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Lot 87
The Natural History of Quadrupeds and Cetaceous Animals 1811: Hardcover embellished with numerous plates, accurately coloured from nature, Two Volumes newly rebound in light green cloth, new end papers, 120 hand coloured plates, of Monkeys, Bats, Whales, Dogs and other mammals some plate with more than one animal, A few finger-marks on some pages, else bright and clean with good plates (2)
Lot 101A
Astrology as it is, not as it has been represented: By a Cavalry Officer. Published by H. Bailliere, 219 Regent Street, London 1856. Together with The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold 1890, A History of Architecture on the comparative method by Sir Banister Fletcher and Repertory of Homoeopathic Materia Medica by J. T. Kent. (4)
Lot 142
A Dunhill Aquarium table lighter, gilt mounts, engraved and painted perspex body, one side depicting two fish in silver and orange, the other depicting another one in silver and black, on a light green ground, amongst water plants and rocks, the ends with rocks and plant life in silver and green, underside of base stamped Made in England, 8 x 9.50 x 5cm (3 x 4 x 2in)
Lot 349
* Sandra Blow (British, 1925-2006), Brown and White Study (One), acrylic on canvas with applied hessian, 62 x 62cm (24 x 24in). Provenance: Private collection, Cambridge. Sandra Blow was born in London in September 1925 an artist and teacher at the Royal College of Art. It was during the 1950s that Blow was described as one of the pioneering abstract painters of her time because she introduced a new expressive informality to British art. She did this by using cheap, discarded materials. In `Brown and White Study (One`) we see her typical application of unconventional materials with the use of applied hessian. Other materials in her works have included sawdust, sackcloth and plaster alongside paint on her canvasses. This creates a tactile emphasis on surface and texture. In the 1960s Blow`s palette lightened and continued for the majority of the rest of her career. Her use of earthy hues such as beiges, browns and whites helped break down associated prejudices about abstract painting to make it seem commonplace in the London art scene at the time. Her light and informal abstract compositions celebrated the purity of the era.
Lot 1734
ANCIENT ROMAN IRIDESCENT GLASS TWO HANDLED BOTTLE, colourless with light pink and blue sheen, semi-opaque tubular with swelling bottom to form a conical body, base wide, hollowed with two handles from rim to mid-base, with tooling mark on the bottom of the bottle, tubular neck constriction; spreading rim with flattened fold on top, intact, 12.5cm high
Lot 22
Early Powder Horn with Contemprorary Engravings of Philadelphia LocationsThis 12" horn shows the Philadelphia area - Norristown to Gloucester and Ft. Mifflin to Bustleton. Inscribed up the bow Liberty or Death. Some light cross-hatching around spout.Ex John McMurray Condition: Very good.Starting Price: $300
Lot 43
Model 1808 Contract Jenks Flintlock Musket.69 caliber, 44.625" round barrel, marked on top of barrel in an oval at breech P TW. Lockplate marked Jenks RI 1812 at the rear of plate; under the pan is an eagle with US in the talons. Flat-style lockplate with rounded pan, flat hammer. Walnut stock with three barrel bands. Condition: All metal has been lightly cleaned to bright with some light staining and pitting. There is some pitting around the touch hole. Stock is excellent. Very sharp and crisp musket.Starting Price: $3500
Lot 60
Ames Boxlock Percussion Pistol.54 caliber, 6" round barrel, left side of barrel marked at breech in four lines USN, 1844, RP, P. Lockplate marked in the rear in two lines USN 1844, N.P. Ames, Springfield Mass, in three lines. Brass furniture, swivel ramrod, walnut stock. Left side of stock opposite of the lockplate has been carved the name B. Fauth.No one named B. Fauth could be found in CWSS or HDS as an enlisted sailor or Petty Officer during the Civil War. The only officer named "Fauth" in the Navy Register is Henry Fauth who served after the Mexican War as 3rd Asst. Engineer, Feb. 1852; 2nd Asst. Engineer, June 1855; Resigned August 1856. Condition: Lockplate has a nice patina with some scattered light pitting. All markings are sharp and crisp. Barrel has been lightly cleaned with scattered pitting throughout the length of the barrel. Brass furniture with nice patina. Stock has some nicks and dings, a readable cartouche but the name has been carved through the cartouche.Starting Price: $400
Lot 64
French Model 1821Cavalry Saber36.5" quilled back blade with no fullers. Leather and brass wire wrapped handle. Brass knuckle bow with three branches, brass pommel. Metal scabbard with two carrying rings. Condition: Scabbard has a nice brown patina with some rust staining. Blade has been lightly cleaned with some light staining. Brass with untouched patina.Starting Price: $400
Lot 70
Early European Flintlock Pistol.70 cal. smoothbore, 13.5" tapered round barrel, chased steel furniture, triggerguard with finial, pierced iron side plate. Early beveled-style lock with rounded hammer, frizzen spring with finial. Walnut stock appears to be an old restock. Condition: Barrel is a gunmetal grey with light pitting blending inthe metal. Lock and furniture are a gunmetal grey blending to a brown. Stock is either a restock or has been refinished.Starting Price: $1000
Lot 74
Pair of English BoxLock Flintlock Blunderbuss Pistols with Folding Bayonets8" octagonal-to-round flared barrels. Engraved with London on one side and on the other is Laughen. Walnut grips. Steel folding bayonet with steel triggerguard. One of the pistols is missing the bayonet release button. Condition: All steel parts have a nice light brown patina. Brass with a nice untouched patina. Grips are excellent. Very nice pair.Starting Price: $1250
Lot 86
Double-Barrel Percussion Pistol Combination Sword20.5" blade, 4" round rifled barrels with twist pattern finish, 20.5" blade. Fluted handles. Leather scabbard with brass fittings. Condition: Barrels are smooth with some of the twist pattern still remaining. Hammers have some light pitting with storage rust. Bottom four inches of the blade have an area of red rust and pitting. This was exposed because that part of the leather scabbard is missing. Scabbard is crazed with the bottom piece of leather missing.Starting Price: $750
Lot 91
Double-Barrel Percussion Shotgun by Whitney Arms Presented to Frank Tiesing.12 gauge, 32" barrels, S/N 1007. Engraved on the top of barrel Presented To Frank Tiesing By Whitney Arms Company. Engraved metal frame. Finely figured checkered walnut buttstock, and checkered forearm. Complete with research file on Frank Tiesing.Frank W. Tiesing was one of those inventive geniuses who had a major impact on the development of firearms during one of the most important periods, that just after the Civil War, yet whose name has been forgotten by collectors and researchers until very recently. Tiesing was born in Germany about 1840. He was naturalized as an American citizen 7 March 1867. His wife, Martha, was also born in Germany about 1844 (or 1848), and arrived here in 1855 or 1865 (records are sketchy). Frank appears in the New Haven City Directory as a machinist at 35 Bishop St. from 1864 until 1883. He died 8 Nov. of that year, but his sons, Edward and Berthold, continued working at the Bishop Street address.Frank Tiesing held dozens of patents for improvements in firearms. Most of his patents relate to longarms - lever action rifles, magazine systems, single shot systems, and more. A few were used by Winchester, but the majority of patents were used by Eli Whitney, Whitney Arms Co., as this gun attests. This presentation gun was one of a group of three of Tiesing’s personal guns sold by his grandson in the 1960s. The guns were then sold by Jackson Arms Company of Dallas, TX in 1968 (Catalog no.25, lot 601). They were apparently purchased by a dealer and the group broken up subsequently. This gun was purchased by Norm Flayderman and sold to the current owner.Tiesing appears to have worked in an independent capacity, although he held patents with other inventors such as Samuel Kennedy and Charles Gerner. The History of the City of New Haven (Atwater, 1887: 154) shows Tiesing working for William Schoolhorn & Co. manufacture scissors, shears and other cutlery, as well as tools and hardware. The history indicates that he had a major role in that entity from 1880 until his death in 1883, and that his widow sold her interest in the company the following year. The history indicates that Mr. Schoolhorn came from New York to Whitneyville in 1858, where he was employed by the Whitney Arms Company until 1863; apparently Tiesing knew Schoolhorn from his association with Whitney Arms. We located at least one other patent held by Tiesing for a Coach Hinge ( no.239,201), presumably associated with the hardware handled by Schoolhorn.There are probably many more patents held by Tiesing which have been all but forgotten, like their inventor. But a recent renewed interest in these giants in the history of firearms will certainly bring many more inventors and their inventions into the light of day. Condition: Barrels retain 95% of the rust blue finish, a couple of brown spots on the right side of barrel. Frame retains 90% of the original blue finish. Buttstock and forearm are excellent retaining most of the original varnished finish.Starting Price: $750
Lot 116
Model 1863 Spencer Civil War Carbine.56 cal., 20" barrel. Chamber dated 1865, sling swivel. Condition: Very good condition with a good bore. The bore has strong rifling, but has some light to moderate rust throughout. There are three "kill notches" across the top of the barrel. The wood is very good.Starting Price: $500
Lot 127
Cavalry Officer`s Saber Model 1840.36" blade, leather and brass wire wrapped handle. Iron pommel, knuckle bow. Marked on the flat at ricasso Tiffany New York and on the revere PDL. Metal scabbard. Condition: Blade is in excellent condition with some very light black staining. Still showing nice polish markings. Scabbard has a nice dark patina.Starting Price: $400
Lot 128
Cavalry Officer`s Saber Model 1840.36" blade, leather and brass wire wrapped handle. Iron pommel, knuckle bow. Marked on the flat at ricasso Tiffany New York and on the revere PDL. Metal scabbard. Condition: Blade is in excellent condition with some very light black staining. Still showing nice polish markings. Scabbard has a nice dark patina.Starting Price: $400
Lot 134
English Bowie Knife by J. Nowill6" clipped-point blade marked on ricasso J. Nowill & Son Sheffield. Horn handle with German silver escutcheon. German silver chased guard and German silver coffin-shaped chased pommel. Double leather sheath. Condition: Blade has been sharpened and lightly cleaned with some salt-and-pepper pitting. German silver has nicely tarnished. Leather sheath with some light scuffing.Starting Price: $1000
Lot 157
US Civil War Model1850 Staff Officer`s Sword Inscribed to Lt. Harry E. Pease30.5" U.S. etched blade with military motifs, single brass guard. Inscription reads Lieut. Harry E. Pease Quartermaster, Independent Corps, Light Infantry, N.Y.S.V.Lieutenant Pease entered the New York Independent Corps Light Infantry also known as the “Enfans Perdus” from Albany in August 1862. This obscure unit was originally organized in New York City as a battalion of infantry with six companies. Three more companies were later added in the field bringing the unit up to regimental strength before it was consolidated in January 1864.The battalion saw initial service during the Peninsula campaign at Yorktown in April 1862 before being transferred with the 4th Corps to the Department of North Carolina in December. In January the Light Infantry briefly became a component of the 18th Corps before joining the forces assembling at Beaufort, South Carolina. Now part of the 10th Corps, Department of the South, the battalion participated in operations around Charleston being stationed at St. Helena on Morris Island, and on Folly Island. The July 1863 the “Enfans Perdus” took part in the engagements on Morris Island, the siege of Fort Wagner and the bombardment of Fort Sumter as well as the battle of Olustee, Florida loosing 9 men killed and wounded. In January 1864 the battalion was broken up with the enlisted men being reassigned to the 1st NY Engineers and 47th NY and 48th NY Infantry. The supernumerary officers were discharged. Lieutenant Pease was promoted to battalion Quartermaster in July 1862 and mustered out on February 5, 1864 at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Condition: Very good. Missing shagreen wrap, wire is present, but loose.Starting Price: $1000
Lot 168
1860 Letter to Samuel Colt from H. Richardson Regarding a Call for Arms1p, approx. 9.25 x 10.75 in. Richmond, VA, 26 Jan. 1860. Signed by Wm. H. Richardson, Adjutant Genl. of Virginia. To Samuel Colt requesting an exchange of arms, and possible purchase of others. General Richardson requests of Colt:In the extraordinary call for arms of all descriptions growing out of the occurrences at Harpers ferry in October last, the State is in want of some descriptions of arms for immediate use, that cannot be procured as speedily as nessary. The Legislature had made large appropriations both for pulling the Armoury into operation and for the purchase of arms - both which measures a gentleman who I understood was connected with your establishment, called on me not very long since, and in a brief conversation which was all i then had time for stated, that any portion of the arms which the Governor purchased of you could be exchanged for such others as teh State has most immediate need of. In that case we desire to exchange the revolving rifle muskets for Cavalry sabres & probably pistols & that immediately. Can you do this & if so upon what terms?General William H. Richardson formed the First Regiment of Virginia Volunteers in May 1851 from volunteer militias in Richmond and surrounding counties. The regiment consisted of ten companies by the middle of the decade before the war, and many were mustered into Confederate service once war erupted. The regiment was called out to defend Harpers Ferry, only to find Brown and his men had already been captured by a unit of U.S. Marines under command of Col. Robert E. Lee.One wonders if General Richardson ever regretted trading those revolving rifles. Colt had produced an experimental revolving rifle some decades earlier, but the real production piece was rolled out in 1855, and was not widely distributed for a couple years while design adjustments were made. The early revolvers (both pistol and rifle) used paper cartridges, and ran the risk of "chain fire" if gunpowder leaked into crevices around the firing cylinder. This loose powder could then ignite and ignite any other unfired cartridges in the cylinder, which then drove metal and hot gases into the arm and wrist of the user. (Pistols weren`t quite as much of a problem since they were held behind the trigger and cylinder.) As a result, commanders distrusted the weapon, and eventually Colt stopped producing them, even though the development of metal cartridges would solve the problem, and revolving pistols remained popular. This may have been a contributing reason for Richardson wanting to exchange these weapons.If maintained properly, however, they could be effective. Colt did sell between four and five thousand to the U.S. Military during the Civil War. Reportedly Confederate forces at Snodgrass Hill in the Battle of Chickamauga thought they were facing an entire division, when in fact it was only the 21st Ohio armed with Colt 1855 revolving rifles. Condition: One vertical fold with light toning along that and the edges. Edges also have short tears and some chips of paper missing, but none interfere with text.Starting Price: $350
Lot 185
Remington New Model 1858 Percussion Revolver.44 cal., 7.5" octagonal, S/N 22721. Walnut grips. Condition: All metal is sharp and crisp with the barrel having a very old refinish, possibly during the period of use. Frame and cylinder are very sharp and crisp bluish-grey look with some light pitting mixing in. Grips are good with an opened-grained look. A small chip out of the left grip. All sub-inspectors` initials are nice and sharp.Starting Price: $400
Lot 196
Colt Model 1851 US Marked Navy Revolver ID`d to Napoleon B. Thistlewood with Documents.36 cal., 7.5" octagonal barrel, S/N 62989. This revolver is in the Army/Navy serial range. Brass backstrap and triggerguard. US marked on frame below Colt`s Patent. Walnut grips. Engraved on the backstrap Napoleon B. Thistlewood; engraved on the butt 98th Ill. Lot further includes three medals for Department Commander, two are dated 1901 and named to N.P. Thistlewood. The third is dated 1895 and inscribed 30th Annual Encampment Dept. of Illinois G.A.R. Cairo May 12-14, 1896. Plus a Cairo Survivors GAR ribbon. Lot further includes copy of Lightning at Hoover`s Gap Wilder`s Brigade in the Civil War. by Glenn W. Sunderland, 1969 by A.S. Barnes and Co., Cranbury, N.J. Lot includes copies of his pension records. Captain Napoleon B. Thistlewood served in the famous 98th Illinois Infantry which was part of Wilder`s Brigade. Wilder`s Brigade battled to victory over the Confederate Army of the Tennessee. Condition: All numbers match. Metal has nice light brown patina. Very sharp and crisp edges. Nice patina on the brass. Walnut grips show use with some nicks and dings. Grips may have been period replacements. Mechanically fine.Starting Price: $3000
Lot 210
Cased First Model Remington Beals Percussion Pocket Revolver.31 cal., 3" octagonal barrel, S/N 596. Blued finish with gutta percha grips. Partitioned factory mahogany case with eagle and shield flask with Remington banner; brass mold with no spruce cutter; pack of paper cartridges, loading tool with cleaning rod. Revolver is pictured on page 70 of Remington`s First Revolver by Charles Schif (2007). Condition: Case is excellent; lining has faded some. Flask is excellent retaining most of the original lacquered finish. One very small dent at the bottom. Barrel retains 90% of the bright original blue finish. Some light scratches to the blue finish on the right side of barrel. Cylinder retains 60% of the bright original blue finish with some scratches and flaking to plum. Frame retains 60% of the original blue finish fading to plum. Grips are excellent.Starting Price: $2000
Lot 215
Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver.44 cal., 8" round barrel, S/N 15626. Four-screw cut for shoulder stock. Iron backstrap with brass triggerguard. One-piece walnut grips. Condition: All numbers match. The metal is sharp and crisp with brown speckling and some light pitting. Mechanically good. Grips with no cartouche but they have nice open grained look.Starting Price: $750
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