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Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale Wednesday 04 December 2013 12:00 Thomas Del Mar Ltd 25 Blythe Road London W14 0PD Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 inscribed with Japanese characters **A JAPANESE SILVER-MOUNTED DAGGER (AIKUCHI Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 TANTO) with single-edged blade with wavy hamon and a long fuller on each face, signed tang pierced with two mekugi-ana, engraved copper ferrule, banded lacquered grip with silver Lot: 7 mounts decorated with foliage in soft metal, in its lacquered **A CHINESE DECORATED SWORD (DAO), QING saya with silver mounts en suite, and complete with silver DYNASTY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with curved fullered blade accompanying pieces comprising wari-kogai and kozuka double-edged towards the point, the forte enclosed by a 22.5cm; 8 7/8in blade The tang is signed "Kunihiro" shaped panel on each side, copper hilt comprising circular Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 guard with a down-turned brim, ferrule and pommel, all finely inlaid with traditional designs of scrollwork involving stylised dragons, wooden grip bound with cord, in its wooden scabbard Lot: 2 retaining a portion of its leather covering (the lower leather A JAPANESE DAGGER (AIKUCHI TANTO), DATED 1784 with replaced), with copper mounts inlaid with gold en suite with the single-edged blade (small nicks), signed tang pierced with a hilt, comprising characteristic shaped chape, locket, a pair of single mekugi-ana, iron tsuba pierced and chiselled with leaves bands, the latter two joined by a gilt brass panel pierced and and enriched with soft metal, fabric-bound sharkskin-covered chiselled with pairs of addorsed dragons, and retaining much grip with soft metal mounts including menuki, and the kabuto- gold throughout 77.5 cm; 30 ½ in blade A number of swords of gane decorated with a wave pattern, in its lacquered wooden related type and decoration are preserved in the Palace saya decorated with garlands of gilt flowers, complete with Museum, Beijing. See Beijing 2008, pp. 154-171. signed kozuka decorated with a carp 23.5 cm; 9 1/4 in blade Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 The tanto is signed 'Sendai ju Kunikane' and dated 1784. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 8 **A CHINESE SWORD (DAO), QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH Lot: 3 CENTURY with curved blade formed with a scalloped back- A JAPANESE DAGGER (AIKUCHI), AND A BONE-MOUNTED edge, cut with a long fuller and a further fuller divided into four SWORD (KATANA), 19TH CENTURY the first with curved sections with copper pellets between, cut with a stylised dragon single-edged blade formed with a long fuller and wavy hamon, on one side of the forte and a series of Chinese characters on plain tang pierced with two mekugi-ana, the grip bound with the other (Danei shiwei zhuanyong: Exclusive use for the baleen and with soft metal sea shell menuki, in its lacquered Imperial guards) copper hilt comprising dish guard, ferrule and saya with signed kozuka; the second with single-edged blade, pommel all cast with traditional scrolls in low relief, and wooden the hilt and scabbard of characteristic sectional bone carved grip bound with cord 74 cm; 29 ¼ in blade and engraved with a vertical arrangement of figures in Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 contemporary dress the first: 26.8 cm; 10 5/8 in blade (2) The kozuka signature reads Monju Taro Kanekiyo. Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Lot: 9 A RARE 28 BORE CHINESE MATCHLOCK GUN, 18TH/19TH CENTURY AND A .620 CALIBRE AFGHAN FLINTLOCK Lot: 4 RIFLE, 19TH CENTURY the first with swamped sighted barrel A JAPANESE SHORT SWORD (WAKIZASHI) AND ANOTHER retained by two brass bands, the breech with standing back- SWORD (KATANA) with first with curved single-edged blade sight and integral pan with pivot-cover, the action enclosed with wavy hamon (chips), tang with later signature 'Echizen no within the stock, retained by a brass plaque, curved iron kami Sukehiro' pierced with a single mekugi-ana, in shira saya; serpentine and trigger, hardwood full stock (small cracks) the second with curved single-edged blade, and signed tang including a flat forward lug for resting and a rounded rear lug, pierced with a single mekugi-ana (pitted) the first: 45 cm; 17 3/4 each pierced and set with an engraved brass foliate washer, a in blade (2) single sling swivel, and the butt retaining its pouch for match Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 cord; the second with tapering octagonal Turkish barrel, East India company lock, and figured hardwood full stock (losses) the first: 75.5 cm; 29 3/4 in barrel (2) A similar example to the first was sold in these rooms, 29th June 2011 lot 75. Lot: 5 Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 A JAPANESE BONE-MOUNTED SWORD (KATANA), LATE 19TH CENTURY with slightly curved single-edged blade, bone tsuba grip and saya, all finely carved with vertically arranged detailed figurative scenes including mounted warriors on the Lot: 10 grip and a battle scene on the lower portion of the saya, and A RARE IRON CANNON, 17TH/19TH CENTURY, CHINESE with a single ring for suspension (the other ring missing) OR INDIAN formed of hammer welded longitudinal bars bound 50.8cm; 20in blade by seven reinforced bands alternating with six slender bands, Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 stepped moulded muzzle, and fitted with a ring at each end for transport; together with an associated breech block, with rebated muzzle, hexagonal body, and reinforced breech fitted with a hexagonal pan the barrel: 148cm; 58 1/4in long 4cm; 1 Lot: 6 1/2in bore (2) The appearance of this cannon is strikingly A JAPANESE NAVAL OFFICER'S BICORN HAT CIRCA 1900 similar to European examples of the late 15th/early 16th of black silk with black lace binding to edges, black silk rosette Century that was widely imitated over the subsequent centuries under massive gold-embroidered loop with fine gilt button, in India, China and other parts of the far East. For another tassels at ends with gold bullions and blue/gold woven heads, example preserved in the Royal Armouries see H. L. Blackmore good black leather headband and white pleated silk lining 1976, pp. 175-176 (inv. no. XIX.110). 1 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 **AN UNUSUAL INDIAN SWORD (KHANDA), 18TH CENTURY with fullered blade double-edged towards the point, stamped with a series of letters and decorative marks on each face, iron Lot: 11 hilt comprising a pair of quillons pierced with rectangular panels **AN UNUSUAL SOUTH EAST ASIAN SILVER-MOUNTED and terminating in star-shaped flowerheads, langets with SHORTSWORD, LATE 19TH CENTURY with pattern-welded pierced scrollwork finials, figure-of-eight shaped guard with blade of flattened-diamond section, waisted forte pierced with reinforced rim (two rivets detached), retained on the inside by a two shaped apertures, cut with a pair of fullers on each face, pair of transverse pins, broad knuckle-guard applied with a formed with a pair of pronounced up-turned lugs and with central rib with a pierced finial top and bottom en suite with the further filed patterns beneath, silver hilt formed of a moulded langets, disc pommel with attenuated button terminating in a collar decorated with fine roping, a pair of separate near bud-shaped finial, fitted with pierced gilt copper loop, retaining triangular panels decorated with lotus foliage extending over much gold koftgari decoration throughout (rubbed), and the grip the lower portion of the grip, and large carved horn grip rising to retaining almost all its original binding of plaited silver and brass a pronounced pommel 48.2cm; 19in blade wire 84.5 cm; 33 1/4 in blade Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 12 Lot: 17 AN INDIAN DECORATED ELEPHANT GOAD (ANCUS), 19TH AN INDIAN SWORD (TEGHA), 19TH CENURY with CENTURY with characteristic hook-shaped terminal and central characteristic broad blade formed with a reinforced back-edge blade, openwork haft with a rattle bell in each section (one and double-edged towards the point, encrusted with brass missing), and rounded basal cap, decorated throughout with foliage and elephants enclosed within copper frames on each gold koftgari scrolls, foliage and chevron patterns (some wear) face and further motifs including figures in traditional dress on 54 cm; 21 1/4 in overall the other, iron hilt of talwar form, including a pair of mushroom Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 shaped quillons, large disc pommel and integral grip each face 68 cm; 26 3/4 in blade Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 13 AN INDIAN DAGGER (KATAR), 18TH CENTURY with sharply tapering blade formed with a reinforced tip, converging fullers Lot: 18 divided by a central rib rising from a chiselled and gilt flower at **A MORO SHORTSWORD (KRIS), LATE 19TH CENTURY the forte on each face all against a watered ground, russet iron with broad blade flaring at the base and overlaid with a brass hilt decorated with silver and gilt sprays of foliage on the side band, rattan bound grip (small losses), wooden pommel, in its bars and the grip, the latter formed of two moulded bars with a wooden scabbard (chipped throughout) 47.5 cm; 18 3/4 in pierced design of exotic gilt birds between, in its fabric-covered blade wooden scabbard with iron chape decorated en suite (the gold Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 and silver with losses) 25.5 cm; 10 in blade Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Lot: 19 AN ARGENTINIAN 'GOUCHO' KNIFE, 20TH CENTURY with Lot: 14 tapering blade stamped with an inscription including 'Argentina'