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Lot 1852
BOEVET OF FLEURIER; two rare white metal cased Chinese lever pocket watches, both with circular dials with Chinese inscriptions and with character stamps, diameter 5.5cm and 4.2cm (2). CONDITION REPORT: Both lacking outer pair of cases. Small watch has loose hinge cover and small fine crack to dial. Ticks when wound. Large watch - split to top cap button; ticks when wound.
Lot 1500
A Victorian hallmarked silver Old English patterned sifting spoon with bright cut decoration and pierced circular gilt washed bowl, Elkington and Company, Birmingham 1888, length 12cm, a further example with scalloped mould bowl, John Round, Sheffield 1906, and a silver shoe horn / button hook, Robert Chandler, Birmingham 1920, length 20.5cm, combined 5ozt (3).
Lot 1906
A late 19th century French black slate and gilt metal mounted eight day mantle clock with arched case, circular dial set with slow/fast button inscribed "Whytock & Sons, Dundee" set with Roman numerals flanked by fluted pilasters with twin carrying handles and stepped face, height 39cm. CONDITION REPORT: Small crack to plinth of base.
Lot 240A
A George V hallmarked silver circular hat pin decorated with a bright cut three legged emblem of the Isle of Man, pierced and surrounded by a fluted circle, Alfred James Cheshire, Chester 1911, diameter of head 2cm, ball mounted on a 22.4cm pin and another with the red enamelled Isle of Man emblem set in a circular mother of pearl button within a gilt metal rim, diameter of head 2.5cm, set on a 17cm pin (2).
Lot 2449
A diver's Winegartens, London, black dial, chronograph, stainless steel wrist watch, the back numbered 753790845. Condition Report: Some fine scratching to glass. Second hand button starts and stops and resets. Face of watch in good condition. Bevel turns around. Strap stretches and returns satisfactorily. Case diameter 36mm.Condition Report: Watch is running. Start/stop works and resets.
Lot 2450
A Royal Navy pilot's wrist watch by Lemania, the stainless steel case inscribed 0552/924-33051518, the initials H.S.9 and broad arrow, crossed out. Condition Report: Ticking and hands move. Reset button works and sweeps hand. Watch strap bar is rusty. Face in good condition, crazing to edges of glass. Some scratched lines near 5 o'clock marker on glass. On case: some scratches. On back: some quite deep scratches, cannot remove back.
Lot 536
2 x Dolls. A Chad Valley 18" 'Mabel Lucy Atwell' Doll with straight hair and fringe. Celluloid button and red label to foot. A Chad Valley 18" "Mabel Lucy Atwell" Doll, with blonde curls, painted side glance eyes, moth damage to face, velveteen body and limbs, split near shoulder on one side. (2)
Lot 423
A 32 BORE SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, SIGNED WB, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with tapering barrel formed in three stages and faceted at the muzzle, fluted over the breech and incorporating the back-sight, bevelled lock signed 'W.B.' and engraved with scrolls and pellets (one side nail and the tumbler replaced), full steel stock engraved with panels of traditional scrollwork (worn), 'ramshorn' butt, faceted button trigger and pricker, long belt hook with pierced bracket, and iron ramrod 23.5 cm; 9 1/4 in barrel It has been suggested that the maker might William Bissat of Inverness, recorded as a gunsmith admitted burgess and freeman to the gunsmith trade of the burgh, gratis. See Whitelaw 1977, p. 251.
Lot 421
A RARE 20 BORE EAST SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, LATE 17TH CENTURY with tapering multi-stage barrel faceted at the breech and incorporating a raised back-sight, formed with raised bands, inlaid with silver panels, rondels and hearts (rubbed, the muzzle shortened by approximately 2.0 cm), the breech dated '16..' (rubbed), rounded lock engraved with a flourish (top-jaw and screw replaced), three-quarter steel stock applied with two silver bands beneath the lock, heart-shaped pommel applied with a silver collar, associated belt hook with openwork terminal, moulded button trigger, later pierced pricker, and moulded iron ramrod, probably the original (in pitted condition throughout) 29.0 cm; 11 1/2 inFor an account of this distinctive group of pistols with heart shaped pommels see Reid 1963, pp. 26-30. For other pistols of this group sold in these rooms see lots 531, 26th June 2007; 404, 24th June 2009 and 238, 4th December 2013.
Lot 431
A SAXON MINER'S GUILD AXE, DATED 166- with flat iron head of characteristic form pierced with a slipped quatrefoil and circles, and fitted with a brass button on the spike, fruitwood haft profusely inlaid over its full length with engraved bone plaques of flowers and foliage including a pair of female saints and a pair of miners kneeling in penance at the feet of Christ Crucified beneath the pious inscription 'INRI', all on a ground sewn with horn pellets and fitted with bone pommel engraved on both sides with a flowering medallion filled with the arms of Saxony on one side and the crossed pick and hammer of the Miners Guild on the other, and bone basal cap engraved with the arms of the Miners Guild and the date (light worm damage, areas of wear and restorations) 93.3 cm; 36 3/4 in
Lot 229
A CASED .32 CALIBRE AIR CANE BY G. E. LEWIS, BIRMINGHAM, LATE 19TH CENTURY with rifled barrel sleeved in brass, button trigger at the breech end and turn-off brass finial at the muzzle, the latter retaining the ramrod, screw-in air reservoir section, recurved, threaded at the top and fitted with angular grip, the outer surface painted brown in imitation of wood, complete with a pump, in a later fitted wooden case lined in green baize (lid detached) 94.5 cm; 37 1/4 in overall
Lot 232
TWO RIFLED AIRCANES, LATE 19TH CENTURY the first .32 calibre, with rifled barrel sleeved in brass, with button trigger at the breech end and turn-off brass finial at the muzzle, screw-in air reservoir section threaded at the top and fitted with horn knob (cracked) and the outer surface painted in imitation of exotic wood; the second of similar type, with later black paint (incomplete) the first: 97.5 cm; 38 3/8 in overall (2)
Lot 235
TWO .36 CALIBRE RIFLED AIR CANES the first with brass muzzle cap, button trigger, rotating breech-cover, curved upper portion, angular handle, and painted in imitation of wood (small chips); the second with brass muzzle cap, button trigger, rotating breech-cover and horn grip (worn) the first: 92.5 cm; 36 1/2 in (2)
Lot 419
A .300 CALIBRE AUSTRIAN BREECH-LOADING AIRGUN OF BELLOWS TYPE BY JAKOB KRESKO IN GRATZ, EARLY 19TH CENTURY with blued octagonal swamped sighted barrel released by a button on the side-plate, sleeved in smooth-bored brass, engraved with a swag and inscribed 'in Gratz' over the breech, tang overlaid with a brass panel, inset with a signed border-engraved brass plaque in place of the lock, the action enclosed in the butt, double set trigger, walnut full stock moulded over the fore-end (repairs), carved with leafy designs about the ramrod-pipe, ahead of the trigger-guard and around the breech, the butt with shaped cheek-piece carved with flowers and foliage on the left and the bellows action covered by a screw-in panel inlaid with brass on the right, brass mounts comprising trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, butt-plate and a portion of its horn-tipped wooden ramrod, and with an associated cleaning rod 76.8 cm; 30 1/4 in barrel Jakob Kresko, a native of Jaroslau, Poland, is recorded as a gunmaker and neuburger, in Graz, Styria, in 1814.
Lot 516
THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLEMAN A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET WITH EMBOSSED DECORATION IN THE 'BLACK AND WHITE' FASHION, CIRCA 1550-60 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low boldly-roped medial comb, flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a single rounded rear gorget-plate, and fitted at front with a visor, upper bevor and bevor attached to it by common pivots with small-radially fluted heads, the visor (cracked at the centre of its upper edge) pierced beneath its stepped centrally-divided vision-slit with two rows of small circular ventilation-holes and fitted at its right with a lifting-peg (restored) serving additionally as a pull-release for a spring-catch (the spring broken) that engages a hole in the upper edge of the slightly prow-shaped upper bevor which is pierced at each side with nine columns of ventilation-holes matching those of the visor, the bevor (its left pivot-hole broken out) pierced at each side with six triangular groups of small circular auditory-holes in rosette-formation, secured to the skull and upper bevor at the right sides by spring-catches with push-button releases, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive two front gorget plates (associated and overlapped in the wrong direction), the main edges of the helmet formed with file-roped inward turns, and its surfaces decorated with bands and borders, partly raised and partly recessed, all burnished bright against an originally blackened ground (now cleaned to a mottled patina overall) 28.5 cm; 11¼ in
Lot 659
A GERMAN STONEBOW (SCHNEPPER), EARLY 17TH CENTURY with slender steel bow (string missing), a pair of fore-sight pillars, built-in gaffle retained by a spring-catch at the rear stamped with a brass-lined maker's mark, in a shield the letters HI conjoined, and a further mark (indistinct), scalloped lever terminal, engraved folding back-sight, moulded trigger set by a foliate button, fruitwood butt moulded for the fingers and inlaid with a vacant shield beneath a coronet on the left 67.0 cm; 26 3/8 in tiller
Lot 234
THREE RIFLED AIRCANES, LATE 19TH CENTURY the first .36 calibre, with rifled barrel sleeved in brass, with button trigger at the breech end and turn-off brass finial at the muzzle, screw-in air reservoir section threaded at the top and fitted with horn knob; and with a silver band around the upper section with the later inscription 'Colonel Sebastian Moran/Bagatelle Card Club' (taken from Conan Doyle's 'Sherlock Holmes') on one side and 'Don Ferder Fecit 1870' on the other; the second .36 calibre, with button trigger, and later brown paint overall; the third similar (brass muzzle cap missing), with loading lever and some black painted finish (pitted) the first: 92.5 cm; 36 1/2 in (3)
Lot 424
A FINE 22 BORE SCOTTISH FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL, BY JOHN CAMPBELL, DOUNE, CIRCA 1710 with tapering multi-stage barrel moulded at the muzzle and fitted with silver bead fore-sight (rubbed flush), the forward portion engraved with traditional flowers within beadwork frames, a beadwork cross over the median, fluted over the breech and incorporating the back-sight, slightly rounded lock signed 'John Campbell Doune' engraved with scrolling foliage, fitted with horizontal sear (cock replaced), three-quarter steel stock engraved with flowers and traditional Celtic ornament in panels over the fore-end, tapering butt with tightly scrolling 'ramshorn' terminal engraved with beadwork, decorated with wriggle-work over the spine and further Celtic ornament on each side, pierced button trigger, later pierced pricker, long belt hook decorated en suite with the stock and with pierced bracket, and iron ramrod (the engraving rubbed throughout, small areas of light pitting) 31.5 cm; 12 3/8 in barrel John Campbell was the first in his family of three generations of gunmakers in Doune and was apprenticed to Thomas Caddell 1st. See Kelvin 1996, p. 164. For a pair of this pistols by this maker see Blair and Woosman-Savage 1999, p. 30, fig 47.
Lot 527
A COMPOSITE SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1550-60 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high file-roped medial comb, and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it at each side by common pivots bearing traces of engraved decoration, the forward-sloping visor fitted within the upper bevor at its front end and over it at the rear, pierced anteriorly with a centrally-divided vision-slit and fitted at its right side with a short mushroom-shaped lifting-peg (replaced) also serving as a pull to release a spring-catch that engages a hole in the slightly prow-shaped upper bevor which is pierced at each side with nine small keyhole-shaped ventilation-slits arranged in four columns, and the lower bevor strongly shaped to the point of the chin and pierced at each side with nine small circular auditory-holes in rosette formation, the lower and upper bevor each secured at the right side by spring-catches with push-button releases (the button in the latter instance replaced), and the lower edges of the skull and lower bevor flanged outwards to receive now-missing gorget-plates (the whole lightly pitted overall) 26.0 cm; 10¼ in
Lot 526
A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, NUREMBERG, CIRCA 1550 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high file-roped medial comb (pierced at its apex with two later holes), and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it at each side by common pivots (replaced), the forward-sloping visor pierced in front of the file-roped step of its centrally-divided vision-slit with nine small ventilation-holes at each side, and fitted at the right with a combined wing-headed turning-pin and lifting-peg that fits into a shaped notch cut into the upper edge of the prow-shaped upper bevor, the latter pierced at its left-side with nine small circular ventilation-holes in rosette formation, and at its right side with three vertical ventilation-slots, the upper and lower bevors each secured at their right sides by spring-catches with push-button releases, the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges (the flange of the bevor internally patched at its centre) and pierced with three pairs of holes, now plugged with blind rivets for the leathers that originally attached their gorget-plates, the upper bevor decorated medially and at its upper edge respectively with a band and border each burnished bright, along with the sides of the comb, against an originally black-from-the-hammer ground (now cleaned bright) 28.0 cm; 11 in
Lot 681
A 40 BORE SILESIAN WHEEL-LOCK BIRDING GUN (TSCHINKE), MID-17TH CENTURY with associated octagonal sighted barrel (muzzle restored), engraved lock fitted with external wheel, mainspring, sliding pan-cover with button release, and dog (restorations), fruitwood full stock profusely inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques and pellets within segmental lines, (the forward portion of the fore-end replaced), the butt decorated en suite and enriched with engraved mother-of-pearl rondels (some inlay restored), iron trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod 77.0 cm; 30 3/8 in barrel
Lot 680
A 20 BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING GUN BY GEORG GROSS, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY AUGSBURG with signed octagonal swamped smooth-bored sighted barrel engraved with a band of pellets at the breech, flat lock engraved with flowers, fitted with internal wheel with cover en suite, pierced engraved dog, sliding pan-cover with button release, and openwork bridle involving a serpent, double set trigger full stock moulded over the fore-end, inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques including a foliate rondel beneath the breech, a pair of flowerhead washers for the side nails with a doe between, all enclosed by a segmental line, butt with a running stag on the left and, on the right, with patchbox with sliding cover veneered in burrwood and staghorn panels, the forward panel decorated with a dog retrieving a bird, on the right, iron trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipes (one cracked) and horn-tipped wooden ramrod 78.4 cm; 30 7/8 in barrel
Lot 639
THREE FOLDING KNIVES, 19TH CENTURY the first by W. Morton & Sons, Sheffield, with folding blade and saw blade each signed at the base, a smaller blade, corkscrew and pick, with chequered grips over brass fillets and German silver mounts; the second by Needham, with two large folding blades and a eight further elements including pick, cork-screw, and button hook, with staghorn grips and tweezers; and the third by Joseph Rodgers, with two folding blades (the third incomplete) and staghorn grips the first: 15.2 cm; 6 in closed (3)
Lot 433
A RONDEL DAGGER, POSSIBLY LATE 15TH CENTURY, ITALIAN OR FRENCH with strongly tapering single-edged blade of triangular section, the back-edge formed with two broad recessed panels on each side and struck with a cutler's mark towards the forte, spirally carved horn grip swelling towards the base and fitted with a beaded copper cap, the pommel enclosed by a scalloped copper collar with ropework edge, foliate button washer, and retaining traces of gilding 39.5 cm; 15 1/2 in Another similar dagger is preserved in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (cat. no. 56). See Blair 1974, pp. 161-162.
Lot 422
A 25 BORE FLINTLOCK BELT PISTOL FOR THE ROYAL HIGHLAND REGIMENT FORMED ENTIRELY OF STEEL BY BISSELL, BIRMINGHAM PRIVATE PROOF MARKS, CIRCA 1776-83 with tapering barrel stamped with proof marks,'RHR' and incised with two pairs of lines at the breech, border-engraved signed lock (signature worn, mainspring replaced), three-quarter steel stock, 'ramshorn' butt engraved with a characteristic flowerhead on each side (worn, pitted throughout), button trigger, moulded pricker, long belt hook and associated iron ramrod 19.4 cm; 7 5/8 in barrel
Lot 228
A CASED .32 CALIBRE AIR CANE, LATE 19TH CENTURY with rifled barrel sleeved in brass (ramrod missing), button trigger at the breech end and turn-off brass finial at the muzzle, screw-in air reservoir section threaded at the top and fitted with horn knob, the outer surface painted brown in imitation of wood, complete with a pump, in a later wooden case 92.5 cm; 32 1/2 in overall
Lot 227
A CASED .35 CALIBRE AIR CANE, LATE 19TH CENTURY with rifled barrel sleeved in brass, button trigger at the breech end and turn-off brass finial at the muzzle, screw-in air reservoir section of gun-stock form encased in fish skin: in a later fitted wooden case lined in green baize 100.3 cm; 39 1/2 in overall
Lot 3025
A lady's Waltham floral chased hunter cased fob watch, white dial, Roman numerals, minute track, subsidiary seconds, blued hands, 3 o'clock button wind Safety Barrel movement, serial No 6462825, Fahys gold coloured metal case, serial No 880418, floral decorated covers. 41mm diameter; another Pinnacle, white dial, Arabic numerals, minute track, subsidiary seconds, button wind movement, Elgin gold plated case, 49mm diameter (2)
Lot 3001
An Elgin gold plated open faced pocket watch, white dial, Arabic numerals, minute track, subsidiary seconds, button wind movement, serial No 23824009, gold plated Dennison Moon case, serial No 679323, 49mm diameter, suspended from a 9ct gold graduated double Albert chain, T bar terminal, 37cm long, 23g, total weight 127.5g gross
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