Gentlemen's Library and Grand Tour Auction of Curiosities, including a large private collection of Tribal Art and Ethnographica - ONLINE ONLY

A 17th/18th century lead boss, cast as a bearded mask, mounted for the connoisseur on an oak shield, 15cm x 11.5cm overall

A Chinese silk civil rank badge or Mandarin square, worked in polychrome threads with a crane, 26.5cm x 28.5cm; another, military, worked with a t...

A Japanese tsuba, cast and applied with silvered and gilt insects, 8cm wide, signed, Meiji period

A pair of country house riding boot pulls, antler hafts, 18cm long, c.1900; a pair of riding spurs (4)

An iron cannon/artillery ball, the ebonised base with apocryphal antiquarian's label inscribed Chattanooga Campaign, 6.5cm high overall; a collect...

Cricket - a novelty desk tidy, the onyx dish surmounted by a batsman playing a shot, 13.5cm wide

Hostelry - Regalia, jewel and collar of the President of the National Union of Club Stewards and hotel Managers. Pendant so inscribed, silver-gilt...

Shooting - a 19th century brass cartridge loader, turned ebonised handle, 10cm high; another (2)

World War I - a mahogany easel photograph frame, containing a portrait of an officer on horseback, 22.5cm high; a Princess Mary Christmas 1914 tin...

An Indian pietra dura panel, inlaid with a sikh warrior, a tulwar at his side, 37.5cm x 24cm, framed

Shooting - an early 20th century leather cartridge bag, 19.5cm wide

Folk Art - a 19th century horn powder flask, repeatedly inscribed in pyrography relief with W.C. and S.S.S.S., 32cm long

Cased set of armorials

The Boer War - a 19th century earthenware shaped circular plate, inscribed War Declared in South Africa by President Kruger Oct 11th 1899, Lord Ro...

A Spanish navaja fighting knife, 18cm folding blade indistinctly signed, two-piece grip, 37.5cm long (open)

An 18th century bronze mortar, of typical form, 14cm diam, c. 1750; another, similar, (2)

Crime and Punishment - a pair of Haitt Best cast steel handcuffs, numbered 339, mid-20th century; another pair of handcuffs, possibly Military Pol...

Militaria: a 1/10th scale model of a British 9pdr. field piece as used during the French wars, in timber and brass, with turned brass 20cm barrel ...

A 19th century Day's Patent percussion pistol walking cane, 71cm sighted barrel, under-hammer action, two-piece walnut grip, 88cm long

A 19th century Rococo Revival brass tear-drop shot flask, cast in shallow relief with shaped reserves of hunting hounds and deer in a parkland, ad...

A 19th century Scottish cattle horn priming powder flask, 10cm long

A 19th century Spanish navaja locking fighting knife, 20cm blade stamped Valerojun/Zaragoza, brass mounted two-piece stained horn grip inlaid with...

A 19th century Spanish navaja locking fighting knife, of small proportions, 11cm blade stamped Valerojun/Zaragoza, brass mounted two-piece stained...

A Colonial Indian blunderbuss, 39.5cm barrel chased with lotus panels, Tower lockplate stamped with GR and crown cypher, walnut full-stock, brass ...

A late Victorian Bowie-type knife, by Robert Lingard, Sheffield, stamped, 15.5cm double-edged spear point blade etched and inscribed: Never Draw M...

A Middle Eastern kard dagger, 23cm tapered blade, bone handle, 33.5cm long overall, Indo-Persian, 19th century

A Middle Eastern kindjahl dagger, 25cm curved blade chased with wriggle-work, steel hilt, 38cm long overall

A Nepalese kukri, re-hilted, 27cm blade, antler handle, 43.5cm long overall

A Scottish silver-mounted sgian dubh ceremonial knife, 9.3cm fullered and part-serrated single-edge stainless steel blade, faux-weave grip, leathe...

A Tibetan ceremonial dagger, 27cm broad steel blade, white metal incurve-fluted weave grip, arched pommel chased with a lotus above a frieze of ge...

An 1899 pattern cavalry trooper's sword, 85cm fullered blade, bowl guard, two-piece chequered grip, the blade marked EFD, /99 and 30 over E crowne...

An 18th century Indian tulwar, 76.5cm curved fullered blade, the iron hilt with shaped cross-guard and disc pommel, 89cm long

An 18th century Indian tulwar, 78.5cm curved blade with notched spine, iron hilt with dished disc pommel, 91.5cm long

An Indian dagger, 15cm slightly curved blade, wrigglework armourer's mark as a hand, indistinct inscription to verso, two-piece wooden group inlai...

An Indian khanjar [khindjahl] dagger, 23.5cm serpentine blade, chased band to spine with traces of koftgari, gilt bronze handle cast and chased as...

An Indian kora, 38cm shaped blade with split terminal, the iron hilt with crossguard, scrolling tail and spiked disc pommel, 51cm long, 18th/19th ...

An Indian kora, the 59.5cm blade chased with figures and lotus, steel shamshir-type hilt, 72cm long, 19th century

An Indian short patus, the 46.5cm single-edged blade chased with tigers and other predators hunting an elephant and deer, tulwar-type hilt with kn...

An Indian temple sword, 33cm 'flaming' blade, lotus hilt with 'phurbu' pommel, 52.5cm long overall

An Indian temple sword, the 47cm khanda type blade chased with a lion and other animals hunting, the steel hilt with scrolling lotus knuckle bow, ...

An Indian tulwar, 72.5cm curved fullered blade, still hilt with knuckle guard and spiked disc pommel, 84cm long overall, 19th century

An Indian tulwar, 74cm straight fullered blade, steel hilt with disc pommel, scabbard ensuite, 89cm long overall

An Indian/Persian dagger, 13.5cm curved damascened blade, bidri guard and handle, two-piece segmented horn grip, horse head pommel, conforming sca...

An Indo-Persian flintlock pistol, 37.5cm barrel, full hardwood stock chip-carved with geometric motifs and picked-out with silvered 'stringing', t...

An Indo-Persian pesh-kabz dagger, 15.5cm curved and fullered blade, mother-of-pearl and specimen stone grip, ring suspension pommel, leather scabb...

An Indo-Persian steel leaf shaped dagger, 17.5cm fullered blade, chased loop handle, 26cm long, 18th/19th century

Militaria - World War One, a Royal Flying Corps gilt-metal and enamel sweetheart brooch, 4.2cm wide, 1912-1918; an Edwardian silver regimental swe...

A George III/IV Universal Pattern brass gorget, engraved with crowned GR cypher flanked by laurel, 11.5cm long, 1796-1830

Trench Art - the head of an artillery shell, indistinctly stamped and numbered, 23cm high

Militaria, World War Two, RAF: a postcard album 7 x 5in (17.8 x 12.7cm) 40 German cards, inter-war, mainly Cologne & Coblenz, some r.p., including...

World War Two - Nazi Germany/Third Reich - a M34 Feuerschutzpolizei (Fire Protection Police) double-decal helmet, the left temple with a shield-sh...

Medals and Decorations - a collection of civil decorations, various, mostly commemorative

Medals, Nazi Germany, Third Recih: Nazi Germany: a collection, including four Iron crosses 2nd class with suspense and ribbons; 1939 bronze War Me...

Medals, RAF, Lord Lieutenant and Birmingham Airport, Sir Robert Richard Taylor, KCVO, OBE (1932-2008), an archive collection, including Knight Com...

Medals, Royal Marines Great War group, 1914-15 star, Victory Medal & British War Medal, to Royal Marines Band, Musician F W Wood, also 1939-45 sta...

Medals, Royal Marines, Great War group: 1914 star, British War medal, Victory medal Long Service Good conduct (Naval), latter to Petty Officer J W...

Medals, World War I, a pair, British War and Victory, named to 110902 Gnr W W Shaylor, Royal Artillery, silk ribbons ensuite (2)

Medals, World War I, a pair, British War and Victory, named to 14439 O F Diver, Royal Artillery, silk ribbons ensuite (2)

Medals, World War I, a pair, British War and Victory, named to 178237 Dvr G Holton, Royal Artillery, silk ribbons ensuite (2)

Medals, World War I, a pair, British War and Victory, named to 184433 Gnr W H Harris, Royal Artillery, silk ribbons ensuite (2)