four-piece patchbox with engraved horse head finial. The cherry stock is profusely inlaid with silver wire around barrel tang, ramrod entry ferrule, around comb and wrist escutcheon, and on both sides of cheekpiece. Engraved silver-inlaid diamond above cheekpiece. Convex silver oval-shaped wrist escutcheon. CONDITION: Barrel retains a grey patina, signature excellent. Lock retains a brown patina and functions properly. Brass furniture retains a pleasing mustard patina. Only one small piece of silver wire absent on right side of comb, about 1”. Stock shows scattered marks from use and an 8” crack stemming from front lock bolt to barrel. Also a splitter absent towards muzzle on left side. A very attractive signed New England rifle. DMG 2,500 - 5,000

1177 - (A) AMERICAN PERCUSSION DUELLING PISTOL SIGNED LEMAN. Caliber/Bore: .52 Rifled Barrel Length: 9 - 1/2” This is an extremely rare American dueling pistol made by well-known and prolific gunmaker Henry E. Lehman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the only one ever encountered by this writer. Probably one of an original pair for presentation or special order, the pistol consists of a rifled octagonal barrel featuring a patent hooked breech, a German silver front sight, and a notched iron rear sight. Top barrel flat stamped “H.E. LEMAN” in an arch and “LANCASTER PA”. The scroll engraved lockplate features a sliding half-cock safety and a flash guard. Lock is stamped “H.E. LEMAN LANCASTER PA”. Breech, barrel tang, iron trigger guard, lockplate, and hammer are all engraved with foliate scrolls in the English style. The pistol features a trigger and engraved iron target-style trigger guard with a pineapple finial. German silver hardware includes barrel key escutcheons, nose cap, and wrist escutcheon. Iron ramrod ferrules. Attractive partially figured walnut half stock with shaped checkered panels on both sides of grip. Complete with a period, original wooden ramrod. Percussion Pistols manufactured by Leman are rare and this example is likely unique in form. CONDITION: Barrel retains a mostly bright surface with scattered light brown spotting. Markings are excellent and rifling shows little wear. Action functions well and retains a grey patina, markings excellent. Iron furniture retains a grey patina and German silver retains a yellowed patina. Stock shows wear to checkering, scattered marks from use, a small sliver along barrel on left side, hairline crack from front of triggerguard finial to rear ramrod pipe and a piece missing above the front of lock tang (easily repaired by a competent gunsmith). A very rare and fine, signed American percussion pistol. DMG 2,500 - 5,000 102

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1178 - (A) FRENCH MODEL 1777 MAUBEUGE FLINTLOCK PISTOL. The tapering, rounded barrel of 7 - 7/16” length and .72 bore, with a proofmark “P” and “82” stamped on the left side near the breech, the latter indicating a 1782 date of manufacture. Cast-brass lock with attached trigger guard assembly, bearing an engraved “Mabeuge” in an inward arc below the steel, reinforced cock, and an inspection mark behind the pan. There is a similar inspection mark on the outside of the trigger guard and the walnut stock has a “7 B” incised on the right grip. Maubeuge being one of three royal manufactories of firearms during the Revolutionary War period. The Model 1777 pistol was designed for dual-use, both by French cavalry and also as a naval boarding pistol and its advanced design was the inspiration for the US’s first martial pistol, the North & Cheney—a near direct copy. CONDITION: The iron parts all bright finished, with a few scattered blemishes or specks of pitting, the lock in very good working order. The brass mountings with mellow toning and a few light dings, the wood with a few small bruises. The pistol has all original parts, with the exception of the belt hook, which is probably a later replacement. JLK 2,400 - 3,400

1179 - (A) SPANISH FLINTLOCK MODEL 1753 CAVALRY PISTOL. A rare example in original flint of the Spanish regulation pistol that saw extensive service on both land and sea in the Seven Years’ War and American and French Revolutionary Wars. Overall length is 19 inches, with a pin-fastened, octagonal-to-round, tapering barrel of 11 - 3/4” and .69 caliber. (.75 bore). The flat, unbridled lock is 5 - 1/2 x 1”, with beveled edges to the plate and a tail with contoured point. Its gooseneck cock has long, flattened upper and lower jaws and a ringed screw carried over from those found on traditional Spanish miquelet locks. The tail of the lock bears the touchmark of its maker, “ZAGVI” in an oblong cartouche, while a crowned inspection mark is found under the pan. There are similar touchmarks struck into the stock on both sides near the barrel tang. The thumbpiece is in the form of a crown-topped shield and bears a script “R” engraved upon it, indicating “Real” or royal ownership. It and the other mounts are brass, including a butt-cap with long ribs or ears, a sideplate with alternating or zig-zag curves, a trigger guard and two ramrod pipes. Used heavily by the Spanish dragoons and presidial light cavalry in the Americas, the M1753 was also used as a boarding pistol and not only by the Spanish. The remains of these pistols were found on the wreck of the HMS De Braak, which sunk off the Delaware Coast in 1798. CONDITION: Both wood and metal show long and hard service, yet are surprisingly intact and complete with all original parts. The lock mechanism is soft, but holds both half and full cock. The metal has uniform light pitting and has been recently cleaned, while the wood has heavy bruising and dings, with some minor edge loss around the lock and barrel. JLK 3,000 - 5,000

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The Decatur Family Collection Lots 1180 through 1190

The Decatur name needs no introduction among historians and has earned a special place in American naval history. The lineage traces back to the birth of the United States. Much like the county, the Decatur legacy starts in the American Revolution, with Stephen Decatur Sr. (1751-1808,) a Commodore in the United States Navy known for his early naval successes as a privateer in the Revolution at the helm of the Royal Louis and Fair American, and later on the USS Delaware, USS Retaliation, and USS United States as a U.S. Navy officer in the Quasi-War with France. The elder Decatur passed on his abilities in naval warfare to his sons and most of all to Stephen Decatur Jr. (1779-1820,) the most famous member of the family, who was introduced to the world of ships and sailing at an early age, joining the U.S. Navy at the age of 19, and quickly cementing his legacy. Standing out amongst his peers, he was promoted by the age of 25 and had already supervised the construction of several US vessels, as well as holding several commands. As the youngest man to reach the rank of Captain in US Navy history, Decatur valiantly served under three presidents, and was a crucial figure in the early development of the U.S. Navy. He first gained fame in daring boarding actions involving personal combat in Barbary Wars of 1801-1805, destroying the captured U.S. frigate Philadelphia under enemy guns, and later personally avenging his brother James, treacherously slain in gunboat action in Tripoli harbor. To this he added victory over the H.M.S. Macedonian in the War of 1812 showing himself equally adept in classic large-ship action between frigates. His service is defined by acts of heroism and bravery intertwined with American history, excelling even the contributions of talented contemporaries like Bainbridge, Hull, and Perry. The younger Decatur’s abilities as a naval officer were shared by brothers James and John and have been passed down through his family, with members of every generation serving the country in the United States Navy. We are proud to offer items relating not only to Stephen Decatur, Sr., and Stephen Decatur, Jr., but to James, killed in the Barbary Wars, and to John Pine Decatur, along with nephew and namesake Stephen Decatur (1814-1876,) who entered the U.S. Navy in 1829 as a midshipman and retired as a commodore in 1869. The early U.S. Navy connections of the Decatur family also entwined with contemporary members of the Storer family, who became related by marriage to John Pine Decatur’s grandson, also named Stephen Decatur. We can thus also offer as part of the archive, material relating to George Washington Storer (1789-1864), who entered the navy as a midshipman in 1809, served on the Congress, Constitution, and Constellation among other ships, and retired as a rear admiral in 1862, and his son, Robert Blunt Storer, who joined the navy in 1841 and died at sea in 1847. This is a remarkable opportunity to acquire material from an illustrious American family connected with events that truly shaped the country and ensured its survival.

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1180 - PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN DECATUR FROM FAMILY OF USN COMMODORES OLIVER HAZARD AND MATTHEW C. PERRY This portrait of Stephen Decatur was likely made as gift by Stephen Decatur’s wife or on commission by members of the Oliver Hazard and Matthew Calbraith Perry family while the original version of the 1806 portrait by Gilbert Stuart was still in her hands. Artist attribution has varied, with scholars suggesting Stuart himself, Trumbull, and Peale, among others. It must in any case date prior to 1847 when Decatur’s widow had the uniform of the 1806 portrait altered to include his Society of the Cincinnati Medal in preparation for donating it to the City of Philadelphia, where it now resides at Independence Hall. This portrait is consequently a valuable record of the first state of that painting. Formerly in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this painting descended in the Perry family until its sale in 1919 by Lucretia Thatcher Perry Osborn (1858-1930) through dealer Jonce McGurk to Charles Allen Munn, and thence by bequest to the Met in 1924. Mrs. Osborn was the great grandniece of both Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1818) and Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858.) In a May 22, 1919, letter retained by the Met she stated the original owner was Matthew Calbraith Perry, but we cannot rule out that it may have passed to him from his older brother. Decatur was friends with both, having commanded Matthew Calbraith Perry for a time and supported Oliver Hazard Perry in his quarrel with Captain Jesse D. Elliott over the latter’s performance in the Battle of Lake of Erie, support that in part cost Decatur his life as Elliott then egged on Captain James Barron to make his fatal challenge to Decatur in 1820. Donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1924 the portrait resided there for 90 years, was subsequently deaccessioned, and purchased by the consignor. This handsome portrait is not only a significant token of esteem between two prominent American naval families, but a valuable record of the original state of Stuart’s 1806 portrait. CONDITION: Relined. Heavy craquelure with inpainting, several tears to canvas. This impressive rendition of the prominent Commodore would compliment any art gallery or naval exhibit. Provenance: Lucretia Perry (Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn), New York; [With] Jonce McGurk, Baltimore, MD, circa 1919; Charles Allen Munn, West Orange, NJ, circa 1919-1924; Bequest of the above to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1924. Literature: Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin; Harry B. Wehle, Metropolitan Museum Bulletin, 1925, xx, p. 22, suggesting John Trumbull or Rembrandt Peale. Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart, New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926, I, pp. 273f, no. 229. Bryson Burroughs. See also The Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931, p. 144; Albert TenEyck Gardner and Stuart Feld, American Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I, Painters born by 1915, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1965, p. 99, illus.; William H. Truettner, Connoisseur 171 (August 1969), pp. 271-272, making clear this version must date prior to 1847 and was done while still in Mrs. Decatur’s hands. John Caldwell and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pp. 197-198, illus. p. 198. 40,000 - 60,000

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1181 - EXTREMELY RARE 17-STAR, 17-STRIPE U.S. FLAG FROM THE FAMILY OF STEPHEN DECATUR. This flag has an impeccable provenance, descending in the family of Stephen Decatur, whose trove of historic artifacts was divided among three branches of the family. The trove contained in total, “twenty some flags” according to entries in the Zaricor collection, which obtained seventeen flags that had passed to the Armsden branch of descendants: “Dating from the early 18th century, the flags were acquired from the male naval officers of the family by the women of the families, the wives and daughters, who then carefully preserved and conserved them, an act for which posterity is forever indebted.” This extremely rare 17-star and 17-stripe flag was part of the trove allotted to a different branch of the family, on whose behalf we are proud to offer it. Only one other flag of 17 stars and 17 stripes is known to exist that was actually made in the period of the admission of the seventeenth state in 1804. That flag, too, is connected with early U.S. naval forces, having been taken as a trophy from the U.S. privateer “Blockade” by the commander of H.M.S. Charybdis in October 1813. Ironically, it is part of the Zaricor collection, in which the majority of the other Decatur family flags resides. This example has descended from the family of iconic U.S. Navy hero Stephen Decatur, Jr., along with a large amount of other Decatur material Morphy Auctions has been honored to offer to the public in several sales. The flag is handsewn throughout and measures 69 by 88 inches with a narrow sleeve on the hoist for a rope created by folding the fabric and securing it with a simple line of stitching. The seventeen red and white stripes vary slightly in width from 4” to 4 - 1/2”. The canton rests on the ninth, red stripe, measures 31 - 1/2” x 45”, and is constructed of three horizontal panels of light blue silk: one upper panel measuring 21” x 45” and two lower panels each measuring 10.5 inches wide sewn end to end, the first 21 - 3/4” long and the second 23 - 1/4”. The upper panel contains 11 stars: arranged 6 – 5 and the lower panels contain 6 stars, with 3 on each panel. The stars are six-pointed, irregularly cut, varying from 4.75 to 5 inches from point to point, and are sewn flat to one side with the silk cut away on the other to create stars of approximately 4”. The use of seventeen stars was never official, but the 1777 flag act provided for 13 stars and stripes, and the 1795 act, taking into account the earlier admission of two more states, increased the stars to 15, and correspondingly increased the number of stripes to 15 as well, creating a clear logical progression, which this flag follows with the admission of a 17th state, Ohio, in 1804. It was not until 1820 that a third flag act divorced the number of stars from the number of stripes, setting the latter at 13. With the star count dating 1804 to 1812 and possible use for a time after, as the “Blockade” flag illustrates, this flag falls exactly in the active life of Stephen Decatur, Jr. While there is no written documentation on the origin of the flag, this has past generation to generation with family history connecting a memorial of Lieutenant James Decatur, brother of Stephen Decatur, Jr., who was mortally wounded in an August 3, 1804 U.S. attack on ships in Tripoli harbor by a Tripolitan captain during the boarding of a vessel feigning surrender. Upon receiving the news of his brother, Stephen immediately set out to avenge his brother’s treacherous death. Stephen Decatur was himself nearly slain, however he and his boarding party were able to gain the upper hand, vanquish the Barbarian crew, and avenge James’ death. James was taken aboard the USS Constitution and succumbed to his injuries the following day. He was later buried at sea. CONDITION: Very good. Slight burn mark and loss to the upper corner of the fly. Short 8.5-inch seam separation midway on the bottom edge of the canton. Regardless of its specific purpose, the Decatur family provenance is impeccable, adding to the desirability of a flag that is already a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the collector or institution. 30,000 - 50,000 106

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1182 - (A) STEPHEN DECATUR SENIOR’S PAIR OF SILVER MOUNTED ENGLISH PISTOLS BY WILSON. Caliber/Bore: (BOTH) .62 Smoothbore Barrel Length: (BOTH) 8 - 1/4” These pistols are accompanied by a copy of a letter concerning the descent of the pistols through the Decatur family. The pistols are referred to as the “so-called ‘silver dueling pistols’”. The writer, Stephen Decatur, states that he recalls discussion amongst his parents about the weapons. He believes that the pistols belonged to Commodore Decatur and that they descended through the family from his grandfather, Stephen Decatur, who died in 1935. He had three children, James Austin’s (recipient of the letter) mother being one of them. The original owner of the pistols was Stephan Decatur, Sr. (1751-1808), an American privateer in the Revolutionary War. During the war, he commanded the vessels the “Royal Louis” and the “Fair American”. The pistols themselves are silver mounted officer’s pistols made by Richard Wilson. They feature swamped round paktong barrels with “LONDON” on tops within a classic teardrop cartouche. On the left sides of the breeches, there are London private view and proof marks, as well as “* / RW” for Richard Wilson. The pistols have convex lockplates inscribed “Wilson” in centers. Silver mounts with London hallmarks for 1772 and “IK” for silversmith John King. The silver mounts include castle tower sideplates with arms motifs, pommel caps, wrist escutcheons with arms motifs, foliate trigger guards, and plain ferrules. The walnut stocks are of classic Georgian form and feature relief-carved shells around the barrel tangs and relief panels terminating in teardrops around the locks and sideplates. CONDITION: The pistols show long and extended use through their history in the Decatur family of recognized military heroes. The barrels have excellent markings and crisp engraving, percussion bolsters on. right sides of breeches. Locks have both been converted to percussion and the hammers broken off and absent. Silver mounts are excellent and retain a pleasing pewter patina, one pommel cap has a large dent on back. Stocks are bleached and one shows scattered areas of missing wood, especially around pommel cap and on forend. Pistols have their original wood-tipped ramrods. The pair could be restored fairly easily and inexpensively. A very important pair of officer’s pistols belonging to an American naval hero and descending through his important American family. PROVENANCE: These pistols descended through the Decatur family and have been consigned by a descendent. A notarized statement verifying this information and signed by the family, is included. DMG 10,000 - 30,000

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1183 - JAMES MADISON SIGNED COMMISSION, JAMES. L. STORER, DECATUR FAMILY. Naval Agent’s Commission for James Langdon Storer (1786-1830) a member of the Decatur family, along with its original free-franked envelope from the Navy Department. Date July 25, 1815, the commission appoints Storer, “Navy Agent for the Port of Portland.” Madison’s signature is clear, sharp, and in black ink. CONDITION: Very good, slight fading overall, but clear and legible. Embossed white paper over red wax seal intact. PROVENANCE: This commission descended through the Decatur family and have been consigned by a descendent. 1,500 - 2,500

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1184 - STEPHEN DECATUR, SR.’S AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR WAGON-WHEEL CAVALRY SABER. Blade Length: 28” Overall Length: 35 - 1/2” The slightly curved American-manufactured blade has a deep narrow partial fuller on the left side. Brass hilt of massive Potter sword proportions, measuring about 7 - 1/2”. Brass wagon-wheel guard with forward turned large quillon with scalloped edges. Massive 2 - 1/2” olive-shaped pommel. Square bone grip with deeply incised lines at each edge. Knucklebow is absent and appears to be missing since the period of use, dark original patina over the break. CONDITION: Untouched throughout. Blade retains a dark untouched patina. some scattered nicks and bending to edge. Brass retains a very dark, almost brown patina. Grip very good with a couple minor chips. PROVENANCE: Originally the property of Stephen Decatur the elder, descended through the Decatur family and consigned by a descendent. Accompanied by a notarized statement. DMG 2,000 - 4,000

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1185 - US MODEL 1841 NAVAL OFFICER’S SWORD, REGULATION DOCUMENTS, AND REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE LEATHER BELT AND BUCKLE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON STORER, DECATUR RELATIVE. Blade Length: 30 - 1/4” Overall Length: 36” This is a nice example of a scarce pre-Civil War U.S. regulation sword, belt, and documents which descended from the Decatur family. According to a tag on the Revenue Cutter service belt, “This sword belonged to Commodore Stephen Decatur my Grandfather - the blind one. A.D. Wright” This would be referring to Commodore Stephen Decatur (1814-1876), who was a 19th century American naval officer whose career spanned from 1829-1876, and nephew of Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820). The documents however, are contained in an envelope which is named to George Washington Storer, who was also a naval officer and relative of Stephen Decatur (1779-1820). Adopted under the 1841 Regulations for the Uniform and Dress of the Navy of the United States, this pattern sword was regulation for U.S. Navy officers until implementation of the 1852 directives, and this was the first time the sword described in the regulations was actually pictured. This style is also one of the most attractive U.S. regulation swords. The blade is the early pipe-backed style and boasts some of the most beautiful gold-washed designs presented on a wonderful fire blued spectacle. The obverse blade features a bold oak leaf branch, lush with leaves and acorns, followed by a vignette of 13 stars and a fouled anchor leading up to beautiful scroll which is marked “JOS A STORRS / CHEAPSIDE / LONDON.”. The reverse blade features the same naval motifs which lead up to another, smaller scroll which is marked “WARRANTED”. The designs are contained in a stunning fire blued background which ceases half the length of the blade, ending in an arabesque spire. The gilt brass pommel is cast and chased in the form of an eagle’s head with slightly open beak, with feathers descending the length of the backstrap, which terminates under a banded, gilt brass ferrule at the bottom of the grip. The knuckle guard is P-shaped, flat from the pommel to midpoint and a budding flower seems to absorb the rest of the knuckle guard and terminates in acorn finials. The white bone-like grip features delicately carved feathers which extends the eagle’s head down the length of the hilt. The floral motifs of the guard are picked up in the raised oak leaves and acorns on a stippled background of the obverse folding counterguard. The reverse counterguard is absent, although there does not seem to be evidence that one was ever attached. The black leather scabbard features a tight seam and is set up with two mounts and carrying rings and is, unfortunately, missing the frog. The middle mount is engraved with a fouled anchor in a double-lined frame with foliate corners. The reverse of the mounts are plain. The lower mount features a vignette of 13 stars with the same double-lined frame with foliate corners and is plain on the reverse. Complimenting the sword is a rare U.S. Revenue Cutter Service leather belt with two-piece gold washed brass that features a left-facing eagle. The belt also features the leather and brass sword hanger. Finally, completing the set are the original regulation “Naval General Order” documents contained in their original envelope addressed to George W. Storer. The documents feature the designs of the sword, collar, and other uniform insignia. CONDITION: The sword blade exhibits scattered areas of rust and pox marks. The motifs remain mostly unmolested. The brass components of the hilt exhibit areas of oxidation. Counterguard folds properly but is loose. The grip exhibits one noticeable chip as well as a few scratches and cracks. The scabbard exhibits wear, including flaking and cracking, especially towards the tip. Both mounts are loose. The belt exhibits similar wear to the scabbard including scratches, creases, and cracks. Brass components exhibit wear. The documents are excellent, exhibiting little wear with the exception of the document with the sword designs which displays a significant tear. Otherwise, the documents remain intact and lack fragility. This is a wonderful, complete set of a desirable sword, belt with buckle, and documents all identified to relatives in the notable Decatur lineage. JLD 3,000 - 5,000

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1186 - (A) PAIR OF FLINTLOCK PISTOLS WITH SILVER BANDS AND KETLAND LOCKS. EX: DECATUR. Caliber/Bore: (BOTH) .62 Smoothbore Barrel Length: (BOTH) 9” This pair of circa 1800 pistols were passed through the family of Stephen Decatur, Jr. and were originally his pistols, according to family provenance. The pair have been decorated by the addition of two silver bands on each. Bands are silver with repose decoration with niello accents. This Ottoman-style decor was probably added at some time when his naval travels took him to the eastern region. When removed, the surfaces underneath are bright and as new, evidencing they were added early in the life of the pistols. The two-stage barrels have thick walls and “P” and “V” proofs in sunken ovals, denoting that these barrels were proofed in America. It is known that Ketland did have a Philadelphia shop, where these pistols were likely proofed. The locks on these pistols are nearly identical in maker’s markings and form to the locks on the 1797 McCormick pistol contracts. The brass furniture includes oval-shaped wrist escutcheons, oval lock retaining screw escutcheons, and a trigger guard terminating in an acorn. Walnut stocks with flat-sided cane grips. Complete with their period wooden ramrods. CONDITION: Both are in as found and untouched condition. Both in their original flintlock configurations. One pistol has a broken cock and is missing the finial from the trigger guard’s front tang. Both have pleasing untouched patinas and show scattered marks, both show very little use. PROVENANCE: These pistols descended through the Decatur family and have been consigned by a descendent. A notarized statement verifying this information and signed by the family, is included. DMG 1,400 - 2,400

1187 - LOT OF 2: 1800 NAVY COASTAL CHART, 1810 POPULATION DATA, EX-DECATUR. Lot consists of two documents from the Decatur family and dating to the period of Stephen Decatur, Jr. (A) 1800 dated chart of the North American coat from Captain Holland’s Surveys, covering the coast from Cape Cod south to Florida and Cuba. A long chart with blue paper backing still with the lower portion of its tin tube. CONDITION: Very good. Edge losses and rubbing to the first few inches of the map as forming the outer layer of the roll. This is the southern end of the map with title cartouche nicely preserved at the other extreme. (B) “Population of the United States 1810” in brown ink of this blue paper bound compilation of census and population information by region and location. CONDITION: Very good. Folded and tied with string. Bound in blue paper matching the coastal chart. Both invaluable for defense of the U.S. coast and nicely dating the active period of the younger Decatur. PROVENANCE: This chart descended through the Decatur family and have been consigned by a descendent. A notarized statement verifying this information and signed by the family, is included. 2,000 - 3,000

1188 - 2 NAVAL LOG BOOKS: USS CONSITUTION, USS DELAWARE AND OTHERS, DECATUR RELATIVE. Lot consists of two items from the Decatur family. (A) “Abstract of the U.S. Frigate Constitution’s Different Cruises from the time of leaving Boston May 13th 1821 to her arrival at New York May 20th 1824.” Eight and one-half pages filled in ink listing points of departure and arrival, days of passage, and distance run per log. Cruises listed in the Mediterranean with frequent stops at Gibraltar, Mahon, Syracuse, Leghorn, Malta, and others. No writer’s name but certainly George W. Storer, lieutenant on the USS Constitution in 1821. (B) Extensive journal in ledger book by Midshipman Robert B. Storer of cruises on board the Delaware (January to May 1844,) Potomac (31 Aug 1844 to 17 October 1845,) Lawrence (20 October to 23 December 1845,) Falmouth (23 Dec 1845 to 4 May 1846,) and Cumberland (4 May 1846 to 25 June 1846.) Roughly 300 pages filled out, sometimes in port, but most at sea, an immense amount of information with daily details and remarks on cruises. The later entries cover operations off Vera Cruz in the Mexican War. PROVENANCE: These log books descended through the Decatur family and have been consigned by a descendent. A notarized statement verifying this information and signed by the family is included. 3,000 - 4,000

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1189 - USS CONSTITUTION CREW LIST, RULES AND REGULATIONS; USS COLUMBUS, EX DECATUR FAMILY. Lot consists of two items written by George Washington Storer of the Decatur family. (A) Pocket book written front to back and back to front. “Names & Numbers of the Officers and Crew of the U. States Frigate Constitution 1821.” Seven pages, 476 names of officers and men, including G.W. Storer as Lieutenant; 2 pages, 54 names Officers and men of the US Marine Detachment. From the other end, 14 pages, listing 44 articles of “Rules and Regulations.” CONDITION: Excellent. Clear, legible ink. (B) “Journal kept on boar the U.S. Ship Columbus of 74 Guns in Boston Harbour, George W. Storer Esq. Captain commanding June 11th 1839.” Roughly 200 pages each with five daily entries of “Occurences,” covers to 14 Sept 1841. CONDITION: Excellent. Clear legible hand with little or no fading. Details of cruises, encounters with US and foreign vessels, visits of dignitaries such as Don Pedro 2nd Emperor of Brazil on 18 February 1841, thanking a foreign vessel for a salute, etc., etc. 2,000 - 3,000

1190 - US CIVIL WAR AMES M1852 NAVAL OFFICER’S SWORD WITH LEATHER NAVAL OFFICER’S BELT AND BUCKLE OF COMMODORE STEPHEN DECATUR (1814-1876) Blade Length: 29” Overall Length: 35” Attractive Civil War Model 1852 US Navy Officer’s sword with original leather sword belt and buckle. The sword has descended from the family of Commodore Stephen Decatur and according to descendants of the Decatur family, this excellent example of a M1852 sword belonged to Stephen Decatur (1814-1876), a 19th century American naval officer whose career spanned from 1829 to 1876, and nephew of Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820). Crafted from high quality steel, the blade stands out with beautiful frosting that extends for over half its length. Within the frosting, the blade is also adorned with simple yet distinct acid etched decorations and naval motifs. The obverse blade features a crisply etched panoply of arms, followed by a vignette of stars, and anchor contained in a scrolled vignette, endling with a sprawling palmette just above the maker mark which is neatly etched just above the ricasso. The blade is marked “Ames Mfg. Co / Chicopee / Mass” and the ricasso is dated “1852”. The reverse blade is decorated with similar motifs which include thick nautical rope which is intertwined with lush oak leaves and acorns, a scrolled banner with the letters “U.S.N.”, a fouled anchor, ending with a patriotic spread winged federal eagle that is perched on a naval cannon. The ricasso is inspector marked “R.B.H.”. The blade is followed by an elegant brass guard which is cast and chased. The guard mirrors the decorations on the blade, as the banner with the letters “USN” is laid neatly over a rich detritus of oak leaves and acorns. The guard also features a serpent shaped quillion as well as a knucklebow which curves in the shape of a serpent. The grip features a grooved, center-swelled wooden handle wrapped in high quality rayskin. The skin is tightly bound to the grip with brass wire that fits neatly in the grooves of the handle. The brass pommel is decorated with scrollwork of oak leaves and acorns and features a spread winged eagle contained in a vignette of stars. The sword is complete with its leather scabbard which features brass mounts and a serpent shaped drag. The ring mounts are in the design of thick nautical ropes. The upper mount is marked “AMES MFG. CO. / CHICOPEE / MASS”. The sword is accompanied by a Civil War US Navy Officer’s leather belt and buckle. CONDITION: The blade remains bright and exhibits scattered areas of spotting. The frosted decorations remain nearly unmolested with areas of surface rust and pitting on the ricasso. The guard, knucklebow, and pommel remain attractive with remnants of bright gilding. The grip is in superb condition and the brass wire remains tight. There is a crack in the rayskin where it was wrapped exposing the wood that runs the length of the grip. The scabbard is in equally good condition. The mounts remain bright and exhibit scattered blemishes especially around the ring mounts. The drag is slightly loose and exhibits scattered scratches. The leather exhibits various scuffs and scratches but remains firm. The belt exhibits heavy creasing and areas of cracking but remains pliable. The buckle exhibits a nice patina and slight areas of tarnishing and oxidation which could be cleaned. This is a very nice set with the sword being a most appealing example. Overall very good. PROVENANCE: This sword descended through the Decatur family and have been consigned by a descendent. A notarized statement verifying this information and signed by the family, is included. JLD 2,600 - 4,600

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1191 - LOT OF 3: EARLY NAVAL RELATED U.S.S. CONSTELLATION, U.S.S. PHILADELPHIA. Lot consists of three items relating to the early US Navy. (A) Journal of the U.S.S. Constellation’s Surgeon. Eight pages in detached boards. Title page: “A Journal Kept on board the U.S. Frigate Constellation M.S. Woolsey Esqr. Commanding / The Flag Ship of Commodore Lewis Warrington / By / Charles Wayne M.D. US Navy / May / 1826 / Pennsylvania Chester County.” Followed by six pages, one page per month, covering May 1 throughout October 6, ending with the note, “Jounal discontinued on account of sickness.” Followed by one page for June 1 to 23, 1827 kept by Surgeon Thomas B. Salter at the U.S. Naval Hospital. Daily entries include wind direction, temperature a.m. and p.m., note on the weather, accounting of men sick, admitted and discharged, and general remarks. The latter category includes notes such as, “Sailed with U.S. Ship Adams on a cruze” and “Fired 21 minute guns on hearing of the Death of J. Adams, Esq. Ex President of the U. States who died July 4- 1826.” CONDITION: Very good. Covers detached, stains to pages, but no missing pieces and text is very legible. (B) March 16, 1799 issue of the Weekly Museum. 4 pages. Page 3 col. 1 contains Truxton’s 9 March 1799 dispatch on his 1799 capture of L’Insurgent. CONDITION: Good. Folds. Small separation lines. (C) Columbian Sentinel & Massachusetts Federalist 28 March 1804. 4 pages. Page 2, column 1 contains the 16 Dec. 1803 dispatch of James Cathcart at Leghorn to Capt. Orne with news of the capture of the USS Philadelphia at Tripoli. CONDITION: Fair. Folds, tape repair, small losses and separation lines. All Ex-Lattimer collection. 800 - 1,200

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1192 - (A) FINE IDENTIFIED SILVER-INLAID ENGLISH FLINTLOCK FOWLER OF ADMIRAL SIR JOHN THOMAS DUCKWORTH, MADE BY COLLUMBELL. Barrel Length: 33” This ornate circa 1760 fowler was made by noted gunsmith David Collumbell of London. He apprenticed under Garrett Johnson in 1712. He worked as a member of the Gunmaker’s Company between 1734 and 1756. He is listed as working on Parliament Street in Westminster in 1763 and as a gunmaker to Ordnance in 1756; then the East India Company in 1761. The fowler itself has a two-stage barrel with a hooked breech and a gold-lined touch hole. There are London view and proof marks on the left side, near the breech. The top flat is inscribed “COLLUMBELL LONDON” surrounded by an engraved decorative border. The flat lockplate is profusely engraved with scrolls around “COLLUMBELL” in the center, the tail is engraved with military motifs and features a sliding half-cock safety. Other features include a scalloped and engraved frizzen spring, a waterproof pan, and an engraved swan-neck cock. The sideplate is iron and is chased with foliate and architectural motifs. The buttplate, wrist escutcheon, and trigger guard are also iron and are chased and engraved en suite. The trigger is decorated with cut-out scrolls. The ramrod ferrules are silver and are engraved with stiff-leaf bands and geometric designs. The full-length stock is of classic early Georgian form and features a symmetrical relief-carved shell design around the barrel tang and relief panels terminating in teardrops around the lock and sideplate cavities. Stock is profusely inlaid with silver wire designs including small silver flowers with scrolls on both sides of the wrist and in front of the trigger guard finial. The right side of the buttstock shows a large swagged canopy enclosing trophies of arms. The left side shows an elaborate naval design with a large anchor, cannon, flags, and polearms. CONDITION: Barrel shows some wear and retains a grey patina with some darker spots, front spider sight inlay is absent. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well, retaining a grey patina. Some chipping to frizzen face and top of frizzen shows a small chip. Mounts retain a spotted grey patina and show some wear. Ramrod is a probable replacement. Silver wire very good with some small pieces absent and a small loose strand on left side of wrist. Stock shows some wear and scattered marks, a few minor chips absent around lock, and a minor crack on left side of forend. PROVENANCE: Previously sold as lot 413 at Sotheby’s of Sussex July 26, 1995. This fowler was purchased together with another sporting gun bearing the crest of Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth. The two guns were acquired from the same house and because of the naval motifs, it is most certainly a fowler made for Duckworth. Duckworth lived between 1748 and 1817, he entered the navy at the age of 11. One of the incidents he was involved in occurred in 1777 while he was the First Lieutenant on the H.M.S. Diamond while it was in Rhode Island. He was the officer responsible for a loaded cannon that was used in a salute that resulted in the death of five men aboard another ship. He was acquitted twice. In 1780 he was promoted to Captain and became flag-captain to the admiral of the West Indies squadron. He was knighted in 1801. Complete with copies of catalog description and photos, as well as realized prices. Also included is a biography of Sir John Thomas Duckworth. A very well-decorated early fowler.DMG 6,000 - 12,000

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1193 - (A) FINE 1761 DATED AMERICAN STOCKED FLINTLOCK TRADE FOWLER. Caliber/Bore: .72 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 43” Considered to be in the Type G category of trade guns, which are highly desirable. Three-stage round American-made smoothbore barrel without any markings and with a relief wedding band at the breech. Trade lock with banana plate engraved with scrolls, unbridled pan. The brass furniture includes American-made British-style hardware. The symmetrical wrist escutcheon has tooled borders and is inscribed “G.B. 1761”. The trigger guard finial is engraved with an acanthus leaf and a cross-hatched design on the bow. The four-stage buttplate tang is engraved with a star, an acorn, and other designs. Serpent-style sideplate engraved with stars and borders. Entry ferrule of sheet tin and other two of sheet brass. Stock of cherry and with English form and an elongated wrist. Complete with probably its original wooden ramrod with bulbous tip. The fowler is accompanied by an Alden Identification Service wood analysis, which identifies the wood as American black cherry. CONDITION: Barrel retains a dark heavy patina. Lock retains a brown patina and is in its original flintlock configuration. Brass shows some wear and scattered marks and retains a mellow mustard patine. Buttplate was repaired during period of use. Stock excellent with a few light scattered marks. A very nice dated trade fowler. PROVENANCE: Purchased from Phil Mead, who is now the Curator of the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. DMG 10,000 - 20,000

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1194 - (A) ENGLISH FLINTLOCK FUSIL/FOWLER. Caliber/Bore: .69 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 43 - 1/4” This circa 1780-1790 fusil features a round barrel with Birmingham proofs on the left side of breech along with “TK” for Thomas Ketland. There is a bayonet lug mounted on top, towards muzzle. As the barrel is swamped, it is quite probable that this fowler has the wood cut back and a bayonet lug added during its period of use. The flat lockplate is stamped “KETLAND / & Co.” in the center and has simple line-engraved borders. Classic engraved brass English furniture. Walnut stock off classic English form. Complete with its original wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains an even brown patina, markings are very good. Lock is a very good professional reconversion, functions properly, and retains a brown patina. Brass retains a dark mustard patina. Stock is very good and retains much original finish and patina. DMG 1,500 - 3,000

1195 - (A) EARLY FRENCH FLINTLOCK RIFLE SIGNED DAVID DIVORNE. Caliber/Bore: .78 Rifled Barrel Length: 44 - 1/2” This rifle is probably French and dates around 1740-1750. The octagonal full-length barrel is swamped at the muzzle and features deep multi-groove rifling. The barrel has a notched brass rear sight and a brass front blade sight. The early banana lockplate is lightly engraved at the tail and marked “DAVID / DIVORNE” in the center. It has an early unbridled pan. The engraved brass furniture includes a full sideplate with engraved scrolls and an acanthus leaf at the tail. The buttplate tang terminates in a flour-de-lis and is engraved with scrolls and borders. Trumpeted brass ramrod ferrules. Front tang of rifle trigger guard terminates in a classic French design, nearly identical to that found on the Model 1733 dragoon pistols. Fine walnut stock profusely relief-carved around lock, sideplate, barrel tang, and ramrod entry ferrule. Buttstock also has relief carved designs around comb. Stock has a brass nose cap and is recessed from muzzle. Complete with its original iron ramrod. CONDITION: Very good overall, barrel and lock have been cleaned, and are mostly bright with some scattered brown patina. Bore has crisp rifling. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions properly. Front sling swivel is a replacement. Brass retains a mustard patina. Stock shows some scattered bruising and marks from use. A very attractive and early large-bore European rifle. DMG 4,000 - 6,000

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1196 - PATTERN 1776 AMERICAN STOCKED BRITISH ARTILLERY CARBINE. Caliber/Bore: .70 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 37” All components with the exception of the stock, are from a Pattern 1779 British carbine. It was American stocked during its period of use. The original 37” length round smoothbore barrel has British military proofmarks on top near breech. Bayonet lug has been altered to a blade front sight, and percussion drum fitted at the breech.The lockplate has had its British markings intentionally removed, but “TOWER” marking is still visible. Standard British Pattern 1779 brass furniture. American stocked in figured bird’s eye maple.Ramrod is absent. CONDITION: Barrel retains a brown patina, markings show wear. Lockplate retains a brown patina, hammer absent. Trigger guard is cracked through retaining screw. Brass retains a pleasing patina. Stock shows scattered splintering and marks from use. DLM 1,000 - 2,000

1197 - (A) REVOLUTIONARY ERA SPANISH MODEL 1757 MUSKET WITH UNIT MARKINGS. On 14 June 1757, the Spanish Secretary of War issued a royal order establishing a standardized model of “fusil” or light musket for the infantry of King Carlos III’s military forces. This new model drew much inspiration from Model 1754 French fusil, including the use of a flat, bridled locks with faceted pan and gooseneck cock and an octagonal-to-round, tapered barrel that was banded vs. pin-fastened; overall length of the arm was 59 - 1/2”, with a 43 - 3/4” barrel of .69 caliber. Unlike the iron-mounted French infantry longarms, the new Spanish M1757 fusil’s mounts were of brass, including buttplate, sideplate, trigger guard, thumbpiece, and three barrel bands, the rear and middle band being pressuremounted, with the noseband with a retaining spring. The shape of the sideplate was triangular and the tang of the buttplate terminated in a trefoil form, somewhat resembling that found on French commercial and naval longarms. The thumpiece was the form of a crowned shield. In addition to being used by Spanish troops during the Revolutionary War, many of these arms found their way into the hands of Patriot forces, some war trophies from Provincial service during the reduction of Havana in 1762 and others being procured by Continental commissioner Oliver Pollock in New Orleans. More than 200 of these muskets with bayonets and cartridge boxes, were issued to George Rogers Clark’s Illinois Regiment and used during their campaigns in the Ohio Valley. This particular example may have been part of the Pollock shipment to Clark’s troops, as it was found in Ohio and bears evidence of long service and a simple, American barrel conversion to percussion, with approximately 1/3 of the pan left intact. The middle band of the musket is now missing and a bayonet spring has been attached to the front or noseband, which has been observed on at least one other M1757 fusil. The right face of the butt is branded ‘No. 10’, while its underside is branded CA. PETRES’ and the sideplate is engraved ‘f No. 10’, followed by what appears to be a later ‘#38.’ A rare and desirable arm of the Colonial-Revolutionary era. CONDITION: The musket is in true “attic” condition, with nice uniform patina throughout, the ironwork dark with some light pitting to barrel, primarily near the breech, the mounts a dull bronze, and the stock with some light scars and bruising commensurate with age, with a short, hairline crack along the upper edge near the front band. The original iron ramrod has suffered the loss of the last few inches of its length. JLK 3,000 - 5,000

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1198 - (A) RARE INDIAN DEPARTMENT PRESENTATION RIFLE FOR WARRIORS BY TATHAM. With a 31” long, browned, key-fastened, octagonal sighted barrel of .56 caliber cut with ten grooves, with royal arms in platinum within a raised rectangular panel or cartouche between two platinum lines at the breech, platinum-lined vent or touch-hole, blued two-leaf back-sight, and blued tang engraved with martial motifs; case-hardened, flat beveled lock with safety-catch, stepped tail, roller, blued steel-spring, raised pan, and bearing engraved maker’s name ‘TATHAM’ between cock and hammer; and figured walnut stock with checkered wrist and blued iron mounts, including patch-box cover decorated with a martial trophies, a case-hardened trigger-plate with pineapple finial, platinum thumbpiece, horn forend cap, original horn-tipped ramrod, and much original finish to barrel, lock, and mounts. Proof and inspection marks on underside of barrel near breech, along with the ‘WF’ mark of William Fuller; inverted “(Broad Arrow)” strikes on of barrel near breech, indicating release from Crown ownership. A near-fine example of one of full-stocked,’warrior’ rifles produced by Henry Tatham, Sr. (1770-1835) under contract with the Board of Ordnance in 1816. Major John Norton of the Indian Department recommended such arms be presented to Canadian Indian chiefs and key warriors in recognition of their valorous service as allies of the British during the War of 1812, which was approved in the Prince Regent. Subsequently, Tatham exhibited three patterns of rifles to the Board of Ordnance, who approved and contracted with him to produce such on behalf of the Indian Department. Tatham, appointed Sword Cutler and Beltmaker-in-Ordinary to King George III in 1798 and Gunmaker to the Prince of Wales in 1799. William Fullerd (fl. 1808-1834), was a London barrel and lock maker. The largest surviving collection of these Indian presentation rifles is in the collection of the Royal Armouries at Leeds. CONDITION: Near fine, overall. Barrel has sharp edges and excellent markings, retains about 90% of original finish. Lock is crisp and in its original flintlock configuration, functions flawlessly. Mounts retain generous amounts of original blue finish with some areas thinned to grey patina. Stock shows some minor staining and light storage marks, there is a repaired crack to the stock opposite the lock. LITERATURE: Robert W. Band, “Tatham’s Indian Guns, A Gift For Mohawk Warriors”, The Canadian Journal of Arms Collecting, vol. 37, no. 1 (February 1999), pp. 3-7; Dewitt Bailey. British Military Flintlock Rifles, 1740-1840 (Lincoln, RI: Mowbray, 2002), 180-187 and 210. JLK 15,000 - 25,000

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1199 - (A) A BRITISH PATTERN 1776 FLINTLOCK RIFLE BY MORRIS. An early volunteer’s rifle modeled on the British Pattern 1776 Rifle. Overall length: 44”, with 28” long octagonal barrel of .68 caliber bore rifled with seven grooves, key-fastened and with false- or hook-breech. There are vacant holes near muzzle on each side flat of the barrel that once supported a ramrod swivel (purposely removed during the period, as seen with other P1776 rifles). The barrel has a sighted fore-end and rear sight with one fixed and two hinged leaves at breech. The tang of the barrel bears an engraved, stringed bugle horn—the device of an unkown rifle corps, while Tower private view and proof marks are found near the breech on left side. Flat beveled border, engraved lock with crowned GR before the cock and ‘MORRIS’ across the tail, flat, goose-neck cock with edging, double-fence (water-less), teaspoon-shaped pan, and feather-spring with roller. Figured walnut, full stock (slight bruising) with brass mounts near-identical to those found on the Pattern 1776 rifle, including spur trigger-guard with acorn finial, three wide ramrod pipes (a steel ramrod spring between the fore-pipe and middle pipe), flat “tailed” sideplate, and nose-cap, with heavy, iron ramrod. The butt has a hinged, brass patch-box cover similar to that found on the Pattern 1805 Baker. CONDITION: Light pitting to barrel from original browning and slight brusing to wood, otherwise in very good condition and lock in excellent condition and working order. JLK 5,000 - 8,000

1200 - (A) NAPOLEONIC ERA BRITISH VOLUNTEER’S FLINTLOCK MUSKET. Napoleon’s planned invasion of the United Kingdom at the start of the War of the Third Coalition, although never carried out, was a major influence on British plans for homeland defense and led to the rebuilding and mobilization of militia units, as well as the formation of a multitude of volunteer corps of horse, foot and artillery naval strategy and the fortification of the coast of southeast England. Britain essentially remained an armed camp, except during brief intervals of peace in Europe, until 1815. The gentlemen who joined such “white glove” infantry corps wanted lighter arms than the heavy Land and India musket patterns furnished the militia and various patterns were produced by British gunmakers to supply the demand. This fine volunteer’s musket is by Robert Wheeler of London and Birmingham (fl. 1800-1815) has a 39” barrel with unmarred .78 bore and bears double-struck Tower private proofs near the breech. Its lock and brass mounts are slighter and the walnut stock less robust than those found with a regulation India pattern musket, lightened for handling by a gentleman-soldier. The edge-engraved, round lock has “TOWER’ stamped behind the goose-neck cock and a “(Crown) / GR” struck before, with a flat ‘S’ sideplate of brass opposite the lock. CONDITION: The musket is in very good condition and with all original components, less the front sling swivel (now missing). The metalwork is bright finished and walnut stock in clean, original finish with only few nicks and handling marks in the wood; the lock is in excellent condition, with mechanism in crisp working order. JLK 1,600 - 2,400

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1201 - (A) RARE BRITISH FLINTLOCK PATTERN 1803 TYPE CAVALRY RIFLE BY E. BAKER, PROBABLE TRIALS GUN. Caliber/Bore: .68 Rifled Barrel Length: 20 - 1/4” According to page 122 of “British Military Flintlock Rifles” by DeWitt Bailey, Ph. D, the successful competitor for the new Pattern 1803 rifled cavalry carbine was the designer of the current infantry rifle, Ezekiel Baker. He made a trial rifle with a barrel of 20 inches and tried it before the Committee of Field Officers in 1800 at Woolrich. He competed with other makers such as Henry Nock there and won. In Ezekiel Baker’s book, he then writes that he “mounted it as a Pattern for the Tenth Regiment of Light Dragoons, under the command of His late Majesty George IV when Prince of Whales.” This is possibly that rifle, especially due to the distinct maker’s markings on lock and barrel. This example has a browned Damascus barrel with brass front sight and elevated notched rear sight. The left side of breech is stamped with Birmingham proofs and top of barrel is inscribed “E. BAKER” in block letters. The casehardened lock features a waterproof pan, roller-frizzen, and a sliding lock tang safety to hold at half-cock. The center is engraved with “E. BAKER”, just below the “E” is a threaded knob to adjust spring tension, presumably. The brass furniture is identical to that of the Pattern 1803. The iron saddle bar’s rear finial is more graceful on this example than the standard Pattern. Walnut stock with original iron swivel ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains about 95% Damascus finish. Lock retains visible case colors, mostly silvers or darkened. Brass retains a light mustard patina. Stock shows scattered scratches and bruises. Series of scratches at bottom on both sides of buttstock. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions perfectly. Markings excellent throughout. A very interesting cavalry carbine in wonderful condition. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

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1202 - (A) RARE PATTERN 1760 FLINTLOCK BRITISH INFANTRY CARBINE. Caliber/Bore: .67 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 42” For another identical example, see pages 138-140 in “Small Arms of the British Forces in America” by De Witt Bailey, Ph.D. The distinctive furniture on these carbines has been recovered from archaeological sites at Bushy Run Battlefield, Fort Ligonier, as well as other French and Indian War sites. Aside from use in Pontiac’s War and the French and Indian War, these carbines also returned to America for the Revolutionary War and were used by infantry regiments in America as early as 1771. All British infantry regiments had at least two of these by 1776, according to Bailey. Bailey states that before 1760, a total of 6,589 were produced. There is also another example of this pattern shown as 123.MM on page 173 of “Battle Weapons of the American Revolution” by George C. Neumann. This example features the standard 40” tapered round barrel with bayonet lug mounted on top, towards muzzle. There are crisp Tower view and proof marks on top of the breech and a crown over partially visible maker’s initials, crown above touch hole and on barrel tang. Convex lockplate inscribed “VERNON / 1757” at tail and engraved with large crown over “GR” in center. Stamped with small crown over broad arrow beneath pan, denoting British government ownership. Standard distinctive Pattern 1760 carbine furniture. Buttplate, trigger guard, and wrist escutcheon are unique to this model. The sideplate is a smaller version of the Long Land Pattern. Buttplate tang and sideplate stamped with assembly number “8”. Stocked with classic British form in plain walnut. Stamped with crisp intertwined “GR” storekeeper’s stamp on right side of butt and inspector initials behind sideplate. Relief-shaped beavertail carved around barrel tang. Complete with its original brass-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Very good, barrel retains a grey patina with some scattered brown, markings visible but shows some wear. Lock is excellent and in its original flintlock configuration, retains a light grey patina and functions well. Excellent markings, cock a period of use British replacement. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina. Stock very good with some scattered minor marks from use. A very nice example of this historic and rare French and Indian War carbine. DMG 20,000 - 30,000

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1203 - (A) SIR WILLIAM PEPPERELL BRANDED 51ST REGT. LONG LAND PATTERN BRITISH BROWN BESS MUSKET. Caliber/Bore: .80 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 45 - 3/8” Only a couple British muskets exist that are marked to Sir William Pepperell. Another example can be found in the recent February, 2021 article by Erik Goldstein in “Man at Arms” magazine, Volume 43, No. 1, titled “King’s Muskets for the Two American Regiments” on pages 10 to 20. The tapered round barrel has a bayonet lug on top towards the muzzle. There is a script “2” on the left side of the breech. Banana lockplate is convex and marked “TOWER / 1740” at the tail. Large crown over “GR” in the center and a crown over broad arrow mark below the pan, denoting British ownership. Standard Pattern 1742 brass furniture, wrist escutcheon engraved “1 / 96”. Plain walnut stock of classic early British form. Left side of buttstock branded with 5/8” tall “SrWP” for Sir William Pepperell. The upper corner on the same side is branded with a “2”. Complete with brass-tipped wooden ramrod. According to the owner of musket: “I acquired this musket while on vacation in Nova Scotia from a surveyor from Caledonia, Queens County, Nova Scotia. This was in the mid 1990’s after hearing about it visiting with the owners of the local sporting goods/gun store. The surveyor had accepted the gun and others (nothing of interest) a few years earlier as partial payment to he and his father for a survey on an old Queens County farm. This part of Nova Scotia was settled in the 1700s and a large number of settlers were loyalists who fled to Canada at that time. I was fortunate that he was getting married and had told his friend at the gun store that he wanted to raise some money. When I acquired the musket, the wood was a weathered barn wood grey in appearance, had the forward 10 inches of the stock missing, had a cracked wrist, and the holes for the pins to hold the barrel were enlarged due to rot. It was in original flint and the metal parts were all intact and original except for the brass side plate, which was a crude flat blacksmith or armourer replacement. Unfortunately, I did not realize the historical significance of the markings and I did not photograph the gun prior to taking it for restoration. The restorer repaired the cracked wrist, filled the expanded pinholes, and added the missing part of the forestock. He also replaced the crude side plate (original included with gun) with a reproduction plate. He then darkened the stock to blend the repairs. Sir William Pepperell who was knighted for the capture of Louisburg in 1744 raised and commanded the 51st Regiment of Foot in the French Indian Wars and his regiment surrendered to the French at Fort Oswego in 1757 and the regiment was disbanded.” CONDITION: See owner’s statement above. Barrel retains a pleasing brown patina with some scuffs. Lock retains a lightly pitted surface with grey patina, lock markings in center show some wear. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Brass retains a mustard patina. Period sideplate from when musket was found is included. Stock looks very homogenous, see noted restoration listed above. Barrel tang apron worn. A very rare and historically important branded musket. NOTE: A sword marked to Sir William Pepperell’s Regiment recently sold for $45,600 as lot 1034 at Morphy Auctions on May 18, 2021. DMG 30,000 - 60,000

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1204 - (A) BRITISH 42” PATTERN 1742 FLINTLOCK MUSKET DATED 1746, BY RAINSFORD, DUBLIN. Caliber/Bore: .75 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 42” According to Richard Garrett’s “Irish Gunmakers” printed in 2008, Michael Rainsford worked at Dublin Castle between 1720 and 1757. He was contracted to make arms for troops in Ireland. This is quite likely one of those muskets. This musket features a 42” tapered round barrel with a bayonet lug mounted on top, towards the muzzle. There are two indistinct proofs on left side of breech. The convex banana lockplate is inscribed “RANSFORD / 1746” at the tail and with a crown over “GR” in the center. Beneath the pan, there is a proof, which appears to be an intertwined “DC”, probably for Dublin Castle. Standard Pattern 1742 furniture. Walnut stock stamped behind trigger guard with same intertwined “DC” marking that is on the lockplate. Relief-carved apron around the barrel tang. There are Roman numeral assembly marks behind the sideplate and in the ramrod channel. There is a large exaggerated bulge at the ramrod entry ferrule and was made without a brass nose cap. Complete with its brass-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel shows pitting throughout and an applied patina. Lock markings are excellent. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Lock retains a smooth grey patina. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina, some scattered marks from use. Stock shows scattered bruising and marks from use. A very nice early musket. DMG 10,000 - 20,000

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1205 - (A) BUELL CONTRACT FLINTLOCK MUSKET. Caliber/Bore: .69 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 42 - 1/8” Buell Contract Flintlock Militia Musket for the state of Connecticut. 42 - 1/8” barrel in .69 caliber smoothbore with integral front sight on Charleville style barrel band and no provision for rear sight. Lock is marked “E. BUELL” on lock tail with US eagle / “MARLBOUROUGH” in center of lock. One piece plain walnut stock in three barrel band musket configuration with low-comb stock and military buttplate. These scarcely encountered muskets were made as a direct result of the Militia Act of 1808 for the state of Connecticut after the War of 1812. CONDITION: Barrel has been cleaned long ago, except for corroded area around breech, now retains a grey patina. Lock retains an original heavy brown patina, markings very good, cock does not hold in full-cock position. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration. Iron furniture retains a dark brown untouched patina. Stock good with a hairline crack in front of lock tang and a crack and small splinter missing on left side of forend. One dent to top of comb on right side. Rear sling swivel is absent. Ramrod appears to be its original. 1,500 - 2,000

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1206 - RARE LAND PATTERN BAYONET WITH SPRING CATCH, C. 1768. Blade Length: 18 - 1/4” Overall Length: 22 - 3/4” This rare and early spring-catch bayonet is otherwise identical to standardized for Land Pattern (including Marine/Militia) Muskets in 1768 but is nearly 1 - 1/2” longer in blade length. It bears the maker’s stamp of ‘S&G/HARVEY’ on the flat of the blade (for Birmingham cutlers Samuel and George Harvey, who made bayonets under subcontract for the Board of Ordnance (BO) during the late 1760s-mid 1770s and, after 1777, as direct BO contractors until 1778, when they were out of business) and a deep stamp that appears to be a ‘P’ or ‘R’ below it and just above the shank juncture. This bayonet differs from standard P1768 bayonets by virtue of the addition of a long, pendant-shaped, spring catch on the top of the socket. The bulbous base is fastened to the socket by a screw near the front or muzzle end, while the narrower, spring tip ends at the beginning of the third slot of the three-slot mortise. The spring catch was intended to catch the lug or stud of the musket barrel, thereby securing it more effectively than by the earlier means of the three-slot mortise alone. During the Seven Years’ War, the Tower had fitted some arms in this manner by means of experiment, while to East India Company had adopted it for all of their arms by 1777. In 1772, John Hirst was contracted to fit springs to 600 Land Pattern bayonets then in Board of Ordnance stores intended for Army use, but no more were further altered in this manner; probably the advent of the Revolutionary War led the BO to set aside further implementation, due to the increased cost of labor, materials and time in furbishing bayonets with such improvements. It would not be until 1802 that spring-fastened bayonets were reintroduced again for British army muskets with adoption of the New Land Pattern musket and bayonet. However, a number of regimental colonels or commanders opted to have contractors or their regimental armorers affix such catches to their mens’ bayonets. For example, while serving in America during 1774-1775, the 18th Foot had its bayonets altered to take spring catches shortly after it reached Boston from the Illinois frontier. CONDITION: Very good with excellent markings. A rare bayonet. JLK 500 - 1,000

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1207 - (A) BRITISH PATTERN 1738 FLINTLOCK DRAGOON PISTOL BY WILLETS, DATED 1745. Caliber/Bore: .58 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 12”

It is well-known that the Pattern 1738 British Dragoon pistols were used in America during the Revolutionary War, many by Loyalist cavalry units in the southern campaigns. This example turned up in Montreal about 40 years ago. On page 62 of “British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783 by de Witt Bailey, he says “Some of these may have been fitted with Sea Service belt hooks and used for Southern provincial mounted militia from 1780”. On page 91 in figure 60 of “British Military Pistols and Associated Edged Weapons” by Robert Brooker, he says shows an identical pistol in the Fort Ticonderoga Museum. The pistol there has a similar, but slightly different sides plate. The round barrel is stamped on top with Tower view and proof marks as well as a makers mark on the left side. Barrel tang stamped with a crossed scepter proof and an inspector’s crown. The convex banana lockplate is engraved “WILLETS / 1745” on the tail and engraved with large crown over “GR” in the center. There is a crown over a broad arrow stamped below the pan, denoting British government ownership. Standard brass Pattern 1738 furniture with the exception of the sideplate, which is the pistol’s original sideplate. The contour is the same as the standard pistols, but the sideplate is flat, rather than convex and it has a hole towards the back for a belt hook. It is marked inside with “IV” British assembly marks. Walnut stock with relief carved shaped panels around lock, sideplate, and barrel tang. Clearly stamped on top of wrist on right side with intertwined “GR” storekeeper’s stamp. CONDITION: Very good overall, uncleaned and untouched. Barrel retains a brown patina and markings are excellent. Lock retains a light brown patina. Markings are excellent, lock is in its original flintlock configuration and functions well. Brass retains a dark mustard patina. Stock shows scattered minor cracks and marks from use, retains much original finish. Wooden ramrod appears to be a period replacement. A very nice period-altered example of this attractive early pattern. DMG 5,000 - 10,000

1208 - (A) PRIVATE PURCHASED PATTERN 1738 HEAVY DRAGOON PISTOL BY WATKINS. Caliber/Bore: .67 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 13”

For an identical example, see page 80 of “British Military Pistols and Associated Edged Weapons” by Robert Brooker. This circa 1750-60 example was made for commercial sale, militia units, and sale to officers. Officers were not issued pistols and were required to purchase their own. Many officers wished to purchase pistols similar to what was being issued to their troops. This is nearly identical to the military Pattern 1738 pistol, except that the barrel is 1” longer and the pommel cap lacks full stirrups. The swamped round barrel is stamped at the breech with private London view and proof marks, as well as a crown over “RW” for maker Richard Watkin. The convex banana lock is convex and marked “R. / WATKIN” in the center. Standard brass Pattern 1738 style furniture with pommel cap differing as it only has semi-stirrups. Walnut stock of Georgian form with an apron carved around the barrel tang and a bulge around ramrod entry ferrule. There is a small indentation in front of the rearmost sideplate screw and a small indentation in the stock, showing that a belt hook was once present. Complete with its original brass-tipped wooden ramrod. CONDITION: Barrel retains a light grey patina with scattered dark freckling. Markings very good. Lock is in its original flintlock configuration and mechanism is strong, retains a freckled grey patina with some marks from cleaning, very good markings. Brass retains a pleasing mustard patina. Stock retains a pleasing patina and has scattered wormholes. Small crack stemming from barrel tang towards lock. A very attractive 18th century British dragoon pistol. 2,500 - 5,000 124

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1209 - (A) RARE PHILIPPE D’AUVERGNE PISTOL FOR PRINCE OF BOUILLON, BY HENRY NOCK, 1796. Caliber/Bore: .60 Smoothbore Barrel Length: 7”

For another example, see pages 148-149 of “British Military Pistols and Associated Edged Weapons” by Robert Brooker. There was a contractor of 400 of these Philippe d’Auvergne pistols, acquired by Ordnance in 1796 for the Prince de Bouillon. He was a French Royalist in the service of the Royal Navy as a captain. The pattern was unknown until 1986 when the Royal Armories sold off several of them through Sotheby’s. The sale was done to provide funds for their purchase of the Belgian Malherbe Collection. The two contractors for this order were Nock and Egg. The pistol is of the standard contract pattern and features a brass barrel stamped on the left side of the breech with two crossed scepter Tower acceptance proofs and “HN” for Henry Nock. The convex lockplate is engraved “TOWER / NOCK” and in the center a British crown over “GR”. Standard brass mounts for this pattern. Walnut stock stamped with “1786” darted storekeeper’s mark and a crown over 6. Left side, behind sideplate stamped with broad arrows facing one another, showing that this example was sold out of service by the British government. The brass-tipped wooden ramrod is a contemporary replacement. CONDITION: Barrel retains a pleasing mustard patina, markings excellent. Lock retains a bright surface and is in its original flintlock configuration, excellent markings, and functioning properly. Brass furniture retains a pleasing mustard patina, shows a couple scattered storage marks. Stock very good with some scattered minor storage marks. A very nice example of a rare contract. DMG 4,000 - 8,000

SEE WEBSITE FOR ADDITIONAL PHOTOS 1210 - LARGE 1662 DATED LEATHER COVERED DOME-TOP TRUNK WITH TACK DECORATION. These trunks were often used to bring the possessions of immigrants to America. Measures 39 - 1/4” x 19” x 17 - 1/2”, 16” depth. Of wood construction with hide-covered exterior with extensive brass tack decoration. Top off lid with tacked date “1662” and initials “J. S.” (Originally was “MS”, some tacks were removed and changed to a “J”). Iron reinforcing straps along all sides, along base. Iron lock. CONDITION: Has seen heavy use and shows scattered missing tacks, raised or missing leather, and shrinkage to leather. Wood exposed shows some age cracks. Lid slightly cockeyed. Interior missing much of original newspaper lining. A very early immigrant trunk. DMG 1,400 - 2,800

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1211 - LOT OF 7: 6 SNUFF BOXES AND A PORTRAIT ON IVORY. Comprising: (A) Framed ivory portrait miniature of a gentleman mounted on ivory. Portrait itself measures about 1 - 3/8” in height. Oval gilt brass frame measures about 2 - 5/8” tall. Thin ivory portrait is mounted on a larger piece of ivory under glass. Back fitted with a pin. CONDITION: Very good. (B) Silver snuffbox inscribed “Britons hold shall rule the Main / In spite of holland, France or Spain”. On the back is an oval with an engraved ship labeled “Stripshirt”. Ovoid shape measuring about 4” by 1 - 9/16” by 7/8”. Silver inlaid plaque on top with worn initials. CONDITION: Good with some wear to inscription plate in center of lid. (C) Copper snuffbox inscribed “Swords to Taltons of old England” The back is inscribed with a ship. CONDITION: Polished bright with wear to inscription and some minor denting. (D) Decorated pewter snuff box with hinged lid. CONDITION: Poor, showing bending, losses to edges, and minor deterioration. (E) Curved bronze snuffbox inscribed “Thos. Ettridge 1760” CONDITION: Very good with a pleasing patina. (F) Oval iron flint striker box with original hand-forged iron striker. Lid inscribed “H. Shelton”. CONDITION: Good with some denting and a lightly pitted surface, grey patina. Striker appears to be dug and is heavily patinated. (G) Toleware painted tin snuffbox with name “John Craddock / 1773” In the center is an 1824 copper medal made by Thomas Wells Ingram. The medal is memorializing William Shakespeare. Black paint with yellow polychrome. CONDITION: Shows some chipping and overpainting on lid. A very nice instant snuffbox collection. DMG 1,000 - 2,000

1212 - LATE 19TH CENTURY COPY OF 1790’S BRITISH OFFICER’S COAT. Scarlet super fine coat with willow green lapels, standing collar, and cuffs. Ten buttons in pairs with gold lace on each lapel. Four buttons in pairs on cuffs and pocket flaps. Gilt buttons bear a “(Crown) / GR” device. Heavily padded, silk upper lining with cassimere skirt and turnbacks. Gilt button with embroidered star device on each skirt. A fine, professional tailor’s reproduction of a 1790s British coat probably done for a Jubilee celebration. JLK 800 - 1,400

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1213 - 1764 WARWICK FURNACE PENNSYLVANIA FIREBACK. This 1764 dated cast iron fireback bears a biblical maxim, the maker’s name at bottom, and floral decoration. Heavy cast iron plate, upper half with two panels in arches: heart and floral motifs at left; vases with flowering plants at right; “1764” in raised numerals across the middle. Lower half with bordered upper line reading, “LAS. VOM. BESEN. UND. THUE. GUTS.” (Psalm 37.27.) Lowest section with figural tulips at left and right. Two lines at center: “IAHN. POT. AND. / WARCK. FVRNEC.” indicating the work of John Pott(s,) ironmaster at the Warwick Furnace. The text shows an interesting mix of German language (UND and AND) and variant letter forms (U and V.) Established in 1737 in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania, Warwick Furnace passed through several owners, but about 1752 was owned by the Potts family who ran it to 1867. In addition to the artistic appeal of their work, during the American Revolution, the furnace produced cannon and cannonballs for the Continental Army, as well as engaging in the repair of muskets and the casting of bullets. CONDITION: Very good. Slight expected wear to bottoms of letters at center lower edge. This is not a standard shippable item and will require 3rd party shipping or pickup arrangements to be made. 5,000 - 7,000

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EARLY ARMS & MILITARIA Accepting Consignments for Our November 2022 Auction

SOLD $270,600

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Accepting Consignments for our November 2022 Auction

Viet Nam War Trophy, Chinese Type 56 Machine Gun SOLD $132,250

Likely the Finest Factory Engraved Blue & Case Colored Colt Lightning Known to Exist (1886). SOLD $190,650

Important Historic Bunker Hill engraved Powder Horn of Daniel Kinne, dated 1775. SOLD $209,100

Possibly Conrad Ulrich’s Greatest Masterpiece and a Legendary Winchester Collector’s Icon for nearly half a Century is the Magnificent Gilded High Relief Engraved and Fully Signed Winchester Model 1866 Lever Action Rifle. SOLD $598,000

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Near Mint 90% - 96% Very Good 70% - 79%

BIDDING RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES

The auctioneer will determine the highest bidder. The auctioneer alone has the right to reopen the bidding of an item if deemed necessary due to a dispute. If there is a tie bid between the floor and Internet or absentee bid, the floor bid takes precedence. MORPHY’S and its representatives reserve the right to remove those attendees who impede preview and/or the auction. Title to all merchandise shall pass to the highest bidder at the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer. The buyer will then assume all risk and full responsibility of the lot purchased once ownership has changed. We recommend that you arrange insurance for your items immediately upon becoming the highest bidder. MORPHY’S is not responsible for any errors in bids, omissions of bids, or failure to execute bids and shall have no liability to any bidder for any technical or other failure associated with the internet, absentee bidding, or telephone bidding. (continued...)

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Terms & Conditions • AGENT BIDDING - MORPHY’S will accept bids from an individual agent authorized by a company or another individual. MORPHY’s requires any agent to provide a signed letter of authorization from the buyer of record company or individual allowing the agent to bid on their behalf. • ABSENTEE BIDDING - MORPHY’S will accept absentee bids if pre-authorized by mail, fax or through www.morphyauctions. com online. Absentee bidders must use the absentee bid form and clearly mark the lot number, title and maximum bid amount. Absentee bidding forms may be accessed online at www. morphyauctions.com. If there are two (2) identical bids placed on the same item, priority will be given to the first bid received. All bids must be left in increments as explained on our bid form. If a bid is “out of increment,” the auctioneer has the right to round the bid up to the next correct increment. Bidders may preview, register and place bids online through our website, www.morphyauctions. com. Invoices will be auto charged to the credit card MORPHY’s has access to and is on file within 48 hours after the end of the sale. If you wish to pay by another method please contact us within 48 hours after the sale. Seller(s) agree to allow the Auctioneer to accept and execute absentee bids in a competitive manner for potential buyers and under the MORPHY’S absentee bidding terms and conditions. During the live sale, the auctioneer will execute your absentee bid competitively up to the maximum amount you have indicated. • ONLINE BIDDING - Online bidding through www.morphyauctions. com, Live Auctioneers, Invaluable, Proxibid, or other bidding platforms may be available; all Terms and Conditions still apply. A surcharge may be added for third party online platforms. Refer to your bidding platform of choice for the final buyer’s premium. If there is a tie bid between the internet bidding venues and the floor, the floor bid takes precedence. Invoices will be auto charged to the credit card MORPHY’s has access to and is on file within 48 hours after the end of the sale. If you wish to pay by another method please contact us within 48 hours after the sale. If you are a first-time bidder with Morphy, we do not have access to Live Auctioneers and Invaluable credit card information. Due to our fast-paced auctions and bids coming from floor bidders, phone bidders, internet bidders and absentee bids, the auctioneer has the final word on all item(s) sold. You (the bidder) assume the risk of winning an item online and not having the item actually sell to you. This is due to the final call of the auctioneer and the operator not being able to re-open that lot. Online bidders are fully responsible for accidental bidding as if they bid normally. • BID RESULTS – MORPHY’S will only contact successful bidders. Please allow 24-48 hours post auction to receive your official invoice from MORPHY’S. The invoice will include item, hammer price, premium, packing and handling, shipping, insurance, and any other charges that apply. Please hold phone inquiries regarding bid success until after receiving your invoice. For verifications, MORPHY’S cannot provide winning bid information until the second business day after the auction. MORPHY’S will not provide bidder information to any outside sources. • TELEPHONE BIDDING - Requests for phone lines must be received at least three (3) days prior to the auction date. MORPHY’S cannot guarantee phone lines but will make every attempt to

accommodate those who wish to participate through that method. Phone lines are provided on a first come first served basis. Please visit www.morphyauctions.com or call 877-968-8880 to request a call from our representatives during the live auction.

BID INCREMENTS

Bid increments listed are a general guideline. Actual increments are at the auctioneer’s discretion. If a lot does not receive a bid of 50% of the low estimate, the lot will be passed by the auctioneer. $0 - $500…................$25 $500 - $1,000….........$50 $1,000 - $2,000…......$100 $2,000 - $5,000…......$200 $5,000 - $10,000....…$500 $10,000 +…............... Auctioneer’s discretion

RESERVES

Most of our items are unreserved, but occasionally items may carry a moderate reserve. Please note that when a lot carries a reserve, the reserve is usually somewhere below our low estimate. In the case of a reserved item, the seller has authorized the auctioneer to bid on their behalf until the reserve price is reached.

BUYER’S PREMIUM

A 20% buyer’s premium will be added to all successful bids and is payable by the buyer as part of the total purchase cost. A 3% merchant fee is also automatically applied to all invoices but can be discounted upon payment by cash, check, money order or wire transfer that is received within 7 days from the receipt of the invoice. If the type of payment is split, invoice will reflect the 3% charge for merchant fees on the entire invoice. In addition, a surcharge will be added for certain third-party online bidding platforms the bidder utilizes. Refer to your bidding platform of choice for the final buyer’s premium.

SALES TAX

MORPHY’S is required to collect sales tax where our company established nexus in the previous year. Sales tax rate will be charged by law on behalf of the state and locality where the customer of record takes possession of their purchase. Lots are subject to all applicable state and local taxes, unless appropriate permits are on file with MORPHY’S including lots delivered to you, or your representative. It is the bidder’s responsibility to know the sales tax rate applicable. As a convenience, here is a resource to find your applicable sales tax: https://www.taxjar.com/sales-tax-calculator. Bidder agrees to pay MORPHY’S the actual amount of tax due in the event that sales tax is not properly collected due to: 1) an expired, inaccurate, or inappropriate tax certificate or declaration, 2) an incorrect interpretation of the applicable statute, 3) or any other reason. The appropriate form or certificate must be on file at and verified by MORPHY’S five days prior to Auction, or tax must be paid; only if such form or certificate is received by MORPHY’S within 4 days after the Auction can a refund of tax paid be made. Lots from different auctions may not be aggregated for sales tax purposes.

PAYMENT, INTEREST & STORAGE FEES

Any invoice totaling more than $100,000 must be paid within three (3) days. All other merchandise must be paid in full within seven (7) days of the date of the invoice. Payments can be made by going to your account online at www.morphyauctions.com, call 877-968-8880 or mail payment to: Dan Morphy Auctions LLC 2000 N Reading Rd, Denver, PA 17517. Upon payment in full, it is (continued...)

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Terms & Conditions the bidder’s responsibility to submit any additional information necessary, including an FFL, to initiate transfer and shipping. Interest will be charged on all balances not paid at the rate of 1-1/2% monthly (18% APR) effective 30 days from the invoice date. All goods not retrieved by Buyer within 45 days after the invoice date, shall be subject to a daily storage fee as follows: $5/day per regular sized item or $10/day per oversized item. Buyer authorizes MORPHY’s to sell, at their standard commission and consignment contract terms, any goods not retrieved after a 90-day period in any manner deemed appropriate by MORPHY’s and the proceeds will be applied to any outstanding balance due from the buyer.

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Any outstanding balance will be auto charged to the credit card on file. If you wish to pay by another method, please contact us within 48 hours after the sale. We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, personal checks, certified checks, wire transfers, money orders, and cash. • CREDIT CARD – If a credit card is used as any form of total payment, invoice will reflect a 3% surcharge on the entire invoice. This charge is automatically added but will be discounted if payment is received by cash, check, money order or wire transfer. MORPHY’s reserves the right to refuse to ship to a different address than the billing address on the credit card being used. • CHECK - There will be a $30.00 service charge for returned checks. Make checks payable to: Dan Morphy Auctions LLC. MORPHY’S reserves the right to hold items paid for by personal or company check until said check clears (14 days). MORPHY’S has the right to hold all checks over $2,000. Customers who have an established successful buying history with MORPHY’S may be exempt from this requirement. We will accept a personal or company check >$2,000 from a first time buyer if you provide a Bank Letter of Credit, available on our website, www.morphyauctions.com. • WIRE TRANSFERS – There will be a $30 charge added to all wire transfers less than $2,000. Please add this amount to your invoice total before sending a wire transfer. In the few situations where a successful bidder does not remit payment when due, MORPHY’S will proceed with the legal steps necessary to protect its interests and will block the bidder from future auction participation.

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PACKING/SHIPPING

• It is the bidder’s responsibility to take shipping, handling, and insurance costs into consideration when bidding on items. • BIDDERS PRESENT AND TAKING ITEMS AFTER AUCTION – Since item liability transfers upon a successful bid, items paid for must be packed, transported and/or removed by the buyer at his/ her own risk after the close of the sale. We recommend that you arrange insurance for your items immediately upon becoming the highest bidder. If any employee or agent of MORPHY’S shall pack or transport the merchandise, it is fully at the risk and responsibility and expense of the buyer. MORPHY’S shall not be held liable for any loss or damage that may be caused by the said agent or employee. • ITEMS NOT PICKED UP THE DAY OF THE SALE – Packaging, shipping, and insurance on all items that MORPHY’S agrees to ship to locations that can accept shipments will be made available as an added courtesy and at an additional cost. We recommend that you arrange insurance for your items immediately upon becoming the highest bidder. All applicable charges will be applied to the invoice. Shipping will be based on actual costs via FedEx, USPS, or other carriers required based upon the contents of the shipment.

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Packaging and insurance will vary in cost depending on the items on each invoice. All packages will be shipped with insurance. Oversize and breakable items, which MORPHY’S will indicate on the invoice will ship based upon the buyer’s arrangement with a 3rd party shipper. MORPHY’s cannot combine standard item shipments with oversize and breakable item shipments. If any employee or agent of MORPHY’S shall pack or transport the merchandise, it is fully at the risk and responsibility and expense of the buyer. MORPHY’S shall not be held liable for any loss or damage that may be caused by the said agent or employee. SHIPPING TERMS - MORPHY’S will ship items to the buyer at the listed address via FedEx or other carriers, FOB Denver, Pennsylvania or FOB other auction locations. Any risk of loss or damage to the item(s) during transit via FedEx, or any other carrier, in excess of the insurance provided by or purchased from MORPHY’S, is at the risk of the buyer. Any additional insurance coverage should be purchased by the buyer through the carrier. Buyer releases MORPHY’s from any and all claims for loss or damage to any item during transit and agrees to pay all costs of defense, including attorney’s fees, for any claims brought against MORPHY’S for loss or damage occurring during transit. INSURANCE - Shipping insurance is automatically added, which you can decline by contacting us and providing a signed waiver of insurance form. Insurance for all 3rd party shipments must be arranged through that carrier. Insurance provided or purchased through MORPHY’s applies only to shipments to the United States and Canada. Buyers must purchase their own insurance for shipments to other countries. INTERNATIONAL SHIPMENTS – MORPHY’S welcomes our international customers. MOPRHY’S can provide upon request a complete process and set of recommended company contacts with whom the Buyer can work to understand the steps, timing, and cost to acquire items at auction. It shall be the potential buyer’s sole responsibility to research and satisfy the requirements of any laws and regulations that apply to the import and export of property and for paying all shipping costs, customs and duties on the items. By law, MORPHY’S cannot, and will not, declare lesser values for any international purchases and all shipments will include the invoice with purchase totals including the buyer’s premium and shipping cost. 3RD PARTY SHIPPING of OVERSIZE ITEMS – Buyers will need to either pick up the items personally or arrange a 3rd party shipping service for oversize items. As a general guideline, the following will indicate which packages apply, as they are of a certain weight, length, or dimensional size. ∙ Dimensional size is length (the longest measurement) + (height x 2) + (width x 2). For example a 36” x 36” x 12” package = 36 + (36 x2) + (12 x 2) = 132” ∙ USA home shipments must be <70 lbs. and <108” length and <165” dimensional size ∙ USA business shipments must be <150 lbs. and <108” length and <165” dimensional size ∙ International shipments must be <150 lbs. and <108” length and <130” dimensional size ∙ There may be certain shipments that meet these requirements that will still require 3rd party shipping, and we will communicate the reason in those cases. 3RD PARTY SHIPPING OF BREAKABLE ITEMS - MORPHY’S reserves the right to choose items and orders that it will pack, ship, and/or insure directly using our shipping department. Those items that MORPHY’S will not ship will require that the buyer either pick up the items personally or arrange a 3rd party shipping service. Examples of items that may apply after determination by our (continued...)

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Terms & Conditions shipping department include but are not limited to: items with neon of any type (working or non-working), all glass display cases of any size; coin-operated, arcade and vending items with fragile parts and/or glass; signs with parts or protrusions beyond the main body of the sign, oversized vases (guideline – larger than fit in a 20” x 20” x 40” box), high value lamps and glass of all sizes, high value artwork including but not limited to paintings, statuary, sculpture, figurines, dioramas, and other intricate items; and items subject to impact by moisture and known handling issues in the supply chain. Under no circumstances will MORPHY’S be responsible for shipping damage to picture frames of any kind. • For any buyers who wish to arrange for their own shipping, MORPHY’S must be notified at least seven (7) days prior to arrival of the shipping company name, arrival date and time. Pickup must be scheduled to begin and end within our normal business hours (9am – 4pm weekdays). Buyers must arrange weekend pickups in advance with MORPHY’S staff, and additional charges may be necessary for overtime. All 3rd party shippers must arrive with a copy of the invoice. • STORAGE FEE – MORPHY’S will charge a daily storage fee of $5/ day per regular sized item or $10/day per oversized item for any items awaiting pickup for more than 45 days following the invoice date. Buyer authorizes the MORPHY’s to sell, at their standard commission and consignment contract terms, any goods not retrieved after a 90-day period in any manner deemed appropriate by MORPHY’s and the proceeds will be applied to any outstanding balance due from the buyer.

AGREEMENT REGARDING GOVERNING LAW, VENUE, AND LEGAL RIGHTS

I hereby understand and agree that any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to MORPHY’S Bidder Terms & Conditions, which includes this provision (hereafter referred to as “Terms & Conditions”), MORPHY’S, or the breach thereof (hereafter referred to as “Claims”), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. I hereby irrevocably submit to the personal jurisdiction of the appropriate court in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to the Claims and their enforcement, and I agree that any and all Claims must be adjudicated, heard, determined, and resolved in said court, and I hereby irrevocably waive any objection on the ground that any such action or proceeding in said court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. MORPHY’S failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms & Conditions or any other legal rights, shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver of any provision of these Terms & Conditions by MORPHY’S must be made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of MORPHY’S specifically referencing the provision(s) contained within the Terms & Conditions to be waived. Headings used in the Terms & Conditions are for convenience only and are not to be relied upon. If any provision of the Terms & Conditions is

found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms & Conditions shall remain in full force and effect. These Terms & Conditions will inure to the benefit of, and are intended to be, enforceable by MORPHY’S, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, members, directors, officers, and licensees. There are no third party beneficiaries to these Terms & Conditions; a person or entity who is not a party or signatory to these Terms & Conditions has no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely upon or enforce any term or provision of these Terms & Conditions.

POST SALE RETURN POLICY

MORPHY’S engages knowledgeable experts to provide catalog descriptions on the merchandise we sell. Every effort is made to ensure those descriptions are accurate and that they fully disclose any exceptions to condition. Any buyer who has made their payment within the due date of 7 calendar days who wishes to report a problem must notify MORPHY’S within three calendar (3) days of receipt of their purchased item. Buyers who have not made their payment within the due date of 7 days may not return any items under any circumstances. No lots purchased by floor bidders (including those bidders acting as agents for others) may be returned. Please refer to MORPHY’S limited guarantee herein. A Return Authorization Number (RA#) must be issued by MORPHY’S before you ship anything back to our address. Any items arriving without a return authorization will not be given a refund. The item in question must be shipped with the RA# on the outside and inside of the package, with full insurance, so it arrives at MORPHY’S within one week of the aforementioned authorization. PRIVACY TO REVIEW OUR PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE VISIT WWW.MORPHYAUCTIONS.COM/PRIVACY-POLICY All rights reserved. Entire contents copyright 2022, Dan Morphy Auctions LLC. Copyright includes, but is not limited to, print media, microform and electronic media, such as CD-ROMS and online computer services.

ABSENTEE BID FORM Auction:

May 17 - Early Arms & Militaria 2000 N. READING RD • DENVER, PA 17517 P/ 877-968-8880 F/ 717-336-7115

www.morphyauctions.com

Step 1 - Circle Bidding Option Phone Line

Absentee Bid

Phone line: Morphy Auctions staff will call you 5 lots prior to the item(s) you wish to bid on. Absentee: Morphy Auctions staff will execute your left bid(s) as if you were in attendance.

Step 2 - List Lot/Bid Information Lot #

Bid Increments: $0 - $500/$25 $200 - $500/$25

Please print clearly.

Description

Absentee Bid

Phone Emergency Bid

Applies to phone bidders only.

PLEASE NOTE ~

$500 - $1,000/$50 $1,000 - 2,000/$100

Step 3 - Fill Out Personal Contact Info

$2,000 - $5,000/$200 $5,000 - $10,000/$500 $10,000/Auctioneer’s Discretion

Emergency bids are executed only if Morphy Auctions is unable to contact the bidder via the phone number(s) provided.

Please print clearly.

Name Address City

State

Phone Line 1

Phone Line 2

Zip

Email I accept that all bids do not include the buyer’s premium of 23%. I accept that all bids are subject to the TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE printed in the catalog. My signature ser ves as an agreement to the terms stated on this form.

Signature Print Name

Date

MEET THE TEAM LEADERSHIP TEAM

Dan Morphy

President & Founder

Shaye Krispine Director of Operations & Auctioneer

Tom Tolworthy Chief Executive Officer

Jamie Griffin

Customer Experience Manager

Dana Costello Chief Financial Officer

Scot Kauffman

General Manager Firearms

Chris Hince Consignment Manager

Kenn Bennett

Director of Marketing

Colleen VanBaak Salesforce Administrator

INDUSTRY LEADING EXPERTS

Russ Withem

Firearms Specialist

David Wyatt

David Geiger Arms & Armor Specialist

NFA Specialist

John Keene

Michael Salisbury Firearms Specialist

Firearms Specialist

Brian Manifor

John Morphy, M.D.

Gary Metz Consignment Assessment & Procurement

Tommy Sage, Jr.

German Military Artifacts (1813 to 1945) Expert

Western Antiques & Weapons Expert

John Mihovetz

Don Grimmer

Department Head & Expert Automobilia & Petroliana

West Coast Acquisitions, Coin-Op & Advertising Expert

Acquisitions/ Appraisals

Brian Burke

Soda & Advertising Specialist

Peter Thomson

Antique & Modern Silver Consultant

Dan Mackel

Head of Toys &

James Infante

Amphora & Pottery Consultant

David Cruz

Jeremy Hatch

Willi Zahn

Firearms Specialist

Firearms Consultant

German Militaria & Military/Target Firearms Expert

Joel Lazarus

John & Nancy Smith

Mike Harrington

Train Consultant

Ron Ciarmello

Fine & Decorative Arts Division, Jewelry & Timepiece Specialist

Figural Cast Iron Consultants

Cast Iron, Toy & Horse-Drawn Expert

Jim Maley

Acquisitions & Promotions

MORPHY AUCTIONS | 2000 North Reading Road • Denver, PA 17517 | Phone: 877-968-8880 • Fax: 717-336-7115

MEET THE TEAM ACCOUNTING TEAM

Dana Costello Chief Financial Officer

Abbe Shearer

Assistant Controller

Ashley Messner

Accounting Specialist

MARKETING TEAM

Kenn Bennett

Director of Marketing

Thomas MacDonald Production Manager

Mary Beth Nocera

Dana Hipszer

Tasha Lopez

Becky Stellmach

Senior Photographer

Senior Graphic Designer

Photographer

Emily Malloy

Liz Crasten

Alex Conn

Photographer

Maegan Griffin

Graphic Designer

CUSTOMER SERVICE & POST AUCTION TEAM

Jamie Griffin

Customer Experience Manager

John Morphy

Customer Experience Associate

Jeremy Bailey

Customer Experience Associate

Caleb Enck

Operations Administration & Auctioneer

Melissa Ober

Tucker Nelson

Josh Dobroskey

Ben Shupp

Glenn Peters

Alicia Lancto

Inside Sales Coordinator

FIREARMS TEAM

Scot Kauffman

General Manager Firearms

Myles Welsh

NFA Compliance Specialist

Eric Wagner

Firearms Researcher & Cataloger

Firearms Compliance Specialist

Militaria Consignment Associate

Firearms Consignment Associate

Cheryl Goyda

Firearms Acquisitions & Promotions

OPERATIONS & CONSIGNMENT TEAM

Shaye Krispine

Chris Hince

Nate Burkholder Lead Operations Associate

Operations Associate

Angel Lopez

Kayla Specht

Brandon Law

Hilary Boettcher

Olha Vetterlein

Ben Brossman

Director of Operations & Auctioneer

Display Coordinator & Auctioneer

Mike Zane

Shipping Associate

Consignment Manager

Process Center Manager

Consignment Associate

Ugo Liberti

Consignment Associate

Zach Moran

Consignment Associate

Peyton Stetter

Transcriptionist

Darryl Eberly

Operations Associate

Ryan Kelly

Shipping Manager

Andrew Martin

Operations Associate

UPCOMING AUCTION SCHEDULE

Early Arms & Militaria May 17

Collectible Firearms & MIlitaria July 12 - 14

Extraordinary Firearms May 18

Toy & General Collectibles August 9 & 10

Fine & Decorative Arts June 8 & 9

Soda Pop & Soda Fountain Advertising August 24

Coins & Currency June 22

The Henri Krijnen Collection September 9 & 10

Auction dates & consignment deadlines are subject to change. Please call to verify.

Steve Hynds

Operations Associate

Chris Sayres

Shipping Associate

THANK YOU Morphy Auctions is honored that you are considering entrusting your collection to us. Through every step of the process, from appraisal to auction, we are devoted to you and your collection. We are sure you will be proud of your collection’s presentation and pleased with the unrivaled customer service provided by the Morphy staff. We look forward to doing business with you. Please contact us if you have any additional questions.

PLEASE NOTE: BIDDING IS NOT AVAILABLE IN THIS CATALOG. This digital catalog is only for viewing the items included in this auction.

To bid on any items you see in this catalog, visit www.MorphyAuctions.com and click on bidding.