A RARE ETCHED PARTISAN THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, with broad flat tapering central blade, formed with a pair of broad lugs cut with a series of notches at the base, retaining some etching over its surface including foliate rondels within a stylised architectural framework, the inscription 'Fide sed Cuide' on one side and further inscriptions on the other, moulded neck, faceted socket, and a pair of short straps, on a later wooden haft, 84cm; 33in head, This belongs to a group of partisans variously dated 1631 and 1632 and were almost certainly used by a Protestant Army from Saxony. Another, formerly in the collection of Count Dimitri de Nesselrode and William Randolph Hearst is the the Kretzschmar von Kienbusch collection, inv. no. 594. Another was sold in these rooms 26th June 2007, lot 219 (£3600 including premium).
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A SWISS DRAGOON OFFICER'S SWORD FOR THE CANTON OF ZURICH, CIRCA 1780, with double-edged blade retaining traces of etching towards the forte, brass regulation hilt comprising solid double shell-guard, short straight quillon, knuckle-guard (a small crack at the base), additional scrolling outer bar, and ovoid pommel with a raised rib on each side, and retaining an early grip of plaited copper wire, 80cm; 31 1/2in blade, For a similar example in the Carl Beck Collection see J. A. Meier 2002, no. 48.
AN ITALIAN ETCHED HALF ARMOUR, CIRCA 1560, comprising close helmet with one-piece skull rising to a low cabled comb etched on each side with scrolling foliage inhabited by reclining nude figures, fitted at the nape with a shield-shaped plume-holder, visor, bevor and lower bevor all attached by common pivots, the visor pierced with a pair of stepped vision-slits and roped en suite with the skull, fitted at the right side with a lifting-peg, etched at each side with a mounted classical warrior and at the edges with narrow guilloche borders, upper bevor etched en suite and with a vertical band including grotesques and putti, repeated on the bevor proper, the upper bevor and bevor each retained at the right side by a hook and pierced stud, neck-guard of two lames front and rear (restored, the lowest lame with later etching), restored collar of a single lame front and rear, the former embossed with a pair of volutes, breastplate of deep bellied, medially ridged form, later embossed at the neck with a pair of addorsed volutes and fitted at its lower edge with a deep waist-plate, flanged outwards to receive a fauld of a single lame, a pair of restored pendant tassets each of seven lames, restored backplate formed en suite, a pair of large pauldrons each of six lames, the third and largest embossed with a quatrefoil, early 17th century articulated vambraces formed of a tubular upper and lower cannon, the latter of slightly 'tulip-shaped' form, and a couter of five lames, the central lame of winged bracelet form and embossed en suite with the pauldrons, two gauntlets with short obtusely-pointed tubular cuffs, five metacarpal-plates, a transversely-roped knuckle-plate, a shaped finger- plate (the right restored) and hinged thumb-plates (restorations, one detached), the collar, cuirass, tassets, arm- defenses and gauntlets etched throughout with a later pattern of running acanthus foliage on a hatched ground: on a wooden stand
Belgian Decorations, including the First and Second Class Decoration of Earned Income, Civil Decoration for Long Service in Administration (Gold award), Labour Decoration, Silver Class of Civil Decoration and Labour Decoration; a First World War Iron Cross, First Class; a Princess Mary's Christmas Tin 1914 and a German Belt buckle; a signed etching of probably a Prisoner of War Camp, sent from Jach to Mml.Andree Van de Maele, Brussels
JOHN EVERETT (British, 1876-1949), 'Dover Castle', signed in pencil in the margin lower right, etching, 19 3/4" x 13 3/4"; A F Collinson, a city scene, signed in pencil in the margin lower right, etching, 8" x 10 1/4"; J E Clutterbuck, 'The Shrine', signed and titled in the margin and another by the same artist entitled 'The Wizard', unframed; G. Cuitt, two town scenes of Chester; an etching of two deer resting, indistinctly signed and a watercolour caricature of a lady and gentleman in profile (8)
GABRIEL VAN SCHNELL (20th Century), 'St Margaret Pattens, City', signed and titled in pencil in the margin, etching, 11 1/2" x 6 1/4", another etching by the same artist of a continental town, 6 3/4" x 6" and a drawing by the same artist of a street scene, signed and dated 'March 1932' lower left, ink and watercolour, 12 1/4" x 9" (3)
AFTER JAMES GILLRAY (1756-1815), 'Bank notes - Paper money - French alarmists - O, the Devil, the Devil! - ah! poor John Bull!!', from the edition published in 1847 by Henry Bohn, hand coloured etching, 10" x 13 3/4" (see illustration). Note: Pitt shovels out Bank of England bank notes while Fox warns people to hold onto their gold
A group of assorted prints and maps, including A New Map of Hertofrdshire by John Carey 1801, with hand colouring, an etching of Tourelle, another of Old Houses and Stocks, Aldbury by Albany Howarth, a map of the North part of the West Riding of Yorkshire by John Carey and a pair of marine engravings, (6).
A group of five, including a mezzotint with hand colouring after Richard Cosway of The Rt Hon Lady CHristine Reede Gingkel; a watercolour of a family spinning on a veranda, an etching if a log cart, a watercolour study of 18th century children and a stipple engraving 'Fanchon dans son Enfance' after Massot. (5)
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