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ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR & MODERN SPORTING GUNS Monday June 13, 2016 San Francisco ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR & MODERN SPORTING GUNS ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR & MODERN SPORTING | San Francisco Monday June 13, 2016 23410 ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR AND MODERN SPORTING GUNS Monday June 13, 2016 at 10am San Francisco BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES Automated Results Service 220 San Bruno Avenue +1 (800) 223 2854 San Francisco +1 (800) 223 2854 San Francisco, California 94103 +1 (415) 861 8951 fax Paul Carella bonhams.com +1 (415) 503 3360 ILLUSTRATIONS To bid via the internet please visit [email protected] Front cover: Lot 1042 PREVIEW www.bonhams.com/23410 Back cover: Lot 1162 San Francisco James Ferrell Friday, June 10, 12pm to 5pm Please note that telephone bids +1 (415) 503 3332 Saturday, June 11, 12pm to 5pm must be submitted no later than [email protected] Sunday, June 12, 12pm to 5pm 4pm on the day prior to the auction. New bidders must also SALE NUMBER: 23410 provide proof of identity and Lots 1000 - 1390 address when submitting bids. For assistance in registering to CATALOG: $35 bid, or if you have any questions regarding an upcoming auction, please contact Client Services at [email protected] or +1 (415) 861 7500. Please see pages 181 to 185 for bidder information including Conditions of Sale, after-sale collection and shipment. Bonhams 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco, California 94103 © 2016, Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp.; All rights reserved. Bond No. 57BSBGL0808 PROPERTY OF VARIOUS OWNERS Lots 1000 – 1390 1000-1003 1000 1002 A SWEDISH BREASTPLATE A SWEDISH INFANTRY KETTLE HELMET 17TH CENTURY 17TH CENTURY The heavy breastplate with medial ridge extending to just above the The rounded two-piece skull raised and turned over at the join to slightly pointed lower rim; neck and arms gussets and lower edge form a long comb, the lower edge flanged to form a wide down with turned and slightly flanged rims. Armory marks below the neck turned brim with guttered and rolled rim, the gutter pierced with small include LX and B. Front retaining shoulder strap lugs, the edges holes for a lining and embossed on the underside to form a series retain all but three of the lining lugs. Interior retains much of what of small bosses. Lower edge of skull retains most of the small lining appears to be original burlap liner. rivets, the interior of some with partial remains of leather liner. Condition: Dark grey metal showing scattered marks, light pitting and Condition: Showing numerous marks, light pitting and several small delamination. tears. See Illustration See Illustration Weight: 17 lbs. US$1,500 - 2,500 US$1,500 - 2,500 1001 A SWEDISH CABASSET MID-17TH CENTURY Heavy one-piece almond-shaped skull with small ‘stem’ at the apex and retaining thirteen steel lining rivets with their iron rosettes; lower edge flanged to form a slightly down-turned brim with roped rim. Condition: Grey metal has been cleaned and shows scattered marks, areas of pitting and some delamination. See Illustration US$1,000 - 1,500 ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR & MODERN SPORTING GUNS | 3 1003 1004 1003 1004 A CONTINENTAL BREASTPLATE A GERMAN GORGET LATE 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY NUREMBURG, 16TH CENTURY The heavy, globose breastplate with central rib, the upper rim Comprising a main plate bearing the Nuremburg mark, the upper strongly flanged and turned over; sides pierced and notched at the edge flanged and riveted with two neck lames, the uppermost with upper ends for the arm gussets, now missing; lower rim flanged turned rim. and fitted with four lame fauld, probably of the period, the upper Condition: Grey metal showing light staining/minor pitting. rims notched, the lower lame flanged in the center for a codpiece; See Illustration associated six lame tassets, probably 17th century, the upper rims with three deep notches in the center, the inner rims and bottom rim US$500 - 700 of the lowermost plate hollowed to form a raised border. Condition: Breastplate pitted overall, one side with a replaced plate Provenance below the gusset cut-outs. Fauld with areas of staining/light pitting. Tassets lightly pitted overall. ex William Randolph Hurst collection, Parke-Bernet, 1952. See Illustration US$1,000 - 2,000 4 | BONHAMS 1005 1006 1005 1006 A FULL SUIT OF ARMOR IN 16TH CENTURY STYLE A GOLD DAMASCENED PERSIAN SHIELD Comprising a combed close helmet, neck defence, heavy breastplate 19TH CENTURY with rolled rims, medial ridge and probably 17th century, the lower The domed steel shield etched and chased with panels of floral edge with later tassets; full leg and arm defences. Fitted with scrollwork within multiple borders, the main border with panels of reproduction halberd and mounted of a square oak plinth. mounted hunters alternating with panels of animal combat; the Condition: Showing some light pitting/age patina. center panel with four bosses engraved with florals, the whole See Illustration highlighted with gold koftgari. Interior with glued velour lining. Condition: Losses to gilt decoration and showing areas of rust patination. US$1,500 - 2,500 See Illustration US$1,000 - 1,500 ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR & MODERN SPORTING GUNS | 5 1007 1008 1007 AN INDIAN PLATE AND MAIL SHIRT 17TH CENTURY The thigh-length shirt with short sleeves and composed of riveted links. The front fitted on each side with rectangular plates, the right side with short inscription, and with long, narrow plates behind. The back with three rows of narrow, overlapping plates. Condition: Good. See Illustration US$1,000 - 1,500 Note: One of a large group of similar shirts, of varying degrees of quality, that were captured by Anup Singh, Maharajah of Bikaner, in Rajasthan when, as General in the army of the Emperor Aurangze, he defeated the last defender of the Adil-Shah dynasty at Bijapur at the Siege of the Adoni Fortress in 1689 1008 AN INDIAN HELMET, KULAH-KHUD 19TH CENTURY The skull etched overall with panels of florals, game and inscriptions highlighted with silver koftgari with a band of oval inscription panels above the lower rim; top fied with a 6 inch spike, the front with two plume sockets and a bracket-mounted sliding nasal; lower edge fitted with camail of butted links. Condition: Showing some wear to decoration and losses to mail. See Illustration US$500 - 800 1009 6 | BONHAMS 1010 1009 1010 A RARE TIBETAN HELMET A LOT OF THREE BRONZE AGE AXE HEADS AND TWO MACE PROBABLY 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY HEADS The skull formed of sixteen overlapping steel plates riveted together, Comprising: 1) Phoenician ‘duck bill’ axe head, 2nd Millennium B.C., the exterior plates with scalloped rims and prominent central ribs, the 4 inch axe head with two oval piercings. 2) Caananite fenestrated the upper tips of the ribs notched to enclose the base of the plume axe head, 2nd Millennium B.C., 4 1/2 inches with two large circular mount. Exterior of some of the interior plates retaining areas of red piercings. 3) Heavy axe head, probably Luristan, 10th-8th century pigment. Cylindrical plume mount swelling at the center and top and B.C., 3 inch blade with convex edge, poll formed as a crescent- fitted with later horsehair plume. Front of helmet with reinforcing plate shaped blade, socket molded with circular and herringbone panels. shaped to the brow and secured by brass-headed rivets. Lower edge 4) Luristani mace head, 10th-8th century B.C., ovoid head with two of the helmet pierced with eleven holes for securing the neck guard, rows of five spikes, the upper row longer. 5) Another, the tapering now missing. ovoid body molded with rows of small bosses overall. 6) Included Condition: Dark brown patina overall. with the lot, a bronze trident with 7 inch socket flaring to a flat panel See Illustration supporting three narrow 9 inch tines. Condition: 1) Heavy crusted patina overall. 2) Patina with some US$500 - 1,000 flaking. 3) Edges sharpened. 4) Some breakage to spikes and collars. 5) Heavy patina and accretion overall. 6) Tines bent. Note: See Plate 3 of Warriors of the Himalayas, Rediscovering the See Illustration Arms and Armor of Tibet, Donald J. LaRocca, et al, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, for a helmet of very similar construction and US$1,000 - 1,500 tentatively dated to the 14th or 15th century. ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR & MODERN SPORTING GUNS | 7 1011 1012 8 | BONHAMS 1013 1011 1013 A RARE VIKING AXE HEAD AN ITALIAN CINQUEDEA IN EARLY 16TH CENTURY STYLE CIRCA 900 AD ATTRIBUTED TO THE ATELIER OF ERNST SCHMIDT, MUNICH, The heavy iron blade with 4 inch concave steel edge and wide LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY socket, the lower edge of pronounced scalloped form. Wide socket, Broad 24 1/2 inch blade of familiar triangular form, one side stamped the upper rim rising to points on either side; the lower rim extending with two cruciform marks. Hilt with down curving iron quillons, downward, the front cut away to conform to the curve of the blade, gripscales of translucent cow horn with conforming fluted pommel the back with concave cut-out. cap. Sold with a copy, No. 255 of 1000, of Arms Armor From the Condition: Relic condition showing dark patina and heavy pitting Atelier of Ernst Schmidt Munich, ed. E. Andrew Mowbray. overall. Condition: Showing areas of light pitting. See Illustration See Illustration US$1,000 - 2,000 US$1,000 - 1,500 Provenance James Gamble Collection. Note: See a similar cinquedea on page 23 of the accompanying volume. 1012 A SAXON LEFT-HAND DAGGER LATE 16TH CENTURY Straight 13 1/2 inch blade of stiff diamond section with faceted ricasso.