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Lot 581
A FINE CASED PAIR OF 40-BORE FORSYTH PATENT SLIDING PRIMER BOXLOCK POCKET PISTOLS BY FORSYTH & CO., LONDON, serial nos. 2449/50, circa 1820, 6 1/2in. overall, with slightly tapering border engraved octagonal barrels each with silver fore-sight and signed 'FORSYTH & CO. / PATENT GUN MAKERS LONDON', action each engraved with a trophy of arms and foliage and signed 'FORSYTH & CO. / PATENT' on the left side, finely chequered figured walnut butts, shaped silver escutcheons, foliate engraved trigger-guards, and original iron ramrod, London proof marks, in fitted mahogany case, possibly original, relined in green baize with accessories including cylindrical powder-flask, ivory priming-flask housing two spare strikers in the base and a multi-tool, the lid with reproduction Forsyth trade label, the lid with ornate shaped brass escutcheon.
Lot 907
*A FINE T. BLAND, LONDON .500/.450 (NO.1 EXPRESS) FARQUHARSON FALLING-BLOCK SPORTING RIFLE, serial no. 15280, 29in. blued barrel signed 'T. BLAND & SONS. 430, WEST STRAND, LONDON.', block-mounted bead fore-sight, block-mounted rear express sight with large standing leaf sight with ivory facing and graduations for three differing bullet weights, to 400 yards with three folding leaves for a 270 grn bullet, and a tangent sight to 500 yards on the right side for a 325 grn bullet and to 700 yards on the left side for a 370 grn bullet, border engraved case-hardened action signed 'T. BLAND & SONS' on the left side and with blued safety on the right, 14 3/4in. well figured pistolgrip stock with blacked Selous plates, chequered fore-end, engraved case-hardened butt-plate, silver escutcheon, iron sling eyes, dark horn fore-end cap, and nearly all its original finish.
Lot 527
An Edwardian mahogany cased mantle clock, 'The Automatic Memorandum Clock', having turned finials and hinged lid, enclosing a brass segmented dial with provision for ivory tablets, body with a blind fret frieze over enamel Roman dial with applied pierced floral spandrels and lower bell activating trap door on turned and block feet.
Lot 1404
A Great War Period M.B.E., Kaisar-I-Hind pair awarded to Lady Margaret Bhore, the wife of Sir Joseph Bhore, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., C.B.E., Indian Civil Service the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 1st type breast badge, hallmarks for London, 1919, on Lady’s riband bow, in its Garrard & Co. case of issue; Kaisar-I-Hind, G.V.R., 1st class, 2nd type, gold, complete with upper brooch-bar for wearing, in its fitted case of issue, together with Delhi Durbar 1911, and an attractive gold and enamel brooch of the central design of the Arms of the State of Bhopal, by Cooke & Kelvey of Calcutta, in its red leather presentation case, good very fine and better (4) £600-800 m.B.E. London Gazette 8 January 1919. kaisar-I-Hind London Gazette 1 January 1934. also sold with an attractive presentation trowel, silver-plated, with ivory handle, in its fitted case, the front of the blade engraved, ‘Presented to Sir Joseph Bhore, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., C.B.E., I.C.S., By the Delhi Y.M.C.A. Committee on the Occasion of the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the New Delhi Y.M.C.A. Hostel, March 21st, 1935, As a Small Token of Appreciation’, the reverse of the blade with the engraved names of the Committee Members. margaret Wilkie Stott married Joseph Bhore in 1911. A doctor by profession, she was elevated to O.B.E. on 1 January 1944 (relevant London Gazettes refer), and died in the following year. Sir Joseph, a long served Indian Civil Servant, was onetime Dewan (Prime Minister) of the State of Cochin, and rose to be a Member of the Governor-General’s Executive Council in the 1930s - it was for services in Cochin that his wife received her Kaisar-I-Hind. Created a C.B.E. in 1920 and a C.I.E. in 1923, he was elevated to K.C.I.E. in 1930 and appointed K.C.S.I. in 1933. One of his final duties was to represent India at the Jubilee celebrations in London in 1935. He died in August 1960. £600-£800
Lot 177
Waterloo 1815 (Capt. & Bre. Maj. A. Kuckuck, 3rd Line Batt.) fitted with original steel clip and small ring suspension, together with a fine oval miniature portrait of the recipient in uniform wearing his Waterloo medal, oils on ivory, unsigned; a gilt badge with GRV cypher from his later Hannoverian service; ‘Peacock’s Polite Repository or Pocket Companion’ for 1818, with hand written eulogy to the K.G.L. with reference to their services at Waterloo given by the Duke of Cambridge, bound in red leather; a wax seal impression, and a group photograph of officers in the Hannoverian service, the reverse inscription identifying ‘Grandfather Kuckuck-Wahren’, nearly extremely fine £4000-5000 johann Augustin Julius Kuckuck was born in the Kingdom of Hannover in about 1767. He was married at Einbeck on 18 August 1788, and subsequently had five children. He joined the newly formed King’s German Legion on 15 September 1804, being appointed as Captain of a Company to the 3rd Line Battalion, and served in the expedition to Hannover in 1805-06. In 1807 he took part in the expedition to the Baltic, and from 1808 to 1814 he was stationed on the island of Sicily in the Mediterranean. Promoted to Brevet Major in the 3rd Line Battalion in June 1814, he was stationed in the Netherlands during the latter part of that year, and took part in the campaign of 1815 and the battle of Waterloo. He was promoted to substantive Major in the 5th Line Battalion in September 1815 and placed on half-pay on 25 April 1816, upon the reduction of the King’s German Legion. For his services at Waterloo he was awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, 4th Class, and the Hannoverian Wilhelm’s Cross. He was later promoted to Colonel on the half pay by brevet and became Commandant at Hildesheim. Sold with copy statement of service in which he points out that of his three Christian names only August, contracted from Augustin, had ever been inserted in his Commissions, and that he would continue to do the same until further orders; dated Hildesheim, 22 December 1828. £4000-£5000
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