SIR RALPH PAYNE-GALWEY: 2 titles: THE CROSSBOW MEDIEVAL AND MODERN MILITARY AND SPORTING, ITS CONSTRUCTION HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT WITH A TREATISE ON THE BALISTA AND CATAPULT OF THE ANCIENTS, London, New York and Bombay, Longmans Green & Co, 1903, 1st edition, 4to, original bevelled black pictorial cloth gilt, spine gilt lettered; HIGH PHEASANTS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta, Longmans, Green & Co, 1913, 1st edition, original cloth backed boards, (2)
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Ca.400 AD. A Roman Legionary cast crossbow brooch with transverse arm and three onion terminals, socketed to the forward face and with stepped upper face; deep trapezoidal-section bow with collar; rectangular footplate with catch plate to the reverse, two columns of ring-and-dot to the upper face; hinged pin to the reverse, inscribed with EXSVPERA. Good Condition; L:73mm; 2.87in; 42gr; Provenance: Private London collection, formed in the 1990s on the UK and European art market. All Items sold by Pax Romana Auctions come with professional Certificate of Authenticity.
A vintage Atari video computer games console with official A/C adaptor, 2x control pads and an aerial cable along with 13x games to include; 7800 Nintendo licensed Donkey Kong Junior, 7800 Commando, 7800 Ikari Warriors, 7800 Desert Falcon, 7800 Tower Toppler, 7800 Crossbow, 7800 Kangaroo, 7800 Super Huey UH-IX, 7800 Mat Mania Challenge, 2600 Klax, 2600 Space invaders, 2600 Sprintmaster and Breakout. All boxed with manuals.
Good Selection of Royal Navy Cap Talliesincluding Commander British Forces Malta ... Commander Far East Fleet ... Commodore MW ... CFP ... Captain MFP ... HMS Cavendish ... HMS Cape Town ... HMS Crossbow ... HMS Clyde ... HMS Chiddingfold ... HMC Campania ... HMS Chichester ... HMS Corunna ... HMS Chaser ... HMS Cutlass. 50 items.
Various 1960s Toys and Guns, Marx electric Burp Gun with clean battery compartment and Mettoy 'Safari' Ball Gun with one ball, both in original boxes, Greenmonk Sherwood Crossbow, Roll a Ball, Conjurers Outfit and Acroball Game, Magic Robot (damaged) and Monopoly (replaced tokens), all in original boxes,
Kyosai (Toiku Kawanabe). Ehon Taka Kagami [Picture-Book Mirror of Hawks], 5 volumes bound in one, [Tokyo, 1866-1880], fine monochrome woodblock i llustrations throughout (title to fifth volume with partial colour), stitched Japanese-style, spine gilt decorated, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 2 woodcut titles printed on thin paper (here bound before the fifth part, and at the end of the volume), bound in near-contemporary red half calf, 22.3 x 15.8 cm (8.75 x 6.25 ins) (Qty: 1)Provenance: Ralph William Frankland Payne Gallwey (1848-1916), 3rd Baronet of Thirkleby Park, Thirsk, engineer, historian, artist, and huntsman, and author of The Book of Duck Decoys (1886), Letters to Young Shooters (1890, 1892 and 1896), The Crossbow (1903), and other works. With handwritten inscription by Payne Gallwey to front blank in pencil: 'This capital treatise on the use of the Goshawk in Japan consists of a series of small booklets bound up and which I purchased at Liberty's Regent St., 1889, on their arrival in England. R.P.G.', and with bookplate of the Library, Thirkleby Park, Thirsk to front pastedown. A later handwritten note tipped on to the front pastedown states that this work is now the property of 'F.P. Davis, 171 Roseberry St, Ardwick M/c. 11, bought at the Thirkleby Hall sale'. Thirkleby Hall was put up for sale following the death of Sir Ralph's son and male heir in the first world war. Harting 371; Schwerdt III 245. Kyosai's Ehon Taka Kagami, or Mirror of Hawks, published in five parts in Tokyo by Nakamura Sasuke is an important source book for the history and practice of falconry in Japan. It records, for example, the methods of care, raising and training of the Siberian goshawk, considered the best bird for use in falconry in Japan since ancient times. According to Schwerdt, the work is "a very comprehensive and instructive treatise on falconry. It is rare, only seven copies having been traced in European libraries" (Schwerdt, volume III, page 245).
Timpo Quentin Durward Series two Quentin Durward mounted, one on foot, two French King's Guard, two Landsknechts with arquebus and crossbow, Gluckmeister, William de la Mark, Phillip de Creville mounted, Burgundian Guards, three mounted and two on foot and repainted Gluckmeister with standard (Condition Good, eight weapons missing or replaced) 1954 (16)
A Huntsman's Hero Working Crossbow used in the TV mini series The 10th Kingdom. With COA. This item is an original film prop used by actor Rutger Hauer. Certificate has embossed stamp and signed by The Prop Store, London. Crossbow is decorated with eagle head to tip, scroll and floral metalwork to body and grip. With leather carrying strap and 2 arrows. Approx. 54 x 67cm.
A good mixed lot of partially assembled plastic and metal kits by Burago, Monogram, Revell and Airfix, a Tamiya Porsche Boxter (still has parts sealed in packets), also included is Burago Porsche 911 box containing three assembled metal cars and a child's crossbow, items appear to be in very good condition in good to excellent boxes. Estimate £60 - £80
CA. 400 AD. Large hollow-casted bronze omega brooch/fibuta or crossbow type with onion-headed terminals and remains of gold gilding. Nice and well preserved with smooth patina and intricate decoration. 80mm; 44 grams. Provenance: Private British collection, formed before 2000. All Items sold by Pax Romana Auctions come with a professional Certificate of Authenticity and FREE domestic and international shipping.
Original vintage Anti Israel Propaganda poster featuring a stylised design depicting a crossbow targetting a dove of peace with a US dollar bow and Star of David arrow. Both symbols are white against a black background. Fair condition, creases and tears in top margins. County: Lebanon, year of printing:1970, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 66x48
CINEMA, posters, inc. Chariots of Fire, Caged Heat, Alfie, Goin South, Twisted Nerve, Crossplot, Operation Crossbow, Altered States, Sin with a Stranger, Blood Orgy of the She-Devils, Lust in the Dust, Scarface, Horror Hospital 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Tenant, Brotherly Love, Pulp, Fort Apache The Bronx, Scorpio, Cruising etc., 14 x 34 & slightly smaller, rolled, G to EX, 45*
Six Continental white metal figures of Renaissance period soldiers in various poses - including Standard Bearer, Musketeer, Crossbow Archer and others (stamped 800), together with desk emblem of the Trieste Mechanized Brigade under engraved Comando Truppe Trieste and stamped 800. All at approximately 4ozs, Standard Bearer 7cm overall height (7)
A GOOD EARLY 20TH CENTURY CHINESE CARVED IVORY TUSK BOAT ON CARVED WOOD STAND, finely carved with scenes of people using oars, meanwhile there is a battle commencing to the front of the ship, crossbow men to the roof, a man trying to pull up the masts, inside people holding swords and drinking, boat carved upon waves, presented on its carved wooden stand, 47.6cm length, 7 cm deep at thickest end.
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