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A SALLET IN THE ITALIAN STYLE OF CIRCA 1470, 20TH CENTURY with one-piece skull rising to a low comb pierced at the apex drawn-out at the back to a short pointed tail, with T-shaped face opening fitted with reinforced border, pierced with holes around its circumference, and plain outwardly-turned borders 28cm; 11in high Based on the sallet by Provasio da Milano, preserved in the Armoury of Schloss Churburg (inv. no. CHS58). £1000-1500 | Nil |
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| 272 | ARMS AND ARMOUR SOCIETY VOLUME 1; The Art of the Armourer (1963); AZIZ, ABDUL: Arms & Jewellery of the Indian Moghuls (1948); CIMARELLI, ALDO: Arms & Armour (1973); CREPIN & LEBLOND: Les Couteaux de Jet (1978); GRUND: Encyclopedie des Armes (1993); HELD, R. A Review of 162 Antique Arms and Pertinent Objects (1976); HELD, ROBERT: Arms and Armor Annual; HUBER (PUBLISHER): Hand und Faust-feuer-waffen, Schweizerische Ordonnanz 1817-1975 (1971); KOSAR, FRANZ: A Pocket History of Artillery Light Fieldguns (1974); NICKEL, HELMUT (INTRODUCTION): The Art of Chivalry; OGAWA, MORIHIRO: Japanese Master Swordsmiths: The Gassan Tradition (1989); PAYNE-GALLWEY, SIR RALPH: The Crossbow (1986); PITOUS, J.-P. & CREPIN-LEBLOND: Le tir aux armes anciennes (1979); SARGEAUNT,B.E: Weapons (1908); TARASSUK, LEONID & BLAIR (ed): The Complete Encyclopedia of Arms & Weapons (1982); THE SCOTTISH ART REVIEW: Scottish Weapons (1963); VENNER, DOMINIQUE: Les Armes de Cavalerie (1977) £100-150 | Nil |
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| 273 | Blackmore, H.L., The Armouries of the Tower of London, The Ordnance, HMSO1976; Blackmore, Howard L., A dictionary of London gunmakers 1350-1850, 1986; Brewis, W. Parker, F.S.A., The Bronze Sword in Great Britain, Frederick Hall for the Society of Antiquaries of London 1924; Byam, Michele, Arms & Armour, 1988; Davidson, H.R. Ellis, The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England, 1962; De Gheyn, Jacob, The Exercise of Arms (reprint); Duffy, Christopher, Siege Warfare, The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, 1979; Elliott and Snowdon Ltd, Autumn exhibition of arms and armour Elliott and Snowdon Limited, October 74; Evans, R.D.C., The Plug Bayonet, 2002; France, John, Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300, 1999; Godoy, Jose-A, and Leydi, Silvio, PARURES TRIOMPHALES Le manierisme dans l'art de l'armure italienne, 2003(?); Laking, Guy Francis, M.V.O., F.S.A., Wallace Collection Catalogues, Oriental Arms and Armour, HMSO 1974 (?); Laking, Sir Guy Francis, Bart, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries and Cripps-Day, Francis Henry, A Record of Armour Sales 1881-1924, 2000 (6 volumes); Mann, James G., M.A., F.S.A. Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour (Part III) (Gallery V), HMSO 1945; Marquard, Klaus, Eight Centuries of European Knives, Forks and Spoons, 1997; Melegari, Vezio, The Great Military Sieges, 1972; Messenger, Charles, History of the British Army, 1997; Neal, W. Keith and Back, D.H.L., British Gunmakers Messrs Griffin & Tow and W. Bailes 1749-1790, 1989; Neal, W. keith and Back, D.H.L., The Mantons: Gunmakers, 1967; Nicolle, David, Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350, Western Europe and the Crusader States, 1999; Nicolle, David, Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350, Islam, Eastern Europe and Asia, 1999; Nicolle, David, Medieval Warfare Source Book, Christian Europe and its Neighbours, 1998; Nicolle, David, Medieval Warfare Source Book, Warfare in Western Christendom, 1999; Norman, A.V.B., B.A., F.S.A., F.S.A. (Scot), Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour Supplement, HMSO 1986; Peterson, Harold L., The book of the gun, 1970; Revereseau, Jean-Pierre, Armes et armures de la Couronne AU MUSEE DE L'ARMEE, 2004; Ricketts, Howard, Firearms, 1972; Robards, Brooks, The Medieval Knight at War, 1997; Rodgers, William Ledyard, Naval Warfare Under Oars, 4th to 6th Centuries, 1967; Schick, I.T., Battledress, The Uniforms of the World's Great Armies 1700 to the present, 1993; Spiteri, Stephen C., Armoury of the Knights, 2003; Stead, I.M., British Iron Age Swords and Scabbards, 2006; Thomas, Brunos, and Gamber, Ortwin, and Schedelmann, Hans, Arms and Armour, Masterpieces by European Craftsmen from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century, 1964; Wagner, Eduard, Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons, 2000; Wallace Collection Catalogues, European Arms and Armour (Part I) (Gallery VII), HMSO 1924; Wilson, Frederick, The World's Great Guns, 1983 | Nil |
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| 274 | Spitzer: LA COLLECTION SPITZER, ANTIQUITE MOYEN AGE - RENAISSANCE, TOME SIXIEME, PARIS 1892, loose leaf contained in a folder embossed with the title in gold letters | Nil |
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1100 |
| 275 | A LARGE SOUTH GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCK, LATE 15TH/16TH CENTURY AND TWO SMALLER LOCKS, 17TH CENTURY the first with a single sprung bolt and an additional catch, the plate of rectangular form flaring to a cusped terminal, applied over its outer surface with a series of slender shaped foliate plates, stamped with a mark, possibly a spur, in the centre, and with a key; the second and third each with open mechanisms, one retained by a scrolling bar and retaining its key, the other engraved and retained by fluted bolts (chemically cleaned) the first: 35.5cm; 14in wide (4) £1200-1800 | Nil |
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| 276 | TWO LARGE GERMAN STEEL DOOR LOCKS, 17TH CENTURY the first with three sprung bolts, operated both by the key and a ring handle on the reverse, partly enclosed mechanism covered with solid plates faced with a pair of large iron plates pierced and engraved with scrolling foliage terminating in profile masks, the lock covered by a large faceted cone-shaped cover, with a key (chemically cleaned, losses); the second with two sprung bolts and a latch, the former operated both by a key (now missing) and a ring handle on the reverse, partly, open mechanism including a large shaped terminal covered with blued steel applied with a pierced panel decorated with profile masks and scrollwork (chemically cleaned, losses), together with a contemporary escutcheon the first: 37.5cm; 14 3/4in (2) £800-1000 | Nil |
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| 277 | A DEVON CONSTABULARY TRUNCHEON AND A VICTORAIN TRUNCHEON DATED 1868 the first of plain turned hardwood impressed with the Constabulary details (partly obscured), the second painted 'S.C. Jany. 1868' and 'VR' 39.5cm; 15 1/2in (2) £80-100 | Nil |
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| 278 | A PAINTED MILITARY CHEST, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY of wood bound with steel, fitted with a pair of doors opening at the front, with a steel lifting handle at each end, the interior with provision for a chest of drawers, the exterior painted with a portrait of Lieutenant General Sir John French, Lieutenant General Lord Methuen on the doors and on the top with the owner's name, Colonel J. McNeil, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Lord Baden Powell, the piper Corporal McKay, inscribed with the Battle Honour 'Kimberley', a field gun and the owner's title (areas of wear, small losses) 104cm; 41 1/4in x 50.8cm; 20in x 55.8cm;22in £800-1200 | 5% |
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| 279 | AN AXE, 18TH CENTURY formed of a goosewing-shaped blade stamped with a series of decorative stars and crescents, rectangular rear pean, and short tapering socket (areas of pitting) 37.8cm; 14 3/4in head £100-150 | Nil |
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| 280 | A LARGE STEEL AXE HEAD, 18TH/19TH CENTURY with broad near symmetrical head formed with a crescentic blade, integral tapering tubular socket of near square section, closed at the top, and in heavily patinated condition throughout (pitted) 25cm; 9 3/4in head £200-300 | Nil |
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| 281 | AN AXE HEAD, 17TH CENTURY in excavated condition, with curved leading-edge, stamped with a crescent, three stars and a brass-lined maker's mark, perhaps two crossed swords, on one side, square back, and short tubular socket 11cm; 4 3/8in head £250-300 | Nil |
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| 282 | A RARE EXHIBITION FOLDING KNIFE, 20TH CENTURY with brass body faced with faux mother-of-pearl plaques on each side, fitted with seventeen various folding implements including blades, files, boot hooks, picks, bodkins, screwdrivers and a single ivory blade on one side and twenty smaller implements including gouges, spikes, screw drivers, spanners, levers and tweezers on the other (minor losses), all between brass fillets, and remaining in good crisp condition throughout 18.5cm; 7 1/4in £1500-2000 | Nil |
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2200 |
| 283 | A RARE ENGLISH STONEBOW FOR A CHILD, MID-17TH CENTURY with slender steel bow with a later string, slender fruitwood tiller inlaid over its full length with patterns of twisted brass wire at the borders, and with engraved bone plaques at each end decorated with flowers and foliage (one replaced), fitted with built-in steel gaffle with folding back-sight, button-shaped cocking lever retained by a slender steel band, later folding fore-sight with string and ivory ball, a pair of steel side-plates, and pierced steel pommel 51.3cm; 20 1/4in tiller The inlay is similar to that found on English furniture of the period. £3000-5000 | Nil |
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| 284 | A SAXON SLURBOW, BY JOHANN GEORG ERTTEL, DRESDEN, DATED 1753 with blued steel bow decorated with a gilt band top and bottom on each side, fitted with an early string, retained by gilt cords and with its green pom-poms, fruitwood tiller fitted an additional bar above and with bone bolt channel (very light worm damage), engraved with the date ahead of the string release, inlaid with engraved staghorn segmental lines and plaques including panels of rococo foliage inhabited by hounds on each side of the mechanism, a doe and a stag pursued by a hound in a rococo landscape on the left of the cheek-piece and further decorated panels on top including a scalloped hollow for the thumb, steel string release, double set trigger, steel trigger-guard, and bone butt-plate engraved with the number '1' and the maker's full initials 'I. G. E' and surname 'Ertell' 67cm; 27 3/8in This was converted for use as a slurbo in its early working life. Two gunmakers of this name, a father and son, are recorded circa 1700-63 and 1728-94 respectively. A number of firearms by them are preserved in the Electoral Gunrooms, Dresden though neither is recorded as a crossbow maker. It is likely that this is the work of the father as the son is recorded as in Amsterdam as both Burgher and Master the year the present bow was manufactured. See D. Schaal, 1975. £3000-5000 | Nil |
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| 285 | A GERMAN SPORTING CROSSBOW, LATE 16TH CENTURY with 19th century robust steel bow stamped with the maker's initials 'J. H. & S.' on the inside, fitted with string of twisted cord and retained by further cords, ebonised hardwood tiller swelling about the nut, veneered with a staghorn plaque top and bottom and engraved with scrolls of foliage (areas of wear), inlaid with staghorn rosettes and a pair of segmental lines on each side(small chips and losses), fitted with bone nut, a pair of iron lugs, retaining a portion of its trigger mechanism, and pierced with a hole for a loading rod on the underside 71cm; 28in tiller £2500-3000 | Nil |
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| 286 | A RARE SPANISH CROSSBOW, MID-16TH CENTURY with robust short steel bow stamped with an arrangement of marks on the left and right along the top edge, the lower case letter 'B' in a pearled circle struck three times and divided twice by the sacred trigram IHS, the inner face of the bow also struck left and right with a triangular arrangement of the circular B mark, fitted with a later string of bound and twisted cords, retained by a pair of moulded shaped irons, highly figured slender walnut tiller very slightly arched for the grip, bolt channel inlaid with bone lines on each side, the tiller with small decorative brass plaques of shaped outline and plain brass panels encasing the front and the rear, the nut and the goat's foot lugs with additional reinforces (some small brass plaques and the staghorn lines replaced), bone nut, a pair of slender iron lugs, long slender iron trigger, slender iron belt hook, and painted with an early red inventory number 81.5cm; 32in bow This bow is of similar construction to an example owned by the Emperor Charles V (d. 1558) signed by Juan de la Fuente, preserved in the Armeria Real, Madrid (inv. No. J.18). See V. de Don Juan 1898, fig.236. £2000-3000 | Nil |
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2000 |
| 287 | AN ITALIAN STONEBOW, 17TH CENTURY with slender steel bow retained by a pair of irons, fitted with later string with turned wooden spacers, bevelled fruitwood tiller of characteristic form, carved with raised bands and with a scroll above the trigger, fitted with fixed moulded steel fore-sight, folding back-sight, a pair of small side-plates, slender trigger with moulded finial, and later turned pommel (the front finial missing) 94.5cm; 37 1/4in £600-800 | 5% |
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1000 |
| 288 | A RARE BOHEMIAN PISTOL CROSSBOW BY DIWISCH IN BRUNN, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with slender blued steel bow retained by a central thumb-screw, octagonal sighted rifled bolt channel fitted with back-sight of two folding leaves, signed on an engraved panel at the lower end of the bolt channel over the action, engraved action cover, double set trigger, figured walnut tiller with chequered pistol grip, engraved steel side-plates, spurred trigger-guard and butt-cap, vacant German silver escutcheon, and retaining some blued finish throughout 38cm; 15in tiller This maker is recorded in Brunn circa 1800-30. £800-1000 | Nil |
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850 |
| 289 | A GERMAN STONEBOW (SCHNEPPER), EARLY 17TH CENTURY with slender steel bow (string missing), a pair of fore-sight pillars, built-in gaffle retained by a spring-catch at the rear stamped with a brass-lined maker's mark, in a shield the letters HI conjoined, and a further mark (indistinct), scalloped lever terminal, engraved folding back-sight, moulded trigger set by a foliate button, fruitwood butt moulded for the fingers and inlaid with a vacant shield beneath a coronet on the left 67cm; 26 3/8in tiller £2000-2500 | Nil |
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1800 |
| 290 | AN ENGLISH STONEBOW, MID-17TH CENTURY with slender steel bow (string missing), slender fruitwood tiller previously inlaid with brass wire, and with engraved bone plaques behind the bow, fitted with built-in steel gaffle with folding back-sight, button-shaped cocking lever retained by a slender steel band, folding fore-sight, and pierced steel pommel 69cm; 26 3/4in tiller Provenance Glandyfi Castle £700-900 | Nil |
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| 291 | A FLEMISH CROSSBOW IN 17TH CENTURY STYLE, MODERN with robust steel bow fitted with string of twisted cord and retained by a pair of irons, hardwood tiller inlaid with brass plaques, the underside with characteristic scrolling rest, fitted with steel stirrup, nut and trigger, brass bolt channel and trigger-guard, and complete with its steel windlass; and with six crossbow bolts 99cm; 39in tiller (8) £300-500 | Nil |
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400 |
| 292 | A FITTED CASE FOR A PAIR OF BELGIAN PERCUSSION TARGET PISTOLS BY TOUREY A LIÈGE, MID-19TH CENTURY for a pair of pistols approximately 40cm long, the outer surfaces veneered with rosewood and ebony borders, inlaid with brass on the lid including an elaborately pierced central plaque centring on the owner's initials 'P v D' beneath a Royal crown, the interior lined in red velvet (areas of wear), and retaining a number of contemporary accessories including bullet-mould, powder-flask, turnscrew and ramrod £400-500 | Nil |
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| 293 | A GROUP OF SEVEN LOCKS AND FIVE BARRELS, 17TH-19TH CENTURIES comprising a matchlock mechanism, third quarter of the 17th Century, with rounded lock-plate, incorporating pan with later pivot-cover, moulded dog, and long moulded trigger; a wheel-lock plate in 17th Century style, 19th Century, with chiselled dog; a Central Italian flintlock mechanism, mid-18th Century, a Liègois flintlock mechanism, mid-18th Century; a left-hand flintlock mechanism, circa 1730; and a percussion lock from a rampart gun, circa 1800, converted from flintlock; an Italian pistol barrel, 18th Century, with reeded breech stamped 'Lacarino Cominaco'; a German pistol barrel, 18th Century, etched and gilt in the Turkish taste; and three further pistol barrels (12) £800-1000 | Nil |
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800 |
| 294 | A GROUP OF GUN ACCESSORIES comprising a cap dispenser made by Ken Steggles; a small powder flask for a pistol; a powder flask by Dixon with beaded design; a large French pistol flask of pineapple form; a shot dispenser nozzle; a Continental multi tool put in a horn body; a large bore powder dispenser; a barrel wrench for a percussion pocket pistol; a Popes patent pinfire cartridge extractor; part of a rifle backsight by Parker; two military sling swivels; a lions head boss; a ramrod for a rimfire pistol; a steel spring; a breech inspectors tool, a gun screwdriver by Hawkesley with horn handle; a tin of Kynoch percussion caps, and part of a powder flask body (19) £300-400 | Nil |
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| 295 | A FOLDING TANG-SIGHT FOR A TARGET RIFLE, CIRCA 1860-70 of blued steel, the left-hand side overlaid with a German silver panel calibrated to 2000 yards, adjusted by a screw thread with a knurled knob at the top, numbered '6' and with breech fixing at the base 13cm; 5 1/8in high £400-500 | Nil |
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| 296 | A SOUTH GERMAN INLAID CARTRIDGE BOX (PATRON), CIRCA 1580 with fruitwood body of plano-convex section, the interior with provision for five cartridges (top plate missing), the outer surface inlaid in staghorn with an arrangement of scrolling flowers centring on a lionhead mask plaque, all contained within a ropework frame and enriched with minute pellets (wormed), flanged steel base fitted with two loops for suspension, and hinged steel lid embossed with a rib, secured by a catch on the right and with an additional loop at the rear (the steel parts painted black) 13cm; 5 1/8in high £1500-2000 | Nil |
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2600 |
| 297 | A GERMAN CIRCULAR POWDER-FLASK, LATE 17TH CENTURY of turned burrwood, the inner and outer surfaces each decorated with a series of concentric circles (the inside with a small hole), the outer face inlaid in bone with a circular arrangement of flowerheads and pellets joined by a series of slender panels, enclosed by a steel band around the edge, fitted with tapering steel nozzle with spring cut-off, a pair of rectangular steel loops for suspension, and with later green tassels 17cm; 6 3/4in high £400-700 | Nil |
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400 |
| 298 | AN ITALIAN BONE POWDER-FLASK ENGRAVED IN RENAISSANCE STYLE, 19TH CENTURY decorated over its surface with figures from classical mythology within a framework of differing patterns of foliage and interlace, fitted with hound's mask nozzle, and a pair of steel rings for suspension 30.5cm; 12in high £300-500 | Nil |
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300 |
| 299 | A RARE FOUR-WAY LARGE COPPER FLASK, MID-19TH CENTURY with tapering copper body of circular then oval section, the base fitted with a cavity for flints and with a brass cap with knurled rim, the top fitted with brass nozzle and spring cut-off, and two tubular compartments for ball 17.8cm; 7in high Given the provision for a large quantity of ball this may have been made for a repeating gun. £600-800 | Nil |
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600 |
| 300 | A HORN POWDER-FLASK, LATE 18TH CENTURY AND AN EMBOSSED COPPER POWDER-FLASK BY J. & W. HAWKSLEY, 19TH CENTURY the first with natural cowhorn body, fitted with German silver basal cap and a slender band each with suspension loop, and graduated German silver nozzle with spring cut-off; the second decorated with scrolling foliage on each side, the outer face including a hunter, hound and horse vignette, and with graduated nozzle with spring cut-off the first: 29cm; 11 3/8in (2) £150-200 | Nil |
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