The Collector's Grand Tour Auction: Curated Objects and Curiosities

A Middle Eastern pesh kabz dagger, 19cm straight tapered blade with broad T-shaped spine, bone grip, hide scabbard, 31cm wide, early 20th century

A naval dirk, 35.5cm straight fullered blade, brass beaded knuckle guard terminating in scroll quillons, fluted grip, brass mounted leather scabb...

A Nazi German Third Reich SA dagger, 19.5cm double-edged blade etched Alles fur Deutschland, wooden grip, 32.5cm long

A substantial 19th century Indian matchlock rampart gun barrel, part hardwood stock, 188cm long

A Third Reich Nazi German SA dagger, by Tiger, Solingen, the 22.25cm pointed double-edged blade etched Alles fur Deutschland, wooden grip with ins...

An 1803 pattern officer's sword, 68.5cm curved blade with traces of blue and gilt, etched with crowned GR cypher, royal coat of arms and triumphal...

An Indian jade mounted kindjahl dagger, 23cm wootz steel curved fullered blade, the handle inlaid in the Gujarati manner with mother of pearl loze...

An Indian niello/bidri khanjar dagger, 17.5cm blade, lotus hilt, conforming scabbard, 30cm long overall; another, kukri shaped blade (2)

An Malay Indonesian kris, 23cm wavy blade, hardood stylised lotus handle, hardwood scabbard, 39cm long

Naval Interest - a collection of sailor's cap bands, H.M.S Whitby, Newfoundland, Albion, Dryad, Salisbury, Cook, Gambia, Ark Royal, Apollo, Carysf...

World War II - A Third Reich Nazi German M34 Feuerwehr 'salt shaker' civic stalhelm helmet, leather liner and chinstrap, indistinctly marked, name...

World War II - an Admiralty portable signalling lantern, pattern 5110 E, 1945

A leather map case, stamped with Nazi stahlhelm and swastika; enclosing World War II British maps

A pair of World War II period binoculars, Bino Prism No.5 mk IV x 7, Regd. No. 58729, 20.5cm long, leather case

A World War II Third Reich Nazi German Kriegsmarine U-boat bulkhead clock, 16cm silvered dial with Arabic numerals, Reichsadler and swastika above...

A Yugoslavian M1956 knife bayonet, for the 9mm sub machine gun, 17.5cm pointed double-edged blade, two-piece grip, steel scabbard, no.36-190-3, 29...

Cap Badges - various, mostly World War I, RAF, The Royal Highlanders Black Watch, The Suffolk Regiment, North Stafford Regiment, The Bedfordshire ...

Militaria, Cap Badges - a collection of British Army regimental cap badges, various regiments, including Artists Rifles, Army Cyclist Corps, New Z...

Nazism - a collection of Nazi German Third Reich badges and insignia, including an enamel NSDAP party badge, marked M1/14; a SA Sportabzeichen sto...

A Derbyshire Blue John specimen, the domed aspect cut and polished, mounted for display, 14cm high overall

Antiquities - an Egyptian ushabti, 13cm long

Archaeology and Anthropology - a Neolithic granite shaft-hole axe hammer, rounded butt and straight sides, Portugal c.3000-2500 B.C

Botany - a muesum didactic model specimen, prepared by T Gerrard & Co, Sussex & Surrey, Sunflower (Helianthus) Stages in Germination, colour coded...

Botany - a muesum didactic model specimen,prepared by Griffin Biological Laboratories Ltd, Tonbridge, Vicia [broad bean]Germination Stages, 23.5cm...

Geology - a bisected white quartz geode, cut to display matrix, 15cm wide

Geology - an amethyst quartz section, cut and polished to show matrix, 14cm x 9.5cm

Natural History - a black branch coral specimen, 45cm wide, mounted for display

Natural History - a coral specimen, 17cm diam, mounted for display, 43cm diam

Natural History - a coral specimen, 27cm long, mounted for display

Natural History - a star fish specimen, mounted for display, 35cm high overall; another (2)

Natural History - an armadillo shell, fashioned as a basket, 21cm wide, late 19th/early 20th century

Natural History - an interesting collection of prehistoric teeth

Natural History - Conchology - a collection of exotic sea shells, various, clam, pearl nautilus, cowrie, conch, branch coral, etc

Natural History - Conchology - an early 20th century mahogany table top chest of three drawers, enclosing a collection of sea shells, 36cm high, 3...

Natural History - Dendrology - a section of fossilised wood, 13cm long, glass museum display stand; another, 8.5cm wide (2)

Natural History - Entomology - an early 20th century German museum display dirorama of mounted pine forest insect and larvae specimens, prepared b...

Natural History - Entomology - a museum display case of mounted insect specimens, prepared by Flatters & Garnet Ltd, Insects in and Around Ponds a...

Natural History - Geology/World War One - a large white aragonite crystal specimen, formed on an unsual matrix of World War One corrugated iron sc...

Natural History - Palaeontology - an arrangement of fossilised shark teeth (otodus obliquus), composed upon a matrix, 21cm x 18cm

Natural History - Paleontology - a fossilised mammoth tooth section, mounted for display, 14.5cm high

Natural History - Paleontology - a fossilized fish specimen, Green River Formation, Wyoming, the matrix 8cm x 35.5cm overall

Natural History - Paleontology - a large gryphea (devil's toenail) fossil, 24cm wide; others, smaller; an ammonite, 19cm wide; others

Natural History - Paleontology - a megalodon shark (carcharocles megalodon) tooth, 9.5cm long, 8cm wide, glass museum display stand

Natural History - Paleontology - an ammonite fossil, 9.5cm diam, mounted for display, 19cm high

Natural History -a tortoise shell (Testudo Graeca), 22cm long; other testudinidae shells, smaller, mostly incorporating plastrons (6)

Taxidermy - a Victorian barn owl, naturalistically mounted perched on a branch on a mossy ground, glass dome, ebonised base, 46cm highPlease note ...

Taxidermy - a Victorian display of waterside birds, naturalsitically mounted amongst mosses and shells, glazed ebonised case, 41.5cm high, 44cm wi...

Taxidermy - a Victorian pied kingfisher (ceryle rudis), naturalistically mounted, glass dome, ebonised base, 42cm high Please note that worked ite...

Taxidermy - an arrangement of grouse, naturalistically mounted, glazed ebonised case, 52cm high, 99cm wide

Taxidermy - an early 20th century Kudu, ebonised trophy mount

Taxidermy - an otter paw trophy, the oak shield mount inscribed Found Heckapen, Killed Camp Cross, 1hr 15 min. 23.3.35, 19.5cm long overall; other...

Zoology - an ostrich (struthio) egg, 16cm long, glass museum display stand

A Native American birch bark model canoe, of stitched construction, 35cm long, Ojibwe People, Canada/North Midwestern United States

Antiquities - a Gandhara stone frieze stele, carved with figures in relief with figures in an architectural setting, 19cm x 43cm, c.9th century

Antiquities - a large Chinese pink sandstone sculptural fragment, carved as the head of a Bodhisattva, traces of white pigment, 36cm high

Antiquities - a South American terracotta figural vessel, of typical Pre-Columbian form, painted features, 23.5cm high Condition Report: Old repai...

Antiquities - an Egyptian faience ushabti, 7cm long, museum type display stand

Antiquities - an Egyptian faience ushabti, traces of turquoise glaze, 11.5cm long, museum-type display stand

Natural History - a fossilized sea sponge preserved in flint

Three tribal 'passport masks', 7.5cm long, framed as one