Fine, Esoteric and Collectable - Two-Day Auction

A reproduction Scottish brass-hilted dirk, of late 17th Century form, 45 cm

A hand-made Scottish dirk, having a wooden grip decorated with carved Celtic interlaced pattern, in a steel-mounted wooden scabbard, 42 cm

A post-1952 British army piper's dirk

A post-1952 British army piper's dirk

A post-1952 British army piper's dirk

An Afghan Khyber knife, having horn grip scales, the blade decorated with panels of koftgari work, 59 cm, in brass-mounted and leather-covered sca...

A Moroccan koumia dagger, decorated with hammered and engraved white metal foil (tested as silver) and enamel, 41 cm

A Middle Eastern Jambiya dagger, 29 cm, together with a North Africa koumia

A collection of miniature Asian knives, approx 13 cm

A military type kukri, late 20th Century

An African wrought iron barbed spear head, Congo, 27 cm

A dayak mandau sword

A Burmese or Thai knife / machete in bamboo scabbard ...[more]

A late 19th / early 20th Century clasp knife by Joseph Allen & Sons, Sheffield, blade marked with maker's name and 'non XLL', having antler grip s...

A German Third Reich S84/98 bayonet bearing the S/177 code of Ernst Pack, dated 1936, scabbard and blade bearing matching serials

A German Third Reich parade bayonet

A German Third Reich S84/98 bayonet bearing the asw code of Horster, dated 1941, the scabbard and blade bearing matching serials

A Swiss M 1957 SIG bayonet

Two socket bayonets and a further scabbard

A 1945 dated British army Pattern 1944 webbing bayonet frog together with two SA80 bayonet frogs

A Volunteer Pattern 1856 Enfield Rifle bayonet

Two Second World War British army clasp knives together with a No 4 bayonet and a post-War third Pattern Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife by Rodgers

An Indian Kukri, circa 1940s, 46 cm overall

Two Pattern 1907 bayonets, (scabbards lacking)

Pattern 1888, 1907 and 1913 bayonets, (scabbards lacking)

A Martindale No 410 machete, 61 cm

H L Blackmore, "The Armouries of the Tower of London. 1. The Ordnance", HMSO, 1976, 28 cm x 23 cm. [ cannon / artillery ]

An Imperial German S98/05 bayonet by Gottlieb Hammesfahr ...[more]

An Imperial German Demag combined trench knife and bayonet, (a/f)

A late 19th / early 20th Century starting pistol, 11.5 cm

7th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. The Great War 1914-1919 ...[more]

Grierson, "Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859-1908", Blackwood, 1909

Lt Col Robin Hodges, "British Army Badges", 2005

A small group of books on the German Third Reich including Ailsby, "Combat Medals of the Third Reich" and Davis, "Badges and Insignia of the Third...

A group of books on military medals, badges and insignia including Westlake, "Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles; ibid, "Collecting Volunteer Milita...

Peterson and Johnston, "Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army 1660-1960", Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1968

Cook, "Casualty Roll for the Crimea", 1976, together with Waterloo, Military General Service and Naval General Service Medal rolls

A quantity of books on the Second World War including Robert Lumsden, "A Collector's Guide to Third Reich Militaria. Detecting The Fakes"

Commander Charles N Robinson, Royal Navy, "Celebrities of the Army", Newnes, 1900, colour lithographic plates, 36 cm x 27 cm

Robert Taylor, "Air Combat Paintings", volumes I-IV, volume three bearing the artist's autograph signature on the title page

21 "The Third Reich" books, Alexandria, Time-Life Books Inc

A Great War publication, "Nelson's Map-Book of the World-Wide War containing an entirely new series of 35 clear maps with A Diary of the War and S...

A 1920s bon mot album containing a ink and watercolour drawing of a young woman

A quantity of books pertaining to Scotland and the Scottish Highlands

Wonderful West Cumberland - The Glories of its Mountains, Lakes & Sea, Cumberland Development Council Ltd, 1936, including an introduction from Si...

Seven first edition novels by Lillian Beckwith [Beckwith was an English writer best known for her series of semi-autobiographical books set on the...

[ Modern First Editions ] A large quantity of crime and thriller fiction including works by Dick Francis ...[more]

[ Modern First Editions ] A large quantity of thrillers and historical naval novels including works by Alistair Maclean ...[more]

Winston Graham, "The Stranger from the Sea. A novel of Cornwall 1810-1811", first edition, London, Collins, 1981, together with Georgette Heyer, "...

An early Victorian pen-and-ink humorous annotated "stick man" sketch describing the circumstances of a polite dance, romance and its outcome, init...

A 19th Century risque engraving superficially being a profile portrait of a knight of St George but incorporating a reclining female nude, 14 cm x...

An uncommonly good 1920s-1930s album of photographs largely depicting maritime subjects, sailing and other boats / ships, harbours and docks inclu...

James R Petersen, "Playboy Blondes" and "Playboy Brunettes", San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2005, together with Poul Gerhard, "Pornography or Art...

F E Weatherly, "Magic Pictures. A Book of Changing Scenes", Bavaria, E P Dutton & Co, 1895 ...[more]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", Newnes, 1905, first edition; together with "Adventures of Gerard", Newnes, nd, 1903, firs...

[ Autograph ] Sir Bobby Charlton "My Life in Football" with signature

Marshall Hall, "The Artists of Cumbria", 1979

A BBC Doctor Who limited edition postcard album, circa 1994

Edmund Spencer, "The Poetical Works", five volumes, James Nichol et al, 1867, 8vo gilt blue calf with claret labels and decorative spine, all edge...

[ Autographs ] An album of first day stamp covers bearing the signatures of celebrities