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Antique Arms & Armour Antique Arms & Armour Including items from the E.A. Christensen Collection Wednesday 28 November 2012 at 11am & 2pm Knightsbridge, London Antique Arms & Armour Including items from the E.A. Christensen Collection Wednesday 28 November 2012 Knightsbridge, London Morning Session at 11am Lots 1 - 220 Afternoon Session at 2pm Lots 221 - 426 Bonhams Enquiries Important Information Montpelier Street Director Consultant Knightsbridge, David Williams Christopher Allen Please note that lots of Iranian London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3807 +44 (0) 20 7393 3877 and Persian origin are subject www.bonhams.com +44 (0) 776 882 3711 mobile [email protected] to US trade restrictions which [email protected] currently prohibit their import Viewing Adviser into the United States, with no Sunday 25 November Junior Cataloguer Peter Hawkins exemptions. 11am to 3pm Frank Evans Monday 26 November +44 (0) 20 7393 3877 Please see page 2 for bidder Similar restrictions may apply 9am to 7pm [email protected] information including after-sale to other lots. Tuesday 27 November collection and shipment 9am to 4.30pm Administrator Please contact the Arms & Amina Ali-Shah Please see back of catalogue Armour Department for No viewing on morning of sale +44 (0) 20 7393 3947 for important notice to bidders further information. [email protected] Bids Illustrations It is the buyers responsibility +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Departmental fax Front cover: Lot 426 to satisfy themselves that the +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax (not for faxed bids) lot being purchased may be To bid via the internet +44 (0) 20 7393 3932 imported into the country of please visit www.bonhams.com destination. Customer Services Please note that bids should be Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm submitted no later than 24 hours +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 before the sale. New bidders must also provide proof of identity Sale Number when submitting bids. Failure to 19796 do this may result in your bids not being processed. Catalogue: £20 Live online bidding is available for this sale Please email [email protected] with “Live bidding” in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Matthew Bradbury, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, Andrew Currie, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Michael Wynell-Mayow. Montpelier Street, Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, Robin Hereford, London SW7 1HH Patrick Meade, Caroline Oliphant, Hugh Watchorn. Charles Lanning, Camilla Lombardi, Fergus Lyons, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, David Park, Giles Peppiatt, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Sale Information Central Middlesex Hospital Park Royal Coronation Road W Bonhams, e d s P t Park Royal a e a rn r o A k R v e R e s A4 o 0 a y Park a h l C Royal Western Ave A40 R o 0 Station a 0 d Acton 0 4 Cemetery North A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V West Acton Horn Lane Station Bids Collection & shipment Handling & Handling & +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Sold lots marked with a special storage charges storage payment +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax symbol W will be only retained All charges due Bonhams must be To bid via the internet please visit at Bonhams until 5pm on Please Note paid by the time of collection from www.bonhams.com Thursday 29 November 2012. For sold W lots removed to Bonhams Bonhams’ warehouse. Lots not collected by then will be warehouse there will be no transfer Payments removed to Bonhams Park Royal and storage charges for lots collected Payment in advance warehouse. between Monday 3 December 2012 Tel: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 to Buyers and close of business Wednesday 5 ascertain amount due by: cash, +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 The sold lots marked with a December 2012. cheque with banker’s card, credit +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax special symbol W will be available card, bank draft or traveller’s for collection from Bonhams Transfer and storage charges cheque. Sellers warehouse as from 9.30am on will commence on Thursday 6 Payment of sale proceeds Monday 3 December 2012. December 2012. Payment at time of +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 collection +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Lots maybe released from The charges levied by Bonhams By credit card / debit card Bonhams warehouse on are as follows: production of the collection Valuations, taxation Important Notice order obtained from cashier’s All lots marked with W A surcharge of 3% is applicable & heritage office at Bonhams and a form of +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 when using Mastercard, Visa and photographic ID. If a third party is +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax Transfer per lot £20.00 overseas debit cards. collecting on behalf of the client, [email protected] Daily storage per lot £3.40 the client must provide Bonhams The following symbol is used with written authority prior to All other lots to denote that VAT is due on Catalogue subscriptions collection. The third party must To obtain any Bonhams catalogue the hammer price and buyer’s present a photographic form of ID Transfer per lot £10.00 premium or to take out an annual when collecting. subscription: Daily storage per lot £1.70 † VAT 20% on hammer price Subscriptions Department All sold lots not marked W +44 (0) 1666 502200 All the above charges are and buyer’s premium will only be held at Bonhams exclusive of VAT +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax Knightsbridge until 12noon on [email protected] VAT on imported items at Wednesday 19 December 2012. a* preferential rate of 5% on Shipping hammer price and the prevailing For information and estimates Bonhams Warehouse rate on buyer’s premium on domestic and international Address: Unit 1, Sovereign Park W shipping as well as export licenses These lots will be removed to Coronation Road please contact Bonhams Shipping Bonhams Park Royal after the sale. Park Royal, London NW10 7QP Department on: Please read the sale information Tel: +44 (0) 87 0811 3867 +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 page for more details. Hours of opening 9.30am to +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 4.30pm Monday to Friday Y +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax These lots are subject to CITES [email protected] regulations, please read the information in the back of the catalogue. Services for Buyers & Sellers in this Auction Antique Arms & Armour Department Specialists Catalogue Subscriptions David Williams To obtain other catalogues or take out an Director annual subscription: +44 (0)20 7393 3807 Subscriptions Department +44 (0)7768 823711 mobile +44 (0) 16 6650 2200 [email protected] +44 (0) 16 6650 5107 fax [email protected] Frank Evans Junior Cataloguer Customer Services +44 (0) 20 7393 3877 For general enquiries including payments, [email protected] sales results and information: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Christopher Allen [email protected] Consultant +44 (0) 20 7393 3877 [email protected] Shipping For obtaining estimates to ship purchases and applying for Export Licences: Amina Ali-Shah Shipping Department Administrator +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 +44 (0) 20 7393 3947 +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 +44 (0) 20 7393 3932 fax +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax [email protected] Telephone and Written Bids Website viewing: +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Our improved website offers the online +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax facility to enlarge images and examine sale lots in much greater detail than catalogue photographs permit Valuations, Taxation & Heritage www.bonhams.com +44 (0)20 7468 8340 +44 (0)20 7468 5860 fax [email protected] After-Sale Collection Andy Turnbull UK Logistics Manager Unit 1, Sovereign Park, Coronation Road, Park Royal London NW10 7QP +44 (0) 87 0811 3867 +44 (0) 7768 140 261 mobile +44 (0) 87 0811 3869 fax Please refer to page 2 concerning collection and storage of goods after the sale. The E.A. Christensen Collection Einer Andreas Christensen, known as E.A. (1893- 1969), was born in Copenhagen and educated at the Danish Politeknisk Laereanstalt, qualifying as a technical engineer. As a young man he trained as a smith, giving him a lifelong appreciation of metalwork in all its forms, and in particular of antique weapons and armour. He established a small garage workshop and in time went on to invent several types of pumping machine, then had the good fortune to patent one of the first petrol pumps used by the major oil producers of the time. Some years later he acquired the engineering factory Waltrich a/s which specialised in precision engineering employing some fifty staff. E.A.’s first acquisitions were African weapons (lots 1-7), found on his visits to Paris in the years prior to the first World War. Later his interests widened to include ancient edged weapons (lots 37-49) and oriental pieces (lots 8-21), and the collection grew significantly as a consequence of his extensive travels around Europe attending auctions and visiting dealers. His criteria were form and method of manufacture, hence his abiding interest in the Viking, Medieval and Renaissance swords for which the collection is famous.
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