Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale Wednesday 27 June 2012 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 gane, in its lacquered saya with A JAPANESE SWORD associated kozuka the first: (KATANA) with curved single- 43.7cm;17 1/4in blade (2) edged blade with wavy hamon Estimate: £400.00 - £500.00 (edge nicks, staining), plain tang pierced with two mekugi-ana (tip chipped), copper tsuba, Lot: 6 sharkskin-covered grip, in a A JAPANESE DAGGER lacquered saya 73cm; 28 3/4in (AIKUCHI TANTO), DATED 1866 blade with curved single-edged blade Estimate: £600.00 - £800.00 formed with a wavy hamon (staining), incised with foliage on each side, the tang signed on Lot: 2 each side and pierced with two A JAPANESE SWORD mekugi-ana, hardwood grip and (KATANA) with curved single- saya carved with a vertical edged blade (small chips), arrangement of a dragon in copper tsuba and wooden grip, in combat with a mythical beast, a wooden saya 62.2cm; 24 1/2in and with ivory details (small blade losses) 26cm; 10 1/4in blade The Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 signature reads "Bishu Osafune ju Yokoyama Sukekane" and the date "Keio 2 nen (1866) 2gatsu (February) Tomonari 58 dai mago (Tomonari's 58th Lot: 3 generation grandson)" A JAPANESE SWORD Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 (KATANA) with slightly curved single-edged blade with wavy hamon, plain tang pierced with Lot: 7 two mekugi-ana, cast iron tsuba, A JAPANESE SHORTSWORD fabric-bound sharkskin-covered (TANTO) AND A MINIATURE grip with gilt metal menuki, in its AIKUCHI TANTO the first with saya 67.5cm; 26 5/8in blade curved single-edged blade Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 (staining), signed tang pierced with a single mekugi-ana (cut- down), pierced steel tsuba Lot: 4 decorated with scrolls and A JAPANESE W.W.II foliage, fabric-bound sharkskin- OFFICER'S SWORD (KATANA) covered grip, steel mounts with slightly curved single-edged including menuki with gold detail, blade with straight hamon, plain and fuchi-kashira; the second tang struck with an anchor mark, with fullered blade, and engraved regulation tsuba, grip and soft metal hilt and saya with silver mounts, in its fishskin-covered mounts engraved with traditional saya 66cm; 26in blade motifs the first: 41.2cm; 16 1/4in Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 blade (2) The signature reads 'Heianjo Fujiwara Morikuni' Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 5 TWO JAPANESE SHORTSWORDS (TANTO) the Lot: 8 first with curved single-edged A FINE JAPANESE IVORY- blade, signed tang pierced with a MOUNTED SWORD single mekugi-ana, steel tsuba (WAKIZASHI), 19TH CENTURY inlaid with flowers, butterflies and with strongly curved single-edged a small hound in soft metals, blade, ivory tsuba engraved with leather-bound sharkskin-covered expanded flowerheads and grip, a pair of soft metal Samurai conventional foliage, the grip menuki, and steel kabuto-gane, carved with children and a sage in its plain saya with associated within an architectural landscape, kozuka; the second with curved saya carved with a vertical single-edged blade, plain tang arrangement of figures in pierced with a single mekugi-ana, traditional dress and signed on signed sparsely-decorated steel the base 45cm; 17 3/4in blade tsuba, leather-bound sharkskin- The signature reads Ungyokudo covered grip with soft metal Jugyoku to bouquet menuki, brass kabute- Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 1 of 110 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale ) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 9 CENTURY of hirazukuri tanto TWO JAPANESE BONE- type with suguha single-edged MOUNTED SHORTSWORDS blade with a carving of Fudo (WAKIZASHI) each with single- Myoo, the tang pierced with two edged blade, vestigial tsuba, and mekugi-ana, signed Bizen carved grip and saya each Osafune Kiyomitsu, and dated decorated with a vertical Eiroku 2 nen, sharkskin-covered arrangement of figures in grip bound with baleen, silver traditional costume 57cm; 22 fuchi, kashira and a pair of 1/2in and 36.5cm; 14 3/8in menuki, the latter three including overall (2) pairs of white mice, in its black Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00 lacquered saya with gold nashiji, with shibuichi kanamono (kojiri), with Daikoku and white mice decoration, the silver kozuka Lot: 10 signed Heian ju Tohiharu koku, A JAPANESE DAGGER the top part of the kozuka slot (TANTO) with slightly curved with shibuichi raddish 22.5cm; 8 single-edged blade cut with a 7/8in short fuller on one face and with Estimate: £5,000.00 - £7,000.00 two characters on the other, signed tang pierced with two holes, small mokkogata shakudo tsuba decorated with spray of Lot: 14 foliage and a shamisen, fabric- A JAPANESE SIXTEEN-PLATE bound sharkskin-covered grip KABUTO, 19TH CENTURY with with gilt menuki including exotic hemispherical skull formed with birds, in its lacquered saya with raised ribs at the joins, rising to a signed kozuka decorated with a moulded kikuza, fitted with gilt dragon 27.8cm; 11in blade rounded peak lacquered red on The signature reads Higashi the under-side, and hari-date Kunimitsu. shikoro of three lames the Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 uppermost with plain fukigayeshi 19cm; 7 1/2in high Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 11 A JAPANESE DAGGER (AIKUCHI TANTO) with slightly Lot: 15 curved single-edged blade cut A JAPANESE TWELVE-PLATE with a short fuller on each face, KABUTO, 19TH CENTURY with small steel tsuba fabric-bound hemispherical skull formed with sharkskin-covered grip with gilt raised ribs at the joins, rising to a kabuto-gane, in its lacquered moulded kikuza fitted with saya with signed kozuka rounded peak lacquered red on decorated with gilt foliage the under-side, hari-date shikoro 19.5cm; 7 3/4in blade of three lames, the uppermost Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 with vestigial fukigayeshi 16.5cm; 6 1/2in high Estimate: £350.00 - £450.00 Lot: 12 A JAPANESE LACQUERED SWORD STAND (KATANA Lot: 16 KAKE), 19TH CENTURY of A JAPANESE TWELVE-PLATE lacquered wood decorated on KABUTO, 19TH CENTURY with each side in shell with a hemispherical skull formed with traditional landscape, the front raised ribs at the joins, rising to a incorporating an architectural moulded kikuza, fitted with harbour scene, and the ends rounded peak lacquered red on decorated with flowers and the under-side, and hari-date foliage 33cm; 13in high shikoro of three lames the Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 uppermost with fukigayeshi 11cm; 4 3/8in high Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00 Lot: 13 A FINE JAPANESE SILVER- MOUNTED DAGGER (AIKUCHI TANTO), THE BLADE DATED 1559, THE MOUNTS 19TH 2 of 110 Thomas Del Mar Ltd (Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Sale ) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 17 maker's signature and a mon in A JAPANESE TOSEI GUSOKU silver over its surface, fitted with ARMOUR, 19TH CENTURY integral pan decorated with silver comprising kabuto with two-piece scrollwork and fitted with hinged almond-shaped skull, decorated brass pivot-cover, brass lock of on each side with a gilt square, shaped outline fitted with fitted with peak decorated en moulded steel serpentine suite with the skull, shikoro of five decorated with silver en suite lames the uppermost with with the pan, brass trigger, fukigayeshi, lacquered-steel cherrywood full stock (a small mempo with detachable nose crack behind the breech), slender with four lacquered plates faceted butt of characteristic beneath, do of lacquered plates form, brass trigger-plate, and with decorated on the front with a gilt no provision for a ramrod dragon, a pair of oda-gote of mail 70.5cm; 27 3/4in barrel and russet lamellar plates, Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,500.00 haidate and suneate (small losses and chips): on a wooden stand with a large base Lot: 21 Estimate: £1,000.00 - £1,500.00 A RARE TIBETAN POWDER- FLASK (RDZAS KHUG), 19TH CENTURY with brass-bound Lot: 18 leather body, soft leather neck, A PAIR OF JAPANESE STEEL tapering steel nozzle, the reverse STIRRUPS (ABUMI BATTO), fitted with a brass ring and 19TH CENTURY with red complete with its leather lacquered treads (losses), suspension 8cm; 3 1/8in high G. strongly curved at the front and C. Stone identifies this type as rising to a signed pierced plate 'Hmam skuk', probably a incorporating a loop buckle for phonetic rendition of 'sman khug'. suspension, the outer surface 'Rdzas Khug', literally translated inlaid with large silver flowers, 'gunpowder-flask', appears to be scrolling foliage and linear the more usual term. See D. ornament (losses, areas of wear) Larocca 2006, p.211. 25cm; 9 7/8in high (2) The Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 signature reads Kanazawa ju Ujisada saku. Estimate: £600.00 - £900.00 Lot: 22 A DIRK, 19TH CENTURY AND A BHUTANESE OR TIBETAN Lot: 19 DAGGER, EARLY 20TH A PAIR OF JAPANESE STEEL CENTURY the first with tapering STIRRUPS (ABUMI BATTO), plain blade, brass hilt including 19TH CENTURY with black cross-guard and spherical lacquered treads (small cracks), pommel and bone grip, in its strongly curved at the front and engraved brass scabbard; the rising to a pierced plate second with tapering single- incorporating a loop buckle for edged blade, white metal hilt of suspension and signed in silver, characteristic form, in its white the outer surface inlaid with metal scabbard embossed on the elaborate silver flowers, scrolling outer face with flowers and foliage and linear ornament traditional designs the first: (losses, areas of wear) 24cm; 9 31.5cm; 12 1/2in (2) 1/2in high (2) Estimate: £250.00 - £300.00 Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Lot: 23 Lot: 20