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Various 19thC Staffordshire and other decroative jugs, to include a Staffordshire pink lustre design example decorated with deer in a naturalistic setting with barkwork handle, polychrome decorated in green, yellow and pink, 18cm high, a similar designed jug, another hunting scene jug, etc. (4).
A pair of Victorian carvers,each with a vertebrae handle and steel blade and tines,impressed ‘Shear steel’,knife 36cm long,a further pair of carvers with antler handles,each with a carved cow’s head terminal with glass eyes,the steel knife blade impressed ‘Jones Inventor, Sheffield, By Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent’,knife 47cm long anda further carving knife, inlaid with a deer hunting scene to both sides of the handle,40cm long (5)
A 20th century German hunting cutlass, plated blade 13” (slightly shortened and reground), etched with stags amid foliage, scrolls, arms and target, with maker’s logo of Horster, Solingen, the hilt with lacquered brass mounts including hoof quillons and small shell guard, and staghorn grip with brass acorns, in its brass mounted leatherette covered sheath. GC Plate 9
A mid 19th century European heavy hunting knife or sidearm, broad DE blade 18”, etched at forte and along the centre with stylized floral wreath, flat copper crossguard with scrolled edge, diced bone grip, silver plated, scroll engraved pommel cap. Basically GC (blade some wear and pitting, grip cracked).
Equine Interest: a quantity of books relating to horses including eight volumes (of set of 9) green cloth bound 'The Horse' by Wortley & Axe, 'Sound and Unsound Horses, (Barton), The Complete modern farrier 1848, Lowson, the Horse, A Treatise of Draught pub. Baldwin & Craddock, Childwick sTUD,St Albans 1896 by Allison, Horse Dentition 2nd ed by Galvayne Glasgow Murray pub., and THe Horse by Galvayne 1888, Practical Treatise on Breaking and Training of Wild and Vicious Horses by Noton-Smith 1892, Hunting in Dumfriesshire, Horse-Breaking by Marchioness of Breadelbane, Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners 6th ed Hayes, Gleasons Horse Book & Veterinary Adviser, The Complete American Farrier & Horse Doctor - pub Nicholson, by Col. Forrest, Vweterinary Medicine, 1854 by Dun and Armitage's Horse Doctor. (27)
An early 20th Century mahogany framed display case mounted with two copper hunting horns, a nickel plated horn and a brass horn together with four whips and a driving cane with internal label 'This whip was used by postilion that drove King George when he went to Brighton and the case labelled 'This collection was originally the property of Lord Lonsdale of Lowther castle', 39cm x 130cm Lord Lonsdale was known as the yellow Earl and a founder member of the automobile association. A keen sportsman and huntsman and after the first world war became more involved with racehorses, he left Lowther Castle in 1935 and the contents were sold by auction in 1947.
A quantity of collectables, to include an onyx box and letter rack, Sikes's Hydrometer set in original wooden box, Eastern carved wooden figures, Tudric pewter pot, cast iron squirrel doorstop, ivory and ebony dominoes in box, three brass hunting horns, and a lead painted chess set etc (a lot)
A George III silver tankard, of tapering cylindrical form, with central banded girdle and flared foot, 'C' scroll handle with heart shaped spur, acanthus leaf scroll thumb piece, domed hinged cover, embossed decoration all over depicting a rural hunting scene, with presentation inscription "Presented to Captain & Adjutant, R B Bellers, Royal Wiltshire Militia, by the serjeants of the regiment as a token of esteem", the interior gilt, hallmarks struck to the body, sponsor's mark Thomas Whipham & Charles Wright, London 1766, height 18.5 cm, weight 731 g / 23.5 ozt approx
An Antique Continental Ivory and Stag Horn Table Snuff Box, depicting a hunting scene in relief, with green tortoiseshell interior, approx 13 x 16 x 2.5 cms. Provenance: From a private collection belonging to the Late Dermott Levins, avid Oriental collector, Levins bought from notable London galleries and auction houses in the mid-1940s including Glendining & Co New Bond Street, Yamanaka & Co New Bond Street and later Sothebys.
A Victorian hallmarked silver circular napkin ring embossed with a dog hunting a pheasant to each side, George Nathan & Ridley Hayes, Chester 1899, diameter 4.2cm, and a pair of engine turned examples, each centred with a vacant circular cartouche, JB Chatterley & Sons Ltd, Birmingham 1930, diameter 4.5cm, combined 1.7ozt (3). CONDITION REPORT: The hallmarks on the hunting scene napkin rings are very rubbed. One rim is very slightly misshapen. Pair of napkin rings have traces of rubbing to the surfaces particularly in the areas of the cartouches.
A collection of fifteen Brocklehurst-Whiston silk pictures including "Old Macclesfield", "The Hanging Gate", "The Sailing of the Mayflower", etc, three Langley printed silk pictures of hunting, a book "Macclesfield Woven Silk Pictures" by Lewis Cowen, and a small watercolour of St Peter's Church, Hale, all framed and glazed (20).
CONSTANTINE STERIO; two oils on board "Night Port 1969" and "Ship in Caernarfon 1995", both signed and dated, one bearing the Hunting Art Prizes 1997 traces of label verso, 46 x 56cm and 50 x 41cm, both framed. (D) CONDITION REPORT: This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
A FINE FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED HUNTING SWORD COMMEMORATING THE PEACE OF HUBERTUSBURG, DECORATED WITH PORTRAITS OF MARIE THERESE, EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA AND FREDERICK, KING OF PRUSSIA, DATED 1763 with tapering double-edged blade etched and gilt with a portrait of Marie Therese, Empress of Austria dividing the inscriptions 'Le 15 Fevrier 1763 de nos' and 'deux Hubertsbourg a fait une' on one face and a portrait of Frederick, King of Prussia dividing the inscriptions 'depuis ce moment nous' and 'renoncons a' toute rancune' on the other, the forte signed on both faces 'de la manufacture de la marque a l'extra-fin a Solingen' above the mark (the tip with a very small chip), silver hilt comprising a pair of moulded quillons cast and chased with scrolls in low relief, cap pommel, ferrule, and faceted mother-of-pearl grip bound with silver wire and ribband, in its vellum-covered wooden scabbard with silver locket and chape (small cracks) 54.0 cm; 21 ¼ in blade Provenance Robin Wigington Collection (1932-2002) The Peace of Hubertusburg between Prussian and Austria and marked the end of the Seven Years' War. It was signed on 15 February 1763, five days after the Treaty of Paris, and guaranteed that Frederick II the Great maintained his possession of Silesia and confirmed Prussia's stature as a major European power. Schloss Hubertusburg was the hunting palace of August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Completed in 1752 it was sumptuously furnished and was the venue for court festivities until the outbreak of the Seven Years War. In 1761 its entire contents were destroyed by plundering Prussian troops. See Syndram and Brink (ed.) 2013.
THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLEMAN A FINE GERMAN HUNTING TROUSSE (WEIDBESTECK), SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY comprising cleaver with heavy single-edged chopping blade, iron hilt chiselled in low relief, comprising a pair of straight quillons decorated with large game, recurved terminals formed as monsterheads, ring-guard decorated on the lower face with a woodland scene involving a boar set upon by a pair of hounds and, on the upper face, a further woodland scene involving a stag set upon by three hounds, integral grip decorated on the inside with a stag hunting scene en suite with the ring and the outer with a hunter in contemporary dress at the base, a panel of engraved silver in the middle on each face, and pommel formed as a maned lionshead with brass tongue, in its fabric-covered wooden scabbard (light wear, shrinkage, now a poor fit) encased in pierced iron, the inner face with two loops for suspension, the outer decorated with a vertical arrangement of stag and boar hunting woodland scenes involving hunters in contemporary dress, plain iron locket (two rivets missing, loose), and complete with its accompanying pieces comprising bodkin with file, three knives of differing length and a fork, each with grip inlaid with an engraved silver panel front and back and chiselled iron lionshead pommel en suite with the cleaver, and remaining in good untouched condition throughout 35.0 cm; 13 3/4 in cleaver blade A related example formerly in the Meyrick Collection at Goodrich Court, Herefordshire is illustrated Skelton 1854, plate II, figs. 10 and 11. Another, formerly in the collection of Prince Carl of Prussia, is illustrated Hiltl 1876 cat. no. 516.
TWO GERMAN HUNTING SWORDS, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY the first with broad double-edged blade etched and gilt with the spurious date '1414', iron cross-piece, iron cap-pommel and wire-bound wooden grip; the second etched with an inscription to honour over the forte on one face, brass hilt (incomplete) and staghorn grip; a hunting sword-blade; a military sword-blade and a machete the first: 54.5 cm; 21½ in blade (5)
A GERMAN SILVER-MOUNTED HUNTING SWORD WITH AGATE GRIP, CIRCA 1730-40 with slender blade tapering to a double-edged point, inlaid with brass flowers and foliage on each face at the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief against a punched ground, comprising a pair of recurved quillons decorated with foliage, quillon-block with scrolling tendrils involving a swan on each side, ferrule and pommel button decorated en suite, and the grip formed of faceted agate 55.5 cm; 21 7/8 in blade Provenance Robin Wigington Collection (1932-2002)
PROPERTY FROM THE DESCENDANT FAMILY OF ARTHUR RICHARD DUFTY CBE, (1911-1993), MASTER OF THE ROYAL ARMOURIES (1963-76) AND PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES (1978- 81) A FINE GERMAN SILVER-HILTED HUNTING SWORD, CIRCA 1730 with straight blade double-edged for its last quarter, formed with a long fuller on each face and engraved with scrolling foliage on a gilt panel at the base, chiselled with a pair of hounds pursuing a stag and a boar on the respective faces of the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in relief (lightly rubbed), comprising a pair of quillons issuant from grotesques with terminals en suite, the right quillon up-turned and slightly forward-canted, down-turned shell-guard decorated with a doe and a pair of stags in a framework of rococo scrolls, the quillon-block extending upwards to a panel filled with a bird-of-prey on the outer face, knuckle-guard, cap pommel formed as a bird-of-prey in the round, extending at the front over the grip with a panel incorporating a reclining hound, natural staghorn grip, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard (the base repaired) with large silver mounts comprising chape chased with a woodland stag hunting scene on the outer face and the inner lightly engraved with scrolls enclosing the initials 'CB', locket chased with Diana the huntress within a rococo frame on the inner face and the outer with provision for its accompanying pieces, together with its knife and fork (perhaps the original), each with horn grip faced with white metal chased with rococo scrolls 62.0 cm; 24 3/8 in blade A hunting sword with a near identical blade is preserved in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin. See Müller and Kölling 1990, p. 403, no. 365.
A GERMAN ENGRAVED COWHORN POWDER-FLASK, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with curved flattened body, the inner face engraved with a pattern of concentric circles, the outer face decorated with a boar-hunting scene involving two hunters and hounds in a wooded landscape, and with iron mounts including belt-hook, basal cap and two rings for suspension (nozzle associated and detached) 27.0 cm; 10? in
A .54 BORE GERMAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, CIRCA 1660 AND LATER with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with six grooves and engraved with a band of beadwork at the breech, flat lock stamped with the maker's initials 'GFT', engraved with a stag hunting scene and a pair of unicorn, fitted with internal wheel, sliding pan-cover, flash-guard, and pierced dog engraved with Diana and a cupid, double set trigger, figured fruitwood full stock inlaid with engraved staghorn plaques including a rabbit pursued by a hound over the fore-end, large flowers and a scrolling tendril with monster-head terminal opposite the lock, and a mounted King in pursuit of a hare on the cheek-piece, the latter inset with a dark horn oval engraved with the stockmaker's initials 'J. C. K.', patchbox with sliding cover of engraved staghorn, steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, a pair of engraved bone ramrod-pipes, and engraved staghorn fore-end cap, and horn-tipped ramrod 99.0 cm; 39 in barrel
A GERMAN TOWN SWORD AND TWO HUNTING SWORDS, SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY the first with two-stage blade etched with strapwork over the forte (worn), brass hilt including reversed shell-guard, lion's mask pommel-cap, and spirally carved bone grip; the second with curved blade formed with a slender fuller, brass stirrup-hilt with ring-guard , and spirally-carved bone grip; and the third with etched blade, and brass hilt cast in low relief (shell-guard missing) the first: 72.3 cm; 28½ in blade (3)
VARIOUS OWNERS A RARE CHISELLED IRON SCABBARD FOR A TROUSSE FROM THE SAXON ELECTORAL HUNT, OF JOHAN GEORG II (1613, ELECTOR 1656-80), THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY with leather-covered wooden body bound with iron strips, the inner face with a pair of loops for suspension, the outer face with middle band chiselled with foliage, locket and chape decorated with woodland stag hunting scenes (chape missing its ball finial), the locket drawn-out for accompanying pieces (core missing), and pierced with the abbreviated inscription 'IGDIIHZSGCVBC' for Johan Georg Herzog II zu Sachsen Gülich Cleve und Berg Chürfurst 51.5 cm; 20 ¼ in A hunting garniture, dated 1662, comprising sword and trousse with similar scabbard, formerly in the Saxon Collections, was sold American Art Association, New York, 23 November 1928, lot 279.
A GEORGE II GOLD MEDALLION engraved 'Prosperity to the Country of Galway' to John Blakeney Esq. and dated 1729, engraved verso of a hunting scene and the Athunry Club, 5cm without pendant loop. John Blakeney (c. 1729- 25 July 1789) As a soldier John Blakeney fought at the battle of Culloden, the Battle of Matinico and the Battle of Havana (1762), he reached the rank of Colonel he represented Athenry in the Irish House of Commons from 1763 and was High Sheriff of County Galway

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