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ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOR AND MODERN SPORTING GUNS Monday June 12, 2017 San Francisco ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOR AND MODERN SPORTING GUNS ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOR AND MODERN SPORTING | San Francisco Monday June 12, 2017 23979 ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOR AND MODERN SPORTING GUNS Monday June 12, 2017 at 10am San Francisco BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS 220 San Bruno Avenue +1 (800) 223 2854 San Francisco Front cover: Lot 68 San Francisco, California 94103 +1 (415) 861 8951 fax Paul Carella Back cover: Lot 20 bonhams.com [email protected] +1 (415) 503 3360 [email protected] PREVIEW To bid via the internet please visit San Francisco www.bonhams.com/23979 James Ferrell Friday June 9, 12pm to 5pm +1 (415) 503 3332 Saturday June 10, 12pm to 5pm Please note that bids should be [email protected] Sunday June 11, 12pm to 5pm summited no later than 24hrs prior to the sale. New Bidders SALE NUMBER: 23979 must also provide proof of Lots 1 - 261 identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in CATALOG: $35 your bid not being processed. LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE Please email bids.us@bonhams. com with “Live bidding” in the subject line 48hrs before the auction to register for this service. Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with a lower estimate in excess of $1000. Please see pages 97 to 99 for bidder information including Conditions of Sale, after-sale collection and shipment. Bonhams 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco, California 94103 © 2017, Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp.; All rights reserved. Bond No. 57BSBGL0808 1 2 PROPERTY FROM VARIOUS OWNERS 1 2 A MASSIVE NIELLO SILVER-MOUNTED OTTOMAN BLACK A NIELLO SILVER-MOUNTED RUSSIAN KINDJAL SEAS DAGGER DATED 1906 19TH CENTURY Broad 14 1/2 inch double edge blade with offset fuller, the obverse Broad 16 inch double edged blade having multiple fullers etched etched with scrollwork and inscribed panels framing the fuller. Hilt with damascus pattern, the centermost with a small reserved panel of familiar form, the niello silver mounts incised with foliage, the grip bearing a gold-filled spade-shaped maker’s mark. Niello silver hilt scales of dark grey cow horn. Black leather-covered scabbard with decorated on both sides with floral meander within beaded borders. niello silver mounts, the front sides deeply chased with scrolling Black leather-covered scabbard with three-piece niello silver throat florals; rear of throat inscribed in Cyrillic Caucasus/1906. Throat decorated en suite to hilt; long steel chape decorated on both sides and chape with Russian hallmarks; post-1908 kokoshnik marks for with silver koftgari scrollwork. St. Petersburg and with maker’s mark AT in a rectangle, possibly Condition: Blade showing light staining overall with a few small areas Alexander Edward Tillander, St. Petersburg, 1850-1918. of dark staining/pitting. Hilt and scabbard throat with some minor Condition: Blade showing scattered scratches and some minor marks. Scabbard with losses to leather covering. Chape showing pitting/staining. Hilt and scabbard with minor marks and wear. some losses to silver overlay. See Illustration See Illustration US$1,500 - 2,500 US$3,000 - 5,000 Note: One of a group of large qama, or kindjal, attributed to the north eastern coast of Turkey around Trebizond (now Trabzon), located near Georgia. 2 | BONHAMS 3-5 3 4 5 A NORTH PERSIAN QAMA AN UNUSUAL SHORT SWORD A GILT SILVER-MOUNTED SAUDI 19TH CENTURY PROBABLY PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, LATE ARABIAN JAMBIYA Broad, curved 16 inch single edged blade 19TH CENTURY LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY molded with three fullers and having two Slightly curved 21 inch blade of Japanese Broad, curved 7 inch blade with prominent blued and gilt panels on either side; one side form and engraved on either side below central rib. Hilt and scabbard of familiar form with engraved maker’s mark. Grip scales the spine with panels of meander. Guard and decorated overall with bands and panels of dark cow horn, the steel tang bosses in the form of a tsuba and made of three of faceted silver beads within beaded gilt secured on the reverse by Persian silver brass plates with lobed rims and pierced borders. coins. Scabbard covered in green velour, the and punched decoration. Grip composed Condition: Blade with smooth dark metal. Hilt engraved mounts of low grade silver. of bone, ebony and rosewood sections and scabbard fine. Condition: Blade with scattered light separated by brass and pewter washers. See Illustration scratches. Grip scales with some chipping. Two-piece wooden scabbard secured by Scabbard mounts with scattered marks. narrow copper bands, the upper two with US$400 - 600 See Illustration suspension rings. Condition: Blade showing scattered US$650 - 950 scratches and light spotting, the tip heavily corroded. Hilt fine. Scabbard with some losses at the tip. See Illustration US$300 - 500 ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOR AND MODERN SPORTING GUNS | 3 6-7 6 7 8 A CHINESE CASE OF SWORDS A COMPOSITE MONGOLIAN SHORT A LOT OF THREE SILVER-MOUNTED 19TH CENTURY SWORD MOROCCAN DAGGERS, KOUMMIYA Each with 15 1/2 inch double edged blade of 19TH CENTURY 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY triangular section decorated with inlaid brass Curved 14 1/2 inch single edged blade with Comprising 1) 9 1/4 inch curved blade; roundels. Brass-mounted hilts, the guards slender fuller above a design of five punched silver-mounted wooden grip, the ferrule cast and chased as lion masks, the ferrules dots, the base covered with an engraved gilt and flat pommel cap chased with scrolls and pommels with scrollwork. Reeded brass panel. Oval gilt brass guard pierced and borders; silver scabbard. 2) 8 3/4 inch green cow horn grips. Scabbard covered in and engraved with scrollwork, the rayskin- curved blade; waisted wooden grip with white rayskin; brass mounts, the throat and covered scabbard with brass mounts en central swell flanked by silver straps, the chape cast and pierced with scrollwork, the suite to guard. Associated pale green jade ferrule and cocked hat pommel deeply cast suspension with a dragon amidst clouds. grip not fastened to tang, carved on both and chased with scrollwork; brass scabbard Condition: Blades showing scattered sides with a writhing dragon, the ferrule faced with silver en suite to hilt. 3) Straight 11 scratches and minor spotting. Hilt and overlaid with silver scrollwork. inch double edged blade with maker’s mark scabbard mounts with dark patina, the Condition: Blade showing scattered light at ricasso; silver-mounted wooden grip of central scabbard mount with breaks to front pitting and scratches. Scabbard with losses familiar form; steel scabbard with silver throat and back; one small area of loss to rayskin. to rayskin. Excellent gripg. and chape. See Illustration See Illustration Condition: All very good. Blades of 1) and 2) with minor rust patination. US$600 - 800 US$1,000 - 2,000 See Illustration US$1,000 - 1,500 4 | BONHAMS 8 ANTIQUE ARMS & ARMOR AND MODERN SPORTING GUNS | 5 9 12 A LOT OF FOUR SILVER-MOUNTED MOROCCAN DAGGERS, A SILVER-HILTED PERSIAN SHAMSHIR KOUMIYYA MOUNTS LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE BLADE 17TH OR LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY 18TH CENTURY Comprising: 1) Curved 10 inch blade with long, sharpened false Curved 34 inch watered steel blade, one side with chiseled maker’s edge; wooden grip, the silver-faced brass mounts engraved with cartouche, Oh Fulfiller of Needs/Work of Assad Allah, framed with scrollwork; brass scabbard also faced with engraved silver panels. 2) inlaid gold banding. Dark steel guard showing slight traces of gold Slightly curved 9 1/2 inch blade; brass hilt and scabbard of familiar overlaid borders. One-piece silver hilt, the pommel in the form of a form and faced with crudely engraved silver. 3) Slightly curved 8 ram’s head, the grip with repeating punched decoration simulating 3/4 inch blade; hilt and scabbard of low grade silver engraved with wool. Original leather-covered scabbard with simple steel suspension panels of scrolls and rocker-engraved borders; reverse of scabbard mounts, the brass throat with punched decoration in the form of with inscription. 4) Curved 6 inch blade; wooden grip bound in repeating borders and central sunburst design. leather with engraved silver pommel cap; copper scabbard. Condition: Blade showing some wear to watered pattern and minor Condition: Blades showing light spotting. 2) Wear to silver. 4) Grip areas of staining. Hilt with minor marks. Scabbard with scattered missing scabbard cover. marks. See Illustration US$600 - 800 US$2,000 - 4,000 10 A LOT OF TWO KHYBER KNIVES AND A KINDJAL 13 Comprising: 1) Russian kindjal; straight 16 inch double edged blade AN OTTOMAN SHAMSHIR WITH SILVER-MOUNTED with slightly off-set fuller, hilt of familiar form with scales of dark cow SCABBARD horn; leather-covered scabbard with steel tip and suspension mount. 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY 2) Two Indian Khyber knives of similar form; 19 inch single edged Curved 32 inch blade of finely watered steel with broad 26 inch fuller blades with T-form spines and slight engraved decoration above the below the spine. Guard and grip spine of browned steel. Brown horn bird’s head hilts, the grip scales of dark cow horn; leather-covered grip scales with bulbous pommel of familiar form. Black leather- scabbards. covered scabbard, the long silver mounts chased with floral borders Condition: 1) Blade cleaned and showing light scratches. Hilt fine. and panoplies of Ottoman arms. Scabbard scuffed. 2) Blades showing cleaning scratches and light Condition: Blade showing some wear to watered pattern and some spotting. Hilts with minor chipping. Scabbards with light scuffing. scattered light pitting.
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