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Lot 67
Henry Emerson Tuttle, A Sharp-Shinned Hawk, signed lower right in pencil, etching, 21 x 17cm. Other Notes: Henry Emerson Tuttle is considered one of America`s greatest twentieth century etchers of birds. Tuttle was educated at Yale University and attended classes in art at the Slade School, in London. First pursuing a scholastic career, he created his first published drypoint engraving in 1925 at the age of thirty-five. His initial works of art in this medium were so widely received that Tuttle dedicated himself solely to his art from that point on.
Lot 468
MOGHUL SCHOOL "A horseman, figures and animals in a landscape, with birds in flight", gouache, within blue and gilt decorated borders, an Oriental panel painted with exotic birds in branches, and AFTER E VALES "Suzanne", six head studies in Eastern head wear, limited edition coloured etching, No`d. 40/120, inscribed and signed in pencil in the margin
Lot 129
A NORTH EUROPEAN DISH-HILT RAPIER, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, AUSTRIAN OR GERMAN with tapering slender hollow-triangular blade, etched with exotic birds, scrolls of foliage and inscriptions at the forte (the etching rubbed, obscured in places), steel hilt comprising pierced, engraved large shallow circular dish-guard embossed with a pattern of spiralling flutes to form a large expanded flowerhead, a pair of straight slender quillons with attenuated bud-shaped terminals, quillon-block chiselled with volutes and scrolls, tall fluted ovoid pommel formed en suite with the quillon terminals, and retaining an early grip of twisted wire and `Turks` heads` 111cm; 43 3/4in blade
Lot 251
AN OFFICER`S SWORD, EARLY 19TH CENTURY; A 1796 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY OFFICER`S SWORD; AND ANOTHER OFFICER`S SWORD, 19TH CENTURY the first with curved blade by Runkel with traces of etching, brass stirrup hilt including lionhead pommel and chequered ivory grip; the second of regulation type (pitted, grip with losses); and the third with slightly curved blade etched with stars, trophies and foliage at the forte; and brass stirrup hilt the first: 76cm; 30in blade (3)
Lot 257
AN 1803 PATTERN INFANTRY OFFICER`S SWORD; AND A GENERAL OFFICER`S SWORD, FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY the first with curved regulation blade by Runkel, with traces of etched decoration, and gilt-brass regulation hilt; and the second with curved blade retaining traces of etching (pitted), mameluke hilt with steel cross-piece, and a pair of ivory grip-scales (repaired) the first: 82.5cm; 32 1/2in blade (2)
Lot 259
AN UNUSUAL GEORGIAN PRESENTATION SWORD TO MAJOR ALEXANDER HARVEY BY THE CRIMOND, LONMAY, ST FERGUS, LONGSIDE AND RATHEN CORPS OF VOLUNTEERS, DATED 1805 with curved blade, double-edged for its last quarter and with a broad three-quarter length fuller, etched over the greater part of its surface with foliage, the winged figure of Victory and a lengthy presentation inscription on a scrolling panel above gilt trophies-of-arms and the Royal Arms on one face and further designs above gilt foliage and the crowned `GR` cypher on the other (the etching now faint, areas of patination), gilt-brass hilt comprising border-engraved boatshell guard, scrolling quillon engraved with an expanded flowerhead, knuckle-guard and a maned lion`s head forming the pommel and extending down the back-piece, the grip bound with plaited wire 83cm; 32 5/8in bladeThe presentation inscription reads: `From the Crimond, Lonmay, St Fergus, Longside and Rathen Corps of Volunteers to Major Alex.er Harvey in Testimony of their esteem and regard 1805`.The form of the hilt of this sword, combining a `boat-shell` stool or counterguard with a knucklebow of `stirrup` form, appears from surviving examples to have been one that was particularly popular with Scottish auxiliary infantry units of the period of the Napoleonic wars (1803-15).Alexander Harvey, the recipient of the sword, inherited great wealth from his father, also Alexander, one of three brothers who left Aberdeenshire to make their fortunes in the West Indies; the younger Alexander Harvey bought the Broadland estate, near Rattray, north of Peterhead, in 1788, marrying an heiress in the following year. Harvey was an `improving` landlord, notably active in managing his estate along `modern` lines and caring for the welfare of his tenants. On the outbreak of war with Revolutionary France, Harvey offered his services to the 4th Duke of Gordon and was commissioned lieutenant in the duke`s `Northern Regiment of Fencible Men` with effect from 1st March 1793. His time with the duke`s Fencibles was short, however, since he resigned his commission in December 1793. Harvey appears to have seen no further military service until December 1803, when he was appointed major-commandant of the three-company regiment of Aberdeenshire Volunteers that presented him with this sword in 1805. The three companies had been formed separately in October 1803, based upon the five north-eastern Aberdeenshire villages of Crimond and Lonmay, St Fergus and Longside and Rathen, but were regimented in December that year. Harvey remained the major-commandant until the formation of the Local Militia in 1808, whereupon his regiment was combined with a three-company regiment of Volunteers based upon Peterhead to form the 2nd Aberdeenshire Local Militia, and Harvey was commissioned the new regiment`s colonel. Harvey remained colonel until 1814, when the Local Militia was disbanded, and he died in 1817. See J.M. Bulloch 1914, pp. 146, 148, 324, 335 & 387; A. D. Fordyce 1885, p. 164 and J. A. Henderson 1907, p.79.
Lot 387
A NORTH ITALIAN MORION IN THE `SPANISH` FASHION, CIRCA 1580 with tall one-piece almond-shaped crown rising to a short `stalk` at its apex (repaired) and `swept` integral brim rising to an acute point at the front and the rear, its edges decorated with file-roped inward turns accompanied by narrow recessed borders (the right side with a slight loss), the base of the crown encircled by sixteen brass-capped lining-rivets and fitted at the nape with two further such rivets retaining a later brass plume-holder with punched ornament, the whole decorated on a formerly black from the hammer ground with later linear etching retaining much gilding, and including at each side of the crown the date 1600 and a coat-of-arms suspended from stylised acanthus foliage at its apex, and elsewhere, plain bands 26.4cm; 10¼in highProvenance Sotheby`s, Billingshurst, 15 July 1997, lot 41 The arms are possibly those of the Tyrolese family of Bredel
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