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A 1796 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY TROOPER’S SWORD AND ANOTHER CAVALRY SWORD, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, A JAPANESE MODEL 1897 BAYONET, AN ASIAN SWORD, A TRIBAL AXE AND A FURTHER SWORD the first of regulation type with curved blade and stirrup hilt and the second similar, with copper alloy stirrup hilt (worn throughout); the third complete with its scabbard; the fourth probably Burmese, the blade widening towards an inward rounded tip, and wooden grip with a large iron collar top and bottom; the fifth with engraved iron head and wooden haft decorated with cross-hatched panels; and the sixth with hunting sword blade and long staghorn grip, the first: 83.0 cm blade (6)
AN INDIAN AXE (BULOVA), 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY KHOND with moustache-shaped head decorated with a punched design of conventional foliage over the greater part of its surface, tubular socket of wedge-section at the rear, decorated with a copper alloy line top and bottom and on each face at the rear of the head, on a later haft, 32.0 cm head Provenance Roy Elvis (1944-2022) catalogue number E04
SIX INDIAN ARROWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, AN IRON HILT FOR AN INDIAN TALWAR, THREE AXES, A COPPER ALLOY SWORD IN CHINESE WARRING STATES STYLE, AND AN AXE HEAD the first with iron katar-style head, on its reed shaft; five further arrows, similar (shafts incomplete); another arrow, with heavy tapering head for stunning game, two further arrows, a bolt for a crossbow, and seven further arrowheads; the talwar hilt of iron, the remaining axes rusted, the first: 69.5 cm overall (qty)
MAZANSKY, CYRIL: BRITISH BASKET-HILTED SWORDS: A TYPOLOGY OF BASKET-TYPE SWORD HILTS Boydell Press, Suffolk 2005, 292 pages, copiously illustrated in black and white; together with Robson, Brian, Swords of the British Army: The Regulation Patterns, 1788-1914, Arms and Armour Press, London 1975, 208 pages, 185 black and white plates; Infantry Sword Exercise Revised Edition 1845; The Bronze Axe: The seven stages of its development in Britain (2000 - 500 B.C.), Museum Aids, Hull 1939, 39 pages, 6 illustrations; and two books on British swords (6 volumes) Provenance From the library of William 'Bill' Reid, CBE (1926-2014)
A SOUTH INDIAN AXE (BULLOVA), 17TH/18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY MYSORE, KARNATAKA recurved iron head formed with reinforced terminals of flattened-diamond section formed with a bud-shaped terminal top and bottom, engraved with pairs of lines along the back-edge, moulded socket with finial and lines en suite, 32.8 cm Provenance Roy Elvis (1944-2022) catalogue number E27
AFTER JEAN JULES SALMSON (1823-1902): ROBERT THE BRUCE AND KING RICHARD I, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY a pair of bronze patinated spelter figures, each clad in jupon and mail, with shield sword and axe, marked Fabrication Francaise Paris around the foundry mark, a casting crucible, 33.5 cm high (2)
A collectable provenanced late bronze age axe head, copper alloy of square section form with single loop attachment, with the finely painted inscription MOUSSAYE FR; from the horde of axe heads discovered at La Moussaye in Brittany in 1865; most of the horde is held at the Harvard Peabody Museum, 4 7/8" long.
An Elk jaw bone war axe with bone handle and red painted decoration, 41cm long, together with a quantity on metal items including bangles, rings with a note stating " Contents of the stomach of a man-eating crocodile (Mugger). Shot by Andrew Carew-my paternal grandfather-about 1908 in Northern India. The croc had been catching and eating the village girls when they came down to the river to wash their cloths. These are their ornaments, bangles, etc."
Tabar (Streitaxt), Indien, um 1800 Schmales und stark geschwungenes, halbmondförmiges Eisenblatt (leicht narbig), auf der Gegenseite in kleinen Hammerkopf übergehend. Darauf plastisch gegossene Szene mit zwei Reitern und einem Elefanten. Die Klingenfassung sowie der dreigeteilte Schaft aus Kupfer und Messing aufwendig floral getrieben und punziert, Reste von Vergoldung. Im Griffbereich etwas eingedrückt. Sehr fein gearbeitetes, dekoratives Exemplar. Länge ca. 54 cm. An Indian tabar (battle axe), circa 1800 An Indian tabar (battle axe), circa 1800 Schmales und stark geschwungenes, halbmondförmiges Eisenblatt (leicht narbig), auf der Gegenseite in kleinen Hammerkopf übergehend. Darauf plastisch gegossene Szene mit zwei Reitern und einem Elefanten. Die Klingenfassung sowie der dreigeteilte Schaft aus Kupfer und Messing aufwendig floral getrieben und punziert, Reste von Vergoldung. Im Griffbereich etwas eingedrückt. Sehr fein gearbeitetes, dekoratives Exemplar. Länge ca. 54 cm. Condition: II
Silbermontierte Axt mit bemaltem Schaft, Indien, 19. Jhdt. An Rücken und Schafthalterung verstärkte, elegant halbrund geformte Klinge mit zwei Messingziernieten im Blatt. Der lange, leicht konische und mehrfarbig aufwendig bemalte Holzschaft mit silberner Manschette am Klingenansatz. Länge 97,5 cm. A silver-mounted Indian axe with a painted shaft, 19th century A silver-mounted Indian axe with a painted shaft, 19th century An Rücken und Schafthalterung verstärkte, elegant halbrund geformte Klinge mit zwei Messingziernieten im Blatt. Der lange, leicht konische und mehrfarbig aufwendig bemalte Holzschaft mit silberner Manschette am Klingenansatz. Länge 97,5 cm. Condition: II
Massiver Tabar (Streitaxt), Südindien, um 1800 Massiver und vollflächig mit feinem Floraldekor geschnittener und goldtauschierter Axtkopf. Tülle und Hammerkopf mit großflächigen Blüten verziert, am oberen Abschluss gestufte Knaufkappe mit feiner Goldtausia und geschnittener Basis. Der glatte eiserne Schaft mit halbrundem Knauf auf beiden Enden von fein tauschierten und etwas beriebenen Rankenbändern eingefasst, etwas fleckig. Länge 49 cm. A massive South Indian tabar (battle axe), circa 1800 A massive South Indian tabar (battle axe), circa 1800 Massiver und vollflächig mit feinem Floraldekor geschnittener und goldtauschierter Axtkopf. Tülle und Hammerkopf mit großflächigen Blüten verziert, am oberen Abschluss gestufte Knaufkappe mit feiner Goldtausia und geschnittener Basis. Der glatte eiserne Schaft mit halbrundem Knauf auf beiden Enden von fein tauschierten und etwas beriebenen Rankenbändern eingefasst, etwas fleckig. Länge 49 cm. Condition: II
Geschnittene und goldtauschierte Tabar (Streitaxt), Persien, 19. Jhdt. Beidseitig figürlich und mit einem Vogelpaar geschnittenes, kräftiges Stahlblatt mit am Rand umlaufend floraler Goldtausia. Auf der rechteckigen Hammerfläche ein geschnittener, von einem Löwen attackierter Büffel. Spiralig umlaufend und mehrfarbig floral bemalter Holzschaft. Länge 59 cm. A Persian cut and gold-inlaid tabar (battle axe), 19th century A Persian cut and gold-inlaid tabar (battle axe), 19th century Beidseitig figürlich und mit einem Vogelpaar geschnittenes, kräftiges Stahlblatt mit am Rand umlaufend floraler Goldtausia. Auf der rechteckigen Hammerfläche ein geschnittener, von einem Löwen attackierter Büffel. Spiralig umlaufend und mehrfarbig floral bemalter Holzschaft. Länge 59 cm. Condition: II -
Opferaxt (Ram Dao), Nepal, 19. Jhdt. Kräftige, leicht zur Schneide gekrümmte Hiebklinge mit beidseitig reich graviertem und in Messing eingelegtem Dekor. Nahe der Spitze beidseitig ein stilisiertes Auge. Kräftige eiserne Zwinge, runde Hilze aus Hartholz mit gekehlter Knaufkappe aus Messing und Eisen. Länge 68,5 cm. A Nepalese sacrificial axe (ram dao), 19th century A Nepalese sacrificial axe (ram dao), 19th century Kräftige, leicht zur Schneide gekrümmte Hiebklinge mit beidseitig reich graviertem und in Messing eingelegtem Dekor. Nahe der Spitze beidseitig ein stilisiertes Auge. Kräftige eiserne Zwinge, runde Hilze aus Hartholz mit gekehlter Knaufkappe aus Messing und Eisen. Länge 68,5 cm. Condition: II +
Streitaxt (Tabar), Persien, um 1800 In Resten fein silbertauschiertes, halbmondförmiges Blatt mit am Ansatz geschnittenen Schriftkartuschen. Rückseitig kräftiger, figürlich gravierter Hammerkopf. Der facettierte bzw. gedrehte Eisenschaft in einen Kugelknauf auslaufend. Länge 76 cm. A Persian axe (tabar), circa 1800 A Persian axe (tabar), circa 1800 In Resten fein silbertauschiertes, halbmondförmiges Blatt mit am Ansatz geschnittenen Schriftkartuschen. Rückseitig kräftiger, figürlich gravierter Hammerkopf. Der facettierte bzw. gedrehte Eisenschaft in einen Kugelknauf auslaufend. Länge 76 cm. Condition: II
Joseph Lucas, London - George III 8-day brass longcase clock dial and movement, the 12-inch break-arched dial with matted centre having subsidiary seconds ring over silvered axe-head cartouche signed 'Joseph Lucas London' in cursive script, and terrestrial calendar square, the movement of four knopped pillars rack-striking on a bell, sold with two weights and pendulum (no case)Baillie, G. H., Clockmakers and Watchmakers of the World, vol. 1, 1969 reprint, p. 203 records a Joseph Lucas of Lonodn, watchmaker, c. 1777.
The most important India General Service medal awarded to Ensign Henry Haversham Austen (later Lieutenant-Colonel Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S.), who was gazetted to the 24th Foot in 1851 and served as A.D.C. to General Godwin in the 2nd Burmese War, and later on special duty with the Bhootan Field Force; as a young British army surveyor he ‘undertook one of the most remarkable expeditions in British mountaineering history; not only did he open the way to the mountain now called K2 but, beyond the village of Skardu, gateway to the Karakoram, he became the first Westerner to explore the world’s most extensive and awesome glacier system; explorations in Ladakh, Tibet, Bhutan and Burma soon followed’ India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Pegu, Bhootan (Ensign H. H. Austen. 24th Foot. A.D.C.) second clasp loose on ribbon as issued, fitted with silver ribbon buckle, toned good very fine £4,000-£5,000 --- Henry Haversham Austen was born at Teignmouth, Devon, on 6 July 1834, son of Robert A. C. Austen, F.R.S., a distinguished geologist, and Maria, daughter of General Godwin, a marriage that produced no fewer than 17 siblings to Haversham between 1834 and 1856, one of whom, Frederick, was killed at Isandhlwana. Haversham, by which name he was always known, was educated at R.M.C. Sandhurst which establishment he entered at the age of 13. Gentleman Cadet H. H. Austen was appointed as Ensign in the 24th Foot on 26 December 1851, and in June 1852 set out for Burma, as aide-de-camp to his grandfather General Godwin, the commander-in-chief of the British forces in the second Anglo-Burmese war. Following the death of General Godwin in 1854 his name was changed to Godwin-Austen by personal decree of Queen Victoria. He was appointed a Topographical Assistant to the Trigonometrical Survey of India and joined the Kashmir Survey party in 1857, with whom he surveyed a very large extent of country in Kashmir and Baltistan. In the latter country the enormous glaciers at the head of the Shigar river and Hunza Nagar frontier, which included the Baltoro glacier, which he was the first to discover, coming down in part from the second highest mountain in the Himalayas and named after him [since renamed as ‘K2’]. In 1862 he surveyed the lofty country of Rupshu and Zaskar in Ladakh, and in July and August of that year he made 13 different ascents of a mean height of 17,900 feet, the highest peak, Mata, being 20,607 feet. The following year he took up the Changchenmo and carried the topography to the eastern end of the Pang Kong lake, close up to Rudok in Chinese territory, where he was met and stopped by the Lhassan Governor. During the winter of 1863-64 he was on special duty with the last mission to Bhutan, and mapped the country between Darjeeling and Punakha, the capital. In 1864-65, having accompanied the political mission of Sir Ashley Eden to the Rajas of Bhutan, he served on special duty with the left column of the Bhutan field force as Surveyor, and was present at the storm and capture of of the fort of Dalimkot and the stockade of Chamoorchi in December 1864. In 1866, and for the following ten years, he was in charge of Survey Operations in the Garo, Khasi, Jaintia, North Cachar and Naga Hills, and Manipur, including in 1874 the expedition against the Dafia tribe at the base of the Eastern Himalayas, when a large area of new country was mapped and many distant peaks fixed. He was President of Section E (Geography) of the British Association, 1883; President of the Maalacological Society, 1897-99; President of the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1908-09; awarded the Founders’ medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1910 for his exploration work. He was author of On the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca of India, 1882-1920; (jointly with Dr W. T. Blandford) of The Fauna of British India, vol. Mollusca, 1908; together with some 130 papers in the Journals of various Scientific Societies on Geology and Physical Features, Ethnology and Natural History. Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Godwin-Austen died at his house near Godalming in the Surrey hills on 2 December 1923. Sold with a copy of Catherine Moorehead’s outstanding 2013 biography of this important but long-forgotten explorer, The K2 Man (and his molluscs) The extraordinary life of Haversham Godwin-Austen, the dust jacket of which carries an excellent précis of the story to be discovered therein: ‘Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834-1923), from an ancient and interesting Surrey aristocratic family with royal connections, not only found the first way to the savage mountain, K2, but went on to be the first serious explorer of the Karakoram, Ladakh, Western Tibet, Bhutan, Northern Burma and Assam. He broke the Asiatic high-altitude summiting record three times, using a ‘garden hatchet’ as an ice-axe, saw his assistant killed by headhunters and socialised with everyone from his ‘coolies' to the Maharajah of Kashmir. Back in England, he became one of the UK's greatest Natural Historians, a Darwinist collector among collectors of geological and ornithological specimens. His collection of freshwater molluscs forms the basis of all modern science in the subject. And he became one of the UK's greatest surveyors, covering over 22,000 square miles of new territory, including 23 new glaciers and at least two dozen first ascents of peaks over 5000m. Remarkably, he also found time to paint a vast portfolio of watercolours, including the first close sighting of K2, described by the British Library as a 'national treasure’. (Several of these watercolours are illustrated in this book.) His personal life was equally interesting: three marriages - to an Afghan landowner's daughter, an English socialite, then a civil servant's daughter 23 years younger than himself - were complicated by religious conversions from Anglicanism to Islam then to Buddhism. His strong character as a scholar at great London institutions such as the Natural History Museum is still the stuff of legend, while his bankruptcy in later life required the selling of the 'family pile’, the magnificent, royally-furnished Shalford Park. And thanks to a youthful indiscretion in Kashmir, he harboured a dark secret which came back to haunt him near the end of his long and colourful life. This is the first and authorised biography of an outstanding man. Godwin-Austen's private papers are being made public for the first time. They prove that he was one of the UK's greatest explorers, on a par with Sir Richard Burton, while surpassing the explorations of David Livingstone, Captain Cook or Captain Scott. For mountaineers, scientists, students of biography and historians of the Raj and the Great Game, this biography offers new and original material - a 'must' for the explorer's bookshelf.’
After Henri Louis Levasseur, French, 1853-1934, a French bronze figure of a miner, late 19th / early 20th century, depicted bare-chested holding a pick-axe and wearing a miner's helmet and a lamp to his waist, on naturalistic base, with cast signature H. LEVASSEUR, cachet for SOCIETIE DES BRONZES DE PARIS and stamped AP 3 92, 40cm high
AN INDIAN AXE HEAD (BULLOVA), 17TH CENTURY of slightly recurved form with reinforced bud-shaped terminals, engraved with scrolls along the back-edge on each face, moulded socket attached by a pierced shaped bracket, and lotus bud-shaped terminal at the rear (pitted), 42.5 cm ProvenanceRoy Elvis Catalogue Number E31
A VERY RARE COMBINED SOUTH GERMAN 50 BORE WHEEL-LOCK PISTOL AND AXE, CIRCA 1580 ‡ with tapering two-sage barrel swamped towards the muzzle, fitted with axe-head at the muzzle end with curved upper edge, struck with a five-point cross mark in a rondel on the front, flat lock retained by two side nails, fitted with external wheel with domed cover, sliding pan-cover with button release, safety-catch and dog with moulded spring (areas of pitting, one side nail and safety-catch expertly restored), fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid with stag and green-stained horn pellets within a framework of segmental lines, further engraved panels including a pair of profile demon masks and a green man mask about the barrel tang, a scrollwork panel forming a side nail washer, a diagonally hatched shield behind, a monsterhead panel behind the lock (some plaques restored), iron belt clip and moulded trigger-guard, and bone basal cap decorated with foliage, 48.0 cm overall ProvenanceRobert Brooker Collection inv.no. 2070 A very similar decorated combined wheel-lock pistol and axe is preserved in the Historisches Museum, Dresden, see Lewerken 1989, p. 209, cat. No. 6.
A SOUTH INDIAN HALBERD, PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY, MYSORE with tapering terminal spike formed with a reinforced point, curved axe-blade of European form and re-curved rear blade each with a moulded base, tapering socket engraved with brief inscriptions and interrupted by a raised chiselled moulding, on its wooden haft with iron shoe, the head painted with a further white inventory number ‘118’, 218.2 cm overall Provenance Roy Elvis Catalogue Number F14
Collection of lead civilian figures, including Charbens Police motorcycle and sidecar (lacks handlebars), Britains Village Idiot with pink smock, Farmer wife with umbrella, country Clergyman, two Station masters, four porters, trollies and luggage, Pixieland-Kew Nippy Lyons waitress, Segal Wolf in grans clothes and woodman (axe detached), John Hill Co bride (lacks hand) groom, bridesmaid and vicar, lead Gypsy camp with dancers, seated musicians and fire with kettle, Polar explorer animals and more, (condition generally good to fair).
Britains set 76, Middlesex Regiment RARE FIRST VERSION 'wasp waisted' marching at the trail, white facings with Officer and Pioneer (Condition Good-Fair, two helmet spikes, one rifle tip and one axe head missing, one man substituted with second officer, sword and helmet spike missing) 1897 (8)
1921 Rochdale AFC Ltd player selection card for the away match v Lancaster Town at Giant Axe Saturday 10 September kick-off 3.15pm, meet at 2.30pm at the Football Ground, Lancaster; sender G Vickers Trainer (printed) dated 7 September 1921, postally used with stamp and franked date; slight tear, o/wise fair/good. (1)
Four Gebruder Heubach bisque figures, c1900, a dancing girl in a pleated skirt, a pair consisting of a farmer and his wife and a figure of a young boy sat on a stool, 36cm h and smaller, printed and impressed sunburst mark (4) Dancing girl with interior chip to back of base Boy with broken and glued head at neck and minor chips to bottom of stool along the back Farmers wife in good condition Farmer with chip to fingers and lose of axe
A Rare Large Islamic Battle Axe, 18th century, Gold koftgari, Ottoman Empire or Persia. Steel blade 12 cm long with a small hammer at the back, wooden shaft with the remainder of the winding, reinforced with iron strip secured with spherical nails. Iron, faceted bushing at the top and bottom of the shaft. All metal parts are richly decorated with gold kofgari in the form of floral decoration and Arabic inscription. An excellent collector's item for connoisseurs of the history of the Ottoman Empire. Good condition. Length 58 cm.
Style Two, axe and fire hose handle. Yellow helmet; dark blue jacket. Series: Journey Through Britain. Royal Doulton backstamp. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Artist: Stanley J. TaylorIssued: 1989Dimensions: 4.25"HEdition Number: 2381Manufacturer: Royal DoultonCountry of Origin: EnglandCondition: Age related wear.

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