Antique Arms, & 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 - 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 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 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 GUN, 18TH/19TH CENTURY AND A .620 CALIBRE AFGHAN Lot: 4 , 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 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 , 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 , 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 , 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 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 and white pleated silk lining 1976, pp. 175-176 (inv. no. XIX.110).

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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 , 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' AN INDIAN FOLDING DAGGER (KATAR) AND AN INDIAN on one face, white metal hilt enriched with gilt flowerheads, DOUBLE DAGGER (KATAR), LATE 19TH CENTURY the first decorated with the enamelled national arms on one side, in its with concealed tapering double-edged blade, a pair of outer matching scabbard with marked belt hook stamped with a blades enclosing the former, decorated with a central panel further inscription 14 cm; 5 ½ in blade filled with exotic beasts in gold koftgari, steel hilt decorated en Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 suite, including a pair of moulded grip-bars, the lower opening the scabbard; the second with tapering blade decorated with a central panel filled with silver foliage, characteristic hilt Lot: 20 decorated with silver en suite, in its matching scabbard formed AN AFGHAN DAGGER (PESH-KABZ), DATED 1879 with as a larger katar the first: 20.5 cm; 8 in blade (2) Provenance tapering reinforced blade of T-section, chiselled along the back- The second: Frank Gair Macomber, sold American Art edge with a slender rib, shaped tang (the back-strap missing), Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, 10th-12th fitted with a pair of ivory grip-scales (age cracks, a December 1936, lot 265 contemporary repair), inlaid with the inscription 'Kandahar 1879' Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 in hatched silver letters on one side, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with silver locket and a silver band each embossed with scrolling foliage, the latter enclosing a chiselled Lot: 15 iron chape 32.3 cm; 12 ¾ in blade Provenance Anthony Tirri AN INDIAN DAGGER FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL Collection, illustrated in A. C. Tirri 2003, p. 245. On 26th May (JAMDHAR KATARI), 18TH CENTURY with tapering blade, 1879 Britain signed the treaty of Gandamak after which they iron hilt comprising near straight flat cross-piece, two-stage occupied the Khyber Pass and paid the Amir of Afghanistan an grip, and wing-shaped pommel of stepped section (pitted annual subsidy. On 3rd September of the same year Afghan overall) 25 cm; 9 7/8 in blade troops murdered the British legation at Kabul. Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00

Lot: 16 Lot: 21

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AN ARAB DAGGER (JAMBIYA), 19TH CENTURY with curved high double-edged blade formed with a medial ridge, hardwood grip Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 of characteristic form, retained by a pair of rivets with beadwork foliate heads on each side, a beadwork central band, and the inner face enclosed by a large silver plaque, in a well matched Lot: 28 fabric-covered wooden scabbard with large silver chape A FINE INDIAN CIRCULAR SHIELD (DHAL), 18TH CENTURY decorated with silver filigree, beadwork and flowers 20.5 cm; 8 of shallow domed watered steel, the outer surface chiselled 1/8 in blade with two circular bands of lotus foliage joined by four triangular Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 panels bordered by chiselled scrollwork, one engraved with a further flowerhead scroll, fitted with four pierced domed bosses each retained by a flowerhead washer, the border reinforced Lot: 22 with an iron band, the outer surface enriched throughout with AN INDIAN (COORG) SILVER-MOUNTED DAGGER gold koftgari flowers and foliage (rubbed, small losses), the (PICHANGATTI), 19TH CENTURY with hatchet blade formed interior with an early quilted padded red silk lining (faded), fitted with a clipped back point and punched with a series of stars with a decorated pad, four enarmes, and leather straps 41 cm; along the back-edge, pistol-grip swelling towards the terminal, 16 1/8 in diameter Another shield of this form dated 1120 AH overlaid with a thick sheet of silver and retained by three pairs (circa 1708) was exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, of gilt-headed rivets, the pommel applied with a gilt crescent 1982. See R. Skelton 1982, p. 138, no. 459. along the top-edge and set with a garnet on one side, in its Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 silver and gilt mounted hardwood scabbard, with suspension chain 16.5 cm; 6 ½ in blade Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 29 **AN INDO-PERSIAN (), 19TH CENTURY with hemispherical skull, embossed at the front with Lot: 23 a demon mask, fitted with central spike formed as a triangular AN OTTOMAN HARDSTONE AND SILVER-MOUNTED blade, a pair of horns, and nasal bar with a pierced top MACE, 19TH CENTURY PROBABLY BALKAN with red marble and bottom, decorated over the greater part of the skull and the ovoid head, wooden haft fitted with a large silver collar top and horns with a delicate pattern of silver foliage within linear bottom, each decorated with beadwork bands and incised frames, all enriched with very small gold flowers (rubbed, designs, the middle section covered with later fabric and bound losses), with a portion of a mail neck-defence 27 cm; 10 5/8 in by three silver straps, and the base fitted with a silver ring for high suspension 54.5 cm; 21 ½ in overall Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00

Lot: 30 Lot: 24 A PAIR OF INDIAN FORE-ARM DEFENCES (BAZU BANDS), AN INDO-PERSIAN MACE, SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH 19TH CENTURY each of gutter-shaped form, embossed with CENTURY with bulb-shaped head formed of six shaped an elliptical moulding over the fore-arm (inner plates and lining flanges, tubular socket decorated with silver koftgari, fabric- missing), the borders decorated with gold koftgari scrollwork covered wooden haft, and steel basal cap en suite with the and flowers, and fitted with a hinge for the inner plates on each head (rubbed) 67.5cm; 26 1/2in overall side 31.5cm; 12 1/2in overall (2) Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

Lot: 25 Lot: 31 **AN AXE HEAD, POSSIBLY EAST EUROPEAN LATE **AN INDO-PERSIAN HELMET (KULAH KHUD), 19TH 17TH/18TH CENTURY in excavated condition, with crescentic CENTURY with hemispherical skull etched over its surface with axe head, down-curved rear fluke moulded at the base and scenes from the chase including figures in traditional dress, a tapering bronze socket formed with a moulding top and bottom band of inscriptions around the base, fitted with a pair of plume 24.5cm; 9 3/4in head holders at the front, sliding nasal bar (retaining screw and Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 central spike missing), and a very small portion of its mail neck- defence 14 cm; 5 1/2 in high Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 26 AN INDIAN AXE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with crescentic axe- blade of wedge-shaped section, flat rear face, three-stage haft, Lot: 32 moulded threaded basal cap incorporating a slender blade, and **AN INDIAN DECORATED SHIELD (DHAL), 19TH CENTURY retaining some silver scrollwork and foliage over its surface of low convex form, decorated over the greater part of its outer (losses, patinated) 56.5 cm; 26 1/4 in overall surface with gold koftgari foliage and scrollwork panels, applied Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 with brass tendrils carrying pierced shaped leaves, fitted with four parcel gilt bosses, the inner face with its patterned fabric lining and red pad, four steel rings and enarmes (small losses) Lot: 27 23cm; 9in diameter A SICKLE, 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY TURKISH with curved Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 blade pierced with a series of decorative apertures, the outer face enriched with engraved designs and letters, hollow moulded tubular grip, and belt hook (worn) 26 cm; 10 1/4 in Lot: 33

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**AN INDO-PERSIAN SHIELD (DHAL), 19TH CENTURY of low edged watered blade stamped with a mark on one side, domed form, the outer surface decorated with foliate borders decorated silver hilt extending over the forte with a pair of enclosing calligraphic panels, the latter enriched with silver shaped panels, the back of the blade applied with a silver koftgari, the centre pierced with elaborate patterns of scrolls plaque nielloed with an inscription, integral grip rising to an and calligraphic panels all enriched with gold koftgari, backed eared pommel (cracked, small losses), engraved much of its by coloured panels and enriched with brass studs, fitted with surface with scrolls and foliage, in a contemporary leather- four shaped domed bosses corresponding with rings for covered wooden scabbard 60.3 cm; 23 ¾ in blade enarmes (now missing, koftgari rubbed), and the rim enclosed Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 by a brass band 46.5cm; 18 1/4in diameter Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 39 AN OTTOMAN SILVER-MOUNTED SHORTSWORD Lot: 34 (YATAGHAN), TURKEY, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with curved A CAUCASIAN SILVER-MOUNTED KINDJAL AND COSSACK single-edged blade, embossed silver hilt extending over the DRESS UNIFORM, 20TH CENTURY the kindjal with double- forte on each side, (the back-strap panel missing), integral grip edged fullered blade of polished steel, etched with a brief decorated over its surface with a trellis pattern filled with inscription on each face, horn hilt retained by a pair of rivets flowerheads, and eared pommel decorated with a trophy-of- with domed nielloed silver , matching ferrule enriched with arms, in a contemporary shagreen covered European hunting beadwork, in its leather-covered scabbard with large silver sword scabbard, with silver mounts comprising chape, middle mounts decorated with nielloed silver and beadwork, with its band (ring missing) and locket with suspension ring 51.5 cm; 20 matching suspension belt, together with fleece hat, blue ¼ in blade woollen uniform including eight imitation charge measures with Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 decorated silver tops, and a pair of black leather boots the kindjal: 33.5 cm; 13 1/4 in blade Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Lot: 40 **AN INDIAN BRASS PRIMING FLASK, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY of characteristic horn shaped form (bud-finial Lot: 35 missing), chiselled with shaped panels in low relief, a central A BALKAN DAGGER, MID-19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY band of filigree, fitted with spring cut-off, and two loops for GEORGIAN with broad curved blade formed with a medial suspension 17.5 cm; 7 in ridge, carved morse hilt incorporating a cylindrical grip, in its Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 wooden scabbard encased in silver engraved with bouquets of flowers (the inner face holed), with scalloped finial, and the outer face incorporating a suspension loop 33.5 cm; 13 ¼ in Lot: 41 blade A similar dagger is preserved in the State Hermitage, St **AN OTTOMAN DECORATED HOLSTER FOR A PAIR OF Petersburg. See Y. Muller 1997, p. 75 no. 21. KUBUR PISTOLS, 19TH CENTURY of leather, the inner face Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00 tooled and fitted with a belt loop, the outer face sewn with copper wire and with a flap covering two small cylindrical pockets for flint 28 cm; 11 in high Lot: 36 Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 **A TWO PRONGED PERSIAN SPEARHEAD, 19TH CENTURY with two finely formed wavy parallel blades of equal length, each formed with a long medial rib and reinforced tip, Lot: 42 inlaid with a panel of gold scrollwork on each side at the base, **A PAIR OF 15 BORE OTTOMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER moulded socket formed in four faceted stages, retaining traces PISTOLS, 19TH CENTURY, ALBANIA OR TURKEY with of gold koftgari decoration 58.5 cm; 23 in overall An tapering barrels retained by pierced and engraved brass undecorated example of similar form is preserved in the Military muzzle bands, formed with long flats, chiselled with figures, Museum, Tehran. See M. M. Khorasani 2006, cat. 311 raised mouldings and foliage over the breeches, the tangs Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 overlaid with nielloed silver plaques decorated with foliage, pellets and border ornament, rounded locks with boldly formed borders, full stocks moulded over the fore-ends and about the Lot: 37 tangs, sparsely inlaid with silver wire ornament (losses), brass A CAUCASIAN SILVER-MOUNTED DAGGER (KINDJAL), mounts including side-plates, trigger-guards with foliate LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY with broad double-edged terminals spurred pommels and a pair of moulded ramrod- blade sharply tapering towards the point and cut with an off-set pipes, and imitation ramrods 37 cm; 14 1/2 in barrels (2) Pistols fuller on each face, characteristic hilt encased in silver chased of this type were made for export from Albania to Egypt. See with beadwork around the borders, chiselled with foliage R. Elgood 2009, p. 189. enriched with niello, the inner face with further designs of niello, Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 in its wooden scabbard encased in silver decorated on each face en suite with the hilt, and fitted with a loop for suspension 35.3 cm; 14 in blade Lot: 43 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 TWO MORROCAN POWDER-FLASKS, 19TH CENTURY each with horn body, large brass mounts chiselled with designs of scrollwork and foliage, one enriched with white metal, and each Lot: 38 with two loops for suspension 34 cm; 13 3/8 in and 35 cm; 13 ¾ AN OTTOMAN SILVER-MOUNTED SHORTSWORD in (2) (YATAGHAN), TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY with curved single- Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

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Lot: 44 For a discussion of the group see H. Ricketts and P. Missillier **A 40 BORE INDIAN PERCUSSION TRAVELLING PISTOL, 1988, p. 162, no. 43. MID-19TH CENTURY in the European taste, with two-stage Estimate: £12,000.00 - £18,000.00 barrel formed with a vase-shaped muzzle, encrusted with panels of gold foliage at the breech, median and muzzle, engraved tang, engraved box-lock action fitted with spurred Lot: 47 hammer decorated with gold en suite with the barrel, flat-sided A 32 BORE OTTOMAN FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, figured walnut butt, silver trigger-guard with moulded finial TURKEY, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with tapering (retaining screw missing), and steel ramrod 16.5 cm; 6 1/2 in barrel retained by two chased silver bands (one associated), barrel encrusted with gold scrollwork and pellets over the breech Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 (rubbed, small losses), gold inlaid stepped lock signed in gold in imitation of a European maker, fitted with gold decorated cock pierced with scrollwork, rainproof pan and roller, gold-lined pan, Lot: 45 full stock profusely inlaid with silver and gilt wire scrolls within a **AN OTTOMAN BALKAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED plaited silver wire framework, signed en suite with the lock FLINTLOCK KUBUR (HOLSTER) PISTOL, LATE 18TH/EARLY beneath the fore-end, applied with a large chased silver band 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY GREEK with tapering barrel over the spine of the butt and with two gold-encrusted steel stamped in imitation of proof marks at the breech, retained by a ovals behind, silver mounts comprising pierced scrollwork side- large silver gilt muzzle band repoussé with beadwork and scrolls plate, spurred pommel decorated with scrolls and engraved on a gilt punched ground (the rear band missing), plain tang details, trigger-guard with elaborately pierced finial, and (screw replaced), associated rounded lock, wooden full stock imitation silver ramrod (areas of wear, small losses) 35.5 cm; entirely encased in repoussé panels of silver gilt en suite with 14 in barrel the muzzle band, the grip bound with plaited silver wire (loose), Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 pommel fitted with chased cap, silver trigger-guard with ropework border, and simulated ramrod (adapted for display, the muzzle fitted with a threaded plug) 30 cm; 11 ¾ in barrel See Lot: 48 R. Elgood 1995 pp. 98-99. **A RARE NORTH INDIAN FLINTLOCK , Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 EARLY 19TH CENTURY with swamped barrel belled towards the muzzle, formed with raised mouldings behind the muzzle and ahead of the breech, the latter incorporating a standing Lot: 46 back-sight, engraved shaped tang, engraved lock in the A RARE 20 BORE OTTOMAN DECORATED MATCHLOCK European taste, fitted with engraved cock (the upper portion , TURKEY, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY with missing), semi-rainproof pan and roller, full stock (fore-end with octagonal twist sighted barrel retained by a pair of pierced and small cracks and chips), carved with foliage about the tang, engraved silver bands (rubbed), the breech and muzzle each hooked butt formed with a characteristic bifurcated fishtail formed with a raised shaped moulding encrusted with gold terminal, iron mounts including scrolling trigger-guard with scrolls within linear frames, the breech stamped with the gold- pineapple finial, and a pair of ramrod-pipes, and brass two lined barrelsmith's mark, incorporating a tall back-sight piece side plate and barrel bolt escutcheons (one escutcheon decorated with a band of gold beadwork between two lines and and the ramrod missing) 77 cm; 33 3/8 in barrel A flintlock gun fitted with brass pan with pivot-cover, the action with brass of related form is illustrated R. Hales 2013, p. 279, no. 680. serpentine and trigger each enclosed by an engraved parcel gilt Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 silver plate, full stock entirely veneered in small rectangular panels of horn and bone within a framework of brass fillets, inlaid with numerous brass framed rondels filled with Lot: 49 contrasting colours of horn, the panels adjoining the barrel TWO RARE IRON AGE SWORDS, 5TH/1ST CENTURY B.C., stained green, faceted butt partly veneered en suite, applied PROBABLY LA TENE CULTURE in excavated condition, each with engraved shaped parcel gilt silver plaques set with corals, of leaf-shaped form, of slightly hollow-diamond section (chips, further parcel gilt silver panels embossed with beadwork and small holes), rounded shoulders, and long tapering tang set with corals, all enriched with brass nails, faceted ivory butt 76.5cm; 30 1/8in and 77cm; 30 3/8in overall (2) cap inset with matching rondels, pricker with chain, suspension Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 ring with chain opposite the lock (forward sling swivel missing, the inlay with losses, small chips and wear), fore-end cap matching the barrel bands and brass tipped ramrod, perhaps Lot: 50 the original 123cm; 48 1/2in barrel Provenance The A SCOTTISH SILVER-MOUNTED DIRK, DATED 1857 with descendant family of Sir Thomas Joseph Strangman QC (1873- straight blade cut with a fuller along the scalloped back-edge 1971) Sir Thomas Joseph Strangman, son of Joseph and stamped 'Hodge Inverness' on one side, engraved silver Strangman of Southport Lancashire was educated at hilt comprising ferrule and cap pommel each decorated with Charterhouse and Trinity College Cambridge. He was admitted traditional ornament, basket-weave grip enriched with silver at the Middle Temple 14th April 1893, called to the Bar in 1896 nails, in its tooled leather scabbard decorated with revivalist and to the Bar in India the same year. He was Advocate designs, with silver mounts engraved en suite with the hilt, the General in Bombay 1908-15 and 1916-22 and was knighted locket dated and inscribed 'JHS to J.McPherson for Dress and 1920. See J. Venn 1922-58. The decoration on the present Dancing' and complete with its matching knife signed 'Hodge' gun is related to a distinctive group of ivory-stocked miquelet- and fork (the silver parts rubbed throughout) 29.8cm; 11 5/8in lock that have been attributed to the guard of Sultan blade Abdul Hamid I (1725-1789, ruled 1773-89). Six of the group Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 are preserved in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, another is in the Gatchina Arsenal, St Petersburg (GDM 803) and another was sold Christie's South Kensington 17th December 2008, lot 37.

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Lot: 51 front and rear guard by a pair of scrolling bars, an additional bar A LEFT HAND DAGGER IN EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE front and rear, chiselled ovoid pommel (the hilt painted black, with tapering fullered blade formed with a fullered ricasso, iron one bar loose), and later grip 81 cm; 32 in blade hilt comprising a pair of down-curved quillons with flattened Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 rounded terminals, outer ring-guard, ovoid pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire and Turk's heads (areas of pitting) 26 cm; 10 1/4 in blade Lot: 57 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 A RAPIER WITH BLUED STEEL HILT, POSSIBLY GERMAN LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY with long blade of flattened-hexagonal section (areas of pitting), stamped Lot: 52 'SHAGVM' within a short fuller framed by lines and punched A KNIFE WITH CARVED BONE HILT, 18TH CENTURY AND designs on each side of the forte, tapering rectangular ricasso LATER with 19th century carving knife blade, Dutch grip carved cut with incised lines at the borders, steel hilt of rounded bars, with characteristic profile figures (cracked), silver ferrule and comprising vertically-recurved quillons with moulded bud- cap pommel, the latter engraved 'L. D. 1872 T. H.' 22.5 cm; 8 shaped terminals, a pair of moulded arms, a pair of additional 7/8 in blade frontal bars each with a terminal matching the quillons, outer Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 ring-guard strongly curved down in the centre with a further matching moulding and interrupted on each side with an ovoidal moulding, trifurcated inner-guard, large ovoid pommel with moulded button, with later dark blue finish and the grip with a Lot: 53 later binding of plaited wire and 'Turks' heads' 120.5 cm; 47 A COMPOSITE TWO-HAND SWORD, 16TH CENTURY AND 1/2in blade LATER with 16th century tapering double-edged blade punched Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 with a running wolf mark with some latten inlay ahead of a short fuller on one face and a series of decorative marks on the reverse, iron hilt comprising later cross-guard with outer ring, fluted near spherical pommel, and wooden grip bound with wire Lot: 58 107 cm; 42 1/4 in blade AN ITALIAN BACKSWORD, SECOND QUARTER OF THE Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 16TH CENTURY with tapering blade double-edged towards the point, cut with three near full-length fullers over the greater part of its length on each face, steel hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising a pair of forward curled quillons (one with a brazed Lot: 54 repair), écusson, a pair of arms joined at the base by an outer AN ENGLISH RAPIER WITH SILVER-ENCRUSTED HILT, ring-guard, knuckle-guard, and flattened disc-shaped pommel SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with (inner-guard and grip missing, pitted throughout) 97.7cm; 38 associated tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, iron hilt 1/2in blade A rapier with a hilt of related type is preserved in the including a pair of short quillons with tightly curling terminals, Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich. See H. Schneider asymmetrical petal-shaped dish-guard finely pierced and and K. Stüber 1980, cat. no. 143. chiselled with scrolling foliage inhabited by reclining figures on Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 the outside (knuckle-guard missing), fluted ovoid pommel, and with some silver-encrusted decoration throughout (rubbed, the iron pitted), and later grip bound with plaited wire and 'Turk's heads' 84 cm; 33 1/8 in blade Lot: 59 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 A GERMAN BACKSWORD, CIRCA 1500-20, PROBABLY LOW GERMAN in excavated condition, with tapering blade double-edged and of flattened-diamond section for the last quarter, iron hilt comprising a pair of slightly down-curved Lot: 55 moulded quillons with flattened mushroom-shaped terminals, A NORTH EUROPEAN DISH-HILT RAPIER, MID-17TH outer ring-guard, moulded knuckle-guard, and pommel en suite CENTURY, PROBABLY ENGLISH with later tapering blade of with the quillons, and retaining some early gilding throughout flattened-diamond section, symmetrical iron hilt finely chiselled 76.5cm; 30 1/8in blade The form of the pommel and the style of in low relief, comprising shallow dish-guard decorated on the decoration are reminiscent of German "Landsknecht" swords outside with patterns of foliage within interlocking ropework and daggers of the first half of the sixteenth century. The frames, a pair of horizontally recurved bifurcated quillons with pommel is similar to the dagger of Duke Heinrich the Younger mulberry terminals, quillon-block chiselled with scrolls, knuckle- of Brunswick, now preserved in the Historisches Museum, guard interrupted by a globular central moulding en suite with Dresden. See H. Seitz 1965 p. 370, fig. 276 and pl. IX. the quillons, matching globular pommel, and later spirally Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 carved grip 87.5 cm; 34 ½ in blade The chiselling of this hilt is notably fine, a related example is preserved in the Royal Armouries Leeds. See A. R. Dufty 1974 p. 20 plate 30b. Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 60 AN ENGLISH HUNTING SWORD WITH SILVER-ENCRUSTED HILT, MID-17TH CENTURY with curved blade double-edged towards the point, cut with two long fullers, struck with a Lot: 56 running wolf mark, a four leaf clover mark four times, and a A COMPOSITE ENGLISH MORTUARY SWORD, SECOND double eye-lash mark on each face, the forte stamped with a QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with tapering blade further mark, iron hilt comprising down-turned outer shell-guard, double-edged towards the tip, stamped with a brief inscription short quillon with shaped flattened terminal, knuckle-guard within a pair of long fullers on each face, symmetrical iron hilt interrupted by a moulding en suite with the quillon, cap pommel, comprising a pair of rounded langets, basket-guard pierced and decorated throughout with a trellis pattern of silver beadwork chiselled with scrolling foliage, the knuckle-guard joined to the framing silver pellets (extensively rubbed, and staghorn grip

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62.2cm; 24 ½ in blade Another sword from this group is A HIGHLAND OFFICER'S BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD, preserved in the Royal Armouries Leeds. See A. R. Dufty 1974 EARLY 19TH CENTURY with tapering blade double-edged for p. 25 plate 55 b. its last third, cut with a pair of fullers of differing length on each Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 face and stamped 'BL' (feint) on one face of the forte, iron basket-guard including alternating near square and rectangular plates with delicately filed borders, all carried by flattened bars, Lot: 61 a large oval ring for the reins, associated pommel, fishskin- AN ENGLISH SWORD, MID-17TH CENTURY with tapering covered grip, and an early velvet liner 96 cm; 37 3/4 in blade blade finely pierced with a series of slipped circles within three Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 short fullers on each face at the forte, iron hilt pierced and chiselled in low relief, comprising down-curved shell-guard, scrolling quillon, knuckle-guard and cap pommel joined to the Lot: 67 knuckle-guard by a scroll (patinated), and 18th century reeded **AN OFFICER'S SWORD, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19TH horn grip 81 cm; 32 in blade CENTURY with curved fullered blade etched with scrolls of Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 foliage and a stylised dragon on each side of the forte, inscribed 'J. J. Runkel' on the back-edge, gilt brass hilt comprising short quillon, knuckle-guard, outer ring-guard, two Lot: 62 scrolling frontal bars, a central rondel enclosing a twelve-point A CONTINENTAL SILVER-MOUNTED HUNTING SWORD, star previously fitted with a regimental device, back-strap, and LAST QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with tapering fishskin-covered grip bound with wire (losses) 83 cm; 33 3/4 in fullered blade double-edged towards the point, etched with blade The form of the hilt is similar to Grenadier Officer's scrollwork and a sun-in-splendour on the respective faces, swords of the period 1800-20. silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising a pair of Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 short writhen quillons with curled terminals cap pommel chased with a grotesque, and spirally-carved grip bound with twisted wire 59 cm; 23 1/4 in blade Lot: 68 Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 A GEORGE V ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE OFFICER'S SWORD BY MILLER & SONS with etched blade including 'RNR', crowned Royal cypher and maker's details, gilt-brass hilt with Lot: 63 folding side-guard, in its brass-mounted leather scabbard **A DECORATED GERMAN SMALL-SWORD BLADE BY P. engraved with the owner's name 'James C. Johnstone' on the KNECHT, SOLINGEN, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY locket 80 cm; 31 1/2 in blade with slender blade of hollow-triangular section, etched and gilt Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 with fronds, trophies, foliage and the maker's details on a blued panel over the forte, later grip, and retaining the silver locket and a small portion of a contemporary scabbard 81 cm; 32 in Lot: 69 blade A POST 1902 NAVAL OFFICER'S SWORD BY GILLOTT, Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 NEW BURLINGTON STREET, LONDON of regulation type, with etched blade including the maker's details, brass hilt with folding side-guard, in its leather scabbard with brass mounts Lot: 64 (locket missing), complete with belt and hangars 80 cm ; 31 1/2 A GERMAN HUNTING SHORTSWORD, 19TH CENTURY with in blade single-edged fullered blade of polished steel, etched with a Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 framework of scrolling foliage filled with differing game scenes on each face, stamped with the maker's name 'P. Hendrichs & Grah' on the forte, iron hilt comprising a pair of deer hoof Lot: 70 quillons, scalloped shell-guard, natural staghorn grip, and A FRENCH SWORD, MID-19TH CENTURY of pommel en suite with the shell, in its steel-mounted leather regulation type, with curved blade, brass stirrup hilt, in its scabbard (worn, accompanying pieces missing) 33 cm; 13 in regulation steel scabbard 82 cm; 32 1/4 in blade blade Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00

Lot: 71 Lot: 65 A CONTINENTAL ARTILLERY SWORD AND AN AFRICAN A VICTORIAN COLONIAL HUNTING KNIFE BY BHODPUT OF SPEAR, LATE 19TH CENTURY the first with regulation fullered NAGPORE, CIRCA 1860-80 with robust blade formed with a blade of French type, regulation nickel-plated hilt (bent) and double-edged point, cut with a fuller along the back-edge and banded horn grip, in its scabbard; and the second with leaf- stamped by the maker, iron cross-guard pierced on one side for shaped blade, bound with rattan at the base, on a short the scabbard retaining catch and with a pair of flat circular wooden haft the first: 75.5cm; 29 3/4in blade (2) quillons, natural staghorn grip, and iron cap pommel, in its Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 leather-covered wooden scabbard (small losses) with iron mounts including spring catch 24 cm; 9 ½ in blade Bhodput of Nagpore is recommended as a supplier of good explosive bullet Lot: 72 making equipment by Lieutenant Forsyth in The Sporting Rifle, TWO FRENCH MODEL 1816 INFANTRY SHORTSWORDS 1867. (BRIQUET) of regulation type, one with Klingenthal Arsenal Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 inscription (rubbed), regulation brass hilt, each in its scabbard Lot: 66 59.5 cm; 23 1/2 in

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Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 head, horn basal cap engraved with the initials 'IHN' beneath crossed mining implements and with a cross in splendour above (small cracks and repairs) 77 cm; 30 3/8 in overall Lot: 73 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 **A DIRK FOR A MEMBER OF THE EGYPTIAN CLUB, CIRCA 1798 with curved blade doubled-edged towards the point, etched and gilt with flowers, foliage, and elaborate trophies-of- Lot: 76 arms on a blued panel over three quarters of its length, gilt- **A 'SPANISH' WITH ETCHED DECORATION IN brass hilt comprising small outer-guard pierced and chiselled THE LATE 16TH CENTURY ITALIAN STYLE, 19TH OR 20TH with a crocodile, faceted back-strap rising to form a scaly CENTURY with two-piece almond-shaped skull joined medially crocodile head, chequered grip (cracked, small chips), gilt along a low crest surmounted at its apex by a separate knuckle-chain (reattached), in its leather scabbard with brass backward-directed 'stalk' (loose) and flanged outwards at its mounts comprising locket and middle band (chape missing) 31 lower edge to receive a separate brim formed in two pieces cm; 12 ¼ in blade Two days after the battle of the Nile, on the joined medially and attached to the by round-headed night of 3rd August 1798, the Captains of the fleet met on board rivets decorated peripherally with radiating lines, the brim the Orion, and inaugurated the 'Egyptian Club'. A document turned down slightly at each side (the right pierced with a later was then drawn up, and signed by all present, inviting Sir wiring-hole) and rising to an obtuse point front and rear, and its Horatio Nelson to accept the gift of a sword and to have his edge formed with a file-roped inward turn, the whole etched on portrait painted for the club. Nelson's gold sword was ordered a stippled and blackened ground with scrolling foliage divided through Rundell & Bridge. There was a rumour in London that by plain vertical bands on each side of the skull into three the eyes of the crocodile were to be of diamonds and the scales panels and involving in the central one an escutcheon charged of amethysts, emeralds and other precious jewels but this with an eagle displayed 26.5 cm; 10½ in proved unfounded. Nelson's 'Egyptian Club' sword was sold at Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Christies on 12th July 1895 from the collection of Lord Bridport for £1,080. It was stolen from Greenwich Hospital in 1900 and never recovered. Little more is known of the 'Egyptian Club' Lot: 77 who never seem to have met. The promised portrait was never **A GERMAN ZISCHÄGGE, MID-17TH CENTURY with one- completed although there was a story that a Neapolitan artist piece hemispherical skull embossed with six radiating ribs and was invited to breakfast with the Captains but felt unworthy of fitted at its apex with a transversely-pieced finial and circular the commission. Nelson's own sword was distinguished by an washer, at its brow with a flat obtusely-pointed peak, at its nape enamel plaque set into each side of the grip, one showing Lord with a flaring obtusely-pointed neck-guard of four lames, and at Nelson's arms and that on the reverse allegorical figures each side with a pendent scutiform cheek-piece pierced at its representing Britannia and Africa. On the guard was an enamel centre with seven circular auditory-holes in rosette formation, plaque representing the Battle of the Nile and a list of the the peak pierced at its rear with a rectangular hole to receive a captains who served: Captain Sir F. Berry, Vanguard; Captain sliding nasal-bar retained by a staple and locking-screw at the T. Trowbridge, Cullodon; Captain R.W. Miller, Theseus; Captain brow, the leaf-shaped upper end of the nasal-bar and the tip of A.J. Ball, Alexander; Captain Thomas Lewis, Minotaur; Captain the peak each struck with the letter M, the main edges of the Sir T.B. Thompson; Leander; Captain B. Hallowel, Swiftsure; helmet formed with plain inward turns and its surface showing a Captain David Gould, Audacious; Captain John Peyton, light mottled patina overall 37.0 cm; 14½ in Defence; Captain S. Hood, Zealous; Captain James Saumarez, Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Orion; Captain Thomas Foley, Goliath; Captain G.B. Westcott; Majestic; Captain H.D.E. Darby, Bellerophon; Captain S.M. Hardy, Mutine. Captain Westcott had been killed at the action. The present dirk forms part of a very small group of dirks that Lot: 78 **A DUTCH 'S , CIRCA 1620 were almost certainly made for members of the Egyptian club. with rounded skull formed in two pieces joined along the crest Another, formerly in the collection of Nelson's prize agent, of a low medial comb and fitted at the nape with a tapering Alexander Davison, was sold Sotheby's, London, 21st October plume-holder formed at its upper edge as a crown, obtusely- 2001, lot 14. pointed peak and attached to the skull by common pivots, Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 the first fitted on its underside with a triple-barred face-guard bearing traces of incised decoration and the second cut with a broad U-shaped face-opening, the bevor and skull secured to Lot: 74 one another at the right of the neck by a swivel-hook and **A RARE CAROLINGIAN LUGGED SPEAR HEAD, 7TH/10TH pierced stud (the former replaced) and flanged outwards at their CENTURY in excavated condition, with broad leaf-shaped lower edges to receive in each case a -plate of one blade formed with a pair of pronounced basal lugs, and tapering (the front restored and the rear fitted at its centre with two faceted socket (losses) 61 cm; 24 in overall sturdy staples for mounting purposes), the main edges of the Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 helmet formed with plain inward turns accompanied at the front of the peak by a recessed border and elsewhere by single incised lines repeated at subsidiary edges (moderately pitted Lot: 75 overall) 31.5 cm; 12½ in **A SAXON MINERS GUILD AXE, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH Estimate: £2,000.00 - £5,000.00 CENTURY with flat head formed with a characteristic spike fitted at the top with a brass bead, pierced with a slipped trefoil and six holes at the back (one hole broken out), the haft inlaid Lot: 79 with numerous staghorn pellets and engraved stag horn **A FINE ENGLISH SMALL-SWORD WITH BLUED CUT- rectangular plaques, the latter decorated with flowers and STEEL HILT, CIRCA 1780, PERHAPS WOODSTOCK with figures in contemporary dress, including the figure of Christ European blade etched and gilt with small stars on a blued crucified on the back and a kneeling figure on each side of the panel over almost its entire length on each face, the forte

8 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com signed 'De la Marque de la Mouchette à Solingen' and with the engraved silver collars 80 cm; 31 1/2in blade Literature: D. D. bladesmith's mark, crossed Papal keys beneath a crown, on Hartzler 2000, fig. 89 John Carman is recoded 1721/2-64. See one side, steel hilt profusely studded with minute faceted beads L. Southwick 2001 pp. 63-4. in imitation of brilliants, comprising oval dish-guard with Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 delicately filed border, set with four large beads on a leafy ground, each corresponding with a low domed oval panel on the inside inlaid with a gold flowerhead, a pair of quillons with Lot: 83 circular terminals enclosing a bead decorated with a gold flower **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL SWORD, LONDON on each side, a pair of slender arms, knuckle-guard, pommel 1764, MAKER'S MARK WK with colichemarde blade etched and grip all decorated with faceted beads and oval panels with with scrollwork over the forte (rubbed), silver hilt finely cast and gold flowers en suite with the guard (small losses), in its chased with boldly writhen borders and scrollwork, comprising parchment-covered wooden scabbard with steel mounts oval dish-guard struck twice with the maker's mark (indistinct), comprising chape, middle band and locket all matching the hilt, a pair of quillons, arms, knuckle-guard with scrolling terminal, the locket inscribed Jefferson & Jones, Cockspur Street' 82.5 and spirally fluted oval pommel, the grip with chased silver cm; 32 1/2in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 115 collars and later wire binding 70 cm; 27 5/8 in blade Literature: Thomas Jeffreys and William Jones were in partnership circa D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 110 1775-95. A bill for 'a very rich studded steel sword, A rich Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Moroco Belt, and a packing case' total 16 5s 0d dated 21st November 1775 bears both their names. See L. Southwick 2001, pp. 150-1. Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 84 **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON CIRCA 1790, MAKER'S MARK FT, RETAILED BY PROSSER LATE CULLUM with military etched and gilt spadroon blade Lot: 80 (pitted, worn), silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL SWORD, LONDON, comprising oval shell-guard with fluted border, a pair of arms, a 1763, MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM KINMAN with pair of quillons with flattened globular terminals, knuckle-guard colichemarde blade etched with scrollwork over the forte swelling in the centre, ovoid pommel and wooden grip with a (shortened, pitting), silver hilt finely cast and chased with boldly silver collar top and bottom, with silver locket inscribed by the writhen designs, comprising boatshell-guard, a pair of quillons retailer and stamped en suite with the hilt 82.5 cm; 32 1/2 in with flattened globular terminals, a pair of slender scrolling blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 144 John (1) Prosser arms, knuckle-guard, and globular pommel, and wooden grip is recorded circa 1769-1837. He was one of the leading bound with plaited wire and ribband between moulded collars, suppliers of presentation pieces during the Napoleonic Wars. in a wooden scabbard with later covering, and well matched See L. Southwick 2001, pp. 199-200. silver mounts 68.5 cm; 27 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 2000, fig. 27 William Kinman is recorded circa 1728-1808, see L. Southwick 2001, pp. 159-160. Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 85 **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON 1782, MAKER'S MARK TC with associated hollow-triangular Lot: 81 blade, silver hilt comprising oval shell-guard, a pair of quillons, **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL SWORD, LONDON, knuckle-guard (bent) and urn shaped pommel all engraved with 1771, MAKER'S MARK OF WILLIAM KINMAN with rococo flowers and garlands, and the grip bound with plaited colichemarde blade etched with scrollwork over the forte, silver wire between engraved silver collars 82.7 cm; 32 5/8 in blade hilt finely cast, pierced and chased with delicate scrolling Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 146 tendrils, comprising shell-guard with a border of characteristic Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 faceted beadwork, a pair of quillons, arms and knuckle-guard all decorated with faceted beadwork and scrolling tendrils, and pierced pommel en suite with the shell, and original grip bound with plaited silver wire and ribband between chased collars, in a Lot: 86 **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA portion of its tooled leather scabbard, retaining its silver locket 1790 with associated German blade inlaid with a panel of brass chased en suite, the inner face engraved 'L. Mather Esq. to G. flowers and foliage at the forte, silver hilt comprising oval dish- E. A. Carpenter' 83.7 cm; 33 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler guard with beadwork border on the inside and the centre 2000, fig. 114 See footnote to previous lot. Another hilt with the chased with a sunburst, a pair of quillons knuckle-guard with a same beadwork design is illustrated L. Southwick 2001, colour sunburst central moulding, urn-shaped pommel en suite with plate 6. the guard (rubs illegible, lacquered), and later grip, in a leather- Estimate: £500.00 - £600.00 covered wooden scabbard with silver middle band and locket (chape missing) the latter signed 'Langford No. 50 Fleet Street' 74.4 cm; 29 3/8 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. Lot: 82 148 **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON, Estimate: £500.00 - £600.00 1754, MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN CARMAN with colichemarde blade etched with scrolls over the forte (worn), silver hilt pierced cast and chased with trophies-of-music in low relief, comprising double shell-guard involving differing instruments enclosed by Lot: 87 **A SILVER-HILTED HUNTING SWORD, LATE 18TH scrolls, quillon with globular foliate terminal, knuckle-guard with CENTURY with curved broad fullered blade etched with a central moulding chased with further instruments, ovoid celestial motifs on each side of the forte, silver hilt comprising pommel en suite with the shell, moulded silver button, and robust cross-guard engraved with lines, grip swelling to a original grip bound with plaited silver wire and ribband between

9 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com lionhead pommel, the former engraved with foliage and guard decorated on each side with differing trophies-of-arms beadwork frames enclosing an oval on each side with differing within scrollwork frames, quillon-bock en suite, pierced quillon, sets of initials, and silver knuckle-chain, in a leather scabbard knuckle-guard, a pair of arms struck with marks (rubbed), and with silver locket and later chape 74.7cm; 29 3/8 in blade pierced ovoid pommel en suite with the shell, and the grip with Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 133 an early binding of plaited silver and brass wire between 'Turk's Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 heads' 74.2 cm; 29 1/4 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 98 Estimate: £400.00 - £500.00 Lot: 88 **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED OFFICER'S SWORD, LATE 18TH CENTURY with curved fullered blade of regulation type, Lot: 93 silver stirrup hilt comprising pierced slotted guard with a **A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1740 diamond-shaped moulding on the front, fluted quillon, back- with hollow-triangular blade etched with a panel at the forte strap rising to a serpent head pommel, and spirally carved including the inscription 'Nous aimons la Liberte', silver hilt hardwood grip (cracked) bound with plaited silver wire and set comprising double shell-guard with moulded brim,, quillon with with two silver headed rivets (three missing) 78 cm; 30 3/4 in globular terminal, knuckle-guard, compressed pear-shaped blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 143 pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire between moulded Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 collars 81.5 cm; 32 1/8 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 100 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 89 **A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1790 with slender hollow-triangular blade etched and gilt with Lot: 94 trophies and scrolls over the lower portion, silver hilt cast and **A FINE FRENCH SILVER-GILT HILTED SMALL-SWORD, chased in low relief with bold designs of conventional foliage CIRCA 1794/7 with tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal and corn fruit, including pierced double shell-guard (cracked), a section, the forte etched and gilt with sprays of foliage and pair of quillons with chiselled bud-shaped terminals, knuckle- trophies on a blued panel on each side and with the guard with lionhead terminal, fluted ovoid pommel decorated bladesmith's initials 'AK', silver gilt hilt cast and chased in low with foliage around the base, and the grip with a later plaited relief, comprising down-turned shell-guard pierced with designs wire binding 82 cm; 32 1/4 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler of vine fruit and foliage within a scrollwork frame, a pair of 2000, fig. 86 quillons issuant from hound's masks and with terminals en suite Estimate: £450.00 - £600.00 with the shell, knuckle-guard with a spray of corn foliage in the centre and a recumbant swan forming the terminal, ovoid pommel decorated with further designs of corn, grapes and Lot: 90 conventional foliage, and finely chequered ebony grip bound **A RARE FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA with slender chased silver panels, 81.2 cm; 32 in blade 1790 with two-stage blade etched over the lower portion Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 151 (pitting), silver hilt pierced, cast and chased in low relief with Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 scrollwork frames filled with pierced trellis designs involving rococo motifs, including very small down-turned shell-guard, broad outer ring-guard bordered by scrolls and with a central Lot: 95 cockerel, a pair of quillons, knuckle-guard, globular pommel, **A NORTH EUROPEAN SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, and silver grip decorated en suite (rubbed, small chips and CIRCA 1750, POSSIBLY DANISH with associated fine tapering repairs) 83.8 cm; 33 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, two-stage blade, the lower portion of flattened-octagonal then fig. 87 flattened-hexagonal-section, etched and gilt with elaborate Estimate: £500.00 - £600.00 trophies-of-arms, a crowned flaming heart, the motto 'Vigilante', and a panel of scrollwork, on a blued panel on each face, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief with differing flowers, leafy Lot: 91 foliage, rococo scrolls and shell ornament, comprising double **A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1730 shell-guard, quillon, a pair of arms each joined to the cross by a with two-stage blade, etched and gilt with scrollwork, a rococo short scrolling bar, knuckle-guard flattened ovoid pommel and mask and strapwork on a blued panel over the forte, silver hilt solid grip decorated en suite and incorporating a large flower on cast and chased en rocaillle with shell ornament within a each side, remaining in fine condition, in an associated scrollwork frame, comprising shell-guard enriched with a finely scabbard 76 cm; 30 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, punched ground, quillon, a pair of moulded arms, one stamped fig. 92 with a mark (rubbed), knuckle-guard, ovoid pommel and silver Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 grip cast and chased en suite 79.5 cm; 31 3/8 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 95 Estimate: £500.00 - £600.00 Lot: 96 **A GERMAN SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1745/7 with tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal Lot: 92 section, etched with scrollwork over the forte on each side, **A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1750 silver hilt cast and chased in low relief with writhen designs, with associated hollow-triangular blade, etched and gilt with comprising boatshell-guard scalloped at the front and back, a scrolls on a blued panel over the forte, silver hilt finely cast, pair of quillons with globular terminals, knuckle-guard, a pair of pierced and chased in low relief with rococo scrolls flowerheads fluted arms, ovoid pommel, and spirally moulded silver grip and foliage (one small crack, repairs), comprising double shell- 73.5 cm; 29 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 103 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

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Lot: 97 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 **A EUROPEAN SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1800, MAKER'S MARK LB with slender hollow-triangular blade etched and gilt with scrolls and trophies on a blued panel over Lot: 103 the forte, silver hilt comprising oval shell-guard set with **EIGHT BRONZE PINS AND TWO BRONZE BUCKLES, numerous faceted silver beads on the inside, quillon, knuckle- PROBABLY LURISTAN, 1000/800 B.C. the pins with decorated guard, ovoid pommel and silver grip all chased with matching heads, the buckles each formed with a loop on the indside and designs of faceted beds within delicate ropework frames 81.7 decorated the outer face, and two small ceramic masks the cm; 32 1/4 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 118 longest pin: 17 cm; 6 3/4 in (13) Estimate: £450.00 - £600.00 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 98 Lot: 104 **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON, **AN INDIAN SWORD (TALWAR), 19TH CENTURY with CIRCA 1740 with colichemarde blade etched with scrolls over curved singled-edged heavy blade, decorated on each face the forte, silver hilt cast and chased with scrolls, foliage and with gold koftgari including a calligraphic cartouche (rubbed) sprays of anthemion in low relief against a finely punched and a panel of scrolling foliage at the forte, russet iron hilt ground (marks rubbed), comprising double shell-guard, quillon comprising a pair of straight quillons with thick terminals each with globular terminal, a pair of plain arms, quillon-block, pierced and chiselled as a flowerhead, elongated langets with knuckle-guard, globular pommel, moulded button, and silver pierced foliate terminals, recurved knuckle-guard with fluted grip decorated en suite (one small dent) 77 cm; 30 3/8 in blade bud-shaped finial, frontal guard formed en suite, large disc- Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 90 shaped pommel with scalloped border, solid grip, and Estimate: £450.00 - £550.00 decorated throughout in gold koftgari with large panels filled with scrolling flowers and foliage 86.3cm; 34in blade Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 99 **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, PROBABALY LONDON 1808 with colichemarde blade etched Lot: 105 and gilt with scrolls and foliage on a blued panel on the forte, **AN INDIAN SWORD (PATA), 17TH/18TH silver hilt, cast, pieced and chased with a trellis design of CENTURY with broad flat European blade with traces of an flowerheaeds (rubbed), comprising double shell-guard inscription within a short fuller on one face, iron hilt of decorated with bows on the borders, a pair of arms, flattened characteristic form extending over the lower portion of the blade globular quillon, knuckle-guard, ovoid pommel and silver grip all with a pair of shaped plates, embossed with a raised ellipse decorated en suite, in an earlier parchment-covered scabbard over the hand, moulded brim, and reinforced around the base, with chiselled steel mounts, the locket signed 'Bland, St James' the inside with grip bar and a further bar at the top (patinated) 87.4 cm; 34 3/8 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 91.5 cm; 36 in blade 117 Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Estimate: £400.00 - £500.00 Lot: 106 Lot: 100 **THREE SOUTH-EAST ASIAN DAGGERS, 19TH CENTURY **A NORTH-WEST PERSIAN BRONZE SHORTSWORD, the first a Javanese Kris, with pattern-welded grooved blade, LURISTAN, CIRCA 1000 B. C. in excavated condition, with finely carved hilt decorated with traditional scrollwork, the long tapering blade formed with a central rounded rib over its centre portion with openwork designs, large silver ferule, in a entire length on each face (cracked through and expertly wooden scabbard; the second a Sulawesi kris, with wavy repaired), square shoulders, and short tang, on its display stand pattern welded blade, finely carved polished hardwood grip 48.7 cm; 19 1/8 in blade rising to a characteristic beaked terminal, and engraved brass Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 collar at the base; the third a bade bade, with double-edged blade, brass guard and wooden grip, in its leather scabbard (incomplete) the first: 32.5 cm; 12 3/4 in blade (3) Lot: 101 Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 **A NORTH-WEST PERSIAN BRONZE SHORTSWORD, LURISTAN, CIRCA 1000 B. C. in excavated condition, with long tapering blade formed with a central rounded rib over its Lot: 107 entire length on each face, recessed thick shoulders, short **A BALINESE SHORTSWORD (KRIS) GRIP, LATE tang, and painted with the inventory number 'J16' on one side 19TH/20TH CENTURY of characteristic figurative form, 37.5 cm; 14 3/4 in blade encased in chased gilt metal and set with pastes (small losses) Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 14 cm; 5 1/2 in Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00

Lot: 102 **A NORTH-WEST PERSIAN BRONZE SHORTSWORD, Lot: 108 LURISTAN, CIRCA 1000 B. C. in excavated condition, with **AN OTTOMAN BALKAN CARTRIDGE BOX (PALASKAS), tapering blade formed with a full length raised fluted ridge on 19TH CENTURY the outer face cast and chased with traditional each face, the forte enclosed by an elliptical moulding on each scrolls and foliage inhabited by two stylised birds, the inner face side, rectangular tang hollowed for a pair of grips, and small with a loop for suspension, and hinge lid decorated en suite 9 elliptical pommel 24.5 cm; 9 5/8 in blade cm; 3 1/2 in high

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Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 engraved overall on a stippled ground with foliate interlace involving cufic characters, and the upper retaining-strip of the nasal-bar bearing an inscription (extensively patinated and with Lot: 109 minor damage throughout) 49.4 cm; 19½ in **AN INDO-PERSIAN MACE, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY Estimate: £10,000.00 - £15,000.00 with near spherical head fitted with a tall central spike on a large foliate washer, ten spikes around the circumference (three missing), matching basal washer, on its iron haft decorated with Lot: 114 a globular moulding at the top and bottom of the grip, the head **A RARE FOREARM DEFENCE, 17TH CENTURY, EAST and central spike decorated with gold koftgari flowers and EUROPEAN OR OTTOMAN TURKISH formed of a gutter- foliage, the top, middle and bottom of the haft decorated en shaped main plate and two smaller plates, the main plate suite 70 cm; 27 5/8 in overall engraved and punched over much of its surface with a broad Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 cartouche-shaped framework filled with flowerheads, a pattern of scrolling foliage around the border, fitted around the base and up part of one side with a brass plaque embossed with Lot: 110 petal-shaped motifs against a punched ground, two hasps for **AN INDIAN AXE, 19TH CENTURY with strongly curved blade straps (incomplete), the two smaller plates engraved with terminating in a horned beast's head, decorated on each side in matching flowerheads and cartouche patterns, overlaid with a soft metal with wild animals including elephants and tigers , brass plaque top and bottom, the outer with two buckles for incised socket, on its tapering hardwood haft studded with iron closure, all joined by mail strips of flattened rivetted links (minor nails over brass foliate washers 51cm; 20 1/8 in overall losses), the brass overlays retaining traces of gilding, and with Estimate: £50.00 - £100.00 a brass inventory tag numbered '43' the main plate 31.5 cm; 12 3/8in A number of forearm defences of this form are preserved in the Muzeum Naradowe w Krakowie, Poland. See J. Gutowski 1997, nos 41-49. Lot: 111 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 **AN INDIAN AXE, 19TH CENTURY with crescentic axe-blade decorated in soft metal with naive designs including figures in traditional garb, fitted with central spike (rear spike missing), on its wooden haft, with brass inventory tag '103' 68.5 cm; 27 in Lot: 115 overall **A NEAR OR MIDDLE EASTERN MAIL SHIRT, 18TH/19TH Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 CENTURY with a trunk formed of alternating rows of welded and riveted rings, each of half-round-section wire, those at the upper edge of its centrally-divided neck-opening of larger size than the rest and those at the lower edge of its later extended Lot: 112 and centrally-divided skirt of lighter gauge than the rest and **A RARE OTTOMAN SHAFFRON, TURKEY, CIRCA 1500 entirely riveted, as are the small rings of round-section-wire formed of a main plate tapering slightly to its rounded lower end forming its later-added elbow-length sleeves, and fitted at the and cut away in a curve at each of its upper corners to receive rear edge of the skirt with a brass tag marked G over 1 (the an upstanding sub-triangular ear-defence (restored), the main whole showing some minor repairs, losses and holing) The shirt plate formed with three embossed ridges of which the outer appears to have enjoyed a long working life. ones diverge from their lower end to the level of the eyes, and Estimate: £250.00 - £400.00 the central one is interrupted just below the level of the ear- defences by a low rounded applied flange filed with scallops at either end, its upper end terminating below the flange in a T- shaped crossbar decorated around its margin with a fine silver- Lot: 116 inlaid line, and continuing above the flange as a triangle with **AN INDO-PERSIAN HELMET (KULAH KHUD), 18TH similar marginal decoration, the edges of the main plate pieced CENTURY with hemispherical skull formed of a low conical with holes for straps and a lining and the right of the brow central plate joined to the brim by eight near triangular radiating incised with the mark of the Imperial Ottoman Arsenal at plates, the outer face applied with eight shaped ribs rising to a Istanbul (the edges showing some raggedness and the surface central conical moulding with provision for a finial (missing), pitted) 49.0 cm; 19 in The tughra is an owner's inscription: fitted with a single plume-holder on the right and a staple for a sahib hasan ibn (?) 'ali (Owner Hasan ibn (?) 'Ali'). sliding nasal bar (left plume-holder and nasal bar missing), Estimate: £7,000.00 - £10,000.00 chiselled over its surface with cartouches filled with exotic beasts and scrollwork, the brim encircled by a lengthy inscription, pierced around its lower edge and fitted with a mail neck defence of rivetted links 18 cm; 7 1/8 in high The helmet is Lot: 113 inscribed with the call on God to bless the Fourteen Innocents **AN OTTOMAN '' HELMET, TURKEY, CIRCA 1500 (Muhammed, Fatima and the 12 Shi'i Imams). with ogival skull rising at its apex to a moulded and engraved Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 brass finial of hexagonal section, formed in its lower half with sixteen broad spiralling flutes, fitted at the brow beneath two riveted horizontal strips with a long sturdy nasal-bar of rectangular section, inlaid in a raised panel at its upper end with Lot: 117 transverse brass wires (probably representing working-life **AN INDO-PERSIAN HELMET (KULAH KHUD), 19TH modifications), pierced at its lower edge beneath an applied CENTURY with hemispherical skull, embossed at the front with strip of iron with a series of holes carrying a later of a demon mask, fitted with central spike formed as a medially riveted mail, open at its rear (a soldered repair at the right ridged triangular blade, a pair of horns, and nasal bar with a cheek), the skull incised at the rear of its lower edge with the pierced rondel top and bottom, decorated over the greater part mark of the Imperial Ottoman Arsenal at Istanbul, its surface of the skull and the horns with a delicate pattern of silver foliage within scrollwork frames, all enriched with small gold scrollwork

12 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com panels (rubbed, losses), with its mail neck defence and an early Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 red fabric padded lining 24.5 cm; 9 5/8 in high Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 122 **A COMPOSITE NORTH GERMAN MILITARY SWORD Lot: 118 (TESSAK), LATE 16TH CENTURY with slightly curved fullered **A FINE SAXON LEFT-HAND DAGGER, CIRCA 1600 with blade formed with a hatchet point, iron hilt of flattened bars broad tapering blade of slightly hollow-diamond section, decorated with punched ornament, comprising a pair of 'bow- rectangular forte fluted on each side and cut with a central fuller tie' quillons with bud-shaped finials, knuckle-guard joined to the on both faces, blued steel hilt, comprising a pair of sharply outer guard by a diagonal bar, inner-guard with thumb-loop, down-curved forward canted quillons with fluted spatulate and pyramidal pommel, and leather-covered wooden grip terminals, side ring filled with a sprung-in plate pierced with a (wormed) 77.5 cm; 30 1/2 in blade diamond shaped design of small apertures, faceted mushroom- Estimate: £1,400.00 - £1,800.00 shaped pommel, the grip retaining its original wire binding between 'Turk's Heads', and retaining much original finish 32.8 cm; 12 7/8 in blade Provenance The Saxon Electoral Armoury, Lot: 123 Dresden The Property of a Gentleman, sold, Christie's, 22nd **AN ITALIAN TWO HAND PROCESSIONAL SWORD WITH July 1992, lot 40 This dagger was possibly included along with 16TH CENTURY BLADE with tapering blade formed in three a number of similar pieces in the sale held by Rudolph Lepke, stages, the upper portion of flattened-hexagonal section and Berlin, 8th October 1919. the lower stamped with a brass-lined maker's mark over a pair Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 of short fullers on each face, later iron hilt comprising a pair of faceted quillons decorated with pairs of incised lines and each swelling towards a bud-shaped finial, plummet-shaped pommel, Lot: 119 and leather-covered grip with a shaped iron collar top and **A FINE GERMAN RAPIER OF THE SAXON ELECTORAL bottom 129.8 cm; 51 1/8 in blade For two-hand swords of GUARD, LATE 16TH CENTURY with tapering double-edged related type preserved in the armoury of the Palazzo Ducale blade of hollow-diamond section, rectangular ricasso, blued Venice see U. Franzoi 1990, pp. 30-31. steel hilt of fluted bars, comprising a pair of quillons swelling Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 towards the terminals, écusson, three outer ring-guards joined by a pair of arms, knuckle-guard joined to the upper ring-guard by a single bar, trifurcated inner-guard, and fluted bun-shaped Lot: 124 pommel punched and chiselled beneath, retaining much blued **A HAND-AND-A-HALF SWORD IN GERMAN OR SWISS finish throughout, and spirally moulded grip bound with plaited EARLY 16TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with broad wire between 'Turk's heads', and brass collection tag '1540' double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section (the tip with a 102 cm; 40 1/8 in blade Provenance The Saxon Electoral small chip), iron hilt of robust faceted bars, comprising a pair of Armouries, Dresden Sotheby's New York, 15th January 1992, horizontally recurved quillons with four-part writhen terminals, lot 93 outer ring-guard formed as a trefoil, knuckle-guard interrupted Estimate: £7,000.00 - £9,000.00 by a spiralling baluster moulding, joined to the frontal guard by an s-shaped bar formed en suite, inner ring-guard, and writhen pommel, and leather-covered wooden grip 95.1 cm; 37 1/2 in Lot: 120 blade **A NORTH GERMAN MILITARY SABRE, CIRCA 1580, Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 PROBABLY BRUNSWICK with curved fullered blade formed with a hatchet point, stamped with the letter 'S' with a cross above and below on one face, the forte punched with a series Lot: 125 of eye lash marks, iron hilt comprising a pair of vertically **A TWO HAND PROCESSIONAL SWORD IN GERMAN LATE recurved quillons with spirally fluted barrel-shaped terminals, 16TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with very broad knuckle-guard joined to a large scalloped frontal guard by an s- blade, waisted ricasso formed with a pair of crescentic lugs and shaped bar, inner guard with thumb-loop and joined to the covered with tooled leather iron hilt including a pair of slightly knuckle-guard by a bifurcated bar, large pyramidal pommel curved quillons with curled terminals, inner and outer ring-guard (areas of pitting throughout), and wooden grip with Turk's each filled with a fleur-de-lys, fluted chiselled plummet-shaped heads and a portion of its leather binding, and brass inventory pommel, and leather-covered grip studded with domed nails tag numbered '86' 76.2 cm; 32 in blade Provenance Dr B. 124.5 cm; 49 in blade Giesker, Zurich His Serene Highness the Reigning Prince of Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Liechtenstein, sold Christie's, London 22nd July 1992, lot 71 Estimate: £1,400.00 - £1,800.00 Lot: 126 **A GERMAN MILITARY SWORD, POSSIBLY LATE 16TH Lot: 121 CENTURY with broad blade stamped 'Maria' and 'IHS' within a **A COMPOSITE VENETIAN BROADSWORD, THE HILT decorative framework in a short fuller on the respective faces, LATE 15TH CENTURY with broad double-edged blade tapering fullered ricasso stamped with a pair of marks on each face, to a sharp point, stamped with a mark within a short fuller on iron hilt of faceted bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved each face, iron hilt comprising a pair of strongly recurved quillons with faceted bud-shaped terminals, large outer ring- quillons of flattened-triangular section, écusson, and shield- guard with a vertical central moulding, matching lower ring- shaped pommel drawn-out to a low central dome front and guard, inner-guard formed of a saltire arrangement of bars and back, and later grip 95cm; 37 1/2in blade Provenance incorporating a thumb loop, faceted plummet-shaped pommel, Sotheby's New York, 26th May 1992, lot 436 See U. Franzoi and two-stage leather-covered grip (restorations) 96.5 cm; 38 in 1990, p. 85-6.

13 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com blade AND LATER with tapering double-edged blade formed in two- Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 stages, stamped 'Me fecit Soligen' and 'Solideo Gloria' within a short fuller on the respective faces, leather-covered ricasso, steel hilt chiselled in imitation of numerous twigs, including a Lot: 127 pair of vertically recurved quillons with openwork terminals, ring- **A HIGHLAND BASKET-HILTED BACK-SWORD, LAST guard en suite, and écusson chiselled with scrolls and foliage, QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with tapering blade and wire-bound grip 88.1 cm; 34 3/4 in blade double-edged for its last third, cut with a long central fuller and Estimate: £600.00 - £900.00 a shorter fuller along the back-edge on each face, the forte retaining traces of engraved decoration, steel hilt of rounded bars, formed of a series of large ovals each enclosing pairs of Lot: 132 crosses arranged vertically with further diamond-shaped and **A SPANISH CUP-HILT RAPIER, 18TH CENTURY AND small scrolling bars above and below (one bar cracked), fitted LATER with tapering fullered blade, iron hilt including pierced with an additional screw-on frontal guard, bun-shaped pommel, cup-guard with scalloped brim (cracked), engraved with linear fishskin-covered grip (binding missing), and early doeskin liner designs and flowerheads on the outside, a pair of straight 85.5 cm; 33 3/4 in blade quillons with faceted bud-shaped terminals, knuckle-guard, and Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 ovoid pommel, and spirally craved grip 107cm; 42 1/8in blade Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

Lot: 128 **A FINE ENGLISH MORTUARY SWORD, SECOND Lot: 133 QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with broad double-edged **AN ENGLISH BASKET-HILTED SWORD, THIRD QUARTER blade stamped 'Farara' within a short fuller on each face and OF THE 18TH CENTURY with curved fullered hangar blade with traces of a large running wolf mark, symmetrical iron hilt double-edged towards the point, asymmetrical steel hilt formed comprising a pair of langets chiselled with foliage, basket-guard of a grid pattern of rounded bars, drawn-in at the base into pierced and chiselled at the base with scrolling tendrils three heart-shaped panels, and at the top into two diamond- terminating in monsterheads and mulberry fruit, decorated on shaped panels (small cracks, pitted throughout), bun-shaped each side and at the base of the knuckle-guard with a pommel and later wooden grip 73 cm; 28 3/4 in blade Another filled with a portrait profile, the front and rear guards each hilt of this type, formerly preserved in the Warwick Castle interrupted by a further portrait rondel and each joined to the Collections, was sold in these rooms, 26th June 2007, lot 252. knuckle-guard by a pair of scrolling bars, chiselled ovoid Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 pommel decorated en suite and retaining an early fishskin- covered grip bound with plaited wire and 'Turk's heads 74.1 cm; 29 1/4 in blade Lot: 134 Estimate: £1,600.00 - £2,200.00 **A VENETIAN SCHIAVONA, LATE 18TH CENTURY with broad broad blade (slightly shortened, small chips), stamped with a mark in the centre of three short fullers on each face, iron Lot: 129 basket-guard formed of engraved shaped bars (loose), short **AN ENGLISH OFFICER'S BASKET-HILTED quillon with moulded terminal, brass shield-shaped pommel BACKSWORD, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY pierced on one side, and the grip with an early fishskin covering with broad blade double-edged for its last quarter (the tip with a over cord (losses) 71.5 cm; 28 1/4 in blade very small chip), cut with a broad shallow fuller along most of its Estimate: £700.00 - £1,000.00 length and a shorter narrow fuller along the back on each face, engraved with 'GR' crowned, 'Irwin' and '7/4', basket-hilt of rounded bars carrying an alternating arrangement of broad and Lot: 135 narrow panels, each cut with fluting and pierced with stylised **A HIGHLAND BASKET-HILTED BACK-SWORD, MID-18TH hearts and circles, an oval aperture on one side, large bun- CENTURY with tapering blade double-edged for its last quarter, shaped pommel, and spirally carved wooden grip (wormed) cut with a long slender fuller on each face, steel hilt of bound with twisted wire and retaining a portion of its fishskin traditional form incorporating an alternating arrangement of covering 86.5 cm; 34 1/8 in blade broad and narrow panels carried by flattened bars, decorated Estimate: £1,500.00 - £1,800.00 with pierced circles and triangles, a pair of loops at the front, scrolling quillon and conical pommel, and later grip bound with twisted wire and 'Turk's heads' (covering missing, pitted Lot: 130 throughout) 77.5 cm; 30 1/2 in blade **A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER IN EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE, Estimate: £700.00 - £900.00 19TH CENTURY with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section cut with a short slender fuller on each face, and stamped with three marks including a reclining lion on the Lot: 136 ricasso, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, including a pair of **AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED HUNTING SWORD, straight quillons, knuckle-guard, lower ring guards, trifurcated LONDON 1780, MAKER'S MARK OF JOHN FAYLE with inner-guard, ovoid pommel, spirally-bound grip and in aged curved blade double-edged towards the point, formed with two condition throughout 109.5cm; 43 1/8in blade long fullers of unequal length on each face (areas of pitting), Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 silver hilt comprising slotted guard with wavy borders, knuckle- guard formed en suite, lionhead pommel, and spirally carved grip bound with silver ribband and plaited wire, in its wooden Lot: 131 scabbard covered with tooled leather (losses) and with four **A COMPOSITE SWEPT-HILT RAPIER, 17TH CENTURY silver mounts including middle band and locket each with a

14 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com small ring for suspension 65 cm; 25 5/8 in blade John Fayle **AN ITALIAN STILETTO, SECOND HALF OF THE 17TH was a hilt maker and sword cutler circa 1770-82. See L. CENTURY with slender blade of diamond section, forte of Southwick 2001, p. 106. square section, iron hilt comprising a pair of straight quillons Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00 swelling towards the terminals, small outer ring-guard, spirally fluted pommel, and spirally carved (perhaps later, pommel button missing, the steel parts chemically cleaned) 18.5 cm; 7 Lot: 137 1/8 in blade **A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED PARADE SWORD OF Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 PRESENTATION QUALITY, PARIS, CIRCA 1840 with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, etched with a panel of scrolling foliage on each side of the forte, silver-gilt hilt cast and Lot: 142 chased in relief, comprising down-turned shell-guard decorated **A LEFT-HAND DAGGER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with long with a central lion mask and a border of bold scrolls interrupted tapering blade of hollow-diamond section, the rear portion of by vine fruit and foliage, struck with Paris mark for 1838, the forte flattened for the thumb, iron hilt comprising a pair of knuckle-guard joined to the shell by a pair of arms, interrupted drooping quillons with flattened globular terminals, small side- by a central green man mask, rising to a recurved terminal ring swelling in the centre, faceted ovoid pommel, and the grip formed as a horse's head in the round and enriched with further bound with plaited wire and 'Turk's Heads' 41.5 cm; 16 3/8 in bouquets of fruit, quillon with scrolling terminal struck with the blade maker's mark, in a Lozenge the letters PH(?), the pommel cast Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00 and chased in the round with a classical trophy-of-arms involving a large vacant shield supported by the figures of Hercules, Justice (the grip of her sword missing) and a female Lot: 143 deity, swelling fluted grip decorated with scrollwork and a **A SCOTTISH DIRK, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH spiralling arrangement of olive fruit and foliage, and retaining CENTURY with cut-down backsword blade double-edged over much gilt finish, in an associated wooden scabbard with purple its upper portion, cut with a slender fuller framed by a pair of velvet covering and gilt locket and chape decorated with bold incised lines on each face, carved bog wood grip formed with a scrolls of foliage and flowerheads 83 cm; 32 3/4 in blade A pair of squared shoulders, decorated with interlaced Celtic sword of similar form and decoration, further enriched with strapwork and small nodules in imitation of nails, iron ferrule, diamonds and rubies, was ordered by Christian VII, King of and iron cap pommel (pitted), in a contemporary leather Denmark from J. F. Rudolphi, A Danish silversmith working in scabbard, perhaps the original, with two iron mounts and a later Paris, and presented to crown Prince Frederick VII in the loop (the locket, chape and tip of the scabbard missing) 32 cm; 1840s. See A. Hoff, H. D. Schepelern and G. Boesen 1956, 12 5/8 in blade plate 40. Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00

Lot: 144 Lot: 138 **AN AXE, PROBABLY FRANKISH, 6TH CENTURY with **A PLUG BAYONET, MID-18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY curved head of wedge-shaped section formed with a flattened FRENCH with fullered blade double-edged towards the point, rear face and integral socket (pitted), on a later wooden haft etched with sprays of foliage and a trophy-of-arms on each face reinforced with an iron strip front and back 18 cm; 7 1/8 in Two (areas of pitting), rectangular ricasso, brass hilt including axe heads of similar form attributed to the 5th/6th Century are quillons with moulded globular terminals, turned blackened preserved in the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin. See hardwood grip, and pommel en suite with the quillons 26.2 cm; H. Müller and H. Kölling 1990, p. 367, no. 60, 61 10 3/8 in blade Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00

Lot: 145 Lot: 139 **AN AXE, 14TH CENTURY in excavated condition, with **AN UNUSUAL DAGGER, 18TH CENTURY with robust blade rectangular blade formed with a slightly curved leading edge of late medieval type, formed in two sections, the lower portion and recessed on one side, tapering neck, and open H-shaped decorated with a chevron pattern along the back-edge, forte of socket, on a later curved wooden haft 18 cm; 7 1/8 in head rhomboid section incised with three lines on each side, formed Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 with a globular moulding beneath incorporating a button for suspension, faceted horn grip (cracked), and engraved brass cap pommel 22.5 cm; 8 7/8 in blade Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 146 **AN AXE, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with iron head of wedge- shaped section, stamped with a mark on each side, a pair of pellets vertically divided by the letter 'M' and '8' beneath a Lot: 140 dotted crescent respectively, loop-shaped socket, on an early **A DAGGER, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with flat double- wooden haft 83.5 cm; 33 in overall edged blade, the forte of flattened tulip form, iron hilt comprising Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 cross-piece, hollow tapering grip, and cap pommel 20.3 cm; 8 in blade Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 147 **A SO-CALLED HEADSMAN'S AXE, 19TH CENTURY with flaring blade of flattened wedge-shaped section, one side with Lot: 141 low bevelled edges and stamped 'Marseigne', tapering faceted

15 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com neck (pitted throughout), on a later wooden haft 18 cm; 7 1/8 in entirely of steel, with bulbous head formed of seven wedge- head shaped flanges, each formed with a sharp point and a small Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 basal lug, faceted button-shaped central finial formed with a writhen collar at the base, steel haft formed with a series of raised collars, faceted grip, and moulded basal cap 51.5 cm; Lot: 148 20 1/4 in overall **A PEASANT FLAIL, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with tall bulbous Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 wooden head fitted with eleven robust iron spikes (cracks, one spike missing), and a robust central spike, the top and bottom each with an iron collar, on a wooden haft 40 cm; 15 3/4 in Lot: 155 head **A DECORATED AXE, 18TH CENTURY, EAST EUROPEAN Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 OR OTTOMAN with heavy crescentic head decorated n each face with diamond shaped panels each filled with a flowerhead, wedge-shaped rear pean, tubular socket chiselled with flowers Lot: 149 and foliage (worn, areas pitting), and later wooden haft 26.5 **A GERMAN MACE FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, MID- cm; 10 1/2 in overall 16TH CENTURY with bulbous head formed of seven shaped Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 flanges, each fitted with a reinforced tip of cruciform section, moulded central finial, steel haft formed in three tapering sections, the upper two octagonal, divided by writhen collars Lot: 156 and one pierced for a thong, and the bottom section spirally **A NORTH ITALIAN PARADE HALBERD, EARLY 17TH moulded and fitted with fluted basal cap 63 cm; 24 3/4 in overall CENTURY, PROBABLY VENETIAN with curved slender axe- Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 blade pierced with numerous shaped panels and engraved with scrolls, formed with a shaped lug top and bottom and fitted with a chased bronze grotesque boss on each side, pierced and Lot: 150 engraved rear fluke decorated en suite and fitted with a further **A GERMAN FIGHTING AXE, LATE 16TH CENTURY with pair of bronze bosses, the centre fitted with a transverse bolt curved axe blade formed with a scalloped back-edge and terminating in a pyramidal spike on each side, central blade of pierced with six holes arranged in two equal groups, tall flattened-diamond section, pierced with three central slots and pyramidal robust rear spike, domed central finial, original haft engraved with scrolls rising from a mask, fitted at the base with encased in iron plaques and pierced for a thong, complete with a characteristic openwork collar comprising six bars each original iron belt hook retained by a rivet with foliate head interrupted by a cherubic mask, engraved socket, on an early (lightly pitted throughout) 56.8 cm; 22 3/8 in overall wooden haft covered with red fabric, studded with brass nails Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 and retaining three tassels and its iron shoe (haft worn and repaired, shoe incomplete) 55.2 cm; 21 3/4 in head A halberd of similar form is preserved in the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan, cat. Nos. 526 and 527. Two others were sold in these rooms, Lot: 151 28th June 2006, lot 347 and 7th December 2006, lot 214 **AN EAST EUROPEAN MACE, 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY respectively. HUNGARIAN with bulbous head formed of six rounded Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 flanges, low domed central finial, plain socket, on an early leather-covered wooden haft (leather with small losses, opening along the seam), studded around the base with domed nails (two missing) 49.5 cm; 19 1/2 in overall Lot: 157 Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 **AN ITALIAN SPEAR, EARLY 16TH CENTURY with sharply tapering blade of flattened-diamond section (areas of pitting), struck on each face with two marks, a sword and a further mark (indistinct), tapering socket (braized repairs), on a later long Lot: 152 wooden haft with red fabric covering and large dome-headed **A MILITARY FLAIL, PROBABLY GERMAN LATE 16TH nails 62.2 cm; 24 1/2 in head A similar spear is preserved in the CENTURY with faceted rhomboid head stamped with a mark National Artillery Museum, Turin, inv. no. J. 113/5204. on each face, formed with a loop at the base attached to a Estimate: £700.00 - £1,000.00 chain of five links, on a later wooden haft with pointed iron shoe 37 cm; 14 1/2 in head with chain Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Lot: 158 **AN ETCHED GLAIVE FROM THE GUARD OF FERDINAND II, ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA IN TYROL (1529-95, REIGNED Lot: 153 1564-1595) with knife-like blade double-edged for the **A MACE IN GERMAN LATE 16TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH uppermost third, etched on each side with the crowned Imperial CENTURY with bulbous head formed of eight shaped flanges arms enclosed by the Order of the Golden Fleece and joined in the centre by a horizontal disc-shaped collar, tapering surmounted by the letter F for Ferdinand, the borders decorated haft formed in two sections interrupted by a raised central with linear patterns and the forward bottom corner with a spray moulding (pitted), and turned wooden grip 58.5 cm; 23 in of foliage on each side (the etching extensively worn and no overall longer visible in places), tapering socket with bevelled edges, a Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 pair of long straps, on a portion of an early haft fitted with an additional pair of straps (the lower portion replaced) 72.4 cm; 28 1/2 in Ferdinand II was appointed regent of Bohemia by his Lot: 154 father, Ferdinand I. Following his father's death in 1564 he **A MACE IN LATE GOTHIC STYLE, 19TH CENTURY formed ruled over the Tyrolean and Swabian territories, where he drove

16 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com forward the Counter-Reformation. A highly educated and in three equal groups, long central spike of diamond-section, cultivated man, he extended Schloss Ambras near Innsbruck rear fluke pierced with three holes, and a pair of straps (one which housed his famous collection of portraits, works of Art, loose), on a later wooden haft 71 cm; 28 in head curiosities and the first historically organised collection of Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 armour. Further glaives from this group are preserved in the Hofjagd-und Rüstkammer Vienna and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (gift of William H. Riggs acc. Nos. 04.3.97 and Lot: 164 14.25.268). **A STYRIAN HALBERD, LATE 16TH CENTURY with forward- Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 leaning axe-blade pierced with three holes top and bottom, a central group of five holes and incised with crescents, long central spike of diamond-section, rear fluke stamped with three Lot: 159 pellets arranged vertically on each side and with a mark, and a **A SWISS HALBERD OF SO-CALLED SEMPACH TYPE, pair of straps (one repaired), on a later wooden haft 72 cm; 28 ZURICH, SECOND HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY with 3/8 in head slightly curved near rectangular blade pierced with a cross at Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 the base, triangular central spike formed with a reinforced tip, triangular rear fluke stamped with a mark on one side (indistinct), and a pair of long straps, on a later wooden haft Lot: 165 34.5 cm; 13 1/2 in head The mark is perhaps that of Meister **A STYRIAN HALBERD, LATE 16TH CENTURY with small Lampert Koller of Würenlos who supplied two hundred halberds forward-leaning axe-blade pierced with a series of slots and to the Zurich Kanton arsenal in 1663. See J. A. Meier 1982, circles, matching rear fluke stamped with a Maltese cross mark pp. 223-250, nos. 16 and 18. on one side, slender central spike, a pair of long straps, on a Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 wooden haft (shortened) 40 cm; 15 3/4 in head Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 160 **A GERMAN HALBERD, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH Lot: 166 CENTURY with forward-leaning axe-blade pierced with a **A GERMAN OFFICER'S SPONTOON, SECOND QUARTER quatrefoil, scalloped back-edge, two-stage central spike, the OF THE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY PRUSSIAN of upper section of stiff-diamond section, rear fluke pierced with a regulation type, with leaf-shaped blade etched and gilt with the slipped figure-of-eight shape, and a pair of long straps, on a Royal cypher on each face (worn, pitted), waisted base pierced later wooden haft 58.5 cm; 23 in head Provenance The Lord with a series of shaped apertures, moulded cross-guard, Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby's London 5th May 1983, lot 145 to faceted socket with two collars, a pair of straps, on an early Stern. wooden haft 39.8 cm; 15 3/4 in head Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00

Lot: 161 Lot: 167 **A POLEAXE, MID-17TH CENTURY, PROBABALY SWISS **A HALBERD IN SOUTH GERMAN OR SWISS LATE 15TH with slightly curved axe blade rising to a sharp central point, CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with curved axe-blade stamped twice on each side with a mark, a cross with the letter formed with a scalloped back-edge, the top rising to a double- 'O' above in a shaped recess, stout rear spike, and a pair of edged central spike, pierced with six holes arranged in two separate long straps, on a wooden haft 28 cm; 11 in head A equal groups divided by a slipped trefoil, stout right angular rear related axe is preserved in the National Artillery Museum, Turin, spike, and a pair of straps (one shortened and lifting), on a inv. no. J. 4/5107, and another in the Schweizerisches wooden haft 42 cm; 16 1/2 in head Landesmuseum, Zurich. For the latter see Dr. E. A. Gessler Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 1928, table 12. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 Lot: 168 **A GUNNERS LINSTOCK, LATE 17TH/18TH CENTURY with Lot: 162 robust central spike, fitted on each side with a curved arm **A RARE BAVARIAN SABRE HALBERD, SECOND terminating in a shaped head, each fitted with a thumbscrew for QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with curved axe-blade, securing match, tapering socket, a pair of short straps, on a very long slightly curved central blade formed with a hatchet later wooden haft 56 cm; 22 in head point and a long fuller on each face, tapering socket with Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 bevelled edges, on an associated wooden haft with four long straps 107.4 cm; 42 1/4 in head A large number of halberds of this form, formerly in the Bavarian arsenal, are now preserved in the Bavarian Army Museum, Ingoldstadt. Another example Lot: 169 **AN AMERICAN HALBERD OF NEW ENGLAND TYPE, MID- was sold in these rooms 10th December 2008, lot 185. See H. 18TH CENTURY with curved axe-blade pierced with a pair of Seitz 1968, p. 216, ill. 221. rounded diamond-shaped apertures and pairs of slipped circles, Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 matching rear-fluke, central leaf-shaped blade formed with an acute point, tapering cylindrical socket and a pair of straps, on a later wooden haft 46.5 cm; 18 1/4 in head Two related halberds Lot: 163 are preserved in the Kretzchmar von Kienbusch Collection, The **A GERMAN HALBERD, LATE 16TH CENTURY with forward- Philadelphia Museum of Art, cat. nos. 615, 618 leaning crescentic axe-blade pierced with nine holes arranged Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00

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Lot: 170 German make, the left gauntlet of early 17th century Italian **A MILITARY SPEAR, SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH make and the remainder of 19th century make. The etched CENTURY, PROBABLY AMERICAN with slender leaf-shaped decoration of the borders of the main plate of the , of blade formed with a pair of curling basal lugs, tapering socket, the distal half of the left gauntlet and the whole of the on a wooden haft with iron shoe, perhaps the original 32.5 cm; decoration of the right gauntlet appear to be original) 12 3/4 in head Estimate: £10,000.00 - £15,000.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 173 Lot: 171 **A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD **A MILITARY HALBERD, SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH USE, CIRCA 1540 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low CENTURY, PROBABLY AMERICAN of rudimentary type, with roped medial comb, and 'sparrow's beak' and bevor small axe-blade, leaf-shaped central blade, slender rear fluke, attached to it by common pivots (replaced), the associated visor and tapering socket, on a later wooden haft 30.5 cm; 12 in pierced beneath its stepped, centrally-divided vision-slit with head eight circular ventilation-holes and beneath its 'beak' with Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 sixteen similar holes of which those at the right have been opened out to a trefoil form, the right further fitted with a lifting- peg (restored) and a swivel-hook (restored) to engage a stud projecting from the right of the bevor, the bevor secured to the Lot: 172 skull at the right of the neck by a spring-catch, the flanged lower **A CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, PARTLY SOUTH GERMAN, edges of both elements pierced with later holes, and the whole CIRCA 1530, AND PARTLY 19TH CENTURY comprising decorated at points with pairs of incised lines (very lightly close helmet with rounded skull rising to low boldly roped patinated overall) 26.5 cm; 10½ in medial comb, fitted at the nape with a plume-holder and at the Estimate: £5,000.00 - £8,000.00 front with a bellows visor and bevor attached to it by common pivots, the lower edges of the skull and bevor formed with internally hollowed rims to lock over the upper edge of the collar, the latter formed of four lames front and rear, rounded Lot: 174 breastplate with a detachable folding lance-rest, moveable **A NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD gussets at the arm-openings and a flanged waist-lame USE, PROBABLY MILANESE, CIRCA 1580 of notable weight, supporting a fauld of three lames, the lowest cut with a shallow with rounded one-piece skull rising to a moderately high file- arch over the crotch and having suspended to either side of it roped medial comb, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor from a pair of metal hinges a tasset of four lames, straight- attached to the skull by common pivots (replaced), the visor topped backplate fitted with a flanged waist-plate supporting a stepped in front of its centrally divided vision slit and fitted at its of one lame, each of six lames, the second and right with a lifting-peg (restored), the near vertical-fronted upper largest of which is fitted at its upper end with a haute-piece, and bevor pierced at its right with nine small circular ventilation- the last of which is connected by a turner to a tubular upper holes enclosed within an engraved radial design, and secured cannon with winged bracelet of three lames, left to the lower bevor at the right of the chin by a swivel-hook and gauntlet formed of a slightly flared and rounded tubular cuff radially-fluted mushroom-shaped stud (both restored), the lower formed with a small boss over the lower end of the ulna and bevor and skull fastened to one another at the neck by a fitted at its lower end with five metacarpal-plates of which the restored strap and buckle, and two short gorget-plates front and fourth projects over the base of the thumb, a knuckle-plate with rear (the lower rear one associated), the whole decorated at its a boldly-roped transverse rib, and a shaped finger-plate, right main edges with a file-rope inward turn and elsewhere with gauntlet with flared and slightly rounded tubular cuff fitted within pairs of incised lines 31.0 cm; 12¼ in its lower edge with two wrist-plates, four metacarpal-plates and Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 a knuckle-plate with a file-roped transverse rib, long gutter- shaped each fitted at its upper end with an extension- plate and at its lower end with a winged of four lames, Lot: 175 and a pair of tubular terminating in integral broad-toed **A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD each of eight lames, the main edges of the armour, USE, CIRCA 1550-60 with one-piece skull rising to a high with the exception of those of the right gauntlet, boldly roped, medial comb decorated along its crest with notching and and its surfaces finely etched with bands and borders of pierced at the nape with a pair of rivet-holes for the attachment running symmetrical and asymmetrical foliage on a stippled and of a missing plume-holder, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor blackened ground, enclosed throughout by an engrailed border attached to the skull by common pivots with radially fluted terminating at the apex of each cusp with a dot, the decoration heads (replaced), the forward-sloping visor with a roped step in of the central band of the breastplate involving a classical front of its broad single vision-slit and pierced beneath it with six warrior flanked by a pair dolphins and surmounting a trophy of diagonal ventilation-slots, the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced arms, and the interspaces to the right and left of the band at its right with six small circular ventilation-holes and at each respectively occupied by a representation of a kneeling knight side with a later and larger hole of trefoil form, the lower bevor in armour beneath scrolls bearing the inscription 'gott sei / projecting forward beyond the chin, and the visor, upper bevor genedig uns / súndern' (God be merciful to us sinners), and and lower bevor each secured at the right by spring-catches Christ on the cross with a skull and crossed bones by a (that for the visor missing its combined pull-release and lifting- detachable folding lance-rest lying at his feet, the secondary peg, and that for the upper bevor with a replace catch), and two edges decorated with band of guilloche, again within an gorget-plates front and rear, all the main edges of the helmet engrailed border, and the right gauntlet decorated at both its with notched inward-turned edges, accompanied in part by main and subsidiary edges with cabling accompanied by recessed borders (the crest of the comb and the lower edge of narrow bands of dots The main plate of the breastplate, the front gorget plate with small perforations, the right of the the whole of the backplate, the left gauntlet, the main plates of neck of the lower bevor with a small riveted internal patch and both cuisses and the sabatons are probably of 16th century the whole with an oxidised finish) 33.0 cm; 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Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 roped medial comb, projecting forward to an obtusely-pointed peak pierced at the centre of the brow to receive a later sliding nasal-bar with leaf-shaped terminals, the lower one detachable, Lot: 176 and retained by a later staple and locking-screw, fitted at its **A SOUTH GERMAN CUIRASSIER'S CLOSE HELMET, flanged lower edge with a neck-guard of two lames (the first CIRCA 1630 with egg-shaped skull formed in two pieces joined restored, the second Flemish, about 1620-30), at the nape with medially by rivets, fitted at the nape with a slender plume-holder a moulded and incised plume-holder, and at each side with a and embossed with a pattern of V-shaped flutes radiating from hinged cheek-piece (restored) shaped to fit over the outer end a transversely-pierced finial riveted through a star-shaped of the peak, flanged outwards at is lower end to serve as a washer at its apex, peak, face-defence and bevor attached to continuation of the neck-guard, and pierced at its centre with the skull by common pivots with low domed heads, the face- ten small auditory-holes in rosette formation, the main edges of defence cut at each sides of its upper edge with a deep the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns and its rectangular notch forming the lower part of a vision-slit, and subsidiary edges formed with scallops enclosed to the inside by pieced at each side of the face and over the mouth with pairs of incised lines and punched in each case with a dot ventilation slots and holes arranged in patterns, and a single within a circle (with light mottled pitting overall) 34.0 cm; 13¼ in deep obtusely-pointed gorget-plate front and rear embossed in Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 each case to simulate two lames, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and the whole with a black finish (now lightly pitted Lot: 180 overall) 29.0 cm; 12½ in **A SOUTH GERMAN , CIRCA 1580-90 with Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 rounded one-piece skull rising gently to a high file-roped medial comb and projecting forward to a narrow acutely-pointed peak, fitted at its lower edge with a matching neck-guard of one lame, Lot: 177 and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece, flanged outwards **A NORTH EUROPEAN CUIRASSIER'S CLOSE HELMET, at it lower edge to serve as a continuation of the neck-guard CIRCA 1630 with rounded skull formed in two pieces joined and pierced at its centre with five small auditory holes in dice along the crest of a low medial comb and fitted at the nape with formation, the whole formed at its main edges with finely file- a tapering plume-holder, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, and attached to the skull by common pivots, the visor with markedly- fitted throughout with brass-capped constructional rivets and stepped, centrally divided vision slit decorated above each eye lining-rivets of iron retaining beneath their heads in the case of with a recessed semi-circle, the prow-shaped upper bevor those encircling the neck and the brow, large rosette washers pierced at each side with thirteen small circular ventilation-holes of brass (the right cheek-piece associated and its hinge broken; in a lozenge-formation, the lower bevor secured to the skull and the left cheek-piece later and its hinge repaired) 23.0 cm; 9 in the upper bevor respectively, at the right side, by a swivel-hook Estimate: £1,800.00 - £2,400.00 and pieced stud (the hook of the skull missing and that of the lower bevor restored), and a single gorget-plate front and rear, the front one embossed to simulate two lames of which the Lot: 181 lowest rises to a cusp at the centre of its upper edge, and the **A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1560 with pointed rear one, modified from a collar and possessing a recessed one-piece skull boxed in four panels, rising to a prominent main border, is associated, and the whole decorated at points baluster-shaped finial, the upper half of which is faceted and with single incised lines (showing some pitting and wear the lower writhen, projecting forward to a flat acutely-pointed overall) 38.0 cm; 15 in upturned peak and backwards to a similar but shorter and more Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 obtusely-pointed downturned neck-guard pierced at its centre rear with a pair of suspension-holes, and fitted at each side with a later hinged cheek-piece flanged at its forward and lower Lot: 178 edges to serve respectively as continuations of the peak and **A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA neck-guard, and pierced at its centre, within a raised circle, 1580 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high, file-roped with four small auditory-holes separated by a four-pointed star, medial comb, projecting forward to an obtusely-pointed peak, the skull retaining an old quilted lining, the main edges of the fitted at its flanged lower edge with two neck-lames, at the nape helmet formed with file-roped inward turns accompanied by with a later plume-holder and at each side with a hinged cheek- recessed borders, and its surfaces retaining a blued overall piece, the right one overlapping and secured to the left one at finish (now lightly pitted, the skull with a plugged hole at the the chin by a swivel-hook and pierced stud, each cut away at upper end of one of its facets and a patch at the front of the cut- the front to clear the nose and mouth, later decorated at the out for the right cheek-piece) 23.0 cm; 9 in top rear with an embossed and roped volute that overlaps and Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 serves as a continuation of the outer ends of the peak, is pierced with seven small circular auditory-holes and fitted at its flanged lower edge with two gorget-plates en suite with those of Lot: 182 the skull, the lowest ones joined medially by a mushroom- **A NORTH ITALIAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1630 with rounded shaped stud and keyhole slot, and the main edges of the one-piece skull rising to a low medial ridge, projecting forward helmet formed with neatly file-roped inward turns 33.5 cm; 13¼ to a rounded slightly downturned peak, backwards to a in matching neck-guard, and fitted at each side with a hinged Estimate: £3,500.00 - £4,500.00 cheek-piece (restored), the hinge fitted externally to the skull and internally to the cheek-piece, the latter pierced at its centre with five small auditory-holes in dice-formation and furnished at Lot: 179 its lower edge with a separate flange forming a continuation of **A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, LATE 16TH the neck-guard, the helmet decorated at its unturned main CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high, file- edges with single incised lines and to either side of the medial

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Another of almost identical form can be comb decorated to either side of its crest and base with incised recorded in the armoury of the Knights of St John at Valletta, lines, and an integral brim turned down at each side and rising Malta (Spiteri 2003, p. 311, N37). to an acute point front and rear, its edge (cracked in two places Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 at the right) formed with a file-roped inward turn bordered by a narrow groove, the base of the crown pieced at the nape with a pair of holes for the attachment of a plume holder (missing) and Lot: 183 encircled by sixteen (originally eighteen) lining-rivets with brass **A BURGONET IN THE MID-16TH CENTURY SOUTH rosette washers, and its surface retaining a blued finish (pitted GERMAN STYLE, 19TH CENTURY with rounded one-piece overall) 29.0 cm; 11½ in The morion was one of a series skull rising to three low sub-parallel combs decorated along offered for sale by W. H. Fenton & Sons of 11 New Oxford their crests with notching, projecting forward to a flat obtusely- Street, London, between the two World Wars. An undated pointed peak struck with the quality-control mark of the city of circular of theirs (photographic copy held in the Royal Nuremberg, projecting backwards to a rounded neck-guard, Armouries Library, Leeds) illustrates a morion almost identical pierced overall with pairs of holes for the attachment of a fabric to that offered here. According to a later verbal report of covering and at each side of the neck with a keyhole-slot for Fenton's armourer, Theodore Egli, they had been obtained by the attachment of a buffe, and fitted at each side with a hinged the former in Ireland. Other examples of the series are now to cheek-piece shaped to the outer end of the peak, flanged be found in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, Inv. No. outwards at it's lower end to serve as a continuation of the neck- IV.449 (Dufty & Reid 1968, pl. CII,c), the Fitzwilliam Museum, guard, and pierced with seven small circular auditory-holes in Cambridge, Acc. Nos Hen. M. 32, 33 & 34-1933 (Eaves 2202, rosette-formation, and the main edges of the whole formed with pp. 153-5, ill), and the Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery. file-roped inward turns (lightly patinated overall) 26.0 cm; 10¼ in Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 Provenance Christie's, King Street, 22nd July 1992, Lot 110 Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 Lot: 187 **A NORTH ITALIAN MORION IN THE 'SPANISH' FASHION, Lot: 184 CIRCA 1580-90 formed in one piece with an almond-shaped **A FINE GERMAN OR EASTERN EUROPEAN ZISCHÄGGE, crown rising to a short 'stalk' at its apex, and a slightly CIRCA 1630 with one-piece hemispherical skull fitted at its downturned integral brim projecting to an obtuse point front and apex with a transversely-pierced finial riveted through a rear, its edge decorated with a file-roped inward turn decorative rosette washer at its front with a broad flat peak accompanied by a narrow recessed border, the base of the projecting forward to a truncated point and pierced at its rear crown encircled by fourteen brass-capped lining rivets with with a rectangular hole to receive a sliding nasal-bar retained at brass rosette-washers, and the front of the crown later etched the brow by a staple and locking-screw, at its rear with a flaring in line with a scroll-edged cartouche enclosing a rearing bull neck-guard of five lames, the last matching the peak in outline and surmounted by a lion's mask (the left of the crown pierced and decorated at its centre with thirteen round-headed rivets in with two later wiring-holes) 32.0 cm; 12½ in rosette formation, and at each side with a scutiform cheek- Estimate: £700.00 - £1,000.00 piece (the right detached) pierced at its centre within a raised circle with seven small auditory holes in rosette formation, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns Lot: 188 accompanied on the peak by a narrow recessed border and on **A MORION IN THE NORTH ITALIAN STYLE OF CIRCA the neck-guard by a pair of incised lines repeated at its 1590, 20TH CENTURY, formed in one piece with an almond- subsidiary edges which, like the upper edge of the peak, are shaped crown rising to a short 'stalk' at its apex, and a slightly formed with cusps, the surface retaining a blackened finish downturned narrow brim with a file-roped inward turn throughout, and the skull and neck-guard retaining much of accompanied by a narrow recessed border, the base of the their original lining, stuffed with tow and quilted in the case of crown encircled by fourteen large round-headed lining rivets the former (the nasal-bar, its fittings and the cheek-pieces (lightly patinated overall) 19.7 cm; 7¾ in restored) 29.0 cm; 11½ in Estimate: £250.00 - £450.00 Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00

Lot: 189 Lot: 185 **A SOUTH GERMAN COMB-MORION, NUREMBERG, **A DUTCH HARQUEBUSIER'S POT, CIRCA 1630 with a CIRCA 1580 formed in one piece with a rounded crown rising to hemispherical skull formed in two pieces joined medially by a high roped medial comb and an integral brim turned down at rivets, fitted at its front with a flat obtusely-pointed pivoted peak each side and rising slightly to an acute point front and rear, the (its point pierced with a later suspension-hole) carrying on its front point struck with the quality-control mark of the city of underside a later triple-barred face-guard overlain with a pair of Nuremberg, its edge formed with a file-roped inward turn sinuous cross-bars, at its rear an obtusely-pointed neck-guard (cracked at two points and showing some splitting) of four lames, at its nape with a gilt plume-holder formed at its accompanied at the rear and each side by a later wiring-hole, upper edge with fleurs-de-lis, and at each side with hinged and the base of the crown encircled by sixteen lining-rivets with forward-curving cheek-pieces (restored), the helmet formed brass rosette washers (three of the latter now missing; the with plain inward turns at its main edges, decorated with a pair surface of the morion marked) 26.5 cm; 10½ in of incised lines to either side of the mid-line of its skull and with Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 single incised lines elsewhere, and its surface retaining a blackened finish overall 32.0 cm; 12½ in Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00

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Lot: 190 another by three internal leathers (replaced), the upper edge of **THE SKULL OF A NORTH ITALIAN BURGONET WITH the first formed with a roped inward turn, the lower edge of the ETCHED DECORATION, PROBABLY MILANESE, CIRCA fourth with a series of large scallops bordered by a pair of 1570-80 formed in one piece with a rounded crown rising to a widely-spaced incised lines, and the upper edges of the second high, boldly-roped medial comb (patched at two points and to fourth each bevelled and bordered by a pair of more closely- showing some delamination), projecting forward to an acutely- spaced incised line, the front and rear sections of the collar pointed downturned peak, and backwards to a matching neck- connected to one another by an internal hinge at the left side guard (pierced with a later suspension-hole), cut away at each and closed by a plain stud and hole and a mushroom-shaped side to receive a missing cheek-piece, formed at the main stud and keyhole slot at the right (the whole showing a mottled edges of its peak and neck-guard with boldly-roped inward overall patina and a number of plugged holes) 16.8 cm; 6½ in turns accompanied by recessed borders, and extensively Provenance Robin Wigington, Poets Arbour, Stratford upon decorated with etched classical ornament on a stippled and Avon, 9th October 1992 The gorget almost certainly derives blackened ground, including in the recessed borders, running from a series of garnitures for tilt and barriers use made at foliage, and on the remainder of the peak and neck-guard, in Greenwich about 1610. Several examples of the series are still trefoil cartouches at each side of the crown and on each side of to be seen in the Royal Armouries, Inv. Nos. II. 73, 78-9, 80 & the comb, trophies of arms inhabited by fabulous beasts and 86 (ffoulkes 1916, vol. I, pp. 121-3 & 130; Exhibition of Armour birds (extensively worn and patinated overall) 29.0 cm; 11½ in made in the Royal Workshops at Greenwich, Tower of London, Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 1951, pp. p. 32; and Dufty & Reid 1968, pl. LII) Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00

Lot: 191 **A LIGHT HORSEMAN'S HELMET, PARTLY GERMAN, LATE Lot: 194 16TH CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull (originally that of **A COMPOSITE ENGLISH OR FLEMISH MITTEN a close helmet) rising to a high file-roped medial comb, fitted at GAUNTLET FOR THE RIGHT HAND FROM THE ARMOURY the front with a broad acutely pointed pivoted peak (restored), OF THE FIRST EARL OF PEMBROKE, CIRCA 1555 formed at its rear with a narrow obtusely-pointed neck-guard of three of a short tubular cuff closed at the inside of the wrist by rivets, lames (reworked from those of a tasset), and at each side with boxed at each side, shaped to the base of the thumb and the uppermost scale of a pendant chin-strap (restored), the formed at its flared upper edge with a file roped inward turn distal edges of the peak and neck-guard formed with file-roped accompanied by a recessed border, two metacarpal-plates and inward turns (lightly patinated overall) 34.0 cm; 13¼ in a shaped metacarpal-plate, each decorated at its upper edge Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 with close-set filed nicks and bordered by a single incised line, and four finger-plates (from the same series of gauntlets but associated) narrowing distally to a rounded end with a recessed border and formed between the fingers with shallow V- Lot: 192 shaped flutes having incised lines in their valleys (with a **A JOUSTING HELM IN THE EARLY 15TH CENTURY mottled patination overall) 27.7 cm; 11 in The gauntlet STYLE, 19TH CENTURY, FROM THE WORKSHOP OF belonged originally to a series of demilance sold SAMUEL LUKE PRATT formed of as high one-piece crown piecemeal from the armoury of the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton rising at its rear to a rounded point (extensively repaired with House, Wiltshire, by Sotheby's, London, on 23 June 1921 and riveted patches) and descending over the nape and sides to a 14 June 1923. The armours may have been acquired to equip straight inward-turned lower edge, and fitted at each side with a the followers of William Herbert, First Earl of Pembroke(1501- face-defence extending down to the same level and pierced at 1570), when he was appointed Captain of Calais in 1556, and its right with numerous small circular ventilation-holes, its upper were very likely worn by them when he led the English edge and the upper edge of the face-opening of the crown contingent to the Battle of St Quentin in 1577. They were forming the edges of a 'frog-mouthed' vision slit, the lower edge almost certainly among the forty-seven 'dimi launces' of the helm bordered by brass-capped round-headed rivets mentioned in an inventory of the Earl's armoury taken at Wilton with square washers shaped peripherally with eight cusps (acid- only a year later in December 1588. Other gauntlets of the pitted overall) 36.5 cm; 14¼ in Provenance Londesborough series are now in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. See Collection, sold Christie, Manson and Woods, 4th July 1888, Mann 1939, pp. 10-16 and Hayward 1964, pp. 225-30) probably lot 123 'Tilting helmet - temp. Henry V [a forgery] sold Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 for 2 2s.' Literature James Robinson Planché, Cyclopaedia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress, 1876, Vol 1., p.284 The form of the helm is based on that of Henry V (d. 1422) in Westminster Abbey (Laking 1920, Vol. II, figs 49 a & b). For similar helms Lot: 195 from the workshop of Samuel Luke Pratt of Bond Street, **AN ELBOW GAUNTLET FOR THE RIGHT HAND IN THE London, see Laking 1922, Vol V, fig. 1545,c; and Jonathan GERMAN LATE 16TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY Tavares, Samuel Luke Pratt and the Arms & Armor Trade in formed of a long tubular cuff closed by a riveted join at the Victorian Britain, Doctoral Dissertation, Bard College, New inside of the arm and extending over the point of the elbow to York, 2013, fig. 185. The helm was almost certainly made for which it is slightly shaped, an outer wrist-plate, four metacarpal- Pratt by his principal faker, Thomas Grimshaw of Clerkenwell, plates, a knuckle-plate and scaled thumb and finger-defences London. (lightly patinated overall) 48.0 cm; 19 in Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 193 Lot: 196 **A RARE ENGLISH COLLAR MADE IN THE ROYAL **A FOR THE LEFT FOOT IN THE GERMAN WORKSHOPS AT GREENWICH, CIRCA 1610 formed of four 'GOTHIC' STYLE OF THE LATE 15TH CENTURY, 19TH sturdy lames front and rear, in each case articulated to one CENTURY; AND ANOTHER SIMILAR FOR THE RIGHT FOOT the first formed of a front and a rear section joined to one

21 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com another by a hinge at the inside and fastened by a stud and turn accompanied by a wide recessed border, the whole finely hole at the outside, the two elements cut away at their junction embossed in high relief and chased within a pattern of at each side to clear the undersides of the ankle bones, and the strapwork and scrolling acanthus foliage with classical busts, front section formed of a main plate fitted at its front with ten satyrs and trophies of arms surrounding a central circular backward-overlapping lames shaped to the top of the foot and cartouche enclosing the head of an armoured and bearded terminating in a long acutely-pointed toe-cap (lightly patinated warrior, it surface russetted overall (its rear showing a few small overall); and the second similar to the last but having twelve soldered repairs) 65.0 cm; 25½ in lames over the foot, a considerably shorter toe-cap and being Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 decorated on the upper surface of its front section with pairs of flutes arranged as two lozenges laid one in front of the other (lightly patinated overall) The first 60.5 cm; 23¾ in; the second Lot: 201 46.5 cm; 18¼ in (2) **A SOUTH GERMAN BREASTPLATE, EARLY 16TH Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 CENTURY formed of a globose main plate fitted within its arm- openings with moveable gussets, each turned inwards and boldly roped en suite with the straight upper edge of the former, Lot: 197 and within its lower edge with a waist-lame supporting a fauld of **A BEVOR IN THE SPANISH 'GOTHIC' STYLE OF THE LATE four lames of which the last (restored) is gently arched and 15TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY formed of a medially- flanged outwards over the crotch, and fitted to either side of it ridged main plate strongly shaped to the chin, a tall face-plate with a pair of round-ended each of five lames (the pierced just below its inward-turned, obtusely pointed upper lowest three of the left associated; the remainder restored, edge with a broad vision-slit, articulated at its lower edge to the probably using old metal; the whole lightly to moderately main plate and supported at the right by a spring-catch, and a patinated overall) 57.5 cm; 22¾ in deep V-shaped gorget-plate pierced at its lower end with a pair Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 of lace-holes fitted with brass eyelets (the right edge of the gorget-plate chipped, and the whole pitted and patinated overall) 41.0 cm; 16¼ in Lot: 202 Estimate: £700.00 - £1,000.00 **A NORTH ITALIAN ANIME BACKPLATE, CIRCA 1550-60 formed of ten upward-overlapping lames, the first formerly surmounted by an integral collar, the outer ends of the first to Lot: 198 sixth cut with arm-openings, the lower edge of the tenth flanged **A HALF-SHAFFRON IN THE GERMAN 'MAXIMILIAN' outwards to receive an associated culet of one lame, the left STYLE OF THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY shoulder of the first and each side of the sixth lame fitted with formed of a main plate shaped to the brow, fitted at its upper single-ended buckles to accommodate the straps of the corners with tall gutter-shaped ear-defences and at the centre breastplate, and each side of the tenth fitted with a rivet for a of the forehead with a plume-tube of rectangular section, the waist-belt, the main edges of the backplate formed with boldly- main plate and the outsides of the ears decorated with groups roped inward turns bordered by a raised ribs, and the of flutes in the 'Maximilian' fashion', in each case emphasised subsidiary decorated with V-shaped nicks (with a mottled by pairs of incised lines 27.5 cm; 11 in patination overall) 45.0 cm; 17¾ in Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00

Lot: 199 Lot: 203 **A SOUTH GERMAN SHOT-PROOF STEEL TARGET, **A NORTH ITALIAN BACKPLATE OF A 'WAISTCOAT NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1600 of convex circular form rising at its ' OF SHOT-PROOF WEIGHT, LATE 16TH centre to a faceted ogival finial and formed around its edge with CENTURY formed of three vertical plates of which the broad a series of puckers separated by later round-headed lining- outer ones, in each case cut with an arm-opening and fitted rivets with brass rosette washers (three missing and the holes beneath it with a pierced stud to receive the hasp of the for them opened out for suspension-purposes), retaining a breastplate, overlap the narrower middle one and are crimson-silk fringe and fragments of a leather lining, and fitted connected to it at each side by a sturdy internal hinge, the at each side with two later pairs of rivets and washers for the slightly upstanding neck-opening, to which all three plates attachment of enarmes, their brass heads formed as human contribute, lacks its integral collar and is fitted at the left and masks, the whole originally possessing a black-from-the- right ends respectively its flanged and scalloped lower edge hammer finish (now much rubbed) 64.0 cm; 25¼ in A shield of with a turning-pin and a mushroom-headed stud to receive a exactly the same design and decorated with brass masks of an detachable culet, the arm-openings formed with roped inward identical pattern was sold in these rooms on 8 December 2010, turns and accompanied by a single incised line repeated at all lot 178, from the collection of the Princes of Hannover. It was secondary edges and down the centre of the middle plate (the struck with the quality control-mark of the city of Nuremberg three plates rigidly riveted to one another and the outer ends of and a mark attributed to the Nuremberg master Martin the outer ones extended in the working life of the piece; the Schneider. A further shield from the same series is in the Art whole surface showing a light patchy patina overall) 41.7 cm; Institute of Chicago. 16 in Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00

Lot: 200 Lot: 204 **A STEEL TARGET WITH EMBOSSED DECORATION IN **A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN COLLAR, MID-16TH THE MID-16TH CENTURY ITALIAN STYLE, 19TH CENTURY CENTURY formed of three lames front and rear, the first in of circular form rising at its centre to a broad slightly flattened each case associated and having a plain inward turn at its convex boss, and formed peripherally with a file roped inward upper edge, the lowest of deeper form than the rest and

22 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com possessing a squared lower edge, both decorated at their outer Lot: 207 edges with a pair of raised ribs, the rear one fitted at each **A STRONGBOX, 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY AMERICAN shoulder with a later hinged trapezoidal loop for the suspension of russet iron plates, joined by riveted reinforced borders, the of a , and the upper edges of the second and fourth interior fitted with an additional lid with five sprung bolts lames decorated with single incised lines, the whole blued operated by a complex arrangement of levers and sliding overall and retaining traces of gilding at is borders and on its bosses, domed lid with a pair of robust hinges and a single fittings 17.0 cm; 6¾ in frontal hasp, and a pair of lifting handles 61 cm; 24 in deep 89 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 cm; 35 in long 40.5 cm; 16 in high Estimate: £700.00 - £1,000.00 Lot: 205 **AN HARQUEBUSIER'S BREASTPLATE AND BACKPLATE, Lot: 208 LONDON, CIRCA 1650 the first of shot-proof weight, formed **FOUR CARVED PANELS IN NORTH EUROPEAN 17TH with a medial ridge, shallow V-shaped waistline, narrow CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY each decorated with a upstanding neck-opening and short flange at the waist, fitted at vertical design including a caryatid, a cherubic mask, and each side of the chest with a stud to receive the shoulder-straps swags interrupted by scrolls, and blackened in imitation of old of the backplate and each side of the waist with a later belt oak, together with two carved mounts probably from a chair, hook, the neck and arm-openings formed with plain inward each decorated with a crouching lion and scrolls of foliage the turns, all main edges pieced with later holes to attach a lining, first: 88.5 cm; 34 7/8 in (6) and the neck-opening struck with the government ownership Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 marks of the time of the Commonwealth (1649-60) and of Charles II (1660-85), together with a further indistinct mark; the second formed with a narrow upstanding neck-opening and short waist-flange, each, together with the arm- openings Lot: 209 formed with plain inward turns, and the shoulders and each **TWO MANACLES AND A LARGE GROUP OF KEYS, 19TH side of the waist fitted with later shoulder-straps and a waist- CENTURY the manacles of rudimentary construction, each u- belt, both pieces retaining a black overall finish 40.3 cm; 15¾ in shaped hasp, and barrel type lock, one with thirteen various Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 keys, the other with eight keys (23) Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00

Lot: 206 **ALFRED EMILE O' HARA COMTE DE NIEUWERKERKE Lot: 210 (1811-92) :'MORT DE MONSEIGNEUR LE DUC DE **A CONTINENTAL TINDER LIGHTER, LATE 18TH CLARENCE', A FRENCH BRONZE EQUESTRIAN GROUP, CENTURY with box-lock action signed 'Descos Launez' on a MID-19TH CENTURY brown patinated, depicting two hinged tinder-cover on the left, fitted with file moulded cock, accurately modelled armoured figures on caparisoned horses, external mainspring, conical butt, and U-shaped support at the the base with neo gothic decoration and lengthy narrative front 15 cm; 6 in overall inscriptions on each side, signed 'par le Cte E. de Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Nieuwerkerke', dated 1838, with foundry inscription 'fondu par E. Quesnel. Paris' and 'Susse frères éditeurs place de la bourse' 55 cm; 21 ¾ in high, 60 cm; 23 5/8 in wide; 19 cm; 7 ¾ in deep Lot: 211 This sculpture shows the encounter between Thomas, 1st Duke **A PAIR OF DECORATIVE BRONZE CANNON, LATE 19TH of Clarence (Henry V's brother) and Garin de Fontaine at the CENTURY each with multi-stage barrel with raised moulding, battle of Baugé, 22 March 1421 during the 100 Years War. near spherical cascabel buttons, a pair of plain trunnions: on its Thomas had not been present at his brother's famous victory at decorative iron carriage cast in the form of a dragon 38 cm; 15 Agincourt (1415), and it may have been his desire to establish in barrels 2.5 cm; 1 in bores his battle credentials that led him to push on against the Scots Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 fighting with the French despite advice to the contrary. In a rather ironic twist of fate his downfall may have been brought about by the lack of archers in his company compared to the Lot: 212 number of Scottish bowmen, although the Scots and French **A BRONZE , 18TH CENTURY formed in four were numerically inferior. As it was, in what was effectively an stages, with raised astragal mouldings, the middle band with a ill-advised sortie, Clarence and a significant number of his men central elliptical moulding, a pair of trunnions each with a half at arms were killed. The historic accounts are confused, and it ellipse-shaped moulding above, circular vent, and conical is not clear who actually killed Clarence, but as he was Henry cascabel 31 cm; 12 ¼ in barrel 6.5 cm; 2 ½ in bore V's Regent at the time, his death was a significant blow to the Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 English. This sculpture is probably the best known work of Alfred-Emilien O'Hara Comte de Nieuwerkerke (1811-1892). Nieuwerkerke, a French sculptor of Dutch descent, enjoyed a Lot: 213 high level civil service career in the French Second Empire, **THREE BRONZE SIGNAL MORTARS, 17TH/18TH until its fall in 1870. Following this he left Paris and moved to CENTURY, FOR PARADE OR FESTIVAL USE each of Italy, via London, shedding much of his distinguished 'tankard' form, formed in two stages, with raised mouldings, collections as he went. Much of his arms and armour collection rectangular handle, flared base and moulded vent (one holed) was acquired by Sir Richard Wallace and remains in the 12.5 cm; 4 7/8 in 14 cm; 5 1/2in 15 cm; 6 in barrels (3) Wallace Collection today. A plaster model, perhaps the original Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 and another bronze sculpture of this group are preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (XVII.29). Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00

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Lot: 214 Lot: 220 **A PAIR OF BRONZE CANNON, 19TH CENTURY with **A .600 CALIBRE 1756/77 PATTERN FLINTLOCK SEA tapering barrels formed in five stages, with raised astragal SERVICE PISTOL with tapering barrel stamped with Tower mouldings, swamped at the muzzles, scallop-shell vents, proof mark and the barrelsmith's initials 'IG' for Joseph Grice at globose cacabels, and a pair of plain trunnions: each on a later the breech, flat lock with 'GR' crowned, broad arrow and stepped wooden carriage with four trucks 68 cm; 26 ¾ in barrel 4 'Tower', stamped with a series of marks including a crown on cm; 1 ½ in bore the inside (the barrel and lock with areas of pitting), regulation Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 full stock (the butt cracked through and repaired), regulation brass mounts, steel belt hook and later wooden ramrod 30.5 cm; 12 in barrel Lot: 215 Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 **TWO PAIRS OF SPURS AND FOUR FURTHER SINGLE SPURS, 19TH CENTURY the first pair of silvered iron, with short U-shaped heel bands, multi-spiked rowels retained by a Lot: 221 scallop shell, a short length of mail, and each retaining a pair of **A .600 CALIBRE 1756/77 PATTERN FLINTLOCK SEA loops for attachment; the second pair with U-shaped heel SERVICE PISTOL, THE LOCK DATED 1761 with tapering bands retaining traces of silvering, short necks fitted with small barrel stamped with Tower proof mark, 'GR' crowned and broad rowels, and one retaining a single buckle; together with two arrow (the barrel with areas of pitting), flat dated lock signed South American or Spanish spurs, and two further spurs the 'Grice' with 'GR' crowned and broad arrow, faceted pan, first: 11.5 cm; 4 1/2 in (8) regulation full stock with inspector's stamps, regulation brass Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 mounts, steel belt hook and brass-tipped ramrod 30.5 cm; 12 in barrel Estimate: £1,800.00 - £2,200.00 Lot: 216 **TWO PAIRS OF STIRRUPS AND A HORSE BIT, 18TH/19TH CENTURY the first pair formed of shaped openwork bars Lot: 222 enclosing the forward portion of the foot (some bars loose), **A RARE .600 CALIBRE QUEEN ANNE FLINTLOCK rising to a rectangular loop at the top; the second with knurled REGULATION PISTOL, THE LOCK BY I. PEDDELL, CIRCA treads pierced in the centre with a pair of joined slipped circles, 1702-14 with two-stage barrel stamped with Ordnance and rounded side bars rising to a loop for suspension; the formed of Tower proof marks, signed lock retained by three side nails, two conical hollow bars, each fitted with a figure-of-eight numbered '7' on the tail, with 'AR' crowned and crowned broad shaped side panel with a loop for fitting to the reins the first: arrow mark, the inside stamped 'ED' and with a fleur-de-lys 10.8 cm; 4 1/4 in high (5) mark, full stock carved with an apron moulding about the tang Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 (small repairs), brass mounts comprising solid side-plate, trigger-guard with rounded finial, butt-cap with 'AR' 'P', '14' and broad arrow accompanied by engraved linear borders, ramrod- Lot: 217 pipe and brass-tipped ramrod 35.5 cm; 14 in barrel James **AN ITALIAN MUSKETEER'S POWDER-FLASK, EARLY Peddell is recorded 1688-1716 as a maker of complete arms 17TH CENTURY with wooden body applied with a large iron including a government gift to New York in 1702 and 1710. plaque front and back, the former with a central rosette and the See lot 224. latter with a belt hook, fitted with tapering nozzle with spring cut- Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 off, and four rings for suspension (worn) 24 cm; 9 1/2 in high Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 223 **A RARE .650 CALIBRE 1730 PATTERN LAND SERVICE Lot: 218 PISTOL WITH 1729 PATTERN LOCK, DATED 1729 with **AN EAST EUROPEAN STAGHORN POWDER-FLASK, tapering barrel stamped with Ordnance and Tower proof marks, CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS, 17TH CENTURY of characteristic regulation dated lock with 'GR' crowned, broad arrow and bifurcated form, the inner face left natural, the outer carved and 'Tower' (the cock repaired), stamped 'WI' and '30' crowned on engraved with geometric patterns (worn), fitted with two the inside, regulation full stock carved with a moulding about staghorn caps, engraved brass cap, two loops for suspension, the tang (small cracks and chips), regulation brass mounts, and together with a leather belt, 17th/18th Century, studded with brass-tipped ramrod 30.5 cm; 12 in barrel See De Witt Bailey numerous shaped previously gilt plaques (now in three pieces) 1997, pp. 18-19. the flask: 18 cm; 7 1/8 in high Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 224 Lot: 219 **AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE .650 CALIBRE JAMES II **A .700 CALIBRE FRENCH MODEL 1763 FLINTLOCK FLINTLOCK COMBINED LAUNCHER AND PISTOL of regulation type, the barrel retained by a single iron MUSKET BY JAMES PEDDELL, LONDON, CIRCA 1687 with muzzle band, bevelled lock inscribed 'Gosuin a Charleville', sighted barrel formed in four stages and with a moulded muzzle regulation walnut full stock stamped with an inspector's mark ring, retained by a slender steel band muzzle band, octagonal opposite the lock, regulation iron mounts, and iron ramrod 22.7 then polygonal breech stamped with Ordnance marks, long cm; 8 7/8 in barrel rectangular tang, slightly curved signed lock engraved with Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 border ornament and 'I2R' crowned, fitted with rounded pan incorporating a rear gate and a slender trap-cover on the tail for grenade ignition, engraved cock, walnut full stock, the butt

24 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com formed of a bottle-shaped steel extension forming the grenade and the date (refreshed), regulation stock, boldly impressed launching base, stamped with 'IR' crowned on the neck, 'RBXXXXIII' on the left of the butt, regulation brass mounts and separated from the tang by a brass washer, the rear of walnut brass-tipped ramrod 116.8 cm; 46 in barrel Edmond Jordan is stamped '234' and with a further mark on the right (one small recorded circa 1734. crack), fitted with a hinge and retained by a sprung button catch Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 on the top (cracked on one side), the fore-end with a stirrup mount and a full length iron bar for mounting, iron trigger-guard, brass mounts comprising scrolling side-pate, butt-cap with tang Lot: 228 of shaped outline, three moulded ramrod-pipes and slender **A .750 CALIBRE DOG-LOCK MUSKET OF SEPOY TYPE BY fore-end cap (ramrod missing) 98 cm; 38 5/8 in barrel JOHN (1) WALKER, CIRCA 1722-48 with tapering sighted Provenance Clay P. Bedford Exhibited Early Firearms of Great barrel struck with a series of proof marks, the barrelsmith's Britain and Ireland, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, mark, and inscribed 'No. 12' at the breech, the tang struck with 1971 Literature Herbert A. Sherlock, Early Grenade Launchers Tower proof mark, flat lock retained by three side nails, signed of Great Britain, in, Military Collector and Historian, June 1951, 'Walker' and struck with '2' crowned, fitted with dog safety-catch pp. 44-6. Early Firearms of Great Britain and Ireland, the incorporating a thumb lug, full stock (the fore-end Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1971, cat. No. 105. The shortened)carved with a raised moulding about the tang and present combined grenade thrower and flintlock musket is one stamped with a series of numbers on each side of the butt of three known examples, the other two being preserved in the (cleaned down), brass mounts of regulation type including Royal Armouries, Leeds (Inv. Nos. XII 260 and 261), by James scrolling serpentine side-plate, trigger-guard, butt-plate Peddell and Hartwell respectively. John Tinker invented this (cracked) and two ramrod-pipes, and steel ramrod 106.5 cm; 42 combined musket and grenade thrower in 1681 and was in barrel John (1) Walker is recorded circa 1717-48. He had awarded a pension of five pounds per quarter for it. The 463 muskets proved by the Gunmaker's Company circa 1723- Ordnance Records include a minute referring to three 31. For another gun of this type by the same maker see D. H. gunmakers, Collins Groome, John Hartwell and James Peddell, Harding 1997, p. 21. for stocking and locking brass hand mortar pieces made by the Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 Ordnance brass founder William Wightman at Moorfields. James (1) Peddell apprenticed to John Silke, became free of the Gunmaker's Company, 1682; was elected assistant, 1699; and became Master 1703-4. He was Gunmaker to Ordnance, Lot: 229 **A .750 CALIBRE SHORT LAND PATTERN FLINTLOCK 1685-1717; The East India Company, 1716; The Hudson Bay MUSKET, THE LOCK DATED 1759 with tapering sighted barrel Company 1687-1722 and the Royal African Company from (muzzle worn and stretched), border-engraved dated lock with 1721 until his death in 1723. See H. L. Blackmore 1961, pp. 'GR' crowned and 'Tower', regulation stock impressed 'BB' on 35-36, for a detached see F. Grose 1801, the left of the butt, regulation brass mounts including four vol. II, p. 363. ramrod-pipes, escutcheon and butt-cap (sling swivels missing, Estimate: £19,000.00 - £24,000.00 areas of pitting) and brass-tipped wooden ramrod 106.7 cm; 42 in barrel Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Lot: 225 **A .950 CALIBRE 1737 PATTERN FLINTLOCK RAMPART GUN, DATED 1744 with sighted barrel stamped with Ordnance proof marks, , grooved tang, border-engraved dated lock signed Lot: 230 **A .750 CALIBRE 1779 PATTERN SHORT LAND PATTERN 'Jordan', with 'GR' crowned and broad arrow mark, regulation FLINTLOCK MUSKET the barrel struck with Ordnance and full stock (light worm), stamped with inspector's marks on the Tower proof marks and traces of a regimental inscription butt, regulation brass mounts, iron stirrup mount, and iron (pitted, bore worn at the muzzle), border-engraved lock with ramrod 137 cm; 54 in barrel 'GR' crowned, 'Tower' and broad arrow, regulation full stock Estimate: £5,000.00 - £7,000.00 (cracked through and repaired ahead of the rear ramrod-pipe), brass mounts including escutcheon engraved 'A/12', and steel ramrod 106.7 cm; 42 in barrel Lot: 226 Estimate: £1,800.00 - £2,200.00 **A RARE .750 CALIBRE WILLIAM III DOG-LOCK MUSKET, CIRCA 1695-1700 with sighted barrel formed in two stages, octagonal breech stamped with proof marks and the barrelsmith's mark, perhaps 'IS' (rubbed), flat lock retained by Lot: 231 **A .650 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK MUSKET BY GRICE, DATED three side nails, engraved with 'WR' crowned, fitted with flat 1759 with sighted barrel stamped with Ordnance and Tower bellied cock with dog safety-catch, full elmwood stock carved proof marks, border-engraved signed and dated lock with broad with a raised moulding about the tang, brass mounts arrow mark, regulation stock, regulation brass mounts including comprising butt-cap and two moulded ramrod-pipes (later four ramrod-pipes, a pair of sling swivels, and steel ramrod ramrod, trigger-guard missing) 118 cm; 46 1/2 in barrel 106.6 cm; 42 in barrel Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00

Lot: 227 **A .750 CALIBRE 1730/40 LONG LAND PATTERN Lot: 232 **A .750 CALIBRE PRUSSIAN MODEL 1740 FLINTLOCK FLINTLOCK MUSKET, THE LOCK DATED 1736 with tapering MUSKET with sighted barrel, grooved tang, stepped bevelled sighted barrel retained by four pairs of cross pins, struck with regulation lock with Potsdam arsenal inscription, and 'S&D' on the barrelsmith's mark 'EI' crowned, probably for Edmond the lower edge, full stock impressed on the left of the butt Jordan, the tang struck with Tower proof mark, border- (repaired) 'M St John 36' in large script on the left, regulation engraved regulation lock signed 'Jordan' with 'GR' crowned

25 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com brass mounts including escutcheon with 'FR' crowned and butt- Marquis 1791, described by Horace Walpole as a 'very weak plate numbered '36', and associated ramrod 104.5 cm 41 1/8 man' Mrs Jack, Ireland, Sotheby & Co. 22nd December 1960, in barrel lot 162 Christie's, King Street, 22nd July 1992, lot 205 These Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 pistols were said to have been used by Lord Hill, better known as General Hill of the Peninsular Campaigns, who, on his death in 1842 left them to his valet Calderwood. Lot: 233 Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 **A .700 CALIBRE FRENCH MODEL 1763 FLINTLOCK MUSKET WITH U.S. MARKINGS, LATE 18TH CENTURY of regulation type, with sighted barrel retained by three steel Lot: 237 bands, stamped 'US' over the breech and with the date on the **A PAIR OF 20 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK tang, bevelled lock with the date, St Etienne Royal Arsenal TURN-OFF PISTOLS BY FREEMAN, LONDON, CIRCA 1760, inscription and 'US', regulation stock cut with various initials on LONDON PROOF MARKS, MAKER'S MARK JA with cannon the butt, regulation steel mounts and steel ramrod 113.5 cm; 44 barrels moulded at the muzzles and numbered '1' and '2' 3/4 in barrel respectively, engraved breeches numbered en suite, stamped Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 with the barrelsmith's mark beneath, signed beneath the pans, inscribed 'London' on top and decorated with foliage, separate tangs engraved with foliage, border-engraved actions with Lot: 234 matching cocks and steels, highly figured swelling walnut butts **A PAIR OF 18 BORE FLINTLOCK LIVERY PISTOLS, carved with an apron moulding incorporating a scallop about BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1780 with two stage the tangs, border-engraved sliding trigger-guard safety-catches lightly swamped barrels, octagonal breeches engraved with (the steel parts with areas of pitting throughout), silver mounts sprays of foliage at each end, engraved tangs, engraved comprising pierced scrolling foliate side plates, grotesque mask bevelled locks fitted with engraved bevelled cocks, walnut full butt-caps, and rococo escutcheons decorated with the owner's stocks carved with a moulding about the tangs (one fore-end crest 11.5 cm; 4 1/2 in barrels (2) Provenance Michael German, repaired, brass mounts comprising pierced foliate sideplates, 5th September 1992 James Paul Freeman was apprenticed to trigger-guards engraved with a flowerhead on the bows and Henry Anthonison and turned over to Andrew Dolep in 1705. with foliate terminals, grotesque mask butt caps, vacant He was made Free of the Gunmakers Company in 1716 and escutcheons, and a pair of ramrod-pipes (later ramrods) became Master in 1732. During the period 1721-31 he had 17.8cm; 7in barrels (2) 4,872 muskets, 609 pairs of pistols and 51 proved Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 by the Gunmakers Company The crest is that of Macartney. Estimate: £2,000.00 - £2,500.00

Lot: 235 **A 20 BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOL BY I. WELCH, Lot: 238 BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1770 with two-stage **A RARE 25 BORE EAST SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK BELT slightly swamped barrel, engraved with a linear frame over the PISTOL FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, SIGNED R. S., breech, engraved tang, signed border-engraved lock (cock DATED 1723 with multi-stage barrel, faceted flaring muzzle, the replaced), figured walnut full stock inlaid with silver wire scrolls median overlaid with engraved silver panels, small silver about the tang, brass mounts comprising trophy-of-arms side flowerheads and diamond-shaped panels, the breech plate cast in low relief, trigger-guard engraved on the bow, incorporating the back-sight, inlaid with a pair of silver grotesque mask cap, vacant escutcheon, and a pair of ramrod- flowerhead rondels and the date '1723' on a silver strip, pipes (one replaced, later ramrod) 20.2 cm; 8 in barrel John rounded lock signed 'R. S.' beneath the pan, moulded steel full Welch is recorded in Birmingham circa 1766-93. stock engraved with pairs of lines (rubbed), inlaid with an Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 engraved panel of silver beneath the fore-end, heart-shaped pommel engraved en suite and enclosed by a band of engraved silver at the top, fitted with spirally engraved pricker, the trigger decorated en suite, slender steel belt hook with Lot: 236 bracket of shaped outline, moulded ramrod-pipe, and steel **A RARE PAIR OF 80 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FOUR ramrod 15.5 cm; 16 1/8 in barrel For a discussion of this BARRELLED FLINTLOCK TAP-ACTION TRAVELLING distinctive form of pistol see W. Reid 1963, pp. 26-30. PISTOLS BY DURS EGG, LONDON PROOF MARKS, Estimate: £4,000.00 - £6,000.00 BIRMINGHAM SILVER MARKS 1782, MAKER'S MARK I. B. with turn-off brass barrels stamped with County Down Census marks 'D-N5397' and 'D-N5398', numbered 1-4 and 5-8 respectively, border-engraved faceted breeches numbered en Lot: 239 suite and stamped with London proof marks top and bottom, **A FINE PAIR OF 24 BORE SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK BELT engraved tangs decorated with rococo scrolls and foliage, PISTOLS WITH BRASS BARRELS, LOCKS AND STOCKS BY signed box-lock actions engraved with trophies-of-arms on T. MURDOCH, LEITH, LAST QUARTER OF THE 18TH each side, fitted with blued tap-levers on the left (the top-jaws CENTURY each with three-stage barrel engraved with and screws replaced), highly figured bulbous walnut butts scrollwork and foliage, formed with faceted slightly flared profusely inlaid with silver scrolls, flower heads and pellets muzzle and reeded breech, the latter incorporating the back- (small losses, some lifting), fitted with silver pommels finely cast sight, signed engraved lock decorated with scrolls and border- and chased in low relief with a lion devouring bones within a ornament, full stock engraved with matching designs of scrolls, turret, all enclosed in a rococo framework, silver escutcheon foliage and petals, the underside inlaid with panels of engraved engraved with the owner's crest beneath an Earl's coronet and silver, the spine of the butt engraved en suite and decorated engraved blued sliding trigger-guard safety-catch engraved with with the owners crest within an oval behind the tang, bulbous a rococo bouquet on the bow 11.7cm; 4 5/8in barrels (2) silver pommels engraved with a radiating pattern of scrolls and Provenance Arthur, 5th Earl of Donegal (1739-99), created foliage and with no provision for a pricker, engraved brass belt

26 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com hook with pierced and engraved bracket, silver ball trigger Estimate: £6,000.00 - £10,000.00 engraved with an expanded flowerhead, engraved steel ramrod- pipes, and steel ramrods, almost certainly the original 18.5 cm; 7 1/4 in (2) Provenance John Christie, West Conshohocken, Lot: 242 Pennsylvania, sold Sotheby's New York 1st June 1991, lot 348. **A PAIR OF 14 BORE LIEGOIS FLINTLOCK HOLSTER The crest is probably that of Wadham or Woodam. PISTOLS SIGNED G. MASSIN, CIRCA 1740 with three-stage Estimate: £5,000.00 - £7,000.00 sighted barrels moulded at the muzzles, octagonal breeches engraved with beadwork, sprays of foliage and polygonal for the uppermost sections, engraved tangs, signed rounded locks Lot: 240 engraved with sprays of foliage and border ornament (areas of **A PAIR OF 32 BORE SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK BELT pitting), figured walnut full stocks moulded over the fore-ends PISTOLS FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL BY I. MURDOCH, and about the tangs, steel mounts comprising pierced scrolling LAST QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with three-stage side plates chiselled with foliage, spurred pommels engraved barrels engraved with traditional Celtic scrollwork, formed with en suite with the locks and fitted with moulded caps, engraved faceted slightly flared muzzles and reeded breeches, signed trigger-guards with moulded finials, a pair of ramrod-pipes, locks engraved with further scrolls and border ornament, full vacant silver escutcheons (restored), and each with later stocks engraved with matching designs of scrolls, foliage and wooden ramrod with steel worm 24 cm; 9 1/2 in Gilles Massin petals, the undersides inlaid with panels of engraved silver, the is recorded as a gun dealer in Liège until his death in 1740. spine of the butts inlaid with silver scrolls and set with a vacant Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 silver escutcheon on each side, ramshorn pommels enriched with silver, engraved steel belt hooks, silver ball triggers engraved with an expanded flowerhead, prickers en suite with Lot: 243 the triggers (restored), engraved steel ramrod-pipes, and steel **A 60 BORE ITALIAN MIQUELET-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, ramrods 17.2 cm; 7 3/4 in Provenance The Property of a CIRCA 1740 reconverted from percussion, with two-stage Gentleman, sold, Christie's, King Street, 22nd July 1992, lot tapering barrel enclosed with a moulded foliate band at the 205 muzzle, engraved tang, engraved lock decorated with scrolls Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 and tendrils issuant from monstrous masks, fitted with external spring, bridle and cock all decorated en suite, full stock applied with numerous brass plaques cast and chiselled with scrolls of Lot: 241 foliage terminating in grotesque profiles and marine monsters, a **A FINE PAIR OF18 BORE DUTCH SILVER-MOUNTED larger plaque with matching designs including a green man FLINTLOCK LONG HOLSTER PISTOLS, CIRCA 1710, mask ahead of the trigger-guard and about the tang, brass ENRICHED FOR PRESENTATION TO MUSTAFA AGHA 1235 mounts cast and chased en suite, comprising solid side plate, AH (CIRCA 1819/20) with tapering barrels chiselled with foliage spurred pommel, trigger-guard with large leafy terminal, and at the muzzles, long flats with brass fore-sights, decorated over three moulded ramrod-pipes, engraved brass trigger-plate, the breeches with foliage enclosing a chiselled brass grotesque moulded brass fore-end cap, and retaining a portion of its mask and stamped with Utrecht town mark (rubbed), inlaid with brass tipped ramrod 30.5 cm; 12 in barrel a brass line on each side, brass lined vent, moulded tangs Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00 incorporating the back-sights, stepped brass locks signed ahead of the cocks, chiselled with foliage on the tails and beneath the pans (rubbed), fitted with chiselled steel cocks Lot: 244 decorated with scrolls carrying a grotesque profile, and **A 16 BORE ADRIATIC FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, chiselled steels, full stocks profusely inlaid over their full surface LATE 18TH CENTURY with tapering barrel retained by a single with silver wire scrolls enriched with pellets and flower heads, a brass muzzle band chased with a trophy-of-arms, formed with a brief inscription on the left of the breeches (minor lifting, small long flat inscribed in imitation of a signature and moulded at the losses), full silver mounts comprising side-plates pierced and breech, engraved grooved breech tang, engraved bevelled lock chiselled in low relief with scrolling foliage and flowers carrying with pseudo signature, full stock carved with elaborate scrolls in a deity borne in a chariot and a gigantic bird-of-prey, spurred low relief behind the rear ramrod-pipe and about the tang, brass pommels decorated with further designs of foliage and portrait mounts comprising pierced foliate side plate incorporating a profiles, the butts each with a portrait profile in a foliate frame, central mask, trigger-guard with leafy finial, spurred pommel trigger-guards decorated en suite, crowned vacant escutcheon (repaired)' scrollwork escutcheon and two ramrod-pipes, and carried by a pair of winged figures, a pair of faceted ramrod- later ramrod 32 cm; 12 1/2 in barrel pipes, moulded fore-end caps, and silver-tipped wooden Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 ramrods 33.5 cm; 13 ¼ in barrels (2) The inscription reads 'sahib devletlu mustafa aða sene 1235' (Owner, the fortunate Mustafa Agha, year 1235), this corresponds with the period of the pistols embellishment. This is possibly Mustafa Agha Barbar (d. 1834), Lot: 245 **A 22 BORE FRENCH FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL BY Governor of the Tripoli district in the Ottoman province of Syria, JEAN GRIOTTIER, CIRCA 1750 with tapering sighted barrel in the first three decades of the 19th century. Barbar was a formed with a long flat, plain tang, signed stepped bevelled charismatic and powerful figure who fell foul of the Ottoman lock, figured full stock moulded over the fore-end and carved authorities and was restored to favour through the diplomacy of with a raised moulding about the tang (cracked), iron mounts Muhammad 'Ali, Governor of Egypt. He extensively remodeled comprising chiselled scrollwork side plate, spurred pommel, the fortress in Tripoli, giving it its present form, and built the trigger-guard with moulded finial, a pair of faceted ramrod- huge fortress in the village of Iaal, strategically located in the pipes, and original ramrod with iron worm and bone final 34.2 hills behind Tripoli. See I. Tannus al-Khuri, 1957. For an cm; 13 1/2 in barrel Jean Griottier is recorded in St Etienne account of Gerrit I, II and III Lasonder see A. Hoff 1978, pp. circa 1750. 123-126, C. A. Hartmans 1949-51, pp. 208-228 and the same Estimate: £700.00 - £1,000.00 author 2006, pp. 312-313.

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Lot: 246 3/8 in barrel Two pistols decorated in this manner and formerly **A 32 BORE NORTH EUROPEAN WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER in the collection of William Goodwin Renwick were sold PISTOL, MID-17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MAASTRICHT Sotheby & Co., London 21st May 1973 lot 150. with slender tapering barrel stamped '303' on the right of the Estimate: £10,000.00 - £14,000.00 breech, slender tang, bevelled lock retained by two side nails, fitted with external wheel, sliding pan-cover with button release and moulded dog, blackened hardwood full sock (fore-end Lot: 250 repaired, grip cracked through and repaired, filled repairs), **A .38 CALIBRE AMERICAN PERCUSSION white metal mounts comprising later small trigger-guard, a band UNDERHAMMER PISTOL, MID-19TH CENTURY with two- enclosing the pommel, a single moulded ramrod-pipe, fore-end stage rifled sighted barrel, stamped with patterns of flowers cap, and silver-mounted wooden ramrod 50.5 cm; 19 7/8 in over the breech, engraved tang incorporating the back-sight, Provenance Sotheby's New York, 26th May 1992, lot 464 under hammer action, and a pair of figured hardwood grips Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00 (small cracks) enclosed by a brass back-strap 10.2 cm; 4 in barrel Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Lot: 247 **A 24 BORE WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL WITH EBONY STOCK AND GILT MOUNTS, 17TH CENTURY AND Lot: 251 LATER with tapering barrel formed in four stages (lengthened), **A .36 CALIBRE AMERICAN PERCUSSION the breech with a slender girdle and engraved with scrolls of UNDERHAMMER PISTOL, MID-19TH CENTURY with two- foliage (rubbed), engraved tang, rounded lock retained by three stage rifled sighted barrel, stamped with patterns of flowers side nails, fitted with external wheel engraved 'S', moulded pan- over the breech and '100' beneath, engraved tang incorporating cover with button release, ebony full stock carved with scrolling the back-sight, under hammer action, and a pair of figured leafy tendrils about the rear ramrod-pipe and the tang hardwood grips (small cracks) enclosed by a brass back-strap (repaired), gilt brass mounts comprising pierced side plate 10.2 cm; 4 in barrel engraved with a design of scrolling foliage inhabited by a Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 monster head and a grotesque, carrying a central medallion filled by a profile in contemporary dress, spurred pommel chiselled with a rampant lion against a punched ground, trigger- Lot: 252 guard with foliate terminal, a pair of ramrod-pipes, and gilt- **A .36 CALIBRE AMERICAN PERCUSSION brass tipped ebony ramrod, perhaps the original 35.5cm; 14in UNDERHAMMER PISTOL BY W. ASHTON, MID-19TH barrel Provenance The Property of a Gentleman, sold Christie's CENTURY with two-stage rifled sighted barrel stamped 'W. 20th November 1991, lot 305. Ashton' over the breech, brass tang fitted with back-sight and Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 extending to form the back-strap, underhammer action, and figured walnut grips 13 cm; 5 1/8 in barrel Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 Lot: 248 **A 20 BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK CARBINE, LATE 17TH CENTURY cut-down from a müllerbüchsen, with two-stage Lot: 253 sighted barrel, stamped with the barrelsmith's initials' HB', a **A .41 CALIBRE AMERICAN PERCUSSION POCKET series of decorative marks, and the spurious date 1537 over the DERINGER, CIRCA 1860 with tapering rifled sighted barrel breech, flat lock fitted with wheel enclosed by a raised circular fitted with German silver fore-sight, inlaid with a pair of gold plate, sliding pan-cover with foliate button release, and pierced lines at the breech, stamped 'Deringer Philadela' and stamped dog, hardwood full stock moulded over the fore-end, the butt with 'P' enclosed by a sunburst, signed tang with back-sight, with raised cheek-piece on the left and patchbox with sliding signed scroll-engraved lock, figured walnut full stock, inlaid with cover on the right, and steel mounts including trigger-guard and an engraved silver plaque ahead of the lock, chequered butt, butt-plate 28.8 cm; 11 3/8 in barrel engraved silver mounts comprising trigger-guard with pineapple Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 finial, side-plate, vacant escutcheon and a pair of barrel bolt escutcheons, German silver butt-cap with engraved steel trap, and German silver fore-end cap, and some original finish Lot: 249 throughout 6.5 cm; 2 1/2 in barrel **A 28 BORE SAXON WHEEL-LOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 DATED 1587, PROBABLY DRESDEN with two-stage swamped barrel, dated and stamped with a mark (Neue Støckel 3841) over the breech, blued flat lock retained by two side nails, fitted Lot: 254 with external wheel retained by a large circular brass bracket **AN 80 BORE AMERICAN RIFLED FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY engraved with a scale pattern, sliding pan-cover with button PISTOL, CIRCA 1830 with octagonal sighted barrel, plain tang, release, dog, dog spring and safety-catch with filed details, full large stepped lock, full stock applied with a silver heart-shaped stock inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques and segmental plaque on each side of the fore-end, a rondel on each side of lines over the fore-end, the rear portion profusely inlaid with the butt and an oval escutcheon, brass mounts comprising scrolling ball flowers within segmental frames, a large pair of trigger-guard with near square terminal, side-plate and butt-cap, engraved staghorn side nails washers opposite the lock, a pair of moulded ramrod-pipes and brass strip fore-end cap scrollwork plaques about the tang, compressed spherical (later ramrod) 13.8cm; 5 3/8in barrel pommel decorated en suite and inlaid with a warrior profile Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 rondel (small cracks, minor repairs and replacements), steel trigger-guard, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod with engraved staghorn tip 39 cm; 15 Lot: 255

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**A 15 BORE FLINTLOCK WILDFOWLING OR BANK GUN, steel sling swivels, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod 40.5 cm; CIRCA 1740, PROBABLY AMERICAN with tapering sighted 16 in barrel barrel, moulded at the breech and struck with British Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Birmingham proof marks, grooved tang, rounded lock engraved with border ornament and bold scrolls (worn, patinated), walnut full stock moulded over the fore-end, carved and incised with Lot: 260 foliage behind the ramrod-pipe, ahead of the trigger-guard and **A FLINTLOCK TURNPIKE GUN, EARLY 18TH CENTURY, about the tang (rubbed the fore-end cracked, small chips), THE BARREL SIGNED JOHN SMART with brass barrel formed brass mounts comprising pierced scrolling side-plate, trigger- in two stages, swelling towards the muzzle and with a raised guard with moulded bow and shaped finial, butt-plate with band behind, inscribed 'John Smart att Londine Fecit 1710' pronounced heel, three moulded ramrod-pipes, and wooden (later), struck with London proof marks and the barrelsmith's ramrod with iron worm and brass tip 153 cm; 60 1/4 in barrel mark of Thomas (1) Hawley, incorporating a raised belt cut for Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 the back-sight, iron tang, flat lock retained by three screws, stamped with the letters 'M' above 'RX' in a trefoil on the inside, full stock (areas of worm) carved about the ramrod aperture, Lot: 256 iron trigger-guard, a single brass ramrod-pipe, and later ramrod **A .500 CALIBRE NEW ENGLAND FLINTLOCK RIFLE BY 72 cm; 28 3/8 in barrel John Smart was made Free of the EDMUND BEMIS, CIRCA 1770 with tapering sighted barrel Gunmaker's Compnay by patrimony in 1705, presented his rifled with seven grooves, signed on a long flat and fitted with proof piece 1707 and is recorded as gunmaker 'against Norfolk standing back-sight, stamped 'EB' on the left of the breech, Street in the Strand' circa 1715. Thomas (1) Hawley is bevelled lock stamped 'EB', full stock carved with a moulding recorded as gunmaker to Ordnance, circa 1682-1707. over the fore-end (cracked through and repaired), carved with a Estimate: £2,000.00 - £2,500.00 moulding behind the rear ramrod-pipe and about the tang, iron mounts comprising trigger-guard with finial of shaped outline, stepped solid side-plate, butt-plate en suite with the trigger- Lot: 261 guard and six ramrod-pipes, vacant silver escutcheon, iron fore- **A RARE 25 BORE ENGLISH FLINTLOCK BREECH- end cap, and associated ramrod 126.4 cm; 49 3/4 in barrel LOADING REPEATING MAGAZINE GUN ON THE Edmund Bemis is recorded circa 1720-1810 in Boston, LORENZONI PRINCIPLE, CIRCA 1690 with three-stage barrel Massachusetts. formed with a pronounced octagonal moulding incorporating a Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 silver fore-sight at the muzzle, etched with foliage (previously damascened) behind, faceted breech retaining traces of damascened ornament including leafy foliage, grooved for Lot: 257 sighting and fitted with rotating brass breech block operated by **A 28 BORE AMERICAN PERCUSSION GUN, EARLY 19TH a moulded lever on the left, the tang damascened with a green CENTURY converted from flintlock, with octagonal sighted man mask, rounded lock engraved in the French taste with a barrel, grooved tang, engraved stepped lock decorated with scroll inscribed 'God save the King' carried by a cherub, fitted linear patterns and ears of corn, hardwood full stock, brass with engraved cock decorated with a serpent and foliage (top- mounts comprising trigger-guard decorated with a flower on the jaw and screw replaced), powder magazine with engraved bow and with stylised acorn finial, two-piece side-plate, butt-cap cover, the opposite side of the lock with a trap door for the ball (holed), three ramrod-pipes (the fourth missing), brass fore-end magazine figured walnut half-stock (a working replacement) cap, silver escutcheon, and later ramrod 122 cm; 48 in barrel carved with a moulding about the tang, moulded iron trigger- Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 guard damascened en suite with the breech, and iron butt-cap (patch box cover replaced) 67.5 cm; 26 ½ in barrel The present system is named after the Florentine gunsmith Michelle Lot: 258 Lorenzoni though there is no evidence to suggest that he was **A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY T. JORDAN, THE LOCK the inventor of it. This system seems to have enjoyed some DATED 1757 with brass barrel formed in four stages, stamped popularity in England, as evidenced by the frequently quoted with London proof marks and the barrelsmiths mark, 'RW' text of Samuel Pepys who wrote on 3rd July 1662 'A gun to beneath an eight-point star perhaps for Richard (1) Wilson, over discharge seven times, the best of all devices I ever saw, and the breech, signed military lock engraved with border ornament, very serviceable, and not a bauble; for it is much approved of, 'GR' crowned, and the date (pitted), figured walnut stock and many made thereof'. However, given the design it is likely (cracks and repairs, the last portion of the fore-end replaced), that a number of the powder magazines exploded thus brass mounts of regulation type comprising flush fitting side- accounting for the rarity of such arms today. For an account of plate, trigger-guard with bulbous finial, butt-plate and a single Lorenzoni see J. F. Hayward 1963, pp. 141-143. ramrod-pipe, and later ramrod 40.5 cm; 16 in barrel Estimate: £12,000.00 - £18,000.00 Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 Lot: 262 Lot: 259 **A .700 CALIBRE FRENCH FLINTLOCK MUSKET SIGNED **A FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS BY BARBAR, PROBABLY LE CLERT A DIEPPE, CIRCA 1750 with sighted barrel formed JAMES (1), CIRCA 1760 with swamped steel barrel, moulded in three stages, signed bevelled lock retained by three side at the breech, struck with London proof marks and the nails, fitted with flat cock and bevelled pan, full stock carved barrelsmith's mark (rubbed), signed rounded lock, the base of with a moulding about the rear ramrod-pipe and the tang, thick the cock cut for a dog safety-catch (added in its working life, butt carved with a moulding at the bottom on each side, iron now missing), figured walnut full stock (cracked ahead of the mounts including solid side-plate, moulded trigger-guard, butt- trigger-guard), brass mounts comprising pierced strapwork side- plate with terminal of shaped outline, and four ramrod-pipes, plate, trigger-guard with bud-shaped finial, butt-plate with tang steel fore-end cap and associated wooden ramrod 120.3 cm; of shaped outline, moulded ramrod-pipe, vacant escutcheon, 40 3/8 in barrel

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Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,500.00 Lot: 266 AN OFFICER'S UNIFORM OF THE MADRAS MEDICAL SERVICE CIRCA 1900 BY HOBSON & SONS, LEXINGTON Lot: 263 STREET Blue Full Dress tunic, edged with scarlet piping, with **A 10 BORE GERMAN MATCHLOCK MUSKET, SECOND black velvet facings. Gold "Staff" lace to collar and pointed QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, WITH LATER cuffs. Twisted gold shoulder-cords bearing Colonel's KC rank- DECORATED STOCK with sighted barrel formed in three badges. Richly-gilt buttons bearing QVC above star and circlet stages, stamped with proof marks (indistinct) over the breech inscribed 'MADRAS MEDICAL SERVICE'. Label in lining to Lt and fitted with integral pan (cover hinge torn), flat lock fitted with Col W Molesworth; a mess jacket by same maker, with black shaped serpentine (thumbscrew missing), full stock (wormed), velvet upright collar and cuffs, edged all round with gold lace, profusely inlaid with numerous engraved staghorn plaques gilt studs to front and twisted shoulder-cords bearing KC in decorated with conventional flowers and foliage, fishtail butt embroidery; companion scarlet waistcoat, with high collar, studs decorated with a huntsman and hound in pursuit of a fox on the to front, and gold Russia edging and pocket-ornamentation; a each side and a bouquet above, iron mounts comprising trigger- blue double-breasted greatcoat with black velvet stand-and-fall guard, butt-plate ramrod-pipe and fore-end cap of military type, collar and scarlet lining. Six buttons in each row in front, short and wooden ramrod painted with the inventory number belt and skirt-slashes to back and metal rank-badges to 'M.959.1928' 118 cm; 46 ½ in barrel shoulder-straps (one button and some rank-badges missing, Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 minor moth); a short blue cape with leather strap fastening to collar and four small gilt buttons to front; a black leather waistbelt with double stripe of gold embroidery, the outer Lot: 264 element of the circular clasp bearing laurel leaves, the inner **A FINE SILESIAN WHEEL-LOCK BIRDING RIFLE part mounted with QVC royal crest in white metal, the belt (TSCHINKE), DATED 1677 with octagonal swamped sighted complete with matching sword-slings, and with rings for barrel rifled with six narrow grooves, punched with a star- sabretache-slings (sabretache-slings not present); a companion shaped design at the muzzle, signed by the barrel smith 'AK' black leather pouch belt with triple row of gold embroidery and and dated over the breech, angular tang engraved with the ornate brass (originally gilt) buckle, tip and slide, companion letter 'L', engraved flat lock of characteristic form, decorated folding pouch with gold-embroidered black leather flap bearing with bold scrolls, fitted with external wheel retained by a gilt 'VRI' in script below QVC (pocket missing); another pouch bracket, engraved flash-guard, engraved dog, engraved pan- belt, similar to previous item, but with more substantial pouch, cover with button release, and applied with engraved brass the flap mounted with the Imperial crown above 'VRI'; and a plaques over the wheel bracket, the main spring and the dog pair of khaki drill shoulder-straps, fitted with brass King's spring, fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid with engraved .(9) staghorn plaques including hounds, rabbits and ball flowers Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 amongst scrolling staghorn tendrils enriched with ball flowers and pellets, all between staghorn lines (the inlay with minor restorations and small losses), the underside of the stock Lot: 267 decorated with further designs including a stag and a wild boar, OFFICERS' FULL DRESS UNIFORMS OF THE CHARKHARI butt of characteristic form inlaid en suite including a unicorn on ARMY 1931 double-breasted scarlet tunic by Ranken, Calcutta the cheek-piece and with patchbox with sliding cover, iron &c, named to Colonel DM Singh and dated 28/8/31. Dark green trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, engraved horn butt-cap cloth facings and white piped edging, turned down collar edged decorated with a rabbit, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipe, with gold Russia braid, round cuffs with a double row of engraved staghorn fore-end cap, and associated ramrod 95.5 "Vellum" pattern lace, traced with Russia forming eyes above cm; 37 5/8 in barrel and an Austrian knot. Gilt buttons of exceptional quality, Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 mounted with the Arms of Charkhari, to front and back-skirts. (Shoulder-cords absent, 4 buttons missing); another scarlet tunic, also by Ranken, named to Capt Govid Singh and dated Lot: 265 24/9/31, similar to previous item, but single-breasted with seven A VICTORIAN OFFICER'S UNIFORM OF THE BOMBAY magnificent gilt buttons in front, mounted with the State Arms in VOLUNTEER CIRCA 1900 scarlet tunic with blue cloth white metal. Twisted gold shoulder-cords, fitted with Major's collar and cuffs, the collar edged with silver "Vellum" lace and crowns in gilt metal; a pair of dark green cavalry twill overalls, braid, with white metal bugle-horn collar-badges. The fronts with wide crimson stripe, to same owner; a scarlet tunic by edged with silver Russia braid. Pointed cuffs edged with a Simpsons of 63 South Audley St, with upright blue collar, double row of silver lace, traced with Russia forming an gauntlet cuffs, shoulder-straps and narrow plastron, all edged Austrian knot above and crowsfoot below. White metal buttons with gold Staff pattern lace. Brass buttons, bearing the Arms of with regimental title and bugle-horn below the Imperial crown. Bahawlpur. The plastron bearing a coronet above letter 'A' Twisted silver shoulder-cords bearing two stars in silver reversed and intertwined, all in gold embroidery, rank-badges embroidery; a scarlet "Torin" pattern field cap with blue crown removed; and breeches of blue cloth, by same maker, dated and flaps, silver braid edging and badge of the Imperial crown 6/5/37, with double stripe of narrow gold lace on each side, above 'BVR' in silver embroidery; a paper label inscribed ' F W showing a scarlet light between the rows(5) The state of English'; a white enamelled leather shoulder belt with whistle- Charkhari, now part of Uttar Pradesh, was formed in 1765. It holder, lion's head chain-boss and magnificent plate, bearing a earned the gratitude of the British Raj by its support during the Guelphic crown above the Star of India within a voided strap Indian Mutiny of 1857, but had no State Forces as such, its inscribed with regimental title surrounded by a laurel wreath, all army consisting of one squadron of cavalry and a company of in white metal (whistle and chains missing); with its black infantry. It has been suggested that the uniforms offered here leather pouch, the flap bearing initials 'BVR' in script; and were made for the Maharajah's ADCs on the occasion of his companion waistbelt and sword-slings, with white metal snake- third marriage in 1931. His bride was the daughter of HH Sri Tin clasp (4) Mohun Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal, which might Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 perhaps account for the turned-down collars on the tunics, a

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Lot: 274 Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 A PAIR OF HOGSPEARS CIRCA 1900 Two-piece bamboo shafts with polished steel spikes of concave triangular cross- section, steel butts stamped 'FAW/FA/10.04', plaited leather Lot: 268 collars below spikes, and leather carrying-slings. 199cm/78in AN INDIAN ARMY OFFICER'S MESS DRESS OF THE 8TH overall, spikes 27cm/10 ½ in (2) GURKHA RIFLES BY FLIGHTS 4 NEW BURLINGTON ST, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 LONDON black cloth jacket with tailor's label named to Captain G Twiss, and dated 16/12/35 black velvet upright collar and cuffs, edged with black mohair braid, five loops of black cord Lot: 275 each side in front, with two olivets on each loop, black braid GH ELVIN INDIAN MUTINY oil on canvas, signed in paint. figured decoration to collar and cuffs, shoulder-cords of plaited Inscribed in an old label on reverse: "Indian Mutiny/General ? black chain-gimp (rank-stars absent); companion black attacked by sepoys in the ? Pass, Delhi" Depicting a mounted waistcoat, edged with two rows of black gimp separated by a European officer in scarlet uniform, engaging a group of row of black Russia braid eyes; and a pair of black barathea mutineers with his revolver. The dark blue uniforms of the overalls with wide black braid stripes (3) enemy suggest that they are gunners rather than cavalrymen Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 (unframed. Some damage) 40cm x 56cm;16in x 22in Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Lot: 269 AN INDIAN ARMY OFFICER'S SWORD OF THE BENGAL Lot: 276 ARTILLERY BY HENRY WILKINSON, PALL MALL with slightly- JC STADLER NATIVE TROOPS IN THE EAST INDIA curved fullered blade etched with scrolling foliage, QVC, HEIC COMPANY'S SERVICE aquatint, London, Published March 1st Lion, Thunderbolt, Gun between scrolls inscribed 'BENGAL 1815 by Colnaghi & Co, 23 Cockspur Street. Depicting ARTILLERY' and 'UBIQUE' (maker's serial number illegible), mounted sowars of the Governor General's Body Guard and steel three-bar guard and wire-bound fishskin grip, in its steel the Bengal Regular Cavalry, with a sepoy of the Java scabbard (minor spotting to blade, discolouration to guard and Volunteers 33cm x 26cm;13in x 10in, in glazed frame Note: scabbard) 82.5cm; 32 ½ in blade This is No.51 of a series of 60 prints entitled Costume of the Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 Army of the British Empire, according to the Last Regulations, 1812. The entire series was designed and drawn by Charles Hamilton Smith, described as an Officer on the Staff. Lot: 270 Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 A COLLECTION OF MILITARY BADGES Approximately 210 items, mainly ORs' metal cap-badges of British Army regiments, some anodised, mounted on boards Lot: 277 RM BRYSON AFTER CAPTAIN GF ATKINSON MUTINEERS SURPRISED BY HER MAJESTY'S 9TH LANCERS aquatint, Lot: 271 London. Published Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, A VICTORIAN INFANTRY OFFICER'S LEVEE DRESS Gate St, Lincoln's Inn Fields Depicting a troop of lancers ACCOUTREMENTS CIRCA 1900 A fitted metal case (incorrectly dressed in scarlet jackets) attacking a group of containing a gold-laced waist belt and slings, the gilt clasp armed mutineers around a bullock cart 31cm x 45cm; 12in x 17 bearing the Royal Crest in white metal; gold and crimson ½in striped shoulder-sash; a pair of brass swan-necked box-spurs; Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 a pair of twisted gold shoulder-cords bearing Colonel's rank- badges in silver embroidery (one lacking button); and a pair of plaited and winged gold shoulder-cords with gilt buttons of the Lot: 278 12th Madras Regiment A CONTINENTAL BREAST PLATE AND A HELMET, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY the breastplate formed with a low medial ridge, studded around the border with low domed Lot: 272 brass rivets, a pair of matching studs for shoulder straps, and A VICTORIAN OFFICER'S DIRK BELT OF THE 91ST ( the principle borders with brass edging, the helmet of black PRINCESS LOUISE'S ARGYLLSHIRE) HIGHLANDERS leather, fitted with a pair of lion mask bosses, brass peak, and CIRCA 1870 brown leather 1 ½ in wide, probably for an auxiliary leather chin-strap the first: 45 cm; 17 3/4 in high battalion, embroidered with silver thistles and edging. Three- Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 part clasp formed of oblong burnished white metal plates with gilt metal mounts, the outer ones bearing the coronet and cypher of Princess Louise, the centre one with finely engraved Lot: 279 borders and with 'NE OBLIVISCARIS' scroll above the Boar's A MUGHAL INDIAN MAIL SHIRT, 18TH/19TH CENTURY Head and 'XCI'. formed entirely of riveted oval rings of oval-section wire, with a Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 square neck-opening, an overlapped fastening at the right of the chest secured by leather laces (replaced), sleeves extending to just below the level of the elbows, and a lower Lot: 273 edge formed with a short split at its centre front and a projecting A COATEE AND WAISTCOAT OF THE LONDON SCOTTISH cusp at its centre rear (with some holing and losses at the the coatee to GLC Bell 1938 with the rank of corporal, complete edges, and patinated overall); and mounted on a fabric covered with waistcoat dummy supported on a circular base 85.0 cm; 33½ in Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00

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Lot: 280 A NORTH EUROPEAN PAPPENHEIM RAPIER, SECOND A SPEAR, 18TH/19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY INDIAN with QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with slender blade leaf-shaped head moulded at the base, tapering socket, on a formed in two-stages (the tip shortened), the upper portion of wooden haft 46 cm; 18 1/8 in head flattened-hexagonal section and the lower cut with a series of Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 slots and slipped circles within two narrow fullers, rectangular ricasso partly enclosed by an associated large gilt collar, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons swelling at the terminals, inner and outer ring-guards Lot: 281 each filled with a pierced sprung-in plate (one replaced) and A DETACHED BLADE FROM A HUNTING SWORD, MID- joined to the quillons by a further pair of bars, knuckle-guard 18TH CENTURY with tapering blade double-edged towards the interrupted by a moulding and joined to the rings by a single bar point, etched within a long fuller on each face with scenes from front and rear, a pair of arms, faceted plummet-shaped the chase including hounds in pursuit of boar in an enclosure, pommel, spirally moulded grip bound with plaited wire and and the ricasso decorated with scrollwork (pitted) 50 cm; 19 3/4 'Turk's heads' and with some early gilded finish throughout 98 in blade cm; 38 ½ in blade A sword of similar form is preserved in the Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. See L. G. Boccia and E. T. Coelho 1975, no. 566, 567. Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 Lot: 282 A LATE MEDIEVAL SWORD, FIRST HALF OF THE 15TH CENTURY with sharply tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal Lot: 286 section, with traces of a brass inlaid mark on each side of the A 1796 PATTERN HEAVY CAVALRY TROOPER'S SWORD of forte, iron hilt comprising slightly arched quillons of circular regulation type (blade shortened), iron hilt (langets removed, section, faceted plummet-shaped pommel of Oakeshott type T, back-strap rivet missing, pitted), and banded grip 50cm; 19 wooden grip with an early leather binding, and in unexcavated 3/4in blade pitted condition, indicative of a tomb find 80.5cm; 31 3/4 in Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 blade Provenance Sotheby's, London, 1st November 1983, lot 105 Literature Ewart Oakeshott, Records of the Medieval Sword, Woodbridge 1991, p. 224, illustrated. A sword found in the River Thames and with a pommel and blade of similar type Lot: 287 is preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds. See A. R. Dufty p. A GERMAN SPEAR, LATE 15TH/16TH CENTURY with 15, plate 5a. tapering blade of hollow-diamond section, and faceted socket, Estimate: £4,000.00 - £5,000.00 pierced at the base (pitted) 30 cm; 11 7/8 in overall Provenance Ewart Oakeshott Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 283 A FINE LEFT-HAND DAGGER, 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MILANESE with tapering double-edged blade, almost certainly Lot: 288 from a contemporary rapier, formed in three stages and AN AXE, 19TH CENTURY of goose-wing form, with flattened tapering to a sharp point, the lower section cut with a pair of inner face, the outer face stepped, stamped with a mark and fullers on each face, etched and gilt with the inscription 'Fide with a flattened rear edge, and short socket 35 cm; 13 3/4in Sed Ante/Vide Cui' and 'Veritatem Dilige' on a blued panel and high decorated with further gold scrollwork and cabalistic letters, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 tapering ricasso decorated en suite with a classical warrior on one side and a vacant shield on the other, gilt iron hilt comprising a pair of faceted quillons tapering towards the Lot: 289 terminals, ring-guard formed en suite, faceted pommel, later A PAIR OF IN THE LATE 15TH CENTURY grip and retaining much original finish throughout 37 cm; 14 ½ in GERMAN STYLE, 20TH CENTURY; A PAIR OF IN blade Provenance Sotheby's, New York, 23rd November THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY GERMAN STYLE, 20TH 1988, lot 487 CENTURY; AND A QUANTITY OF FURTHER PIECES OF Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 ARMOUR, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES the first formed in each case of an upper cannon and a large one-piece couter, both open at the rear and linked to one another by internal Lot: 284 leathers, the former fitted at its upper edge with a turning-pin to A NORTH EUROPEAN BROADSWORD, LAST QUARTER OF connect it to a pauldron and decorated at its inside with three THE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BRUNSWICK with tapering curved flutes, and the latter shaped to the point of the elbow double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section, iron hilt of and formed above and below it with rounded wings; the second rounded bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons formed in each case of three lames decorated with fluting in the with chequered barrel-shaped terminals, knuckle-guard 'Maximilian' fashion, the central and main lame shaped to the interrupted by a further barrel-shaped moulding, large scalloped point of the knee and formed with a centrally-puckered wing frontal-guard joined to the knuckle-guard by an s-shaped bar decorated around its edge with a roped turn accompanied by a formed en suite, a single arm joined to the inner ring-guard, the recessed border; the third comprising four pieces of armour and latter incorporating a thumb-loop and joined to the knuckle- a large quantity of straps, rivets and washers of various designs guard by a bifurcated bar, mushroom-shaped pommel cut with Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 chequering en suite with the quillons (areas of pitting throughout), and later leather-covered grip 99 cm; 39 in blade Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 290 Lot: 285 A PAIR OF VAMBRACES IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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EUROPEAN STYLE, 19TH CENTURY; A FRAGMENT OF A Edward Perry, 'Some Exhibits from the Northern Branch BREASTPLATE OF ANIME CONSTRUCTION, PROBABLY Exhibition of 1963', Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, EASTERN EUROPEAN, CIRCA 1600; A GERMAN Vol. IV, no. 8, December 1963, p. 143, pl. XLI,A. The helmet SPAUDLER FOR THE LEFT SHOULDER, EARLY 17TH owes its survival to having been suspended over a knightly CENTURY; AND NINETEEN FURTHER PIECES OF tomb in an English church as part of an heraldic achievement. ARMOUR, 16TH TO 20TH CENTURIES the first formed in Other of this type are discussed and illustrated by G. each case of a tubular upper cannon surmounted by a turner Laking 1920, vol. 2, pp. 91-4, figs 445-6. and articulated at its lower end by a winged bracelet couter of Estimate: £5,000.00 - £7,000.00 three lames to a tubular lower cannon opening at its front, the main edges of all parts formed with plain inward turns accompanied on the wing of the couter by a double recessed Lot: 295 border, and decorated overall on a blued ground with gold- A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN INFANTRY ARMOUR, painted lines and scrolls (of which only traces remain; the PARTLY NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1540-50 comprising burgonet remainder extensively oxidised); the second formed of two with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial comb and medially-ridge upward overlapping lames of notable thickness fitted at the brow with a broad rounded pivoted peak, at the with strongly bevelled edges; the third, from an 'Almain' collar, nape with a neck-guard of two lames and at each side with a formed of five downward-overlapping lames, extending down to hinged cheek-piece (the skull that of an earlier close helmet, just above the elbow, and retaining traces of a black from the and the remainder restored), collar (originally of 'Almain' type), hammer finish (now much rubbed)' and the fourth including of three lames front and rear, the lowest front one struck with parts of vambraces, faulds and tassets (some partly or wholly the quality-control mark of the city of Nuremberg and the mark oxidised) of the Vienna city arsenal (the lowest rear plate patched at its Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 right corner), breastplate formed of a medially-ridged main plate projecting forward over the belly, fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets (the left restored), and at its flanged lower Lot: 291 edge with a fauld of four lames, the lowest of which is cut over A GERMAN HALBERD, SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH the crotch with a broad shallow notch and supports to either CENTURY with forward leaning axe-blade pierced with three side of it, on replaced straps and buckles a pair of long tassets holes, robust central spike formed in two stages, rear fluke with each of seven lames extending to just above the knee (the first reinforced tip, a pair of long straps, on an early wooden haft 51 in each case associated), one-piece backplate flanged cm; 20 1/8 in head outwards at its lower edge to receive a culet of one lame Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 (associated), and a pair of spaudlers each of seven lames (the second to sixth restored), extending to the elbows, the main edges of the armour formed with inward turns boldly roped, Lot: 292 except in the case of the burgonet, and accompanied by A BILL, 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY WELSH with curved recessed borders, and the subsidiary edges in part decorated blade formed with two short lugs at the rear (the central lug with single incised lines (lightly patinated overall) Provenance missing), moulded socket fitted with a pierced 'bird-cage' Dr John F. Hayward, London, sold Sotheby's, London, 1 moulding, long tapering openwork socket, on a later wooden November 1983, lot 27 (collar, cuirass and tassets) haft 77 cm; 30 1/2 in head For a discussion of Welsh bills and Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 glaives see C. Blair 1998, pp. 71-85. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 296 A POLISH HUSSAR'S BREASTPLATE, EARLY 18TH Lot: 293 CENTURY of shot-proof weight, formed of a main plate and a A GERMAN HALBERD, SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH waist-plate, both medially-ridged and joined to one another at CENTURY with forward leaning axe-blade, robust central spike each side by a large rounded-headed rivet, the main plate cut of diamond section, rear pean formed with a scalloped with a deep narrow neck-opening and deep arm-openings, moulding beneath, and a pair of straps (one broken), on a each formed with outward-flanged edges bordered by round- wooden haft 50 cm; 19 3/4 in head headed lining rivets, the left of the plate struck with the proof- Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 mark of a bullet, and its centre and sides pieced with rivet-holes probably for the attachment of decorative plaques, the deep waist-plate fitted at its left with a belt-hook, decorated at its bevelled upper edge with notching and formed at its lower Lot: 294 edged with a short flange interrupted at its centre by a shallow AN ENGLISH OR FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET, EARLY 16TH notch and fitted with lining-rivets matching those of the main CENTURY with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial plate, the inside of the main plate struck at its lower edge with comb pierced at its apex with a small circular hole, and fitted at the crowned monogram AR, and the insides of both plates the nape, on a short projecting stem, with a radially-fluted struck with matching construction marks formed of punched roundel, 'sparrow's beak' visor and bevor attached to the skull dots and incised Xs (lightly pitted overall with some deeper by common pivots, the former pierced beneath its broad marks at points) 94.5 cm; 19½ in The breastplate can be stepped vision-slit with circular ventilation-holes and fitted at its compared with one in the Polish Army Museum struck with the right side with a lifting-peg, and two gorget-plates front and same crowned monogram and bearing the badge of the rear, the lowest in each case formed with a plain angular inward Radziwill Regiment (Zladis³aw ¯ygulski, Stara Broñ w Polskich turn accompanied by a recessed border (the upper and lower Zbiorach, Warsaw. 1982, p. 38 pl. 25). The crowned AR edges of the visor, the pivots, the lifting-peg , the roundel and presumably relates to either Augustus II (1697-1706) or the gorget-plates restored, the skull with minor perforations and Augustus III (1709-33) of Poland. internal patches at the nape and the forward end of the comb, Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 and the whole moderately pitted overall) 32.5 cm; 12½ in Provenance Eric Valentine, New Moston, Manchester Literature Lot: 297

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THE SKULL OF A GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1540 neck arise from a medial band of similar lines, and each formed in one piece with a broad rounded top and a short shoulder cut with a trapezoidal notch to receive a retaining flange-like 'tail' at the nape, the edges of the tail and brow strap formerly fitting over a radially-fluted stud riveted beneath formed with plain outward turns, and each side cut away to it, and the whole retaining a blackened finish (now lightly pitted receive a missing hinged cheek-piece, the proximal end of the overall; holes at the upper edged neatly plugged perhaps in right hinge surviving (heavily pitted and patinated overall with early working life) 49.5 cm; 19½ in extensive perforations and losses) 16.0 cm; 6¼ in Provenance Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,600.00 Groombridge Place, sold Sotheby's 16th September 1992, lot 586 The skull possibly reworked from an 'archers' of about 1500. Lot: 302 Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 A LEFT IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY ITALIAN STYLE, 19TH CENTURY formed in two pieces joined by hinges at the outside and straps and buckles at the inside of the leg, Lot: 298 the rear plate open at the inside, and both projecting THE MAIN PLATE OF A FLEMISH PAULDRON FOR THE downwards over the ankle-bone and shaped to it at the outside RIGHT SHOULDER, EARLY 16TH CENTURY decorated at (moderately pitted overall) 44.0 cm; 17¼ in the top of its deep rear wing with a spray of three cascaded Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 flutes and at the top of its truncated front wing with a step (heavily pitted and patinated overall with some losses and minor perforations) 15.8 cm; 6¼ in Provenance Believed to Lot: 303 have come from the armoury of the Knights of St John at A RARE ENGLISH FINGERED GAUNTLET FOR THE LEFT Rhodes, which fell to the Turks in 1522 (Karcheski & HAND, ALMOST CERTAINLY GREENWICH, CIRCA 1620-30 Richardson 2000). A pair of pauldrons of similar design form formed of a flared and obtusely pointed cuff with a short fixed part of an armour of about 1510-5 formerly in the Imperial inner plate, fitted distally with an inner wrist-plate that extends Armoury in Vienna, and now in the Hungarian National over the base of the thumb, five metacarpal-plates, the fourth of Museum, Budapest, which bears the mark of the Brussels which is shaped to the outside of the thumb, a knuckle-plate armourer Guillem Margot (Blair 1965, p.37, pl. XIV, a & b). shaped to the individual knuckles, and scaled finger and thumb- Others are to be seen in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. defences (the latter detached), the main edges of the cuff formed with plain inward turns, accompanied in the case of the Estimate: £250.00 - £300.00 upper one by a recessed border, the subsidiary edges decorated with double and single incised lines, and the whole with a blackened finish (somewhat pitted) enlivened by brass- Lot: 299 capped lining and articulating-rivets 36.0 cm; 14¼ in The A GERMAN COUTER FROM AN ALMAIN RIVET, EARLY gauntlet would have belonged to a cuirassier's armour similar to 16TH CENTURY gently shaped to the front and point of the inv. no. II. 94 in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds elbow, narrowing towards its inside and fitted with straps and Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 buckles (replaced) to connect it to the upper and lower and fasten it around the arm (lightly pitted overall with some rust-spots) 5.0 cm; 6 in The couter is from the characteristic Lot: 304 'splint' or arm-defence of a type of infantry armour known as an A PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN FINGERED GAUNTLETS, 'Almain rivet'. EARLY 17TH CENTURY each formed of a flared and rounded Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00 cuff with a short fixed inner plate, two wrist-plates, four metacarpal-plates, a knuckle-plate, the lower end of which is shaped between the fingers, four scaled finger-defences and a Lot: 300 scaled thumb-defence (restored) attached by a lateral leather AN ITALIAN PLACKART IN THE GERMAN FASHION, LATE hinge to the inner end of the third metacarpal-plate, the cuff 15TH CENTURY of medially-ridged, sub-triangular form, formed at its upper edge with a file-roped inward turn and fitted pierced at it's apex with a rivet-hole to articulate it to the at the inside of the wrist with a retaining strap and buckle breastplate proper and formed at its lower edge with a short (replaced), and painted black overall 36.0 cm; 14¼ in flange similarly pieced to receive a fauld (heavily pitted and Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 patinated overall with some losses and minor perforations, slightly trimmed at its upper edge and fitted with four riveted internal patches) 25.5 cm; 10 in Provenance Believed to have Lot: 305 come from the armoury of the Knights of St John at Rhodes, A RARE WESTERN EUROPEAN 'GOTHIC' BREASTPLATE, which fell to the Turks in 1522. Similar plackarts from the POSSIBLY FLEMISH, LATE 15TH CENTURY formed of a armoury at Rhodes are to be found in the Museum of the Order rounded main plate with angular outward turns at its neck and of St John, London, and the J. W. Higgins Armory Museum, arm-openings, each decorated with a repeated pattern of paired Worcester, Massachussets (Karcheski & Richardson 2000, pp. notches, and three plugged holes at the right armpit formerly 59-61). occupied by staples for the attachment of a lance-rest, a Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 plackart of triangular form articulated to the main plate by a sliding-rivet at its apex and an internal leather at each side, and decorated medially with hollowed narrow keel and to either side Lot: 301 of its upper edge with patterns of filed notches and nicks, and a A FINE GERMAN PLACKART, EARLY 17TH CENTURY fauld of one lame decorated medially with a rib en suite with formed of a single medially ridged plate of shot-proof weight that of the plackart (lightly patinated overall) 43.2 cm; 17 in with scalloped sides and a shallow V-shaped waist-line, the Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 edges of its neck-opening and arm-openings each finely file- roped and bordered by triple incised lines of which those at the

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Lot: 306 the left shoulder) 20.5 cm; 8 in Provenance The Brunswick A RARE VENETIAN PARADE SHIELD MADE FOR THE Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg BODYGUARD OF WOLF DIETRICH VON RAITENAU, Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 PRINCE ARCHBISHOP OF SALZBURG, LATE 16TH CENTURY of convex near-circular form, constructed of two-ply wood covered with leather, decorated on its front face within an Lot: 308 outer border of foliage with a pattern of foliate interlace and THE LOWEST REAR PLATE OF A NORTH GERMAN flowerheads all tooled and previously lacquered gold over silver COLLAR WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, the ground of the main field (the lacquering almost entirely CIRCA 1560-5 of sub-rectangular form, shaped to the base of missing, very small traces of gold and silver remaining, the the neck and the tops of the shoulders, pierced at each side leather with small losses, the body with minor cracks), the rear with holes for the attachment of spaudlers, and finely etched in retaining much original red and black paint, fitted with a leather three diverging vertical bands of scrolling foliage involving in the arm-pad inscribed 'Claudio Ajanludo' (the second name central one a winged female nude and in the lateral ones unclear), a forward enarme and the remains of a rear enarme cornucopia, and in border of its lower edge with similar foliage buckle and strap, 55.5cm; 21 7/8in wide This shield is one of a involving a winged sphere and serpents, all on a stippled and series made in the time of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau, Prince blackened ground (extensively patinated overall and the etching Archbishop of Salzburg (ruled 1587-1612). An inventory of worn) 15.0 cm; 6 in Provenance The Brunswick Ducal 1669, now in the archives of the Städtisches Museum Salzburg, Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg mentions 398 gilded and painted shields. Some seventy of Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 these shields are still to be found in the Carolina-Augusteum Museum Salzburg. When Salzburg was occupied by the Bavarian troops in 1809 a number of these shields were Lot: 309 transferred to the main Zeughaus at Munich and sold from A NORTH GERMAN COLLAR WITH ETCHED DECORATION, there after the First World War. Other examples of this BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5 formed of four lames front and distinctive group of shields are to be found in the Metropolitan rear, the lowest of which is deeper than the rest and the first of Museum of Art New York (Acc. No. 29.158.586) the which is formed at its upper edge with a bold file-roped inward Philadelphia Museum of Art the Art Institute of Chicago the turn, the two sections joined at the left by a hinge and fastened Wallace Collection London the Historisches Museum Dresden at the right by studs and holes, each side of the lowest rear (Inv. No. N1) and Schloss Vaduz Liechtenstein (cat. no. 871 & plate pierced with holes for the attachment of spaudlers, the 881). Another was in the collection of Lord Astor of Hever (sold front and rear sections each finely etched in three diverging Sotheby s London 5 May 1983 Lot 29). Two examples have vertical bands of scrolling foliage inhabited by nude figures, and been sold in these rooms, 8th December 2010, lot 126 and in borders at their upper and lower edges with similar foliage 27th June 2012, lot 403. The fashion for Turkish-style arms is inhabited in the case of the lower one by hares, hounds and recorded in Europe as early as the middle years of the 16th serpents, all on a stippled and blackened ground (the etching Century. King Philip II had a Turkish bodyguard for his entry worn at the front and top rear; some later holes pierced in the into Milan in 1548. The influence of Turkish taste is evident in lowest rear plate at the top of each shoulder, the forepart both the style and technique of decoration of the Salzburg possibly associated) 18.2 cm; 7¼ in Provenance The Brunswick shields which has its origins in Turkish bookbindings of the Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg period. During the 16th century Venice had its own Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 leatherworkers guild and many bookbindings as well as helmets shields and quivers were made in this manner. For a contemporary discussion on the Venetian technique of Lot: 310 varnishing and gilding see Leonardo Fioravanti Compendio de A NORTH GERMAN COLLAR, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-70 Secreti Nationali Venice 1562 and Tommaso Garzoni La Piazza formed of four lames front and rear, the lowest of which is universale di tutte le professioni del mondo Nuovamente deeper than the rest and the first of which is formed at its upper ristampata posta in luce da Thomaso Garzoni da Bagnacauallo edge with a bold file-roped inward turn, the two sections joined con l aggiunta d alcune bellissime annotationi a discorso per at the left by a hinge and fastened at the right by studs and discorso Venice 1589. See E.J. Grube 2007 pp. 231-251. holes, and each side of the lowest plates pierced with holes for Related shields of this type but not part of the Salzburg contract the attachment of spaudlers (the lowest rear plate pierced with are preserved in the armoury of the Palazzo Ducale Venice. several later holes at the top of each shoulder and patched at See U. Franzoi 1990 pp. 82-3. the top of the right one) 18.9 cm; 7½ in Provenance The Estimate: £8,000.00 - £12,000.00 Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Lot: 307 A FINE NORTH GERMAN COLLAR WITH ETCHED Lot: 311 DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5 formed of four A FINE NORTH GERMAN FOR THE LEFT ARM lames front and rear, the lowest of which is deeper than the rest WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5 and the first of which is formed at its upper edge with a bold file- of fully articulated construction, comprising tubular upper and roped inward turn, the two sections joined at the left by a hinge lower cannons, each formed with a longitudinal ridge at the and fastened at the right by studs and holes, each side of the outside of the arm, the former surmounted by a turner of three lowest plates pierced with holes for the attachment of lames fitted at the inside of its lowest lame with a later staple to spaudlers, the front and rear sections each finely etched in accommodate the strap of an overlying pauldron, the lower three diverging vertical bands of scrolling foliage inhabited by cannon formerly opening at the front but now closed by a later the nude figures of Adam and Eve, and in borders at their rivet, and a couter with a small flat leaf-shaped wing, enclosed upper and lower edges with similar foliage inhabited by birds, at the inside of the elbow by a series of twelve lames and serpents and various winged devices, all on a stippled and embossed at its point with a quatrefoil, the main edges of the blackened ground (the lowest rear plate patched at the top of vambrace formed with roped inward turns accompanied by

35 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com recessed borders enclosed to the inside by a pair of narrow Lot: 314 grooves, and finely etched with bands and borders of running A NORTH GERMAN MITTEN-GAUNTLET FOR THE RIGHT foliage involving a female in contemporary dress, a female HAND WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA herm, snakes issuing from a cornucopia, a crane, lions' masks, 1560-5 formed of a long flared and pointed cuff lacking its a bull's-head, hounds and hares, all on a stippled and hinged inner plate, formed at its upper edge with a file-roped blackened ground, the lames at the inside of the elbow etched inward turn and fitted at its lower end with five metacarpal- with narrow bands of guilloche(the etching worn at inside of the plates (the first four associated), an associated knuckle-plate lower cannon) 49.4 cm; 19½ in Provenance The Brunswick formed with a file-roped transverse rib, four shaped finger- Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg Several plates and an associated thumb-defence of four scales vambraces of this enclosed form were at one time to be found (restored) attached to the lowest metacarpal-plate by a lateral in the armoury of the Dukes of Brunswick (R. Bohlman,'Die hinge, the whole finely etched with bands and borders of Braunschweigischen Waffen auf Schloss Blankenburg' running foliage involving a female in contemporary dress and Z.H.W.K.,Vol. VI, 1915, nos 8 & 9, figs 22 & 28; Arms, Armour hares and hounds, all on a stippled and blackened ground, and & Militaria lent by H.R.H. The Duke of Brunswick, Armouries of enclosed in each case by narrower bands of pellets or repeated the Tower of London, 1952,nos 12 & 33, pl. IV; and Sotheby's, fleurs-de-lis, the edges of the metacarpal and finger-lames Schloss Marienburg, 5 Oct 2005, lots 285 & 305). Vambraces etched with narrow bands of guilloche except for the last of the of a similar form can be recorded as parts of two Brunswick latter which terminates over each finger with a flower-head (the armours in the Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer, Vienna, inv. nos A lower ends of the cuff and the last metacarpal-plate patched; 691 & A 1185,respectively made for Johann von Ranzau about the first four metacarpal-plates bearing later etching) 35.2 cm; 1559 and the Archduke Karl II of Styria about 1565 (Gamber & 14 in Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Beaufort 1990, pp. 105 & 108, pls 71-2) Schloss Marienburg Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,200.00

Lot: 312 Lot: 315 A FINE NORTH GERMAN VAMBRACE FOR THE LEFT ARM A NORTH GERMAN MITTEN-GAUNTLET FOR THE RIGHT WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5 HAND WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA of fully articulated construction, comprising tubular upper and 1560-5 formed of a flared and pointed tubular cuff with an lower cannons, each formed with a longitudinal ridge at the associated hinged inner plate, its upper edge formed with a file- outside of the arm, the former surmounted by a turner of three roped inward turn, its outer plate decorated over the ulna with a lames fitted at the front of its lowest lame with a later staple to small almond-shaped boss and fitted at its lower end with five accommodate the strap of an overlying pauldron, the lower metacarpal-plates, an associated knuckle-plate formed with a cannon, with a slightly V-shaped lower edge, formerly opening file-roped transverse rib, four shaped finger-plates and a thumb- at the front but now closed by a later pair of rivets, and a couter defence of four scales (restored) attached to the lowest with a small flat leaf-shaped wing, enclosed at the inside of the metacarpal-plate by a lateral hinge, the whole etched with elbow by a series of sixteen lames (the top one restored) and bands and borders of running foliage involving a wildman embossed at its point with a quatrefoil, the main edges of the holding a sword and winged cherub's heads, all on a stippled vambrace formed with roped inward turns accompanied by and blackened ground, the edges of the finger-lames etched recessed borders enclosed to the inside by a pair of narrow with narrow bands of guilloche, except for the last which grooves, and finely etched with bands and borders of running terminates over each finger with a flower-head (pierced at foliage involving masks, dolphins and birds, all on a stippled points with later holes, the etching extensively worn and that of and blackened ground (the etching worn in parts) 51.0 cm; 20 the inner plate of the cuff restored) 34.0 cm; 13½ in Provenance in Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Schloss Marienburg Marienburg Estimate: £1,100.00 - £1,700.00 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00

Lot: 313 Lot: 316 A FINE NORTH GERMAN VAMBRACE FOR THE LEFT ARM A NORTH GERMAN MITTEN-GAUNTLET FOR THE LEFT WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5 HAND WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA of fully articulated construction, comprising tubular upper and 1560-5 formed of a flared and pointed tubular cuff with an lower cannons, each formed with a longitudinal ridge at the associated hinged inner plate, its upper edge formed with a file- outside of the arm, the former surmounted by a turner of three roped inward turn, its outer plate decorated over the ulna with a lames, the latter, with a markedly V-shaped lower edge, small almond-shaped boss and fitted at its lower end with five opening at the front, and a couter with a small flat leaf-shaped metacarpal-plates, an associated knuckle-plate formed with a wing, enclosed at the inside of the elbow by a series of eleven file-roped transverse rib, four shaped finger-plates and an associated lames and embossed at its point with a quatrefoil, associated thumb-defence of four scales (the last three the main edges of the vambrace formed with roped inward probably restored) attached to the lowest metacarpal-plate by a turns accompanied by recessed borders enclosed to the inside lateral hinge, the whole finely etched with bands and borders of by a pair of narrow grooves, and finely etched with bands and running foliage involving a female in contemporary dress, borders of running foliage involving a female in contemporary serpents and winged masks, all on a stippled and blackened dress, a male herm, a male bust, a bull's-head and lions' ground, the edges of the finger-lames etched with narrow masks, all on a stippled and blackened ground, the lames at the bands of guilloche, except for the last which terminates over inside of the elbow etched with narrow bands of guilloche each finger with a flower-head (pierced at points with later (pierced at points with later holes, and the etching partly worn) holes, the etching partly worn and that of the cuff possibly 49.7 cm; 19½ in Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, restored) 33.0 cm; 13 in Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00

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Lot: 317 etched either on a plain blackened ground or a stippled and A FRAGMENT OF A NORTH ITALIAN TOURNEY GAUNTLET blackened one with bands of foliate arabesque interlace or WITH ETCHED DECORATION, PROBABLY MILANESE, running foliage inhabited by a man in contemporary costume CIRCA 1580 formed of its final metacarpal-plate and first finger- and a winged cherub's head (pierced with a few later holes and plate, each boxed at its lateral edges and the second shaped to showing wear and light patination overall; the second similar to the individual knuckles and fingers and formed with a projecting the first but having no external rib at the base of its turner and flange at its inner end, the surfaces of both etched in three no suspension-tab at its apex, its etched decoration executed longitudinal bands with trophies of arms between narrower on a stippled and blackened ground throughout and involving a bands of running foliage, all on a blackened ground (one male herm, bulls' heads, lions' masks and a winged cherub's knuckle with a slight crack and another with a small brazed head (all lames presently articulated to one another by screws, repair) 34.0 cm; 4 in and the second lame of the turner patched at its right end) 22.0 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 cm; 8¾ in: 20.0 cm; 8 in (2) Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 318 A NORTH GERMAN LONG TASSET FOR THE RIGHT THIGH WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5 Lot: 321 formed of seven medially-ridged lames divisible between the A NORTH GERMAN SPAUDLER FOR THE RIGHT fourth and fifth, the lowest longer than the rest and terminating SHOULDER WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, in a rounded lower edge, the inner and lower edges of the CIRCA 1550; AND ANOTHER SIMILAR FOR THE LEFT tasset formed with a file-roped inward turns accompanied by SHOULDER IN THE BRUNSWICK STYLE OF CIRCA 1550, recessed borders enclosed to the inside by a pair of narrow 19TH CENTURY, MADE AS A PAIR TO THE FIRST the first grooves, the latter rising at the centre of the lower edge to a from an 'Almain' collar, formed of nine medially-ridged lames of small cusp, the whole etched in a medial band and in its which the second is formed with a short step in its front edge borders with running foliage involving a mask and other and last is deeper than the rest and formed at its lower edge indistinct devices, all on a stippled and blackened ground (all with a roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed border lames presently articulated to one another by screws, some enclosed to the inside by a narrow groove, the whole decorated pierced with later holes, the whole much patinated, rubbed and with bands and borders of foliage involving a serpent and male chemically cleaned) 41.0 cm; 16 in Provenance The Brunswick bust, all on a stippled and blackened ground (all lames Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg presently articulated to one another by screws, the whole Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 patinated, worn and chemically cleaned); the second of the same form as the first but undecorated (the whole patinated and chemically cleaned) 31.7 cm; 12½ in / 31.5 cm; 12½ in (2) Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Lot: 319 Schloss Marienburg A NORTH GERMAN FAULD WITH ETCHED DECORATION, Estimate: £350.00 - £550.00 BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1550; AND THE LOWER PART OF A NORTH GERMAN CULET WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1550 the first formed of three upward- overlapping lames, originally divisible between the second and Lot: 322 third, the latter cut over the crotch with a shallow arch formed at THE LOWEST LAME OF A NORTH GERMAN TASSET FOR its edge with a roped inward turn accompanied by a recessed THE RIGHT THIGH, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5; ANOTHER border enclosed to the inside by a narrow groove, finely etched SIMILAR, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5, AND A FRAGMENT in the border and in three broad divergent vertical bands with OF A NORTH GERMAN SPAUDLER FOR THE RIGHT running foliage involving serpents, cornucopias, fruits and a SHOULDER, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5 the first with a flower-head, all on a stippled and blackened ground (all lames convex lower edge, formed around its main edge with a roped presently articulated to one another by screws, the lowest inward turn accompanied by a recessed border enclosed to the pierced with some later holes); and the second formed of a inside by a pair of narrow grooves, the inner one etched with single lamed with a chevron-shaped notch at the centre of its pellets, and the medial band and borders of the whole finely lower edge, decorated en suite with the first and probably etched with running foliage involving a male herm, a lion's mask belonging to the same armour 30.0 cm; 15¼ in / 37.0 cm; 14½ inand hounds, all on a stippled and blackened ground; the (2) Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel second similar to the first but pieced to either side of its lower Schloss Marienburg end with a hole for a stud, the right still surviving, for the Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 attachment of a series of extension-lames, and including in its decoration hares; the third formed of two downward overlapping lames etched in its medial band and lateral borders with running foliage, involving hares on a stippled and blackened Lot: 320 ground (the lames connected by screws) (3) Provenance THE UPPER CANON OF A NORTH GERMAN VAMBRACE The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss FOR THE LEFT ARM WITH ETCHED DECORATION, Marienburg BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5; AND ANOTHER SIMILAR, Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5 the first of tubular form, cut away at the inside of the elbow and surmounted by a turner of three lames, the lowest formed at its base with a roped rib and the uppermost (associated) rising to a convex edge fitted at its Lot: 323 apex with a later buff-leather suspension-tab, the main edge of THE LOWEST LAME OF A NORTH GERMAN TASSET FOR the turner formed with a roped inward turn accompanied by a THE LEFT THIGH WITH ETCHED DECORATION, recessed border enclosed to the inside by a pair of narrow BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5; THE UPPERMOST LAME OF A grooves, the inner one etched with pellets, the remainder NORTH GERMAN TASSET-EXTENSION WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5, TWO SINGLE

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LAMES OF A NORTH GERMAN SPAUDLER WITH ETCHED black-from-the-hammer ground (the lames presently articulated DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5; AND A PAIR to one another by screws, and lightly patinated overall); and the OF LAMES FROM THE LOWER END OF A NORTH third similar to the lowest lames of the second but with a EUROPEAN RIGHT PAULDRON, CIRCA 1600 the first fitted keyhole slot at each end of its upper edge and undecorated to either side of its convex lower edge with a pierced stud for (lightly patinated overall) (4) Provenance The Brunswick the attachment of a series of extension-lames, formed around Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg its main edges with inward turns, partly roped and partly plain, Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 and finely etched in bands and borders with running foliage inhabited by a lion's mask and hounds, all on a stippled and blackened ground; the second pierced to either side of its upper Lot: 326 edge with an oval hole to accommodate a pierced stud, and to **A SOUTH GERMAN COMB-MORION, EARLY 17TH the inside of it with a smaller hole for an associated swivel- CENTURY WITH LATER EMBOSSED DECORATION formed hook, and etched with bands and borders of running foliage in two pieces with a rounded crown joined medially along the involving a female nude holding a flaming amphora, arabesque crest of a high comb, and an integral brim turned down at each interlace and pellets all executed in a similar manner to the first; side and rising slightly to an acute point front and rear, its edge the third, for the left and right shoulders respectively, in each formed with a plain inward turn and the base of the crown case decorated with bands and borders of etching (one painted pierced at the nape with a pair of holes for the attachment of a black and the other much worn); and the fourth respectively plume tube and encircled by fourteen holes for lining-rivets, decorated at their lower edges with a pair of incised lines each side of the crown later decorated with a double-headed accompanied by a linear wave-like pattern (some articulating Imperial eagle bearing on its breast an escutcheon charged holes showing brazed repairs) (5) Provenance The Brunswick with a fess, representing the Austrian Bindenschild (the brim Ducal Armoury, Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg repaired with two riveted internal patches and the whole Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 showing some bruising, delamination and overall chemical cleaning) 23.5 cm; 9¼ in Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 324 A NORTH GERMAN SPAUDLER FOR THE RIGHT SHOULDER WITH ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, Lot: 327 CIRCA 1560-5; ANOTHER SIMILAR FOR THE LEFT AN ITALIAN OR FLEMISH INFANTRY BREASTPLATE FROM SHOULDER, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5; AND THE LOWER THE ARMOURY OF WILLIAM HERBERT, FIRST EARL OF PARTS OF A PAIR OF NORTH GERMAN SPAUDLER WITH PEMBROKE, CIRCA 1550-5 of early 'peascod' fashion, formed ETCHED DECORATION, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-5 the of a main plate with a deep semi-circular neck-opening, fitted at first from an 'Almain' collar, formed of seven medially-ridged its arm-openings with moveable gussets each pieced within lames of which the last is deeper than the rest, pieced at its early working-life with stitch-holes, and two upward-overlapping front with a slot to receive a strap and formed at its lower edge waist-lames the lowest of which is formed with a narrow flange with a roped inward turn (chipped) accompanied by a recessed and bears on its inner face a label, the main edges of the border enclosed to the inside by a pair of narrow grooves, the breastplate formed with boldly roped inward turns, and its inner one etched with pellets, the remainder etched with bands subsidiary edges with pairs of incised lines (lightly patinated and borders of foliage involving various indistinct subjects (all overall) 10.1 cm; 13½ in Provenance The armoury of the Earls lames presently articulated to one another by screws, the whole of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire (sold Sotheby's 14 June patinated, worn and chemically cleaned); the second similar to 1923) the first but for the left shoulder; the third similar to the first two Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 but consisting only of its lowest five lames, the etched decoration of which involving male figures in contemporary dress (all lames presently articulated to one another by screws, some pierced with later holes, the left patched at the outer end Lot: 328 A GERMAN COLLAR, EARLY 17TH CENTURY formed of a of its lowest lame) each much patinated, and showing some single lame front and rear, each with a low upstanding flange at wear and chemical cleaning) 30.0 cm; 11¾ in / 31.5 cm; 12½ in / the neck, the front plate extending down to the bottom of the 19.8 cm; 7¾ in (4) Provenance The Brunswick Ducal Armoury, chest and fitted at its centre with a brass badge cast in relief Wolfenbüttel Schloss Marienburg with a pair of confronted and entwined sea-monsters beneath a Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,600.00 crown, and the main edges of both plates formed with finely- roped inward turns accompanied by a recessed border projecting inwards at points as cusps, each terminating in a trio Lot: 325 of decorative rivets 17.2 cm; 6¾ in A NORTH GERMAN FAULD, BRUNSWICK, CIRCA 1560-70; A Estimate: £1,800.00 - £2,400.00 FURTHER TWO SIMILAR, CIRCA 1560-70, AND THE LOWEST LAME OF ANOTHER, CIRCA 1560-70 the first formed of two upward-overlapping lames of which the uppermost is pierced to either side with an oval hole to Lot: 329 A MINIATURE ARMOUR IN LATE GOTHIC STYLE, LATE accommodate a pierced stud, and to the inside of it with a 19TH CENTURY including etched close helmet with vertically smaller hole for an associated swivel-hook, the left one still slotted visor, cuirass embossed with a pattern of radiating present, and the second lame fitted to either side of its upper panels at the base, a pair of pendant tassets, full leg defences edge with two (originally three) brass-capped rivets and brass with pointed sabatons, a pair of full arm defences with fingered rosette washers, and finished at its lower edge with a roped gauntlets, mounted on a wooden stand, the legs covered with inward turn slightly arched over the crotch where it is bordered leather, and complete with a sword 43.5 cm; 17 1/8 in high by a pair of grooves (oxidised overall); the second in each case Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 of similar construction to the first but lacking any fittings and decorated with three recessed vertical bands on a formerly

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Lot: 330 Ironmasters' Association, 1982 AN ETCHED TASSET IN ITALIAN LATE 16TH CENTURY Estimate: £30.00 - £50.00 STYLE formed in one piece, with turned lower edge, the outer surface etched with horizontal hatched bands and foliage, a central vertical panel with trophies and masks in the so-called Lot: 334 Pisan manner, and fitted at the top with three buckles for Arms and Armour at Sandringham, The Indian Collection suspension from the skirt lame 19.5 cm; 7 3/4 in high Presented by The Princes, Chiefs and Nobles of India to His Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Majesty King Edward VII on the Occasion of His Visit to India in 1875-1876; Also some Asiatic, African and European Weapons and War-Relics, W. Griggs & Sons Ltd., 1910 with 35 illustrated Lot: 331 pages, some scuffing on the edges and spine, some pages A RARE MEXICAN STIRRUP OF SO-CALLED detached CONQUISTADOR TYPE, LATE 17TH CENTURY/EARLY 18TH Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 CENTURY of characteristic T-shaped form, decorated throughout with chiselled patterns of scrolling foliage inhabited by exotic beasts pursued by hounds, fitted at the top with a loop Lot: 335 for suspension, and the base of the panels joined by a writhen Bashford, Dean, Catalogue of European Arms and Armour, Met bar, painted with a red inventory number '59685' 38cm; 15in A and the New Era Printing Company, 1905; Bashford, Dean, pair of highly decorated stirrups of this type, formerly preserved Collection of Arms and Armor including the William H. Riggs in the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, were sold in Donation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1915; Bashford, these rooms, 20th March 2013, lot 366. Dean, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Arms and Armor, The Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1911; Belous (ed), Russell, A distinguished Collection of Arms and Armor, The Ward Richie Press, 1968; Levkoff , Mary L., Hearst The Collector, Abrams`, Lot: 332 2008; A Miscellany of Arms and Armor presented by fellow Angelucci, Angelo, Catalogo della Armeria Reale, Tipografia members of the armor and arms club to Bashford Dean in editirice G. Candeletti, 1890; Boccia, Lionello Giorgio, honor of his sixtieth Birthday, William Edwin Rudge, New York, L'Armeria del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna, Bramante 1927 Editrice, 1991; Boccia, Lionello Giorgio, Nove Secoli di Armi Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 da Caccia, Editrice Edam, 1967; Boccia, Lionello Giorgio, Tesori d'arte nella terra dei Gonzaga, Electa Editrice, 1974; Boccia, Lionello Giorgio, L'Oploteca nel Museo Nazionale di Lot: 336 Ravenna Tre Secoli di armi Antiche, Longo Editore, 1989; Beard, Charles R., The Barberini Armour, Tulmin and Sons, Calamandrei, Cesare, Armi Antiche a Gardone mostra 1924; Boccia, Lionello Giorgio, Museo Bardini - Le Armi, inauguarale del Museo delle Armi e della Tradizione Armiera di Centro Di, 1984; Boccia, Lionello Giorgio, Figure Guerriere nei Gardone Val Trompia, Fondazione Negri, 2007; Reale, metalli Carrand e Ressman, Museo Nazionale del Bargello - Armeria , Guida Ufficiale della Reale Armeria Di Torino, S.P.E.S., 1988; Boccia, Lionello Giorgio, Armi d'attacco, da Ripografia del giornale, 1923; Rossi, Filippo, Mostra delle armi difesa e da fuoco, Franco Cosimo Panini, 1996; Boccia and Antiche in Palazzo Vecchio, Tipocalcografia Classica, 1938; Godoy, Lionello Giorgio and A., Ferro e Fuoco - Le armi antiche Soprintendenze Alle Gallerie - Museo di Palazzo Venexia: Le dei castelli trentini, Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra ONLUS, Armi Odescalchi, Fratelli Palombi, 1976 1999; Boccia and Scalini, Lionello G. and Mario, Guerre e Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Assoldati in Toscany 1260-1364, S.P.E.S Florence, 1982; Callegher, Bruno, Per Homeni d'Arme Stradioti e Cerne La Collezione d'armi antiche del Museo Bottacin, Il Poligrafo, Lot: 333 2002; de la Fragua, Jose M., Guia Breve Museo Militar y Anglo, Sydney, Spectacle Pageantry and early Tudor Policy, Castillo de Montjuich, Barcelona, 1970; Fioroni , Maria , Armi Clarendon Press, 1969; Bottomley, Andrew, Antique Arms & Bianche Del Museo Fioroni, Linotipia Veronese Ghidini Fiorini , Armour, Mail Order Cat. 7; Holmes, M.R., Arms & Armour in 1965 ; Franzoi , Umberto, L'armeria del Palazzo Ducale A Tudor & Stuart London, William Clowes & sons Ltd, 1957; Venezia, Canova, 1990; Hayward, John , L'Armeria del Hooper, Bennett, Nicholas and Matthew, Warfare - The Middle Castello di Monselice, Neri Pozza, 1980; Hoepli, Manuali, Ages 687 - 1487, Cambridge University Press, 1996; Lockhart Guida del Raccoglitore e Dell'Amatore di Armi Antiche con (ED), Matthew A., Catalogue: A publication of the South ccccxxxii disegni di l. Pasini e xxii tavole , Libraio della real Carolina Historical Society, South Carolina Historical Society, casa Milano, 1900; Morazzoni, Joseph, Maioliche e Armi 2003; Marquardt, Klaus, Eight Centuries of European Knives, antiche di Legnago, Associazione Amatori Armi Antiche, 1950; Forks and Spoons: An art collection, Arnoldsche, 1997; Natta-Soleri, Raffaele, Notiziario dell'accademia di s. Marciano Richter, Holger , Die Hornbogenarmbrust, Angelika Hörnung, Armi Antiche, Vessillogogia, uniformologia, arte e storia 2006; Sargeaunt, B.E , Weapons, Hugh Rees Ltd, 1908; militare, 1968; Nebbia, Ugo, Le Sale D'Armi del consiglio dei Various Authors, A List of Books and Photographs in The dieci nel palazzo Ducale di Venezia, Instituto Italiano D'arti National Art Library illustrating Armour and Weapons, G.E.B Grafiche, 1923; Pinti, Paolo, Armi e Arte, Linea Grafica, 1997; Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1883; Various Authors, The Posio, Vannozzo, Pisanello E L'Arte delle Armature nel Magazine of Art - Spare pages 1889 (5 sheets), 1890 (5 Rinascimento , Casa del Mantegna, 1996; Probst Susanne E. sheets), 1892 (4 sheets), 1898 (5 sheets), Cassell & Company L., Sproni, Morsi e Staffe, Franco Cosimo Panini, 1993; ltd; Various Authors, Church Monuments: Journal of the Puricelli-Guerra, Arturo, Elite: Le arti e gli stili in ogni tempo e Church Monuments Society Vol XXIII, Henry Ling Ltd Dorset paese- Armi in Occidente, Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1966; Rossi, Press, 2008; Portable Antiquities Scheme Annual Report Di Carpegna, Francesco and Nolfo, Armi Antiche dal Museo 2004/5, dcms; Iron and Steel on the European Market in the civico L. Marzoli, Bramante Editrice, 1969; Scalini, Mario, 17th Century, The Historical Metallurgy Group of the Swedish Capolavori a Sbalzo per I Medici: Cellini e Altri Maestri, Medicea Arnaud, 1992; Terenzi, Marcello, Mostra di Armi

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Antiche, Alinari Baglioni, 1967; Terenzi, Marcello, Mostra delle Paul and Donald, The Gatling Gun, Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1965; Armi da Fuoco Anghiaresi e dell'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano, Wilkinson-Latham, Robert J., Discovering Artillery, Shire Stabilimento arti grafiche, 1968; Vallechi, Attilo (ed), Armi, Publications Ltd, 1972; Champlain Cannon Works, New York ; Editoriale Olimpia, 1987; Various Authors, L'elmo lucente - Dal The Story of Carron Company , Falkirk, London, 1959; XV al XIX secolo nella Collezione Odescalchi, Museo Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution, Messrs Dulau & Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, 2004; Mostra delle Armi co., London, 1898; Artillery Training Vol III, Keliher, Hudson & Antiche e Moderne , F. Apollonio e C., 1954 Kearns Ltd , London, 1943; Artillery Training Vol I, Keliher, Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Hudson & Kearns Ltd, London, 1943 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00

Lot: 337 Belleval, René De, Du Costume Militaire Des Français En 1446,Lot: 341 Aubry, 1866 with 7 illustrated pages, with pasted bookplates: Catalogue of the Collection of Indian Arms and Objects of Art, Ex Libris Claude Blair and Wallace Collection Library, in fine Presented by the Princes and Nobles of India to H.R.H. the condition Prince of Wales K.G., K.T., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., &c. on the Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 occasion of his Visit to India in 1875-1876. Now in the India Room at Marlborough House, W. Griggs 1898 with 31 illustrated pages, some scuffing on the edges and spine Lot: 338 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Ada, Middelalderens Tveeggede Svaerd - Vol I, Udgivet af Tojhusmuseet, 1954; Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Ada, Middelalderens Tveeggede Svaerd - Vol II, Udgivet af Lot: 342 Tojhusmuseet, 1954; Ellehauge, Martin, The Spear traced Clayton, Peter (ed), Seanby Coin & Metal Bulletin, B.A. Seaby, through its post-Roman Development, Olaf Moller, 1948; 1990; Daehnhardt, Rainer, Coleccionar Armas Antigas, 1970; Ellehauge, Martin, Certain Phases in the Origin and Daehnhardt, Rainer, Coleccionar Armas Antigas Vol I, 1970; Development of The Glaive, Nordlundes Bogtrykkeri, 1945; Ricketts, Howard, Exhibitions of Works of Art Arms and Armour, Eriksen, Thegel, Egon and Svend, Conservation of Iron Howard Ricketts Ltd, 1972; Ricketts, Howard, Arms and recovered from the Sea, Nordlundes Bogtykkeri, 1966; Armour, Howard Ricketts Ltd, 1973; Catalogue of the Hoffmeyer, Ada Bruhn, Gammelt Jern: E. A. Christensens Exhibition of Ancient Arms and Armour No. 3, London VÃ¥bensamling, VÃ¥benhistorisk Selskab, 1968; Melikian - Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Chirvani, A.S., Hautes Etudes Islamiques et Orientales D'Histoire Comparée IV Le Monde Iranien et L'Islam, Librairie Droz, 1971; Seitz, Heribert, Bardisanen, Broderna Lagerstroms Lot: 343 Forlag, 1943; Seitz, Heribert, Svardet Och Varjan som Coltman Clephan F.S.A., Robert, An Outline of the History and armevapen, Horsta Forlag AB, 1955; Various Authors, Four Development of Hand Firearms, From the Earliest Period to Studies on History of Arms, Tojhusmuseum Nordlundes about the End of the Fifteenth Century, The Walter Scott Bogtrykkeri, 1963 Publishing Co, 1906; Hogg, Bachelor, Ian V and John, The Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Machine Gun, Phoebus, 1976; Webster, Donald B., Military Bolt Action Rifles 1841-1918, Museum Restoration service, New York, 1993; Wilson R. L., Colt Commemorative Firearms, Lot: 339 Charles Kidwell, 1969; Wilson R. L., The Lawman Series - Bat Bruhn Hoffmeyer, Ada, Arms & Armour in Spain II a Short Masterson, Colt's Inc., 1967; Winant , Lewis, Early Percussion Survey, Instituto de estudios sobre Armas Antiguas, 1982 ; Firearms, Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1959; Wolff, Eldon G., Air Gun Cortes, Javier, Guia Ilustrada de la Real Armeria de Madrid, Batteries, Milwaukee Public Museum, 1963; Wolff, Eldon G., Blass S.A., 1950; Cortes, Javier, La Real Armeria de Madrid, The Scheiffel and Kunitomo Air Guns, Milwaukee Public Editorial Patrimonio Nacional, 1963; Hoffmeyer, Ada Bruhn , Museum; Wolff, Eldon G., Air Guns, North American Press, Arms and Armour in Spain: A Short Survey, Artes Graficas 1958; Wolff, Eldon G., Wyatt Atkinson Riflesmith, Milwaukee Benzal, 1972; Soler del Campo, Alvaro, La Evolucion del Public Museum, 1964; Wootten, Ben H., A Study of Colt's New Armamento Medieval en el Reino Castellano - Leones Y Al- Model Army Pistol 1860, 1961 ; Wyckoff, James, Famous Andalus (Siglos XII-VIV), Servicio de Publicaciones del EME, Guns That Won the West, Fawcett-Haynes Printing Corp; A. A. 1993; Soler del Campo, Alvaro, Catalogo de arcabuceria White Engravers Inc. leaflet, Connecticut madrilena (1687-1833), Patrimonio Nacional, 1999 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00

Lot: 344 Lot: 340 Diener-Schönberg, Alfons, Die Waffen Der Wartburg Caruana, Adrian B., Tudor Artillery 1485-1603, Museum Beschreibendes Verzeichnis Der Waffen-Sammlung S.K.H. Restoration Service, New York, 1992; Chown , Captain John Des Grossherzogs Wilhelm Ernst Von Sachsen-Weimar- D., The 9-Pdr Muzzle Loading Rifle, Museum Restoration Eisenach, Historischer Verlag Baumgärtel, 1912 with service, Ontario, 1967; Ffoulkes, Charles, The Gun Founders illustrations of 231 weapons, 116 marks and 78 tables, with of England, Cambridge University Press, 1937; Fitzsimons pasted bookplate: Wallace Collection Library, in fine condition (ed), Bernard, The Big Guns Artillery 1914-1918, Phoebus, Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 1973; Goetz, Dorothea, Die Anfange der Artillerie, Militarverlag, 1985; Holmes, Reg, The Cannon on the Green, Mann's Fordham Printers; Meyerson, Ake, Laderkanonen fran Lot: 345 Tido, Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1938; Muller, John, A Frenzel, F.A., Der Fuhrer durch das Historische Museum zu Treatise of Artillery 1780, John Miller, 1780; Munday, John, Dresden, Rudolph Weigel, 1850; Haenel, Erich, Alte Waffen, Naval Cannon, Shire Publications Ltd, 1987; Wahl, Toppel,

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Richard Carl Schmidt & co, 1920; Muller, Heinrich, Historische leather bound Waffen, Ministeriums fur Nationale Verteidigung, 1957; Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Neuhaus, August, Ein Prunkturnierharnisch im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Haag - Drugulin, 1937; Nickel, Helmut, Ullstein Waffenbuch, Ullstein, 1974; Schaal, Dieter, Die Lot: 349 Kurfürsten von Sachsen - Repräsentation in Bildnis und Rüstung,Glage, Wolfgang, Das Kunfthandwerf de Buchfenmacher im Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 1991; Schaal, Dieter, Land Braunrchweig, Branunschweig, 1983; Krenn, Dr. Peter, Die Kurfürsten von Sachsen - Repräsentation in Bildnis und Schwert und Spiess Landeszeughaus Graz, 1997; Krenn, Rüstung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 1991; Peter, Schwert und Spiess: Swords and Spears, Ried im Schobel, Johannes, Ein Prunk- Harnisch, PRISMA VERLAG, Innkreis: Kunstverlag Hofstetter, 1997; Krenn, Peter, Harnisch 1966; Various Authors, Die Turkenbeute, Herausgegeben vom und Helm Landeszeughaus Graz am Steinermarkischen badischen Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, 1956; Various Authors, Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1987; Krenn, Peter, Harnisch und Orientalica, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dredsden, 1961; Helm Landeszeughaus Graz am Steinermarkischen Various Authors, Harnifche, Historiches Museum Dresden, Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1987; Lanzardo, Dario, Ritter- 1963; Various Authors, Vermisste Kunstwerke des Rustungen, Callwey GmbH & Co., 1990; Ossbahr, C. A., Historischen Museums Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Furstliche Zeughaus in Schwarzburg, Verlag der Muller'schen Dresden, 1990 ; Zellmann, Wolfgang, Vom Luntenschloss bius Buchhandlung, 1895 ; Scheicher, Elisabeth, Die Rustkammern, zum Zündnadelgewehr, Magdeburger Museen, 1992; zum Kunsthistorisches Musem, 1981; Various Authors, Landshuter Abschied, Dr Uhlemann, Heinz R. Uhlemann: Plattnerkunst, Stadtmuseum Lanshut, 1975; Various Authors, Schriftenverzeichnis, Deutsches Klingenmuseum, 1968; Die Trommeln und Pfeifen - Militärzelte - Underthalbhänder - Rustkammer zu Dresden, Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH, Nürnberger Waffen - Waffenhandel und Gewehrzeugung in der Berlin, 1995; Historisches Museum Dresden, Staatliche Steiermart, Landeszeughaus am Landesmuseum Joanneum Kunstsammlungen Dresden; Dresden Rustkammer Postcards Graz, 1976; von Sacken, Dr Eduard Freih, Die K. K. Ambraser- x10 + 1 pack of 9; Historisches Museum Rustkammer Dresden Sammlung , Wilhelm Braumuller, 1855; zum Abschied, Dr Leaflet; Jagdgewehre Historisches Museum Dresden Uhlemann, Heinz R. Uhlemann: Schriftenverzeichnis, Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Deutsches Klingenmuseum, 1968; Das Konigliche Zeughaus, Julius Bard , Berlin, 1914; Der Grazer Harnisch in der Turkenabwehr, Landeszeughauses Graz, 1971 Lot: 346 Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Gaier-Lhoest, Claude and Josianne, Catalogue des armes du Musee Curtius, 1963; Godoy, Jose-A , L'Escalade et ses souvenirs, Roto -Sadag, 1980; L'Haridon, O. Penguilly, Lot: 350 Catalogue des Collections composant le Musee D'Artillerie, Godoy, Jose A., Armes A Feu Xve- XVIIe Siecle, Bramante Charles de Morgues Freres, 1862; Maindron, Maurice, Les Editrice, 1993; Wegeli , Rudolf, Inventar der Waffensammlung Armes, Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1890; Reverseau, Jean- des Bernishchen historischen Museums in Bern, K.J Wyss Pierre, Armes et Armures Des Montmorency, Musee de Erben, 1920; Wegeli , Dr Rudolf, Inventar de L'armee, 1993; Reverseau, Jean-Pierre, Armes et Armures de Waffensammlung des Bernischen Historischen Museums in la Couronne au Musée de l'armée, Faton, 2004; Reverseau, Bern III. Stangenwaffen, K.J Wyss Erben, 1939; Wegeli , Dr Jean-Pierre, Musee de l'Armee Paris, Les armes et le vie, Rudolf, Inventar de Waffensammlung des Bernischen Dargaud, 1982; Various Authors, L'homme armé en Europe - Historischen Museums in Bern IV Fernwaffen, K.J Wyss Erben, XIV siécle - XVI siècle, Musee de L'armee, 2002; Catalogue de1948 la collection d'armes anciennes Européennes et orientales de Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Charles Buttin, Rumilly, 1933; Catalogue de la collection d'armes anciennes Européennes et orientales de Charles Buttin, 1996; Musee de Dijon Salles des Armes et Armures Anciennes, Palais des états de Bourgogne, 1947; Wapens en Lot: 351 Haenel, Erich, Kostbare Waffen Aus Der Dresdener Wapenrustingen, Chateau de Laarne, 1968; Le Bibliothecaire Rüstkammer, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1923 with 82 illustrated Militaire, Paris, 1954; Le Musee d'Armes Guide des pages of which 2 colour, with pasted bookplate: Wallace Collections, Liege, 1996 Collection Library from the Library of Claude Blair, some Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 scuffing on the edges, staining on boards Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 347 Gamble, James D., Battle Axes, Mowbray Company, 1981; Geibig, Alfred, Offa Bücher - Band 71, Karl Vacholtz, 1991; Lot: 352 Hellner, Brynolf, Drottning Kristinas Rustkammare, Kovac, Mario, Rapiers and Salon Swords - From mortal game Livrustkammaren, 1990; Krenn, Peter, Royal Army Museum to fashion, Muzeijj Hrvatskog, 2006; Oakeshott, Ewart, Record Stockholm Guide, Ahlen & Akerlund, 1964; Lenk, Torsten, of the Medieval Sword, The Boydell Press, 1991; Seitz, Finlandica I Livrustkammaren ett urval Bilder, Nordisk Heribert, Blankwaffen, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1965; Seitz, Rotogravyr, 1934; Leppaaho, Jorma, Spateisenzaeitliche Heribert, Blankwaffen II, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1968 Waffen Aus Finnland, Weilin & Goos AB, 1964; Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 Livrustkammaren, Kungl, Bilder Av Markligare Foremal I Kungl Livrustkammaren, 1927; Meyerson, Ake, Vapen industrierna I Arbogan , Viktor Pettersons Bokinindustriales, 1939; Lot: 348 Nordstrom, Lena, Livrustkammaren The Royal Armoury, Giraud, J.B., Documents Pour Servir à l'histoire de l'Armement Bohuslaningens, 1985; Rangstrom, Lena, King Frik's Armour, au Moyen âge et à la Renaissance, Lyon, 1895 in two volumes, Livrustkammaren, 2004; Steneberg, Karl Erik, Polonica Zbior each with pasted bookplates: Ex Libris Claude Blair and The Obrazow , Nordisk Rotogravyr, 1943; Various Authors, 375 Ar Wallace Collection Library, some foxing, cloth covered boards, med Livrustkammaren, Fählt & Hässler, 2003; Bilder Pictures,

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Royal Army Museum, Stockholm, 1953; Bilder Pictures, Royal cloth bound boards (faded) Army Museum, Stockholm, 1953; The Royal Armoury: The Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Assembling of Royal Relics, Costumes arms, armour, uniforms and coaches from about 1500 to the present, The Royal Palace, Stockholm Lot: 357 Estimate: £40.00 - £60.00 Smith, George, The Dictionary of National Biography, together with 7 further volumes, The Concise Dictionary From the Beginnings to 1911, Twentieth Century 1922-1930, Twentieth Lot: 353 Century 1931-1940, Twentieth Century 1941-1950, Twentieth Basilatos, Nikos, Opla - 1790-1860 Mnemeia Ellenikes Istorias Century 1951-1960, Missing Persons, Index and Epitome, kai Teknes, Eommex, 1989; Benes, Ctirad, Illustrated guide to Oxford University Press, 1882 in 27 volumes, each with pasted the collection of arms, Colloredo-Mansfeld, 1965; Grabowska, bookplate: Wallace Collection Library, original cloth covered Irena, Bron W Dawnych Wiekach , Malbork, 1970; Hrbaty, boards (wear) Stanislav, Chladna Krasa Platové Zbroje, Hradec KraÌ•loveÌ•: Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Muzeum vyÌ•chodniÌ•ch CÌŒech v Hradci KraÌ•loveÌ•, 2006; Kobielski, Stanislaw, Militaria Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, Drukarnia Narodowa, 1934; Labinowicz, Adam, Bron Lot: 358 Palna Europejska, MKN, 1966; Perdomi, Carlo, Le Armi Degli Viollet-Le-Duc, E., Dictionnaire Raisonné Du Mobilier Français Estensi La Collezione di Konopiste, Cappelli editore, 1986; De L'Époque Carlovingienne A La Renaissance, Comte- Sercer, Maria, Alte Schlagwaffen und Stangenwaffen aus Jacquet, 1874 6 Volumes, each with pasted bookplate: The Kroatien, Veroffentlichungen des Landeszeughauses, 1974; Wallace Collection Library Presented by the Geffrye Museum, Sercer, Maria, Jatagane, Veroffentlichungen des marbled boards, tooled and gilt half-leather, some scuffing to Landeszeughauses, 1976; Tarassuk, Leonid, Russian Pistols the edges in the Seventeenth Century, Arms and Armour Press, 1968; Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 Temesvary, Ferenc, Arms and Armour the Treasures of the Hungarian National Museum, Helikon, 1992; Temesvary, Ferenc, S Vallalt Magyar Bajnoki Sorsot, Vizy Otto, 1965; Various Authors, Legermuseum - Jaarverslag , Drukkerij De Lot: 359 Von Lenz, E. Die Waffensammlung Des Grafen S.D. Bink N.V. - Leiden, 1961; Various Authors, Arme in Muzeele Scheremetew in St. Petersburg, Verlag Von Karl W. din Romania, Editura Meridiane, 1973; Werner , Jerzy, Luk W Hiersemann, 1897 with 26 illustrated pages, with pasted Rozwoju Historycznym, Muzeum Narodowe, 1969; You are bookplate: Wallace Collection Library, some ink stains on the Welcome to the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, Leaflet; The Old spine and front Powder Magazine, Priddy's Hard, Portsmouth, 1971; Askeri Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 Muze, Turkey; 1915 Russian artillery Leaflet, 1958; Russian Leaflet (XV XVII), Moscow, 1955; Muzeum Wojska Polskiego W Warszawie, Wydawnictqo ministerstqa obrony Narodowej, Warsaw, 1960; Russian Leaflet (XVII XIX), Moscow, 1956; Lot: 360 Zbrojownia, Muzeum Narodowe W Krakowie, Krakow, 1960; A GERMAN PAINTED CIRCULAR WOODEN SCHUTZEN L'Armerie du Wawel (Brochure), Krakow; Japanese Leaflet- TARGET TROPHY, LATE 19TH CENTURY the outer face Golden Age of Polish Weapons, Seibu, 1970 decorated in polychrome with a female figure in contemporary Estimate: £50.00 - £80.00 dress enclosed by a border of gothic script, the inner face with an iron loop for suspension 64 cm; 25 1/4 in diameter Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 354 Lacroix, Paul, Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a L'Époque de La Renaissance, Librairie De Firmin Didot Lot: 361 Frères,1873 with 409 illustrated pages of which 14 colour, SEVEN ENGLISH SPURS, 16TH/18TH CENTURIES in signed: C. Blair 1942, foxing, original boards, 3 quarters leather excavated condition the first with star-shaped rowel, arched bound (scuffed) heel-band decorated with filed mouldings, and with its buckles; Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 the second with multi-spike rowel, slender heel-band, complete with its buckles; the third with broad heel-band rising to a point (incomplete); the fourth of brass, with seven-point rowel, and Lot: 355 slender heel-band; the fifth with eight-point rowel, slender heel- band, retaining its buckles and jingles, the sixth of brass, with Liebgott, Niels-Knud, Middelalderens Vaben, Nationalmuseet, flat flower-shaped rowel and engraved heel-band with figure-of- 1976; Smith, Otto, Det Kongelige Partikulaere rustkammer I., eight shaped terminals, and the last designed to grip the heel of J.D Qvist & Komp, 1938; Various Authors, The Armoury Hall, a shoe the first: 13cm; 5 1/8in (7) Olaf Moller, Copenhagen, 1953; Various Authors, The Armoury Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Hall, Olaf Moller, Copenhagen, 1953; Various Authors, The Armoury Hall - Guide to the Royal Danish Arsenal Museum, Olaf Moller, Copenhagen, 1953; Tojhusmuseet: The Royal Danish Arsenal Museum, Nordlundes Bogtrykkeri , Lot: 362 Copenhagen, 1962 A NORTH EUROPEAN SPUR, FIRST QUARTER OF THE Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 17TH CENTURY with five-point star-shaped rowel, sharply angular fluted neck decorated with a spirally moulding, fluted heel-band (one terminal missing) and retaining a single buckle Lot: 356 16cm; 6 1/4in Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 Maze-Sencier, Alphonse, Le Livre Des Collectionneurs, Librairie Renouard, 1885 signed: C. Blair, some foxing, original Lot: 363

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AUCTION CATALOGUES: SOTHEBY'S ARMS AND Estimate: £700.00 - £1,000.00 ARMOUR, MILITARIA AND SPORTING GUNS including sales in London, Monaco, Zurich, Sussex and New York covering the period 1970-2005, including the collections of John F. Hayward, Lot: 368 Charles Draeger, Visser (part I), Alexander Davison and The A HIGHLAND DRESS POWDER HORN, 19TH CENTURY with Royal House of Hanover A full listing is available on request stained horn body stamped 'Piper' in an oval, silver coloured Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 metal mounts comprising nozzle engraved with foliage terminating in a boar's head, moulded basal cap decorated with scrolls of olive fruit and foliage further scrolls of foliage and a Lot: 364 central cross, and robust suspension chain 38 cm; 15 in A HIGHLY DECORATED CHASTITY BELT AND PADLOCK, Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 20TH CENTURY formed of a series of pierced shaped plates, the outer surface etched in 16th century style with, at the front, the temptation of Eve by the serpent with Adam looking on, a Lot: 369 winged demon on the reverse, all enriched with scrolling foliage A HIGHLAND DRESS POWDER HORN, 19TH CENTURY with on a stippled ground, and fitted with a padlock in late medieval stained horn body, silver coloured metal mounts comprising style 25.3 cm; 10 in high graduated nozzle with beaded borders and spring cut-off, basal Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 cap engraved with scenes from the chase including hounds in pursuit of a stag and a fox, and an encircling serpent on the base, and later suspension chain 36 cm; 14 1/4 in Lot: 365 Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 A BRASS-BOUND MAHOGANY CASE FOR A D.B. SPORTING GUN OR RIFLE BY JAMES BRYCE, GUNMAKER, CROSS GATE CUPAR FIFE, CIRCA 1850-70 the outside of Lot: 370 the lid with brass flush-fitting carrying handle, the interior lined A MOROCCO LEATHER-COVERED SYKES PATENT in purple baize (light moth), with printed trade label (light foxing FLASK, MID-19TH CENTURY with flattened pear-shaped body, small losses), provision for 30 ¾ in barrels, complete with its German silver nozzle stamped 'Sykes Patent' and 'Extra compartment lids together with its leather outer case James Quality' fitted with cut-off and blued steel spring, in fine Bryce is recorded in Edinburgh circa 1850-75. condition 16 cm; 6 3/8 in Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Estimate: £120.00 - £150.00

Lot: 366 Lot: 371 A SPANISH COMBINATION TOOL (ESLABÓN), 18TH A GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED HORN FLASK BY G. & J. W. CENTURY, PROBABLY SPANISH formed in one piece, with an HAWKSLEY, SHEFFIELD, MID-19TH CENTURY with curved arched upper portion for knapping, faceted shaft with two body of polished stained horn, German silver mounts pierced scrollwork mouldings, the base with turnscrew, fitted comprising basal cap and graduated nozzle with spring cut off, with a loop carrying a contemporary pick 12 cm; 4 3/4 in with much original finish, and complete with a green silk Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 suspension cord 16.5 cm; 6 1/2 in Estimate: £120.00 - £150.00 Lot: 367 AN IMPORTANT ALBUM OF OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAHS OF Lot: 372 THE TOWER OF LONDON AND ITS ARMOURIES CIRCA A RARE GERMAN MILITARY GRENADE LAUNCHER FOR A 1915-28 comprising two hundred and thirty-one photographs FLINTLOCK MUSKET, CIRCA 1700-50 formed in two stages mounted on one hundred and sixteen separate folios of grey with raised mouldings, the lower portion inscribed 'Macht Mit paper bound within black boards, showing individual arms, Uns', and moulded integral socket cut with a slot for attaching armour and other relics of the Tower Armouries, general views to a lug on the muzzle 17.5 cm; 6 7/8 in overall of the Armouries displays, general views, engraved Estimate: £900.00 - £1,200.00 representations and early maps of the Tower as a whole, and including a few images of pieces belonging to Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers of London (some staining and cracking of the edges of the pages) The album dates from Lot: 373 **AN ITALIAN POWDER-FLASK FORMED ENTIRELY OF the time of Charles ffoulkes who served as Curator of the STEEL, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY, Tower Armouries from 1913 to 1939, receiving the revived title PROBABLY BRESCIA with tapering body of D-section, of Master of the Armouries in 1935. A few of the photographs elaborately fluted outer face enriched with very narrow in the album were used by him to illustrate his Inventory and engraved panels and beadwork, engraved with scrollwork on Survey of the Armouries of the Tower of London of 1916. the inner face and the base, fitted with belt hook, four Several elements belonging to Henry VIII's Greenwich armour suspension loops, moulded nozzle hinged at the base for garniture of 1540 had only been returned to the Tower from refilling, decorated en suite with the body and with spring cut-off Windsor in 1914. A large number of the pictures show pieces (one screw missing, areas of pitting) 18.5 cm; 7 ¼ in high transferred to the Tower from the Rotunda Museum in 1927, Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 and published in part by ffoulkes a year later. The photographs of the armour of Sir Henry Lee and other items belonging to the Armourers and Brasiers' Company were used by ffoulkes in various of his publications of 1925-7. Among the later images Lot: 374 of the album are some showing the Tower at the time of its **AN ENGLISH LEATHER SHOT-FLASK, A COPPER THREE- flooding in 1928. 30.5 cm x 39.0 cm; 12 x 15¼ in WAY FLASK FOR A FLINTLOCK PISTOL AND A COPPER

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POWDER-FLASK, 19TH CENTURY the first with leather bag- the main plate formed with three embossed flutes along the shaped body and graduated nozzle; the second with copper lower portion and a medial ridge over the upper, the right of the body and brass mounts, the third embossed with small stars brow incised with the mark of the Imperial Ottoman Arsenal at and circles, and fitted with spring cut-off (seam split, Istanbul, and pierced border for a lining (chemically cleaned, incomplete) the first: 24 cm; 9 1/2in (3) small chips) 53.5 cm; 21 1/8 in Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,000.00

Lot: 375 Lot: 380 AN ITALIAN STONEBOW, 17TH/18TH CENTURY with slender A EUROPEAN SAPPER'S HELMET, SECOND HALF OF THE steel bow retained by a pair of moulded irons, carved hardwood 17TH CENTURY of notable weight, with a medially-ridged one- tiller of characteristic form, decorated with slender panels of piece hemispherical skull fitted at the brow with a flat obtusely- ropework, the rear portion incorporating a scroll and with pointed peak, at the nape with a matching neck-guard and at bevelled edges, turned knop-shaped finial, fitted with moulded each side with a slightly forward-curving pendent cheek-piece, steel trigger operating the string release, moulded steel back- the edges of the peak and neck-guard formed with plain inward- sight, and fixed two prong fore-sight (areas of wear, adapted for turns and the point of the former pierced with a later display) 73.5 cm; 29 in tiller suspension-hole (pitted and patinated overall) 22.5 cm; 8¾ in Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Estimate: £800.00 - £1,100.00

Lot: 376 Lot: 381 A MINIATURE IRON CANNON, 19TH CENTURY with tapering A EUROPEAN SAPPER'S HELMET, SECOND HALF OF THE multi-stage barrel, swelling at the muzzle and fitted with three 17TH CENTURY of notable weight, with a medially-ridged one- raised rivets, the central one acting as a sight, with raised piece hemispherical skull struck at its left rear with the mark of astragal bands, square vent field, bulbous cascable fitted with a bullet, fitted at the brow with a flat obtusely-pointed peak, at an elevating device, on an iron wheeled carriage (areas of the nape with a matching neck-guard and at each side with a pitting) 31 cm;12 1/4 in barrel 2.2 cm; 7/8 in bore slightly forward-curving pendent cheek-piece, the edges of the Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 peak and neck-guard formed with plain inward-turns and the point of the former pierced with a later suspension-hole (the skull showing some delamination at its brow and the whole Lot: 377 pitted and patinated overall) 23.0 cm; 9 in A FINELY CONSTRUCTED MODEL OF A GARRISON GUN, Estimate: £700.00 - £1,000.00 MID-19TH CENTURY with sighted barrel formed in two stepped stages, block-shaped vent, globose cascabel, a pair of plain trunnions, on a contemporary brass garrison carriage with Lot: 382 openwork cheeks, fitted with threaded elevating device, and A GERMAN HUNTING SWORD FROM THE BADEN COURT with two pairs of trucks for a slide 11.5 cm; 4 1/2 in barrel 1.8 HUNT, MID-19TH CENTURY with broad blade double-edged cm; 3/4 in bore toward the point, etched on each face with trophies-of-arms and Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 scenes from the chase including rabbits and stag, and signed 'Geb Weyersberg in Solingen', gilt brass hilt comprising down- turned shell-guard cast with the crowned arms of Baden Lot: 378 between sprays of oak foliage, a pair of quillons with vertically THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLEMAN, BY DIRECT recurved terminals, pommel decorated en suite, and natural DESCENT FROM THE GRAND DUKE OF BADEN AN 18 staghorn grip 59.5 cm; 23 1/2 in blade BORE OTTOMAN MIQUELET-LOCK RIFLED CARBINE, Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY with octagonal swamped etched twist sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, chiselled with raised mouldings and retained by a pair of engraved silver Lot: 383 bands, the breech incorporating a raised back-sight pierced A GERMAN HUNTING SWORD FROM THE BAVARIAN with two sighting apertures, plain tang, characteristic lock COURT HUNT, CIRCA 1839-60 with broad blade double-edged overlaid with an engraved panel of silver and enriched over towards the point, etched on one face of the forte with the much of its surface with silver-encrusted pellets, full stock crowned cypher of Carl-Teodore, Duke in Bavaria (1839-1909) (chipped), profusely inlaid with minute brass rondels filled with and on the other with the inscription 'Vivat & Lebe Carl contrasting pieces of bone and enriched with brass nails, Teodore', the back-strap signed 'Jean Knecht fabriequer a faceted segmental butt inlaid en suite and with shaped panels Solingen' iron hilt of rudimentary construction, and staghorn of bone, ivory and green-stained horn, inset with a band of grip (the steel parts cleaned) 56.2 cm;22 1/8 in blade domed silver nails (small losses, butt-cap missing), iron trigger, Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 green-stained fore-end cap, associated horn tipped ramrod, and the stock impressed '164' 67.5 cm; 26 5/8 in barrel Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,000.00 Lot: 384 A GERMAN HUNTING SWORD, MID-19TH CENTURY with broad fullered blade etched and gilt with trophies-of-arms and Lot: 379 foliage on a blued panel over the lower portion on each face, A RARE OTTOMAN SHAFFRON, TURKEY, FIRST HALF OF brass hilt comprising a pair of quillons with globular terminals, THE 16TH CENTURY formed of a main plate tapering slightly cap pommel and hardwood grip 60 cm; 23 5/8 in blade to its rounded lower end, cut away at the upper corners for a Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 pair of ear pieces (missing), embossed over the eye openings, Lot: 385

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A GERMAN HUNTING SWORD, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with a near acorn shaped moulding, a pair of dolphin lifting handles broad blade double-edged towards the point, retaining traces of each on a punched ground, plain trunnions: each on its iron- an etched design on each face, brass hilt comprising a pair of clad wooden field carriage with iron-shod spoked cambered short quillons with globular terminals, cap pommel, and wheels (losses, one pair of cap squares missing), together with staghorn grip applied with a pair of brass acorns and oak a well matched limber 41 cm; 16 1/4 in barrels (3) foliage 54.5 cm; 21 1/2 in blade Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00

Lot: 391 Lot: 386 A CASED PAIR OF .450 CALIBRE PERCUSSION RIFLED A GERMAN COMBINED WHEEL-LOCK SPANNER, POWDER- TARGET PISTOLS BY SCHNEEVOIGT IN LAHR, CIRCA 1850 MEASURE AND TURNSCREW, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with with octagonal blued sighted barrels signed in gold script within octagonal body decorated with filed mouldings, graduated an elaborate gold framework, engraved case-hardened measure numbered from one to four (retaining screw missing), breeches decorated with scrollwork and inlaid with gold lines, the head pierced with three square apertures, and three engraved percussion bolsters fitted with blued nipples, terminals cut as a square turnscrew, double prong and the third engraved case-hardened breech tangs decorated en suite fitted cut for the wheel 17.2 cm; 7 3/4in head with blued adjustable back-sights and numbered '1' and '2' in Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 gold respectively, scroll-engraved case-hardened stepped locks signed in gold script (one lock inoperative and with small dents on the lock plate), blued set triggers, highly figured maple half- Lot: 387 stocks (one with a hairline crack through), finely fluted butts A GERMAN DETACHED WHEEL-LOCK MECHANISM FOR A with a carved moulding on each side, engraved blued steel SPORTING GUN BY SEBASTIAN SCHEIDEGGER, CIRCA mounts comprising spurred trigger-guards with shaped finials, 1730 with flat plate engraved with bold scrolls and a pair of butt-caps and fore-end caps, blued trigger plates, silver barrel hounds in pursuit of a hare, fitted with internal wheel, engraved bolt escutcheons (one bolt replaced), no provision for ramrods, dog with shielded jaws, flash-guard, signed pan-fence and and with almost all their original finish throughout: in original engraved dog-spring bridle 32 cm; 12 5/8 in overall mahogany case lined in blue velvet (faded, one compartment Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00 lid missing, lock catch missing, small chips and cracks), the lid with brass escutcheon engraved with the owner's coat-of-arms, complete with a full compliment of accessories including bullet mould and wad-cutter of burnished steel, copper powder-flask Lot: 388 with brass mounts (loose), turn-screw, nipple-wrench, ivory AN AUSTRIAN LARGE COMBINED POWDER-FLASK AND mallet 25.2 cm 10 in barrels Heinrich Björn Christophe WHEEL-LOCK SPANNER, CIRCA 1730 of green-stained Schneevoigt is recorded in Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein and flattened cow horn, fitted on the outer face with an iron bracket Lahr, Baden circa 1818-78. He is recorded as journeyman in incorporating a wheel-lock spanner of three apertures, with the former in 1822. His father, Otto Heinrich, was gunmaker to foliate terminal, iron basal cap and carved nozzle (suspension the Danish Lifeguard , circa 1800. removed leaving a small hole, stopper missing) 44.5 cm; 17 Estimate: £5,000.00 - £7,000.00 1/2in overall Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 392 A .550 CALIBRE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, Lot: 389 CIRCA 1730 with blued octagonal swamped sighted barrel A RARE 40 BORE EIGHT-SHOT MATCHLOCK PISTOL rifled with seven grooves, engraved with a panel of scrollwork BARREL AND CHAMBER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, at the breech, flat lock engraved with a stag in a rococo MOUNTED ON A CANNON CARRIAGE, 18TH CENTURY with landscape, fitted with internal wheel, flash-guard, pan with three stage swamped barrel, the muzzle and median sections sliding cover, and engraved dog decorated with a monsterhead, each encased in latten, reeded breech incorporating a brass double set trigger, full stock (wormed), moulded over the fore- back-sight and a spring catch for the cylinder, eight-shot end, impressed with the inventory number '3' behind the lock, cylinder, each chamber with square vent field, retaining three the butt with patchbox with fluted sliding cover incorporating a brass covers each incorporating a spring and steel knob on the piece of horn on the right and raised cheek-piece carved with top (the other five missing), retained by a faceted nut at the rococo shell ornament inlaid with a piece of mother-of-pearl in rear; and fitted beneath the breech with a pair of later trunnions: the centre on the left, steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, on a saluting cannon carriage with scrolling cheeks, applied horn side nail washers, ramrod-pipe (one missing) and fore-end with pierced and engraved brass panels including a hunter in cap, and associated ramrod, together with a contemporary steel contemporary dress within an architectural landscape 31.5 cm; powder measure 81 cm; 31 7/8 in barrel 12 3/8 in barrel A snaphaunce revolving rifle dated 1597 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 preserved in the Tøjhusmuseet, Copenhagen (nr. B294) and a matchlock revolving rifle of circa 1610 preserved in the Hermitage, St Petersburg each have a revolving cylinder of related type. See A. Hoff 1969 pp. 254-6. Lot: 393 Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 A .550 CALIBRE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY SEBASTIAN SCHEIDEGGER IN SALZBURG, CIRCA 1730 with blued octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, signed over the breech and stamped with the brass- Lot: 390 lined barrelsmith's mark, in a shield the initials 'S. SC' above a A PAIR OF GERMAN BRONZE SALUTING CANNON, 19TH rampant demi-chamois, engraved flat lock signed 'S.S.', fitted CENTURY with tapering multi-stage barrels formed with raised with integral wheel, flash-guard, pan with sliding cover, and astragal mouldings, moulded muzzles, cascables drawn-out to engraved dog with concealed jaws, double set trigger, figured

45 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com walnut full stock moulded over the fore-end, impressed with the mouldings, finely chiselled steel and part matted mounts inventory number '1' behind the lock, the butt with raised cheek- comprising pierced openwork side plate decorated with leafy piece on the left and patchbox with sliding cover incorporating a tendrils carrying a self-suckling serpent, trigger-guard with leafy piece of horn on the right, steel trigger-guard engraved en suite finial and ropework en suite with the lock, three moulded with the lock, horn side nail washers, ramrod-pipes and fore- ramrod-pipes matching the trigger-guard, the rear involving a end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod 82 .3 cm; 32 3/8 in barrel serpent, butt-plate with pronounced heel, finely chiselled with a Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 bearded grotesque on top and the tang formed as a further serpent, crowned vacant escutcheon, and later ramrod (sling swivels removed) 118 cm; 46 ½ in barrel Johann Sterr is Lot: 394 recorded in Munich circa 1685-94. A .800 CALIBRE GERMAN (SAXON) WHEEL-LOCK Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 RAMPART GUN, DATED 1685 with massive swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves (surface rust), moulded at the breech and numbered '1', dated flat lock Lot: 397 retained by two side nails, struck with the mark of Hans Loeffler A RARE .650 CALIBRE AUSTRIAN BREECH-LOADING (Neue Støckel 716), fitted with external wheel with engraved gilt FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY J. GOLIAR, VIENNA, cover, sliding pan-cover with gilt acorn finial released by a CIRCA 1660 with swamped sixteen sided blued barrel rifled brass button engraved with a grotesque, moulded dog and dog with ten grooves, fitted with moulded fore-sight on a foliate bed spring with filed scrolls, double set trigger, full stock flattened and shaped back-sight, rebated threaded breech fitted with a beneath the fore-end for resting, impressed '6' behind the tang, stud engaging with the barrel base, faceted vent section large butt of fish tail form, hollowed at the top, brass mounts moulded at each end, signed 'Cum Privilegio Saca. Ca. comprising shaped trigger-guard with acorn finial en suite with Majestatis' over the tang and breech, the latter fitted on the the pan-cover, butt-plate, a pair of foliate horn side nail right with screw-in pan and moulded steel (refaced in its washers, fore-end cap and a pair of ramrod-pipes of contrasting working life), rounded lock signed within a strapwork panel and horn 90.3 cm 35 5/8 in barrel Hans Loeffler is recorded in finely engraved with a grotesque on the tail, the tumbler bridle Ruhla, Saxony circa 1683-1714. formed as a finely engraved serpent, figured walnut butt Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 impressed '68' behind the lock, steel mounts comprising faceted butt-plate, and trigger-guard with foliate terminal, a delicate scrollwork moulding at the front and a thumbscrew Lot: 395 safety at the rear (lightly cleaned with chemicals) 71.7 cm; 28 A RARE 32 BORE NORTH EUROPEAN FLINTLOCK 1/4 in barrel Jo. Jouss Goliar, probably of French or Swiss SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1700, PROBABLY DUTCH with origin, is recorded Hofbüchsenmacher to the Emperor Leopold I, slender tapering barrel formed in two stages, chiselled with a circa 1660. A similar rifle made by him, presented to vertical arrangement of military scenes including an Ferdinando II, Grand Duke of Tuscany by Emperor Leopold I, is encampment, infantrymen and a cavalryman with a panel of preserved in the Bargello, Florence. Another example, dated foliage top and bottom, fitted with silver fore-sight and moulded 1657, from the Liechtenstein Princely gunroom and later in the silver back-sight, slender tang decorated with a chevron design, collection of William Goodwin Renwick, was sold Sotheby's stepped lock boldly engraved with foliage signed 'N. M.' on the 23rd July 1974, lot 62. tail, half-stock moulded over the fore-end (areas of worm), Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 impressed '49' behind the lock, paddle-shaped butt finely carved with a cavalry engagement on the right, brass mounts comprising moulded trigger-guard with foliate terminal, solid Lot: 398 side-plate, butt-plate with slender tang of shaped outline and A .600 CALIBRE GERMAN BUTT RESERVOIR AIR RIFLE BY four moulded ramrod-pipes, and bone fore-end cap 116.5 cm; BOSLER, DARMSTADT, CIRCA 1750 with swamped octagonal 46 in barrel It is likely that this gun was shortened to half-stock sighted barrel engraved with scrolls over the breech, engraved around the middle of the 18th century and most of the brass tang, engraved lock decorated with a hound, fowl and a wild mounts were renewed at this time. A gun with a butt carved in boar on the tail, signed and decorated with a huntsman and his the same manner was sold Christie's Paris, 31st March 2011, hound beneath the pan, fitted with engraved dummy cock (the lot 622. action inoperative), double set trigger, figured walnut half-stock Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 impressed '128', carved in low relief about the mounts and the tang, the butt with carved raised cheek-piece decorated with scrolls (cracked), engraved gilt-brass mounts comprising side Lot: 396 plate decorated with a hunting scenes in a rococo framework, A FINE 16 BORE SOUTH GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING butt-plate incorporating the pump aperture (cover missing), GUN BY IOHANN STERR, FREISING, CIRCA 1690 with decorated on the tang with a portrait profile and numbered '28', tapering barrel formed with a near full length flat, fitted with trigger-guard with Diana the huntress, and a pair of ramrod- barleycorn fore-sight on a punched chiselled bed with delicate pipes (crowned escutcheon missing), horn fore-end cap, and leafy tendrils above and below, chiselled with scrolling leafy horn-tipped ramrod 90 cm; 35 ½ in barrel Three makers of this tendrils against a matted ground on each side of the breech, name are recorded in Darmstadt, Hesse specialising in air rounded lock chiselled with delicate ropework around the weapons during the 18th century. Two were borders, signed 'Iohann Sterr a Freising' beneath the pan and Hofbüchsenmacher to the Landgraves of Hesse. Two other air inscribed 'Hochfirst Pixenmacher' around the cock, the cock guns by this family, formerly in the hunting room at Jagdschloss and steel each chiselled with leafy tendrils and ropework en Kranichstein and latterly in the Neal collection, were sold suite (the cock cracked at the neck), highly figured burrwood full Christies 9th November 2000 and 25th October 2001 Lots 129 stock (the last 6 cm of the fore-end removed), carved with a and 131 respectively. For a discussion of this maker, and his moulding along the length of the barrel, a serpent behind the father, see A. Hoff 1972, pp. 40-59. rear ramrod pipe and foliage behind the lock and the side-plate, Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 impressed '54' behind the tang, and the butt carved with further Lot: 399

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A RARE 16 BORE GERMAN AIRGUN BY CARL RUT, Lot: 402 CARLSRUHE, DATED 1834 with octagonal sighted barrel A GERMAN COMBINED .350 CALIBRE RIFLE AND 32 BORE sleeved in brass, rotating at the breech on an eccentric pivot FLINTLOCK WENDER GUN, CIRCA 1750 with octagonal rifle released by a knurled bolt beneath, strike pump action with barrel, punched and chiselled with scrolls retaining traces of gilt German silver spring magazine signed and dated in script over the breech, the shotgun barrel formed in four stages, each between a spray of oak fruit, foliage and flowers on the top, barrel with brass fore-sight and some blued finish, the breech steel tang of shaped outline incorporating an aperture for the fitted with a slender brass washer released by a catch on the lever (now missing) on the right, double set trigger, walnut full forward portion of the trigger-guard, tang of shaped outline, stock boldly impressed '129', carved with scrolls and a rest on rounded lock, figured walnut full stock impressed '18' behind the fore-end, chequered grip, moulded butt en suite with the the lock (small cracks), carved and incised with scrolls over the fore-end and iron mounts including trigger-guard and butt cap fore-end, a bouquet in low relief behind the tang, the butt with (the iron parts pitted throughout, ramrod incomplete) 68.2 cm; raised cheek-piece, carved with rococo scrolls and bouquets on 26 7/8 in barrel Other airguns of this date signed 'Rutte in the left, and fitted with patchbox with sliding cover on the right, Bohm.' are recorded in the Berlin Zeughaus, see F. M. brass mounts including solid side-plate, trigger-guard with Feldhaus 1905, p. 368-9 and E. G. Wolff 1958, p. 179. faceted rear terminal, butt-plate with faceted tang and fore-end Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 cap, and brass-tipped steel ramrod 80.2 cm; 31 5/8 in barrels Estimate: £3,000.00 - £3,500.00 Lot: 400 A RARE .500 CALIBRE AUSTRIAN GIRANDONI SYSTEM Lot: 403 REPEATING BUTT RESERVOIR AIR RIFLE BY J. B. A GERMAN .450 CALIBRE OVER-AND-UNDER FLINTLOCK MISSILLIEUR, CIRCA 1820-30 with octagonal multi-groove SPORTING GUN FOR LARGE GAME, CIRCA 1750 with lightly rifled barrel rebated and threaded at the breech, octagonal swamped octagonal barrels, the bores both cut with seven breech extending as a sleeve over the long rebated portion, broad straight grooves with a further narrow groove between signed 'J.B. Missillieur a Vienne' on the top, fitted with folding each, the upper barrel with brass fore-sight, long rectangular back-sight (fore-sight missing), sprung horizontal breech-feed tang, curved bevelled locks, figured walnut full stock impressed mechanism, engraved tubular magazine pierced with nine holes '15' behind the lock, moulded over the fore-end, carved with a on the right (cover missing), engraved on the top with a trophy- raised moulding about the tang, the butt with carved cheek- of-hunting, and a masked sunburst, engraved case-hardened piece decorated with a spray of scrollwork behind, steel mounts stepped lock decorated with conventional foliage, scrolls, including trigger-guard with foliate terminals, numbered butt- border ornament, a reclining stag, and inscribed 'in Wien', fitted plate and three faceted ramrod-pipes on the right of the barrels with engraved case-hardened cocking lever, action cover (the rear ramrod-pipe cracked), horn fore-end cap (chipped), engraved with a hunter in contemporary dress resting with dead and horn tipped ramrod 77.4 cm; 30 1/2 in barrel game and a hound at his feet, figured walnut fore-stock, Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 engraved case-hardened steel mounts comprising side-plate formed and decorated en suite with the lock, scrolling trigger- guard decorated with a trophy on the bow, fore-end cap with retaining thumb-screw, complete with its original leather- Lot: 404 covered steel butt reservoir fitted with brass washer engraved A FINE GARNITURE OF BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK FIREARMS, 'No. 2' and '2000P', and the engraving remaining in very fine COMPRISING A PAIR OF 18 BORE SPORTING GUNS, A condition throughout 66.5 cm; 26 ¼ in barrel Johann Baptiste PAIR OF .600 CALIBRE RIFLED SPORTING CARBINES AND Missillieur, a native of Vienne (south of Lyon), was active in A PAIR OF 22 BORE PISTOLS BY LEOPOLD BECHER, Vienna and Prague circa 1781-1835. He is recorded master in CIRCA 1740 the guns with blued barrels in the Spanish taste, Vienna in 1821 and in the Prague Guild in 1834. Another fitted with silver 'spider' fore-sights chiselled with a band of Girandoni system by this maker is preserved in the Danish foliage ahead of gilt scrolls at the medians and further scrolls, Hunting and Forestry Museum, Hørsholm (no. 1170). Five pellets and foliage over the breeches, the latter incorporating double flintlock guns by this maker decorated with the arms of the barrelsmith's marks (Neue Støckel 5758), a decorative gilt- Duke Maximillian Josef are recorded in the former gunroom of lined spur mark and a further mark, in a gilt recess the the Dukes Palatine of Zweibrücken, circa 1795. See A. Hoff inscription 'Gewundene', engraved tangs numbered '1' and '2', 1972, p. 73 and T. Hempe 1911, p. 413. rounded locks finely chiselled against a punched ground with a Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 cavalryman on the tails, an elaborate trophy involving a warrior beneath the pans and signed behind the steel springs, fitted with chiselled cocks, pans with water drains, and steels decorated en suite (one top-jaw and screw missing), figured Lot: 401 walnut half-stock impressed '45' and '46', carved en rocaille A RARE .470 CALIBRE AUSTRIAN MODEL 1779 GIRANDONI with scrolls on shells about the rear ramrod-pipes and ahead of SYSTEM REPEATING BUTT RESERVOIR AIR RIFLE, NO. the trigger-guards (one small chip), raised mouldings and 1335, CIRCA 1780 with octagonal multi-groove rifled sighted further rococo designs about the tangs (chipped), the butts with barrel, traces of the Imperial eagle mark over the breech, fitted designs of shells, scrolls and foliage on each side and raised with sprung horizontal breech-feed mechanism, tubular cheek-pieces on the left (small cracks and repairs), finely cast magazine, bevelled lock with faceted forward edge, fitted with and chased gilt-bronze mounts comprising side-plates cocking lever (repaired), set trigger (inoperative), brass decorated with a cavalry scene against a punched ground, numbered action stamped 'G', walnut full stock incised with a trigger-guards decorated with a hunter and a falconer linear pattern over the fore-end, brass mounts, forward sling respectively, butt-plates decorated with mounted figures within swivel (the rear sling swivel missing), and complete with its a rococo framework beneath a grotesque and foliage, vacant original leather-covered steel butt reservoir impressed '127' escutcheons involving further figures on horseback, fore-end 83.2 cm; 32 3/4 in barrel See E. Gabriel 1990, pp. 382-3 and A. caps en suite, three gilt ramrod-pipes, steel sling swivels, and Hoff 1972, pp. 60-9. each with its brass-tipped wooden ramrod; the carbines with Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 blued octagonal swamped sighted barrels rifled with seven

47 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com grooves, signed and decorated en suite with the guns, the trigger-guard with a hunter on the bow and a trophy-of-arms on breeches stamped with the gold-lined barrelsmiths mark of the finial, a pair of ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap, original Hans Johan Stifter (Neue Støckel 1042), finely chiselled locks ramrod with gilt-brass tip, and in remaining in good to fine and mounts en suite with the guns, double set triggers, full condition throughout 115.5 cm; 45 1/2 in barrel stocks impressed '43' and '44', carved with rococo shell and Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 scroll designs, the butts with carved cheek-pieces on the left and patchboxes with sliding covers entirely covered in chiselled gilt bronze on the right, the latter decorated with a boar set Lot: 407 upon by hounds in an architectural landscape, and wooden A PAIR OF 25 BORE SOUTH GERMAN FLINTLOCK ramrods, one with its brass tip (the other missing); the pistols HOLSTER PISTOLS, CIRCA 1760 with tapering barrels with blued barrels in the Spanish taste, decorated and stamped chiselled with foliage, etched and inlaid with silver scrolls in the en suite with the guns, the tangs, locks (one top-jaw, screw Turkish taste (fore-sights removed), plain tangs numbered '1' and both steels missing, one cock cracked) and mounts all and '2', flat locks with rebated borders, fitted with matching decorated en suite with the carbines and the guns, figured cocks and blued faceted pans, figured walnut full stocks carved walnut full stocks impressed '97' and '98' (one wormed), and en rocaille and impressed '99' and '100' behind the respective brass-tipped wooden ramrods; and the entire garniture retaining locks (cracks and small filled repairs), brass mounts of shaped much original blued and gilt finish throughout 94 cm; 37 in gun outline including numbered pommels, and bone-tipped wooden barrels 68.5 cm; 27 in carbine barrels 27.2 cm; 10 ¾ in pistol ramrods 28 cm; 11 in barrels (2) barrels (6) Leopold Becher is recorded circa 1725-50 and as Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 Hofbüchsenmacher to Prince and General Johann Georg Christian Lobkowitz in Raudnitz circa 1726-7, another garniture by him still remains in the family gunroom. Becher is considered the most distinguished Carlsbad maker, his work being Lot: 408 A PAIR OF .550 CALIBRE SOUTH GERMAN FLINTLOCK represented by a number of pieces in the former Imperial RIFLED HOLSTER PISTOLS, CIRCA 1760 with sighted barrels Gewehrkammer, Vienna, and the Danish Royal collection, formed in two stages, etched in the Turkish taste, plain tangs Copenhagen. See J. F. Hayward 1963, pp. 128-130 and J. J. incorporating the back-sights, bevelled locks with some blued Batty 2011, p. 115-118. finish on the elements, figured walnut full stocks, numbered Estimate: £15,000.00 - £20,000.00 '101' and '102' behind the locks, moulded over the fore-ends and carved in low relief with scrolling foliage about the tangs, the butts each with iron pierced escutcheon for a shoulder stock Lot: 405 on the spine, moulded brass mounts including trigger plates A .650 CALIBRE BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK RIFLED SPORTING and faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end caps, and horn-tipped CARBINE BY G. LIESTEEGER, CIRCA 1740 with octagonal wooden ramrods 30.5 cm; 12 in barrels (2) blued swamped sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 stamped with the brass-lined barrelsmith's mark of Gottlib Steeger over the breech (similar to Neue Støckel 1038), plain tang numbered '19', bevelled lock engraved with a pair of cavalrymen in combat in a scrollwork frame, walnut full stock Lot: 409 AN 18 BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL SIGNED (one chip now detached), impressed '53' behind the lock, DRESCHLER, CIRCA 1760, EAST EUROPEAN OR GERMAN carved with mouldings and scrollwork in low relief, the tang with two-stage Spanish barrel, fitted with silver 'Spider' fore- enclosed with a gilt-brass plaque cast and chased in low relief, sight, signed and dated 'Esquibel en Madrid Anno 1719' over the butt with cheek-piece carved with c-scrolls behind on the the breech in gold, punched with a matted ground, a series of left and patchbox with sliding cover on the right, gilt-brass gold-lined marks and the gold-lined barrelsmith's mark (Neue mounts cast and chased in low relief, comprising side plate Støckel 325 and 326), gold-lined vent, signed rounded lock, decorated with a stag hunting scene fitted with near walnut full stock moulded over the fore-end (cracked), carved contemporary saddle bar and ring, butt-plate with a huntsman with scrolls of foliage about the rear ramrod-pipe and behind in contemporary dress, trigger-guard decorated en suite, three the tang, gilt brass mounts including pierced rococo side plate ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod 60 decorated with foliage and a mask, spurred pommel engraved cm; 23 5/8 in barrel Gottlib Steeger is recorded in Carlsbad with foliage and fitted with grotesque mask cap, trigger-guard circa 1730-40. with grotesques, vacant escutcheon, and horn fore-end cap Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 33.3 cm; 13 in barrel Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 Lot: 406 AN 18 BORE BOHEMIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY LEOPOLD BECHER, CARLSBAD, CIRCA 1740 with blued Lot: 410 A GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN WITH EARLIER sighted barrel formed in three stages, octagonal over the DECORATED TURKISH BARREL, CIRCA 1760 with etched breech and inlaid with a panel of scrollwork and pellets, twist barrel of approximately 11 bore, chiselled with arabesque engraved tang framed by a gilt-brass plaque cast and chased designs over the muzzle and the breech, each encrusted with with scrolls in low relief on a punched ground, signed rounded engraved silver frameworks and the latter incorporating the lock engraved with border ornament and elaborate scrollwork, barrelsmith's signature 'amal mustafa' (work of Mustafa), tang engraved cock, steel and pan all decorated en suite, figured incorporating a large moulded back-sight, curved stepped walnut half-stock, impressed '58' behind the lock, carved with bevelled lock signed 'P.S.V.W. on a panel carried by scrolls and rococo scrolls and raised mouldings, gilt-brass mounts cast and with a demi-figure on the tail, figured walnut half-stock chased in low relief, including side plate decorated with a impressed' 55' behind the lock (small bruises), carved with hunting scene involving a mounted hunter in pursuit of a wild raised mouldings, the butt with raised cheek-piece inset with boar set upon by hounds, butt-plate decorated with a Classical the owner's coat-of-arms beneath the Crown of a German warrior beneath a canopy and a scene from a water hunt, Count, decorated behind with carved scrolling foliage on a

48 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com punched ground, steel mounts comprising pierced side-plate Lot: 414 formed as a scrolling serpent, trigger-guard with foliate terminal, AN 18 BORE D.B. FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY THOMAS and numbered butt-plate en suite with the trigger-guard, steel MORTIMER, 44 LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, CIRCA 1820 with escutcheon engraved with the owner's coat-of-arms, a pair of browned twist sighted barrels, inscribed 'London' in gold script ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap and associated horn-tipped on the rib, finely engraved case-hardened recessed breeches, ramrod 99 cm; 39 in barrel The Arms are those of Waldburg, inscribed 'T. Mortimer 44' and 'Ludgate Hill London' in two gold from Upper Swabia and Württemberg, appointed Stewards ovals on the top, inlaid with lines and with platinum vents, (Reichserbtruchsessen) of the Holy Roman Empire in 1525, a engraved tang decorated with a hound's mask, signed position that became hereditary in 1594. The heraldic charge of engraved case-hardened stepped locks fitted with pierced the orb was granted to them around this time in recognition of cocks, rainproof pans, and rollers, figured walnut half-stock, its hereditary status as Imperial Stewards. chequered grip impressed '13'. engraved blued steel mounts Estimate: £1,400.00 - £1,800.00 including trigger-guard with pineapple finial and a stag on the bow, butt-plate decorated with a hound and a fowling-piece against a tree, engraved silver rear ramrod-pipe, silver Lot: 411 escutcheon engraved with the owner's initial 'CLvM', silver A GERMAN FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS WITH EARLIER barrel bolt escutcheon, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod 78.7 DECORATED TURKISH BARREL, CIRCA 1750 with etched cm; 31 in barrels Thomas Mortimer & Son are recorded at 44 twist barrel, chiselled with arabesque designs over the muzzle, Ludgate Hill circa 1807-24. the median and the breech, each encrusted with engraved Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 silver frameworks and the latter incorporating the back-sight, stepped bevelled lock signed 'IO. Koss' (partly obscured), engraved with sprays of scrollwork and foliage, figured walnut Lot: 415 full stock impressed '60' behind the lockplate, moulded over the TWO FINE 16 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK fore-end and about the tang, steel mounts comprising pierced SPORTING GUNS MADE FOR PRINCE FREDERICK OF sideplate formed of a pair of addorsed monsters, trigger-guard BADEN (1756-1817) BY DURS EGG, LONDON, LONDON with foliate terminal, butt-plate with shaped tang, and a pair of SILVER MARK 1789, MAKER'S MARK M.B. almost forming a faceted ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap and horn-tipped pair, with browned twist barrels of Spanish form, fitted with ramrod, probably the original 74 cm; 29 1/4 in barrel silver 'spider' fore-sights, chiselled with foliage and engraved at Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 the medians, octagonal breeches stamped with the gold-lined barrelsmith's mark and three gold-lined fleur-de-lys, stamped with London proof marks beneath, inlaid with a pair of gold lines Lot: 412 and gold lined vents, engraved case-hardened tangs A .650 CALIBRE AUSTRIAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE incorporating the back-sights, signed engraved stepped case- BY CASPAR ZELNER, CIRCA 1740 with blued octagonal hardened locks decorated with game birds on the tails, a swamped sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, signed in bouquet and a sunburst behind the pans, fitted with engraved gold capitals over the breech within a gold linear frame and case-hardened cocks, semi-rainproof gold-lined pans, steels decorated with gold strapwork (losses), signed bevelled lock with rollers and blued springs, figured walnut half-stocks finely engraved with a stag hunting scene, double set trigger, impressed '41' and '42', carved with a bouquet behind the figured walnut full stock impressed '85' behind the lock, carved tangs, the grips cut with characteristic pineapple chequering, with rococo scrolls in low relief about the rear ramrod-pipe and full silver mounts comprising engraved side nail washers, the tang, the butt with carved raised cheek-piece on the left and trigger-guards engraved with differing scenes involving hounds patchbox with brass-mounted sliding cover on the right, on the bows and pineapple finials, numbered butt-plates with engraved brass mounts comprising solid side-plate, trigger- further game scenes, rear ramrod-pipes, engraved barrel bolt guard with scrolling terminal, numbered butt-plate, and a pair of escutcheons, and escutcheons engraved with the crowned ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped wooden owner's initial 'F' enclosed by the motto of the Polish Order of ramrod 77 cm; 30 3/8 in barrel Caspar Zellner, son of Johann the White Eagle, Pro Fide Rege et Lege, browned steel ramrod- Zellner, is recorded in Zell am Wallersee, Salzburg and Vienna pipes, sling swivels, each with its horn-tipped ramrod, and with circa 1661-1745. His prolific work is well represented in the much original finish throughout 96.2 cm; 37 7/8 in and 91.2 cm; ancestral gunrooms of Europe. 36 in barrels Prince Frederick of Baden (1756-1817) was the Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 second son of Charles-Frederick, Margrave of Baden (1728- 1811) by his first wife, Caroline-Louise (1723-1783), only daughter of Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1691- Lot: 413 1768). Prince Frederick was created a knight of the Polish A 32 BORE SAXON FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN, BY T. W. Order of the White Eagle on 5th September 1772. In 1791 PISTOR A SCHMALKALDEN, CIRCA 1750 for a boy or a lady, Prince Frederick married Princess Christiane-Louise (1776- with tapering barrel formed in three stages, fitted with moulded 1829), eldest daughter of Prince Frederick Augustus of Nassau- silver fore-sight, moulded at the breech, tang numbered '19', Usingen (1738-1816); there were no issue of the marriage. In signed rounded lock engraved en rocaille, highly figured walnut 1803, when his father was raised to the rank of Elector, Prince full stock impressed '50' behind the lock, moulded over the fore- Frederick and his younger brother, Prince Louis, became end, carved with foliage about the tang, the butt with carved Margraves of Baden. The execution of the engraving and the raised cheek-piece, gilt-brass mounts engraved with rococo design of the crown, that of a British monarch and not of a scrolls and shell ornament, comprising solid side plate, trigger- prince of Baden, denotes that the escutcheons were engraved guard with foliate terminals, numbered butt-plate, three ramrod- in Britain, almost certainly by the maker. Durs Egg, the son of pipes, a pair of steel sling swivels, horn fore-end cap, and horn- the gunmaker Leonz, was born in Switzerland in 1748. After a tipped wooden ramrod 71.8 cm; 28 1/4 in barrel Thomas short stay in Paris he came to London and worked for John Wilhelm Pistor is recorded in Schmalkalden, Saxony, circa Twigg at 132 Strand. He was gunmaker to George IV and the 1720-87. Duke of York. He became blind in 1822 and died in 1831. A Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 silver-mounted breech-loading Ferguson rifle by this maker is

49 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com preserved in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. The Royal GUNS, CIRCA 1790 almost forming a pair, with blued Spanish Collection also includes two very similar guns to the present by barrels, fitted with silver 'spider' fore-sights and each retained this maker, see H. L. Blackmore 1968, (L159, p. 31; L174, p. by a pair of pierced steel bands, chiselled with a band of foliage 34). at the medians, stamped with gold-lined barrelsmith's marks Estimate: £12,000.00 - £18,000.00 including 'Ant Bustindui', a rampant lion (Neue Støckel 130) and a series of gold-lined decorative marks (the second barrel marks illegible, gold with losses), engraved flat locks stamped Lot: 416 with the gold-lined maker's mark of Joan Andrés Gabila of Eibar A .500 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK RIFLED OFFICER'S PISTOL and Bartholomé Astiazaran (Neue Støckel 15), full stocks MADE FOR PRINCE FREDERICK OF BADEN (1756-1817) BY impressed '165' and '166' respectively, carved with simple DURS EGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1790 with browned twist mouldings, an ear of corn behind the tangs and fluted butts, octagonal swamped sighted multi-groove rifled barrel, the steel mounts including trigger-guards with the marks 'Gabiola' breech stamped with the gold-lined barrelsmith's mark, inlaid and 'Dom Gabiola' each enclosed in an engraved frame, with a gold line and gold lined vent, engraved case-hardened vestigial butt-plates, sling swivels, horn fore-end caps and horn tang decorated with a trophy-of-arms, signed stepped lock with tipped wooden ramrods 90.5 cm; 35 5/8 in and 85 cm; 33 ½ in sliding tail safety-catch, engraved with trophies, foliage and a barrels sunburst, fitted with semi-rainproof pan and steel with roller, set Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 trigger, figured walnut full stock carved with a bouquet behind the tang, cut with characteristic pineapple chequering over the butt, engraved steel mounts comprising trigger-guard (bent) Lot: 420 decorated with a trophy-of-arms on the bow and with pineapple A .470 CALIBRE GERMAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE finial, pear-shaped butt-cap, and a pair of ramrod-pipes, inset BY FORSTENER IN CARLSRUHE, CIRCA 1840 with with a silver plaque engraved with the owner's initial 'F' octagonal swamped browned twist barrel rifled with ten enclosed by the motto of the Polish Order of the White Eagle, grooves, fitted with windage adjustable fore-sight and blued 'Pro Fide Rege et Lege', and horn tipped ramrod 25.5 cm; 10 in folding back-sight, engraved breech inset with a small gold barrel See footnote to previous lot. plaque inscribed 'GVL', finely scroll-engraved slender tang Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 enriched with a gold bouquet, finely engraved case-hardened lock signed in gold, fitted with hammer decorated en suite (screw missing), double set trigger, figured walnut half-stock Lot: 417 carved with basket weave chequering on the grip and a boar A .550 CALIBRE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE mask in the round at the rear, the butt with carved raised cheek- WITH ENGLISH LOCK BY DURS EGG, CIRCA 1800 with piece decorated with a stag rondel, engraved steel mounts octagonal swamped sighted barrel with some blued finish, rifled including trigger-guard decorated with a stag in gold, butt-plate with eight grooves, stamped with the brass-lined barrelsmith's with slender tang en suite with the lock, horn fore-end cap, mark, the letters 'BL' divided by a flaming torch, over the silver barrel bolt escutcheons, a pair of sling swivels, horn- breech, signed stepped bevelled lock engraved with a hound tipped ramrod, and some original finish throughout 67.5 cm; 26 on the tail, semi-rainproof pan and roller, double set trigger, 5/8 in barrel figured walnut full stock impressed '64' behind the lock, carved Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 with rococo flowers in low relief (cracked through and repaired), the butt with raised cheek-piece and patchbox with moulded sliding cover, steel mounts including trigger-guard with finial of Lot: 421 stylised pineapple form, and butt-plate with tang of shaped A 28 BORE AND A PAIR OF 20 BORE FLINTLOCK outline, and horn fore-end cap 65.8 cm; 25 7/8 in barrel SPORTING GUNS FROM A LARGER GARNITURE ALMOST Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 CERTAINLY MADE FOR PRINCE FREDERICK OF BADEN (1756-1817) BY DAIRE A CHARLEVILLE, CIRCA 1803-15 with minor differences, with blued swamped barrels formed with a Lot: 418 long flat, decorated with bands of gold at the muzzles, fore- A 14 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUN BY HARVEY sights each on a gold sun burst, signed in gold towards the WALKLATE (1) MORTIMER, MAKER TO THE KING, breech, the first with the crowned initial 'F' enclosed by the LONDON, CIRCA 1790 with browned barrel of Spanish form, Order of the eagle, the pair with the arms of Baden beneath the fitted with silver 'spider' fore-sight, chiselled at the median and crown of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire above a trophy-of- signed 'H. W. Mortimer Maker to the King London' over the arms and all enriched with gold beadwork, border-engraved breech, stamped with the barrelsmiths mark and London proof tangs (the first cracked through) incorporating the back-sights, marks twice beneath, engraved with a band of beadwork and rounded locks fitted with moulded cocks pierced with an gold-lined vent, engraved tang, signed, stepped bevelled lock additional forward scrolling bar, one lock with semi rainproof fitted with engraved cock, steel with roller, humped spring, pan and water drain, figured walnut half-stocks carved with figured walnut full stock (small cracks), impressed '74' behind foliage about the rear ramrod-pipes, a bouquet behind the the lock, finely chequered grip, engraved blued steel mounts tangs and impressed with the numbers '20', '21', and '22', steel including trigger-guard with pineapple finial and butt-plate mounts comprising solid rounded side-plates, trigger-guards engraved with a trophy-of-hunting, three ramrod pipes, and with baluster forward portions and leafy terminals, butt-plates of sling swivel (later ramrod) 96 cm; 37 23/4 in barrel Harvey shaped outline, four ramrod-pipes and fore-end caps, silver Walklate (1) Mortimer (1753-1811) was appointed Gunmaker to escutcheons numbered '11', '13', and '14, and one retaining its George III in 1783. baleen ramrod (the other two replaced) 93 cm; 36 5/8 in 90.3 Estimate: £2,000.00 - £3,000.00 cm; 35 5/8 in (3) The cypher 'F' and the collar of the Polish Order of the White Eagle identify one gun as being made for Prince Frederick of Baden. The arms of Baden on the other guns support this, though they are surmounted the crown of a Lot: 419 Prince of the Holy Roman Empire. However, this may be an TWO 16 BORE SPANISH MIQUELET-LOCK SPORTING

50 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com error on the part of the barrelsmith, corroborated by the Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 rendition of the Baden arms being reversed. See footnote to lot 415. Daire is recorded in Charleville circa 1805. Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 Lot: 425 A PAIR OF 28 BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUNS BY FR. STUBLANITZ, RASTATT, CIRCA 1760 with Lot: 422 blued Italian barrels formed in two stages, fitted with silver A .600 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK SPORTING RIFLE WITH 'spider' fore-sights, struck with the silver-lined maker's marks BARREL BY DAIRE A CHARLEVILLE, CIRCA 1800 with blued (Neue Støckel 7723 and 7724) and a series of silver-lined fleur- octagonal swamped sighted barrel decorated with bands of de-lys marks over the breeches (one barrel bent), rounded gold at the muzzle, gold scrolls about the fore-sight, signed in locks, one signed 'Fr. Stublanitza Rastatt' (the other a working gold over the breech and decorated with a framework of gold association), figured walnut half-stocks impressed '39' and '40', lines, scrolls and a trophy, plain tang, rounded lock (cock carved with scrolls over the fore-ends and behind the tangs, the retaining screw missing), double set trigger, figured walnut full butts with raised cheek-pieces and carved with scrolls on each stock impressed '69', moulded over the fore-end, carved with side, brass mounts of shaped outline, including solid side- scrolls of foliage about the rear ramrod-pipe and the tang, the plates, numbered butt-plates, trigger-guards incorporating a butt with carved cheek-piece decorated with a spray of wooden rear portion, sling swivel (one missing), and a pair of scrollwork on the left and with patchbox with sliding cover on pierced ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end caps, and horn-tipped the right, steel mounts including moulded side-plate signed 'G. wooden ramrods 94 cm; 37 in barrels Frantz Stublanitz Lichtenfels a Carlsruhe', trigger-guard with broad bow and (Stuplanitz) is recorded in Rastatt, Baden, circa 1740. moulded finial, butt-plate and rear ramrod-pipe en suite with the Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 trigger-guard, horn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod 80 cm; 31 1/2in barrel Estimate: £1,400.00 - £1,800.00 Lot: 426 A PAIR OF 18 BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING GUNS BY JOH. LICHTENFELS, CARLSRUH, CIRCA 1790 Lot: 423 with blued sighted barrels, white tangs numbered '1' and '2' A GARNITURE OF FOUR 18 BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK respectively, rounded locks inscribed by the maker and SPORTING GUNS BY B. LICHTENFELS, CIRCA 1760 with 'Carlsruh' respectively, fitted with semi rainproof pans and minor differences, with blued sighted barrels in the Spanish rollers acting on the steel springs, the steels each fitted with a taste, each retained by a pierced shaped brass band, moulded spring at the front operating an additional blued safety pan- girdles, octagonal breeches stamped with the brass-lined cover (one missing), figured walnut half-stocks impressed '35' barrelsmith's mark, in an oval the letters 'BL' divided by a and '36', moulded fore-ends, carved with a capercaillie behind flaming torch, polished tangs numbered '1', '2', '3', and '4', the tangs, basket-weave chequered grips, the butts with carved bevelled locks signed 'Lichtenfels' in block capitals (one steel raised cheek-piece inset with a star design in contrasting missing, cock missing its upper half), figured walnut half-stocks colours of horn and a shaped brass panel on the left, full brass impressed '23', '26', '24', '25', moulded over the fore-ends, mounts comprising broad trigger-guards, solid side plates, butt- carved with scrolls about the tangs, the butts with raised cheek- caps and a pair of ramrod-pipes, steel sling swivels, horn fore- pieces carved with a spray of scrollwork behind, brass mounts end caps, and horn-tipped wooden ramrods (one associated) of shaped outline, comprising flat pierced side-plates, butt- 82.5 cm; 32 ½ in barrels Johan Bernhard Lichtenfels, son of a plates, faceted trigger-guards with foliate rear terminals, two gunmaker of the same name and Hofbüchsenmacher, is pierced ramrod-pipes and fore-end caps, steel sling swivels recorded in Karlsruhe, Baden circa 1800. These guns were (one missing) and two retaining their horn-tipped wooden probably made for stalking capercaillie. ramrods (the other two associated) 94 cm; 37 in barrels (nos 1 Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 and 2) 93.5 cm; 36 7/8 in barrels (nos 3 and 4) (4) Estimate: £3,500.00 - £5,000.00 Lot: 427 A PAIR OF 28 BORE GERMAN FLINTLOCK SPORTING Lot: 424 GUNS BY G. LICHTENFELS, A CARLSRUH, CIRCA 1790 with A PAIR OF GERMAN 22 BORE FLINTLOCK SPORTING sighted barrels retaining almost all their original brown marbled GUNS BY F. G. FLITTNER A CARLSRUH, CIRCA 1790 with finish, chiselled with scrolls about the medians, numbered blued barrels formed in two-stages and fitted with silver fore- breeches, signed rounded locks engraved with a spray of sights, border and scroll-engraved tangs numbered '1' and '2', scrollwork on the tails, fitted with blued pans and cocks with signed locks decorated with hunting trophies, and a crouching blued top-jaws (one action inoperative), figured walnut half- hound respectively, fitted with engraved cocks incorporating an stocks impressed '27' and '28' behind the locks, carved with additional scrolling bar at the front, semi-rainproof pans with scrolls of foliage over the fore-ends and a bouquet about the water drains (one side nail glued), figured walnut half-stocks tangs, the butts with carved raised cheek-pieces decorated with impressed with the numbers '29' and '30' respectively, carved rococo foliage and flowers on the left, steel mounts including with rococo scrolls and flowers in low relief about the rear broad trigger-guards with moulded finials, butt-plates with tangs ramrod-pipes and the tangs, the butts with carved raised cheek- matching the trigger-guards and the rear ramrod-pipes en suite, pieces decorated with sprays of foliage behind, steel mounts horn fore-end caps, and horn-tipped wooden ramrods (one engraved with differing rococo hunting scenes, comprising missing its horn) 90.5 cm; 35 5/8 in barrels (2) Probably by broad trigger-guards with pineapple finials, butt-plates, side Johann Georg Lichtenfels recorded in Karlsruhe, Baden circa plates and ramrod-pipes all including pineapples en suite, a 1800 and Hofbüchsenmacher. pair of sling swivels, steel fore-end caps, and steel-tipped Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 wooden ramrods 89.3 cm; 35 1/8 in barrels (2) Probably by Johann Georg Flittner, recorded in Karlsruhe, Baden circa 1771-1810, became Hofbüchsenmacher in 1801. Lot: 428

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A FINE AND RARE .600 CALIBRE FRENCH PRESENTATION marriage of the elector's grandson and heir, Prince Charles, to FLINTLOCK RIFLED CARBINE BY BOUTET, DIRECTEUR the Emperor Napoleon's adopted niece and newly created ARTISTE, MANUFACTURE À VERSAILLES, NO. 277, CIRCA imperial princess, Stéphanie de Beauharnais. The elevation of 1800-05 with blued swamped octagonal polygroove rifled the elector to the rank of grand-duke - an elevation approved barrel, fitted with windage adjustable fore-sight on a punched and arranged by Napoleon - followed in July 1806 and further and gilt bed, signed in italics on the left of the breech 'Boutet bound Baden to the fortunes of Napoleonic France. Elements Directeur Artiste No. 277', inscribed on the right 'Manufre à of Baden's small army served alongside that of France in Versailles' and stamped beneath with the control mark of Daniel several campaigns between 1805 and 1812: against Austria in Boussavy, and the abbreviated italic inscription 'Manu' and 'V 1805, Prussia in 1806, Britain (in Spain) in 1809 and Russia in lles.' in italic, gold lined oval vent, the top of the breech 1812. Prince Charles, heir to his grandfather after 1801 and chiselled with a garland of flowers beneath a triangular panel husband of Napoleon's adopted niece from April 1806, was filled with a flower head, all on a punched and gilt contrasting welcomed by personal letter into Napoleon's military entourage ground, stamped with a series of marks including 'Boutet' in in September 1806 - 'J'approve le désir que vous avez de faire miniscules, and 'NB' (Neue Støckel 95), fitted with blued back- la guerre'. The prince was summoned to meet Napoleon at sight of two folding leaves, engraved tang decorated with neo- Bamberg early the following month and was with the French classical ornament including a pair of entwined serpents army at its decisive victory over that of Prussia at Jena on 14th enclosing a smoking urn, stepped lock with moulded borders October 1806, after which Napoleon wrote to Prince Charles's (small dents), signed 'Boutet Directeur Artiste', chiselled with widowed mother to reassure her that her son had done well at beadwork along the step, fitted with engraved cock decorated his first battle - '...il s'est bien comporté à la bataille et supporte with a garland of flowers, gold-lined pan engraved with a pair of bien la fatigue'. In 1807, Prince Charles commanded the Baden volutes, with scrolling rear fence, blued steel spring with roller, contingent at the siege of Danzig and continued on active engraved button safety, and detents, steel engraved en suite service until 1808. Succeeding his grandfather in 1811, Charles with the pan, set trigger, figured walnut full stock, impressed maintained Baden's support for France until the battle of '47', carved with a panel of fine chequering over the fore-end Leipzig in 1813 demonstrated that the tide of war was no longer and the grip, carved with a moulding along the length of the flowing in France's favour. The political, military and personal barrel on each side and inlaid with a running design of silver ties that bound Baden to France from the late 1790s until 1813 foliage beneath, the muzzle carved with anthemion and must account for the existence of this carbine in the descendant neoclassical foliage (one very small repaired crack), further family of the Grand Duke of Baden. It is possible that it foliage about the rear ramrod-pipe and the lock, each enriched originally belonged either to Prince Louis, who visited Napoleon with further panels of leafy conventional foliage in engraved at his father's behest in 1802 and remained in Paris for some silver, the tang enclosed with a raised fluted moulding and a years, or to his nephew, Prince Charles, who served alongside pair of neo classical demi flowers, the butt with carved raised Napoleon in his campaigns between 1806 and 1808: given the cheek-piece inset with a large pierced and engraved silver martial qualities of the weapon, the latter seems the most likely flowerhead, the base of the butt encircled by a broad panel of of the two princes to have been its original owner. Nicolas-Noël silver pierced chased and engraved with geometric panels filled Boutet (1761-1833) the distinguished maker of armes de luxe with scale pattern and a band of waves (a small area with minor inherited the position of gunmaker to Louis XIV from his father- lifting), burnished steel mounts comprising chiselled trigger- in-law, Pierre de Sainte (active 1747-88). In 1792 he became guard with a neo-classical flaming urn finial, the bow with technical Director at the new Versailles Manufactory and in foliage at each end and an engraved rear finial, the rear portion 1800 rose to Directeur Artiste with overall control. He held this continued by a scrolling panel of pierced ebony decorated with position until the closure of the manufactory in 1818. Boutet neo classical foliage (very small chips), two-piece vestigial side- died fifteen years later in poverty, his career having survived six plate engraved with a garland and a flowerhead respectively, French Political regimes. Daniel Bouyssay was controller at the the right enclosed by two engraved silver dragons breathing Versailles Manufactory from Year II (1793-4) until Year XIV thunder-bolts, butt-cap chiselled with an urn on the tang, rear (1805). ramrod-pipe chiselled with a leafy garland and beadwork, four Estimate: £30,000.00 - £40,000.00 further faceted ramrod-pipes with beadwork mouldings, contemporary horn-tipped wooden ramrod, and remaining in very good condition throughout 70.5 cm; 27 ¾ in barrel The Lot: 429 Annuaire of the Versailles Manufactory for this period includes A .451 CALIBRE KERR'S PATENT VOLUNTEER the following entry: Prince de Bade - Carab. doub. détente, acier PERCUSSION SHORT RIFLE BY THE LONDON ARMOURY cis. damasq., placage argent, fr. 6075 AN XI (September 23, COMPANY, NO. 512, DATED 1863 with heavy barrel stamped 1802 to September 23, 1803) The use of silver inlay in the 'Kerr's Patent' and numbered 512, fitted with windage stock and steel mounts, as opposed to silver mounts, might adjustable fore-sight (blade missing), graduated ladder back- suggest presentation to a high ranking military officer. The sight (one arm slightly bent), border-engraved dated lock proximity to France of the territories of Charles-Frederick, signed 'L. A .Co.', the tail with crowned 'VR' cypher, fitted with Margrave of Baden (1756-1811), together with his initial engraved hammer and detents, the nipple with contemporary opposition to the French revolution and its effects, resulted in brass flash shield, figured walnut full stock cut with a panel of the devastation of Baden by French armies in the mid-1790s. chequering over the fore-end and the grip, iron mounts of Thereafter, having indemnified France and ceded some territory regulation type, rear sling swivel, forward sling swivel eye, and to that republic, Baden remained under the sway of its powerful iron ramrod with brass tip 76.2 cm; 30 in barrel See C. H. neighbour until 1813. In November 1802, the margrave - having Roads 1964, p. 136. lost his eldest son in the previous year and clearly prescient Estimate: £1,500.00 - £2,000.00 regarding the ambitions of Napoleon - wrote France's First Consul a fulsome letter in which he thanked Napoleon for his continuing protection and assured him of his admiration and loyalty: significantly, he chose to send his third - and favourite - Lot: 430 A .577 LANCASTER OVAL BORE RIFLED CARBINE BY C. son, Prince Louis, to France with the letter. In April 1806, by LANCASTER, 151 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, CIRCA which time the margrave had become an electoral prince, ties 1855 with blued sighted barrel of oval bore retained by two between Baden and France were strengthened by the arranged

52 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com blued bands, stamped with London proof marks and the PISTOL, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with tapering barrel struck signature over the breech, fitted with bayonet lug on the right of with Ordnance marks at the breech, border-engraved lock with the muzzle, and ladder back-sight graduated to one thousand crown and 'Tower' (one side nail missing), full stock (areas of yards, border-engraved case-hardened signed lock, figured wear), and regulation brass mounts (later steel belt hook), and walnut full stock, regulation brass furniture, two blued steel sling associated horn-tipped ramrod 31 cm; 12 1/4 in barrel swivels, iron ramrod, with much original finish and in near new Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 condition 80.5 cm; 31 ¾ in barrel Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 Lot: 436 A .650 CALIBRE WILLIAM IV NEW LAND PATTERN Lot: 431 FLINTLOCK PISTOL with tapering barrel stamped with A .577 CALIBRE VICTORIAN 1853 PATTERN ENFIELD Ordnance marks, stepped bolted lock with 'WR' crowned and RIFLED MUSKET, AMERICAN MANUFACTURE, DATED 1855 ordnance mark, full stock marked 'BO' (the butt with a small with sighted barrel retained by three bands, ladder back-sight, hole), regulation brass mounts and steel stirrup ramrod 22.8 dated lock inscribed 'Windsor', regulation full stock, regulation cm; 9 in barrel brass mounts, and steel ramrod (the iron parts pitted, sling Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 swivels missing) 99 cm; 39 in barrel See C. H. Roads 1964, p. 77. Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 Lot: 437 A .577 CALIBRE VICTORIAN PERCUSSION SEA SERVICE PISTOL of regulation type, the barrel struck with Ordnance Lot: 432 marks, fitted with stirrup ramrod beneath, stepped lock with 'VR' A 15 BORE PERCUSSION GUN, MID-19TH CENTURY; A crowned and 'Tower', walnut stock, brass mounts and steel .750 PERCUSSION MUSKET, DATED 1864; TWO FURTHER lanyard ring 15.2cm; 6 in barrel PERCUSSION PISTOLS AND A POWDER-FLASK the first Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 from a military musket, with two-stage barrel struck with Birmingham proof marks, plain lock (hammer missing), walnut half-stock (the butt chipped), iron mounts of regulation type (the Lot: 438 iron parts pitted), and white metal fore-end cap; the second of A .44 CALIBRE SIX-SHOT COLT MODEL 1860 ARMY regulation type, with dated lock stamped with Enfield arsenal REVOLVER, NO. 117038 FOR 1863 the barrel with traces of inscription, and brass mounts (stock cut down, extensively New York address, engraved stepped cylinder, brass trigger- worn); the third probably for export to India, with brass mounts guard, ivory grips with later engraving (worn throughout), and (swivel ramrod missing, worn); the fourth a Continental pocket later holster 20.3 cm; 8 in barrel pistol (hammer chipped, worn); and the flask embossed with a Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,800.00 trophy of arms the first: 84 cm; 33 in barrel (5) Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 Lot: 439 A .44 CALIBRE SIX-SHOT REMINGTON Lot: 433 PERCUSSION REVOLVER, CIRCA 1863-75 of A .800 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK REGULATION production specifications, with iron back-strap and brass trigger- PISTOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY with tapering barrel stamped guard (worn throughout) 20.3 cm; 8 in barrel 'T.Y.3250' and with proof marks, rounded lock with 'GR' Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 crowned and 'Tower' (barrel and lock pitted), walnut stock (fore- end replaced), and brass mounts of regulation type, including trigger-guard with feint markings, perhaps Tipperary (ramrod missing) 23.5 cm; 9 1/4 in barrel Lot: 440 A RARE ENGLISH DOG-LOCK BLUNDERBUSS, DATED 5TH Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 DECEMBER 1689 with three-stage brass barrel swelling towards the muzzle, stamped 'E. M. 5 Dec 1689', with London proof marks, the barrelsmith's mark (indistinct, perhaps IF Lot: 434 crowned) and a raised moulding incorporating a sighting grove A RARE .650 CALIBRE QUEEN ANNE FLINTLOCK at the breech, iron tang (screw replaced), stepped lock retained REGULATION PISTOL, THE LOCK BY I. SIBLEY, CIRCA by three side nails, stamped with an O-shaped mark on the 1702-14 with tapering barrel stamped with marks at the breech inside, fitted with screw-in pan, and flat deep bellied cock with (pitted), associated contemporary signed lock retained by two shaped catch, full stock (extensively wormed, losses), brass side nails, numbered '7' on the tail, with 'AR' crowned and butt-plate, iron trigger-guard and a single moulded brass crowned broad arrow mark, full stock carved with an apron ramrod-pipe 41.5 cm; 16 3/8 in barrel Provenance The moulding about the tang (chipped about the tang and the rear Reverend Charles Chester Higgs of the lock, fore-end cracked), brass mounts comprising solid Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 side-plate, trigger-guard with rounded finial, border-engraved butt-cap with 'AR', ramrod-pipe (loose) and associated steel ramrod 30.5 cm; 12 in barrel John Sibley is recorded as supplier of complete arms to Ordnance circa 1688-1711. Lot: 441 A .375 CALIBRE AMERICAN PERCUSSION RIFLE WITH Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 LOCK BY J & W ASTON, MID-19TH CENTURY with octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven narrow grooves, long tang retained by three screws, signed border and scroll-engraved Lot: 435 lock, double set trigger, striped half-stock inset with numerous A COMPOSITE .600 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK REGULATION geometrically shaped German silver plaques, the butt with

53 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com carved raised cheek-piece inset with two further engraved recorded in Paris circa 1792-1854. He was arquebusier du Roi German silver plaques, brass mounts comprising trigger-guard, to Louis XVIII, Charles X and Louis Philippe. He was awarded butt-cap and fore-end cap, scroll-engraved German silver side the silver medal at the Paris Industrial Exhibitions of 1823, plate, and brass-tipped wooden ramrod (incomplete) perhaps 1827, 1834, and 1839. the original 94 cm; 37 in barrel J. & W. Aston are recorded in Estimate: £3,000.00 - £5,000.00 Birmingham, England circa 1828-49. Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 Lot: 444 A .600 CALIBRE GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK Lot: 442 OFFICER'S PISTOL BY KLEINSCHMIDT A LIPSTADT, CIRCA A FINE .700 CALIBRE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK 1760 with swamped barrel signed 'Pauli a Munster' on a long SPORTING RIFLE BY JOVER & SON, LONDON, LONDON flat, fitted with silver fore-sight and rifled with seven grooves, PROOF MARKS, LONDON SILVER MARKS 1785, MAKER'S the tang incorporating the back-sight, border-engraved lock MARK M.B. with browned twist swamped barrel rifled with nine signed on the bevelled forward edges, double set trigger, full grooves, fitted with silver fore-sight and case-hardened steel stock, full silver mounts struck with the maker's mark 'BWB' back-sight, the breech signed 'Jover & Son London' in gold (rubbed), comprising solid side-plate of shaped outline, trigger- block capitals, inlaid with an engraved gold line, gold lined vent guard with moulded finial, a pair of ramrod-pipes, pommel of and stamped with the barrelsmith's mark of William (1) Jover near beaked from, and escutcheon engraved with the owner's beneath, finely engraved tang decorated with scrolls enclosing coat-of-arms, horn fore-end cap, and associated ramrod 22.8 flowers and foliage, stepped lock signed finely engraved with a cm; 9 in barrel Peter Kleinschmidt is recorded in Lipstadt, stag on the tail, a sunburst and a trophy-of-arms enclosing a Westphalia circa 1710-30. signed gold oval beneath the pan, fitted with cock engraved en Estimate: £800.00 - £1,000.00 suite, gold-lined semi-rainproof pan, engraved steel incorporating an additional separate blued pan-cover released by a blued button on the outside, blued steel spring fitted with Lot: 445 rollers for both the steel and the pan-cover, sliding safety-catch, **A 22 BORE FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK the inside with blued steel fittings and detents retained by a HOLSTER PISTOL BY BALOCHE A PARIS, DATED 1724 with pierced circular plate, set trigger, highly figured walnut half- lightly swamped barrel, signed in gold on a long flat, fitted with stock, applied with an engraved silver panel on the left of the silver fore-sight enclosed by encrusted gold scrolls, further breech, inlaid in silver with a stag hunting scene and a vacant scrolls and an espagnolette mask over the breech, gold- escutcheon opposite the lock (the hound's head missing), encrusted tang decorated en suite (the gold with losses), carved with a rococo moulding about the tang, finely chequered stepped bevelled lock engraved with a trophy-of-arms on the grip, the butt with raised cheek-piece on the left and patchbox tail, signed and dated beneath the lock and decorated with a with silver cover on the right, the latter released by an engraved reclining classical figure, (top-jaw, screw and steel replaced), silver button on the butt-cap and enclosed by a silver figured walnut full stock moulded over the fore-end (cracked framework surmounted by an elaborate trophy-of-arms, full through and repaired), carved with delicate leafy mouldings silver mounts comprising trigger-guard with a trophy-of-hunting about the rear ramrod-pipe, ahead of the trigger-guard and on the bow, elaborate pineapple finial and scrolling rear behind the tang, inlaid with silver wire on the spine of the butt terminal with a rococo flower, butt-plate decorated with (losses), finely decorated full silver mounts comprising side- garlands of flowers and a reclining stag on the tang, two pairs plate pierced and chased with scrolling foliage and strap work of engraved barrel bolt escutcheons, and rear ramrod-pipe, two carrying a portrait profile medallion, trigger-guard with leafy further browned steel ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, and finial, spurred pommel engraved with trophies on each side and original horn-tipped ramrod with slotted steel terminal 92 cm; 36 chased with a classical warrior profile on the cap, trigger-guard ¼ in barrel William Jover & Son worked in partnership circa with leafy finial, vacant escutcheon carried by a pair of herms, 1784-96. and a pair of faceted ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrod, Estimate: £8,000.00 - £12,000.00 perhaps the original 35.2 cm; 13 7/8 in barrel The design and decoration of the mounts are inspired by earlier Parisian pattern books. Few firearms by this maker appear to be recorded. Lot: 443 Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00 **A PAIR OF 60 BORE FRENCH PERCUSSION RIFLED OFFICER'S PISTOLS BY LEPAGE, ARQUEBUSIER DU ROI A PARIS, NO. 3568, DATED 1835 with heavy octagonal rifled Lot: 446 sighted barrels, etched with scrollwork and foliage within A 25 BORE D.B. CONTINENTAL PERCUSSION PISTOL, shaped panels on each face, with further matching panels CIRCA 1870 adapted from pin-fire, of rudimentary construction, inscribed by the maker 'Lepage a Paris', 'Arqer du Roi', 'Acier with tip-down octagonal barrels, released by a transverse bolt fondu' and the proclamation 'Par esse no licet', recessed beneath, the breeches each fitted with a removable steel breeches stamped with the date and the serial numbers cartridge with percussion nipple, engraved box-lock action, and beneath, inlaid with platinum lines, pierced platinum plugs, chequered butt (worn) 14 cm; 5 1/2in barrels engraved case-hardened serial numbered tangs fitted with Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 adjustable back-sights, signed scroll-engraved back-action locks, fitted with scroll-engraved hammers, set triggers, highly figured walnut half-stocks, stamped with the serial numbers next to the breeches, boldly carved with a shell at the fore-end, Lot: 447 A BELGIAN FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS PISTOL BY the butts cut with a panel of fine chequering and incorporating MICHEL BERLEUR, CIRCA 1800 with steel barrel swelling an asymmetrical rest carved en suite with the fore-ends at the towards the muzzle and formed with raised mouldings, fitted base for steadying, engraved blued spurred trigger-guards, with sprung bayonet beneath, box-lock action signed 'Michel' silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and no provision for ramrods and 'Berleur' beneath swags on the respective faces, sliding 24.7 cm; 9 ¾ in barrels (2) Jean André Prosper Henri Lepage is thumb-piece safety-catch also locking the steel, chequered

54 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com walnut grip inlaid with wavy patterns of silver wire (some loose, Lot: 452 small losses), engraved steel butt-cap and engraved sliding A PAIR OF 54 BORE FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOLS BY trigger-guard releasing the bayonet 13.5 cm; 5 1/4 in barrel ARCHER, TOWER PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1770 Michel Berleur is recorded in Liège circa 1780-1810. with turn-off barrels engraved with a band of foliage about the Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 breeches and grooved at the muzzles, box-lock actions engraved with beadwork borders, signed on the left and inscribed 'London' on the right, the tangs engraved en suite and Lot: 448 fitted with sliding thumb-piece safety-catches, flat sided walnut A 22 BORE FLINTLOCK HOLSTER PISTOL, CIRCA 1760, butts (bruising), engraved trigger-guards, and vacant silver PROBABLY GERMAN with two-stage brass barrel formed with escutcheons 6 cm; 2 3/8 in barrels (2) a decorated band around the muzzle, silver beadwork over the Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 median and chiselled over the breech, rounded lock, carved full stock moulded over the fore-end and carved about the rear ramrod-pipe and the tang, brass mounts including rococo Lot: 453 sideplate, pommel chiselled with a grotesque, and a pair of AN 18 BORE FLINTLOCK PISTOL, CIRCA 1730 with turn-off moulded ramrod-pipes, and horn-tipped ramrod (restorations cannon barrel, rounded breech stamped with proof marks and and repairs) 25 cm; 9 7/8 in barrel traces of a signature beneath the pan (the pan and steel Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 reworked, cock repaired, extensively worn), walnut butt carved about the tang, and silver mounts comprising grotesque mask cap, trophy-of-arms side-plate and grotesque mask butt-cap Lot: 449 (rubbed) 12.5 cm; 5 in barrel A PAIR OF 24 BORE PERCUSSION DUELLING PISTOLS BY Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 MURDOCH, LONDON, LONDON PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1820 with octagonal swamped sighted barrels signed on the flats, inlaid with gold lines and fitted with engraved percussion Lot: 454 bolsters at the breeches, engraved tangs decorated with A FINE PAIR OF 25 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS trophies-of-arms and fitted with nipple shields, signed stepped BY TWIGG, LONDON, CIRCA 1785-88 with browned twist bolted lock decorated with scrolls, sunbursts and trophies, octagonal swamped sighted barrels signed in block capitals, figured walnut full stocks (bruises, cracks), set triggers, flat case-hardened breeches inlaid with a pair of engraved gold sided butts cut with panels of chequering, engraved steel lines, gold-lined vents, stamped with London proof marks and mounts including trigger-guards with pineapple finials, and butt- one with the barrelsmith's initials 'TP' beneath, engraved case- caps decorated with trophies-of-arms, and silver escutcheons hardened tangs fitted with standing back-sights, stepped engraved with the owner's initials 'A.C.' and crest (patinated, bevelled locks signed in first form of signature and engraved ramrods incomplete) 23cm; 9 1/8 in barrels The crest is that of with a sunburst, fitted with bolt safety-catches also engaging Campbell, Chisholme, Clive, Cooke, Cruell, Cruikshanks or the steels, gold-lined rainproof pans, rollers, blued detents, Crull. John Murdoch is recorded in the Small Gun Office at the blued mainsprings, set triggers, highly figured walnut half- Tower of London from 1781 until his death in 1822. stocks with finely chequered butts (light bruising, minor Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,200.00 scratches), engraved blued steel mounts comprising spurred trigger-guards with pineapple finials and ramrod-pipes, silver vacant shield-shaped escutcheons, silver barrel bolt Lot: 450 escutcheons (one cracked, barrel bolts with chips), horn fore- A PAIR OF 50 BORE PERCUSSION BELT PISTOLS BY end caps, with one original steel-tipped and an associated horn- HARVEY, PLYMOUTH, BIRMINGHAM PROOF MARKS, tipped ramrod, retaining much original finish, and in untouched CIRCA 1840 with signed browned twist octagonal sighted condition throughout: in original mahogany cased lined in red barrels, engraved case-hardened breeches, engraved tangs baize (the interior worn, the lid slightly warped), the lid with incorporating the back-sights, engraved case-hardened side flush fitting carrying handle and rectangular escutcheon hammer actions decorated with foliage, fitted with bolt safety- engraved 'Captain Coghlan Royal Navy, and with a steel bullet catches and blued belt hooks, folding triggers, finely chequered mould 25.5cm; 10in barrels Jeremiah Coghlan (1774/5-1844), walnut butts, and vacant silver escutcheons 9 cm; 3 1/2 in naval officer, was in January 1796 mate of a merchant ship at barrels (2) John Harvey is recorded in Plymouth, circa 1835-43. Plymouth, and on the occasion of the wreck of the East Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Indiaman Dutton displayed such energy and courage that Pellew offered to put him on the Indefatigable's quarter-deck. He continued for three years in the Indefatigable and in March Lot: 451 1799 followed Pellew to the Impétueux. In June 1800 Coghlan A 32 BORE FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOL BY WOGDON, was put by Pellew in command of the cutter Viper, and while CIRCA 1790 with octagonal sighted barrel signed in gold block watching Port Louis proposed to cut out a French gun-vessel at capitals (pitted), gold lined vent, engraved with a band of the entrance of the harbour. Pellew lent him a ten-oared cutter, beadwork at the breech, engraved tang incorporating the back- and in this, with eighteen men and a midshipman - Silas Hiscutt sight, signed stepped bolted lock (steel relined), set trigger, full Paddon - on the night of 29 July, he boarded the gun-brig stock (fore-end shortened, chips), steel mounts, silver Cerbère and after a hard fight captured her 'within pistol-shot of escutcheon opposite the lock engraved with the owner's initials three batteries, surrounded by several armed craft, and not a 'RM', and later ramrod; together with an embossed copper mile from a 74 bearing an admiral's flag, and two frigates' (E. flask, a leather shot flask and a measure (incomplete) the first: Pellew, Despatch). Both Coghlan and Paddon received several 26.3 cm; 10 in barrel (4) severe wounds, six of Coghlan's men were wounded, and one Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 was killed; but the Cerbère was taken and towed out under heavy fire from the batteries. The squadron, to mark their admiration, gave up the prize to the immediate captors; and Pellew, in his official letter to Lord St Vincent, emphasized the

55 of 56 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com courage and skill 'which … effected so daring an enterprise' seeing action with the Coldstream Guards in Egypt in 1801, he (ibid.). St Vincent, in forwarding Pellew's letter to the Admiralty, served in the 3rd Foot Guards during the brief campaign in praised the achievement and in a letter to Pellew privately Hannover in 1805. As an officer in the 14th Light Dragoons, he asked him to present to Coghlan a sword of 100 guineas' value. fought during the Peninsular war from 1808 until 1813, being On St Vincent's representation, Coghlan, though he had served wounded at Salamanca in 1812 and at Nive in 1813, when he in the Navy for only four and a half years, was promoted was captured. Remaining in the army after the end of the war, lieutenant on 22 September 1800 and continued in command of he occupied staff positions of increasing seniority and ended the Viper until she was paid off in October 1801. In spring 1802 his career as a general, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath (GCB) he was appointed to the cutter Nimble, and on 1 May 1804 was and colonel of the 1st Dragoon Guards. His eventful life is promoted to command the sloop Renard on the Jamaica summarised in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography station. On 20 March 1805 he brought to action the French (2004). The recipient of this pistol, Wilhelm von der Osten, privateer Général Ernouf, which, after an action of thirty-five Baron Osten (1782-1852), was a Hannoverian nobleman. minutes, was set on fire and blew up with the loss of upwards of Joining the 13th Hannoverian infantry regiment in 1801, he was a hundred men. In August 1807 Coghlan was moved into the appointed lieutenant in the Hannoverian Life Guards in 1802. brig Elk on the same station, and for nearly four years was Upon the disbandment of the Hannoverian army following the senior officer of a light squadron for the protection of the French invasion in 1803, he travelled to Britain to become a Bahamas. He was promoted captain on 27 November 1810 but lieutenant in the 1st Light Dragoons, King's German Legion, continued in the Elk until the following summer. In September and served in Hannover in 1805. In November 1808, Osten 1812 Coghlan was appointed to the Caledonia as flag captain secured a cornetcy in the Scots Greys and then, after ten days, of Pellew, then commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. At a lieutenancy in the 16th Light Dragoons - with which he went the end of 1813 he exchanged into the frigate Alcmène and to Spain to be present at the battle of Talavera in 1809. In continued in her until the end of the Napoleonic wars. On 4 September 1810, he was appointed extra ADC to Lieutenant- June 1815 he was nominated a CB, and from 1826 to 1830 General Sir Stapleton Cotton (later Viscount Combermere), commanded the frigate Forte on the South American station. commander of the British cavalry, and in November 1810 Coghlan married a daughter of Charles Hay of Jamaica, widow became major of brigade in Colonel The Hon. George de of Captain John Marshall RN; he had one son Sir William Grey's brigade of heavy cavalry. In July 1811 he was Marcus Coghlan (1803-1885). Taken from transferred to the cavalry brigade commanded by his fellow- , Hannoverian, Major General Victor von Alten, Baron Alten, and 26th March 2013, with amendments pending for the next served in Alten's brigade throughout the remainder of the edition, September 2013. John Fox Twigg (1732-90) is Peninsular war. Returning to regimental duty with the 16th Light recorded gunmaker in Charing Cross 1755-60, 132 Strand Dragoons in 1814, he was with his regiment at the battle of 1760-76 and at Piccadilly circa 1776-9. He was in partnership Waterloo in 1815, where he was slightly wounded. Purchasing with his nephew, John Bass, from 1788 until his death. his captaincy in the newly designated 16th Lancers in 1816, Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00 Osten became a Knight of the Hannoverian Guelphic Order (KH) in 1819 and accompanied the regiment to India in 1822, being present at the siege and capture of Bharatpur in 1825. In Lot: 455 May 1827 Osten survived an attack by a lion while hunting and A FINE 20 BORE OVER-AND-UNDER FLINTLOCK in October that year purchased his majority in 16th Lancers. He TRAVELLING PISTOL BY J. EGG, NO. 1 PICCADILLY, returned to Britain in 1832 and retired by sale of his commission LONDON, NO. 2227, CIRCA 1820-35, WITH PRESENTATION in 1834. After leaving the British army, Osten rejoined the INSCRIPTION TO BARON OSTEN FROM LIEUTENANT Hannoverian army on half pay; he was promoted lieutenant- COLONEL BROTHERTON with browned twist sighted barrels, colonel in 1836, colonel in 1839 and major general in 1849. He signed in gold letters on the top flat of the upper barrel and died at Rufford Abbey in Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of engraved with the address in script on the lower, the upper Scarbrough. Brotherton and Osten both served in Hannover in breech decorated with a shaped gold band and the lower with a 1805; perhaps they became friends then. Between July 1812 pair of lines (the breech scratched), platinum lined vents, and late 1813 Brotherton's 14th Light Dragoons was part of engraved case-hardened tang incorporating the back-sight, Alten's brigade, in which Osten was major of brigade. Both men decorated with flowers, foliage and scrollwork, signed locks were present at the battles of Busaco, Salamanca, Vitoria, engraved with scrolls, foliage and sunbursts, fitted with blued Nivelle and Nive, as well as at smaller actions - such as that of bolt safety-catches (incomplete), 'French' cocks (top-jaws and Castrillo in July 1812, a cavalry encounter that involved both screws replaced), semi-rainproof pans, external blued men, in 1838, in some controversy published in the pages of mainsprings with rollers acting on the steels, figured walnut butt the United Service Magazine. Brotherton became a lieutenant- cut with a panel of fine chequering, engraved blued steel colonel in May 1814 and between 1832 and 1841 he served in mounts comprising trigger-guard decorated with trophies of that rank in the 16th Lancers, Osten's regiment: so between arms, butt-cap enclosed by a garland and with 'skull cracking' 1832 and 1834 Brotherton and Osten would have been fellow terminal, browned steel ramrod-pipe with retaining spring regimental officers stationed in Britain. Collins is recorded at 12 (detached), flower-shaped silver escutcheon engraved with Vigo Lane Regent Street circa 1825-32. Bell's Life in London, presentation inscription, blued steel ramrod with chequered 22nd July 1838, made the following announcement: 'J. Collins finial, and much early finish throughout: in contemporary fitted begs to inform the Nobility and Gentry that he still continues to blackened oak case lined in green baize, the lid with keep a very extensive collection of London made guns…..and rectangular flush-fitting brass carrying handle (one fastening he can afford to sell them at half their original cost. Among his stud missing), the inside with trade label of Collins, 12 Vigo stock will be found a large assortment of Pistols of every Lane, Regent Street, and with some accessories including description, both new and second hand'. See H. L Blackmore cleaning rod, turnscrew, bullet mould, and various spare parts 1999, pp. 57-58. in a leather pouch 18 cm; 7 1/8 in barrels The friendship Estimate: £10,000.00 - £15,000.00 symbolised by this pistol probably began during the Napoleonic war (1803-15). Its donor, Thomas William Brotherton (1785- 1868), served in seven cavalry and five infantry regiments. First

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