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The Richard Garrett Collection of Antique Firearms & Related Items The Richard Garrett Collection of Antique Firearms & Related Items Related & Antique Firearms Collection of Garrett The Richard I Montpelier Street, London I 28 November 2018 I Montpelier Street, 24247 The Richard Garrett Collection of Antique Firearms & Related Items Montpelier Street, London I 28 November 2018 The Richard Garrett Collection of Antique Firearms & Related Items Montpelier Street, London | Wednesday 28 November 2018, at 2pm BONHAMS ENQUIRIES Montpelier Street Antique Arms & Armour Please see page 2 for bidder IMPORTANT INFORMATION Knightsbridge, Director information including after-sale Please note that lots of Iranian London SW7 1HH David Williams collection and shipment and Persian origin are subject www.bonhams.com +44 (0) 20 7393 3807 to US trade restrictions which +44 (0) 776 882 3711 mobile Please see back of catalogue currently prohibit their import VIEWING [email protected] for important notice to bidders into the United States, with no Sunday 25 November exemptions. 11am – 3pm Administrator ILLUSTRATIONS Monday 26 November Helen Abraham Front cover: Lots 199, 200, 201 Similar restrictions may apply 9am – 7pm +44 (0) 20 7393 3947 Back cover: Lot 198 to other lots. Tuesday 27 November [email protected] Inside front cover: Lot 220 9am – 4.30pm Inside back cover: Lot 192 It is the buyers responsibility Wednesday 28 November Departmental fax to satisfy themselves that the 9am – 12pm (not for faxed bids) REGISTRATION lot being purchased may be +44 (0) 20 7393 3932 IMPORTANT NOTICE imported into the country of BIDS Please note that all customers, destination. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Consultant irrespective of any previous activity The United States Government +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Christopher Allen with Bonhams, are required to has banned the import of ivory [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7393 3877 complete the Bidder Registration into the USA. Lots containing To bid via the internet [email protected] Form in advance of the sale. The please visit www.bonhams.com form can be found at the back of ivory are indicated by the symbol Ф printed beside the Adviser every catalogue and on our lot number in this catalogue. TELEPHONE BIDDING Peter Hawkins website at www.bonhams.com Bidding by telephone will only and should be returned by email or post to the specialist department Please contact the Arms be accepted on lots with a lower PRESS ENQUIRIES or to the bids department at & Armour Department for estimate of £500 or above. [email protected] further information. Please note that bids should [email protected] be submitted no later than 24 CUSTOMER SERVICES hours before the sale. New To bid live online and/or bidders must also provide proof Monday to Friday leave internet bids please go to of identity when submitting bids. 8.30am – 6pm www.bonhams.com/auctions/25247 Failure to do this may result in +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 and click on the Register to bid link your bids not being processed. at the top left of the page. SALE NUMBER LIVE ONLINE BIDDING IS 25247 AVAILABLE FOR THIS SALE Please email [email protected] CATALOGUE with “Live bidding” in the subject £20 line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Matthew Girling CEO, Emily Barber, Antony Bennett, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Matthew Bradbury, Lucinda Bredin, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Asaph Hyman, Caroline Oliphant, Simon Cottle, Andrew Currie, Veronique Scorer, Robert Smith, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Edward Wilkinson, Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Matthew Haley, Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Jon Baddeley, Jonathan Fairhurst, Leslie Wright, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Rupert Banner, Shahin Virani, Simon Cottle. Charles Lanning, Grant MacDougall, Sale Information BIDS CATALOGUE COLLECTION & AFTER SALE VAT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 SUBSCRIPTIONS STORAGE INFORMATION The following symbol is used +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax To obtain any Bonhams SALE NO. 25247 to denote that VAT is due on [email protected] catalogue or to take out an All sold lots from the above sale the hammer price and buyer’s To bid via the internet please visit annual subscription: will remain in the collections premium www.bonhams.com Subscriptions Department department at Bonhams +44 (0) 1666 502200 Knightsbridge until 5.30pm † VAT 20% on hammer price PAYMENTS +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax Wednesday 12 December 2018 and buyer’s premium Buyers [email protected] without charge. Sold lots not collected by this time will be +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 * VAT on imported items at a subject to storage charges as +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax SHIPPING preferential rate of 5% on For information and estimates below. hammer price and the prevailing Sellers on domestic and international rate on buyer’s premium STORAGE Payment of sale proceeds shipping as well as export Y These lots are subject to CITES +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 licenses please contact the Small objects: regulations, please read the +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Arms Department: £2.85 per day + VAT information in the back of Helen Abraham the catalogue. VALUATIONS, TAXATION Large objects: +44 (0) 20 7393 3947 £5.70 per day + VAT & HERITAGE Payment at time of collection [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 by: (Note: Charges apply every day +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax cash, cheque with banker’s card, [email protected] including weekends and Public Holidays) credit, or debit card. Please note that Bonhams will be closed 5.30pm Friday 21 December 2018 and will re-open 9am Wednesday 2 January 2019 Introduction Richard J. Garrett MA (Cantab) was a Director of an international civil and structural consulting engineering company. His interest in weapons dates back to 1965 when he started collecting antique firearms. Research into his collection led to an interest not only in weapons but also military history. His studies of weaponry include early artillery as well as small arms. He believes that often historians overlook the importance of weapon development and forget that firearms were an integral part of people’s lives, at least up till the end of the Second World War. Hence their study is an important aspect in understanding our past. Richard has been a member of the Arms and Armour Society since 1965, the Society for Army Historical Research since 1992, and the Ordnance Society since 2005. Lot 299 Lot 196 THE RICHARD GARRETT COLLECTION | 3 PUBLICATIONS Irish Gunmakers, 2008 The Defences of Macan. Forts, Ships and Weapons over 450 Years, 2010 ARTICLES The Journal of the Arms & Armour Society Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal ‘Sawhandled Pistols’, Vol. XV, No. 3, March 1996 Asiatic Society ‘Revolvers Before 1818’, Vol. XV, No. 5, March 1997 ‘Weapons of the China Wars’, Vol. 38, 1998-1999 ‘J.R. Coopers Early Patents’, Vol. XVII, No. 4, September ‘Taipa Fort and a Nineteenth Century Cannon’, Vol. 41, 2002 2001-2002 ‘Early British Proof Marks’, Vol. XVIII, No. 5, March 2006 ‘A Further Note on Taipa Fort and a Nineteenth Century ‘John Blissett’s Patent Ramrod’, Vol. XIX, No. 6, Cannon’, Vol. 44, 2004 September 2009 The Artilleryman Classic Arms and Militaria ‘A Rare 19th Century Cannon is Displayed at Taipa Fort in ‘Turn-Off Barrel Keys’, March/April 1997 Macau’, Vol. 25, No. 4, 2004 ‘Late Pistols with upturned Frizzen Springs’, January/ ‘Places to Visit, Visitors to Multi-cultural Macau will find February 2000 many cannon on Display’, Vol. 27, No. 2, 2006 ‘Double-Barrelled Pistols Parts 1-5’, March to October 2002 ‘Early Safety Catches’, November /December 2003 Muzzle Blasts ‘The Dumouthier Knife Pistol’, January/February 2004 ‘An Historic Rifle’, February 2005 ‘Tschinke Silesian Pistols’, March/April 2004 ‘Boxlocks’, May/June 2004 The Armourer Militaria Magazine ‘Renaissance Gun (Wheel-locks)’, Vol. XII, Issue 4, 2006 ‘Mortar Eprouvettes’, Issue 74, March/April 2006 ‘Snaphaunce, Frizzen & Sear, The Flintlock Holster Pistol Parts 1-2’, Vol. XIV, Issues 1 and 2, 2007 London Park Lane Arms Fair ‘Concealed Weapons, Single-Barrelled Pocket Pistols’, Vol. ‘The Evolution of the Queen Ann Pistol’, February 2005 XV, Issue 1, 2008 ‘Hotchkiss and his Guns, parts 1-2, Vol. XV, Issues 5 and 6, Review of Culture 2008 ‘Hotchkiss Machine Guns’, Vol. XVI, Issue 4, 2009 ‘Cannons at the Monte Fort, Macao’, International Edition ‘Pirates in the South China Sea and their Weapons’, Vol. 22, April 2007 XVII, Issue 1, 2010 ‘Triple Power’, Vol. XVII, Issue 6, December 2010/January The Armourer 2011 ‘A Rare Lady Butler Painting’, December 2017 ‘Tranter and Cooper Two Cased Pairs’, Vol. XVII, Issue 2, February/March 2011 ‘The Two Eggs’, Vol. XVIII, Issue 5, October/November 2011 ‘A Laugher Pair’, Vol XIX, Issue 4, August/September 2012 ‘A Superimposed Load Pair of Pistols’, Vol. XXI, Issue 3, June/July 2014 ‘Two Breech-Loaders’, Vol. XXI, Issue 6, December 2014/ January 2015 ‘Hand Mortars’, Vol. XXI, Issue 1, February/March 2015 ‘Target Pistols The Road to Olympic Recognition’, Vol. XXII, Issue 5, October /November 2015 ‘Wender Wonders’, Vol. XXIII, Issue 1, February/March 2016 4 | BONHAMS MISCELLANEA 140 Y Ф A NAVAL OFFICER’S DIRK EARLY 19TH CENTURY With sharply tapering double-edged blade (some pitting overall) of flattened diamond section retaining some original etched and gilt decoration against a blued ground over both sides of the forte, ormolu hilt comprising baluster quillons, pommel of octagonal section with button, and ivory grip of tapering octagonal section, in original black leather scabbard (damaged, chape missing) with linear engraved locket and suspension mounts each with suspension ring 22.8 cm.
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