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An 18ct gold cluster ring set with central opal stone surrounded by 8 1pt diamonds. Hallmarked for London. Weight 3.8g. Size O FREE UK POSTAGE ON ALL LOTS INCLUDING COMBINED PURCHASES ( ECONOMY UN-INSURED 2ND CLASS). 48HR TRACKED AND RECORDED SERVICE £6.99+VAT. OVERSEAS PLEASE VIEW WEBSITE FOR DETAILS
A ladies 14ct gold / 585 marked pave set cocktail dress ring. The clear stones being pave set. Total weight 5.1g Size U FREE UK POSTAGE ON ALL LOTS INCLUDING COMBINED PURCHASES ( ECONOMY UN-INSURED 2ND CLASS). 48HR TRACKED AND RECORDED SERVICE £6.99+VAT. OVERSEAS PLEASE VIEW WEBSITE FOR DETAILS
**A MOUNTED ARMOUR FOR THE 'JOUSTS REAL' IN THE SPANISH STYLE OF CIRCA 1500-10, MAINLY 19TH CENTURY WITH SOME EARLY 16TH CENTURY ELEMENTS of great weight, comprising helm with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial comb, shaped to the nape, extending downwards over the top of the backplate and fitted at each side of the brow with a projecting sprung stud to engage a frog-mouthed visor and bevor formed in two pieces joined by rivets just behind the vision-slit, the bevor gently shaped to the chin and extending downwards over the upper part of the breastplate to which it is attached by bolts, and its right side fitted with a hinged trapdoor closing a large rectangular ventilation-hole; breastplate formed of a medially-ridged main plate fitted at the top of its right arm-opening with a projecting flange and at its centre with a fixed reinforcing breastplate through which protrude at each side five pierced staples, retaining at the right a large rigid openwork lance-rest, and at the left, an even larger openwork frame fitted with studs to support a shield, and the lower edge of the main plate fitted with a waist-plate bearing at its left side a large loose ring to support the bridle-arm and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of two lames, the lower edge of which retains on a pair of turning-pins at each side a medially-ridged one-piece tasset, the left longer than the right, and both cut away in a curve over the crotch; backplate formed of a central main plate that narrows to its lower end and two side-plates (the right patched at its lower end) rigidly connected to one another by rivets and overlain at their lower ends by a tall plackart formed at its upper end with three cusps and fitted within its lower edge with a culet of two lames; a pair of spaudlers each of three lames overlapping outwards from the second and boxed in six vertical panels, its fifth lame attached by a single rivet to a fully articulated tubular vambrace boxed en suite with the spaudler, fitted at its upper end with a one-piece turner, at its elbow with a winged couter of five lames open at the rear and decorated on the front of the wing of its two-piece main plate with a spray of flutes in the 'gothic' fashion, and at the upper end of the outer plate of the lower canon with a flange shaped to the base of the couter (the inner plates of both lower cannons patched); an asymmetrical wooden shield curving forward at its upper and lower ends, pierced towards its outside with a pair of large lace-holes, faced with overlapping rectangular plates secured in each case by a single nail and covered elsewhere with red velvet; a conical vamplate decorated peripherally within a recessed border with scallops; a wooden saddle covered overall with quilted crimson velvet (worn) decorated around its edge with a yellow fringe and faced on its upstanding bow and cantle with three saddle-steels in each case, those of the bow stepped at the right side and those of the cantle projecting at their upper corners as curved arms; two stirrups (not a pair), each with slightly flaring fluted sides and a tread of four bars, the two inner bars in one case writhen (each pitted and worn); a curb-bit of tinned iron with simple pierced and engraved ornament and fitted with later bridle of leather covered with crimson velvet edged with gold piping and decorated at intervals with rosettes and scrolls of gold braid; and an heraldically-decorated caparison of yellow fabric strips each faced with black velvet (now largely faded to green) and terminating in tassels of gold bullion See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Sixth Count of Asalto, Guadamur Castle, near Toledo, circa 1887 Ambrose Monell, Tuxedo Park, New York, before 1911 Henry Furmage, London George F. Harding Jr, Chicago, purchased 1927 Transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1982, Acc. Nos 1982.2216; 1982.2697a-h 1982. 2879a & b; 1982.3110; 1982.3113; and 1982.3143a & b. The horse bit: His Imperial Highness, Archduke Eugen, Veste Hohenwerfen, Salzburg, sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 4 March 1927, lot 932 Literature Bashford Dean, Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1911, p. 10, pl. VII The main and side-plates of the backplate, the turner and cannons of each vambrace and the stirrups are all of early 16th century date. The horse-bit is probably of 17th century date.
A collectors lot to include two cased sets of flatware, a "Ford 1994 Amateur Gold Tournament Preliminary Round Winner" trophy (af), a small quantity of maps, military buttons, a small box with various pen knives and napkin ring, a quantity of books on various subjects to include "The Rudge Book of the Road" and a collection of "Cope's Smokeroom Booklets 1883-1893".
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