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Click here to subscribeA ROYAL SIGNALS ARM BAND WITH UNICORN PATCH. A grey and white Royal Signals arm band or brassard, stamped to the reverse '2320054 R. SIGS' with an attached badge of a red unicorn against a black ground. 8.5 x 38.5cm. This divisional patch was used by the 50th Division during the Great War, possibly as used by the 50th Division when reformed as a TA unit
AN ENGLISH ENAMEL 'ANTI-SLAVERY' PATCH BOX, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 oval, the lid transfer printed after the seal for the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade depicting a kneeling and chained African flanked by a ship and dwellings below the motto 'AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER', the pink body with waisted sides, white interior with mirrored top 4.7cm long Although it is not known who designed the original seal for the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, the image rapidly became famous and emblematic of the whole abolitionist movement. Following its adoption in 1787, Josiah Wedgwood, a member of the society, rushed to have a version produced as a jasperware cameo. These cameos were widely disseminated, including a shipment in 1788 to Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. In the late 18th and early 19th century, similar versions of the image (always including the kneeling chained man and the motto) were found on a variety of objects, from boxes to buckles to jewellery and ceramics. For another example of this rare box, see Swann Auction Galleries, New York, 27 March 2014, lot 10.
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 all oval, one painted with a cornucopia surrounded by a blue band with gilt motto 'MAY TRADE INCREASE / WITH PEACE & PLENTY' (without mirror to lid), one sea green reserving an agricultural trophy and the motto 'Peace and / PROSPERITY', one with blue borders and the motto 'The King / is sav'd / We pray / For TRADE' and one lobed sides and the motto 'May / the King live / to reward the / Subject who / would die for / him' 4.5cm longest
A GROUP OF THREE ENGLISH ENAMEL 'PATRIOTIC' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 each decorated with a military trophy, one oval lid with surrounding motto 'May British Valour / never cease. / Till conquest gains / a lasting Peace' above a green lobed body, the second oblong and with the same motto above a pale blue waisted body, the last oval and with motto 'May British Valour / Conquests gain / And make our foes / Our Friends again' above a pink lobed body 3.8cm wide
A GROUP OF FIVE ENGLISH ENAMEL 'TREATY OF AMIENS' PATCH BOXES, CIRCA 1802 one oval with lid decorated with two female figures below the motto 'Fame Proclaiming her Heroes Peace with / Plenty' above a cobalt blue body, one oval and painted with a seated Britannia below the motto 'Britannia guided with Peace & Plenty' within a blue chevron and white pellet border, one oval and transfer printed with a seated female figure personifying peace beside a flaming military trophy below the motto 'Unity Peace & Plenty' above a pale blue body, one circular and decorated with a seated Britannia receiving a laurel wreath of peace above a yellow body painted with raised floral sprigs, the last oval and with similarly decorated lid above a pale blue body 5.4cm longest
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL 'ROYAL PORTRAIT' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY oval, one lid decorated with the Prince Regent (later George IV) after a print of 1817 from the portrait by William Marshall Craig (died 1827) above blue lobed sides, one decorated under the title 'HIS RHP WILLIAM HENRY' (later William IV) above a green waisted body, one decorated above the title 'Princess Royal of England' (Princess Charlotte, later Queen of Württemberg) and with lilac body, and one transfer printed above the title 'DUKE of YORK' (Prince Frederick) and with pink body 4.8cm longest
A GROUP OF THREE ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES OF THEATRICAL INTEREST, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY all oval, one lid decorated with a profile of the child actor Master Betty (William Henry West Betty (1791-1874) under the title 'THE YOUNG ROSCIUS' above a pink waisted body, one with a transfer print oval of Edmund Kean within gilt scrolls flanked by gilt leafage on a pink ground and with floral painted sides, and one painted with a view titled 'THEATRE ROYAL / DRURY LANE / Erected 1812' above a blue lobed body 5cm longest
A GROUP OF THREE ENGLISH ENAMEL 'RECOVERY OF GEORGE III' PATCH BOXES, CIRCA 1789 oval, brass hinge mounts, one lid decorated with Royal cipher and surrounding couplet 'To Briton's it much JOY doth give / The KING'S restor'd Long may HE live' above a green body, the second with the Eye of Providence above a profile of the King flanked by the inscription 'Blest by the Eye of Providence / The KING enjoys Convalescence. / THANK GOD' above a pale green body, and one with Britannia holding a profile of the King surrounded by the inscription 'Proud of her GEO III Britannia rears Her Head & hopes he will reign many Years.' above a pale blue body; together with another enamel patch box, circa 1902, oval, commemorating Edward VII's recovery shortly before the coronation, the lid printed with a profile of the king below the legend 'Britons rejoice your King's restored' above a blue body 5.4cm longest (4)
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL 'LONDON SOUVENIR' PATCH BOXES AND ONE PILL BOX AND COVER, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH CENTURY brass mounts, transfer printed 'A Present from London' and two 'A Trifle from LONDON', one additionally with a titled view of St Paul's Cathedral and the pill box with a sailing ship 4.4cm longest
A GROUP OF THREE ENGLISH ENAMEL SOUVENIR PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY oval, brass hinge mounts, one lid decorated with the view on a titled banner 'WINDSOR TOY' above waisted sides painted with rosettes between leaf borders, one transfer printed with a view titled 'Windsor Castle' and one transfer printed 'A Trifle from LONDON' above a view titled 'QUEEN'S PALACE' 5cm longest
A GROUP OF FIVE ENGLISH ENAMEL 'NELSON' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 oval, one lid decorated above the title 'Nelson for ever' with three carousing gentlemen above a pink body, one with couplet 'Where Caesar and / Alexander Fought / Brave Nelsons Fleet / new wonders wrought' above a waisted pale blue body, one printed within a wreath 'BRITISH GRATITUDE TO NELSON'S VALOUR' above a green lobed body, one with couplet 'WHEN / Nelson knew the / Battle was won / He said to fate / GODS will be done' above a pink lobed body, and one painted with a grieving figure and memorial urn 'Sacred to Nelson' surrounded by the couplet 'England mourn and drop a tear the / Victory's great but Bought too dear.' above a pointed oval blue body 5.5cm longest
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL 'NELSON' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1798 AND CIRCA 1805 oval, one lid decorated with a naval trophy hung with the banner 'NELSON AND BRITISH GRATITUDE' above blue lobed sides, the other three box lids with the following couplets: 'Hail Nelson hail / They naval Thunders roar / Humbel'd proud France / near Egypts fertile shore', 'Where Caesar and / Alexander Fought / Brave Nelsons Fleet / new wonders wrought' and 'WHEN / Nelson knew the / Battle was won / He said to fate / GODS will be done' 4.3cm long
A GROUP OF FIVE ENGLISH ENAMEL 'NELSON' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 oval, one painted with three battleships centred by a gilt initial N surrounded by the gilt bordered couplet 'Victory & cause of animation / Nelson with Glory fills the Nation', one painted with a battleship and another burning below the motto 'Nelson & Victory', one painted with a battleship below the motto 'Britannia rules the waves', one printed with Britannia holding a 'Nelson' titled scroll below the Eye of Providence and the same motto, and one decorated with same subject
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES COMMEMORATING NAVAL VICTORIES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1794 AND CIRCA 1797 one oval lid painted with a sea battle titled ' The Glorious Victory of Earl Howe / 1st June , 1794' and with white pelleted black and gilt chevron borders on a white ground, one oval, transfer printed with a naval battle scene surrounded by a similar title, another oval, painted with a battle scene surrounded by a black banner 'The Glorious 11th Oct, / 1797' above a white lobed body, and one circular, decorated with a battleship surrounded by the inscription 'ADMIRAL DUNCAN / VENERABLE / 54 Guns / 11.Oct.1797' 5cm longest
AN ENGLISH ENAMEL SMALL BOX, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1765 circular, painted with a roundel of a young woman in a pink dress surrounded by puce scrolls, the waisted sides with raised flower sprays, gilt-metal hinge mounts, collector's label to underside, 6cm diameter; together with two enamel patch boxes, South Staffordshire, 1770s, oval and with brass hinge mounts, one decorated with a bust of a fashionable young lady clutching a lap-dog, one painted with a young girl in a pink dress in rustic setting, 5.5cm longest (3) Provenance for first box: Gerald Poynton Mander (1886-1951), antiquarian and collector of Staffordshire enamels, according to label Collector's No. 202.
A GROUP OF FIVE ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY one circular mottled purple ground with white pellet borders and stylised coat of arms, one pointed oval with diaper pattern surrounding a blue roundel faintly gilded 'A Trifle from BROADSTAIRS', one pointed oval with black and gilt detailing, one pointed oval, mottled blue ground reserving a white and patterned oval, and one oval painted with a playing card on a pale blue ground against blue lobed sides 5.8cm longest
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY one lid decorated with the novelty scene of reversible profiles of a man and woman with the accompanying mottos 'One monthe before MARRIAGE / One month after MARRIAGE', one decorated with a domestic scene of a cat flanked by an old woman and a young man and the motto 'I wish from my Heart one of us three was hang'd / I don't mean you poor Puss, nor I don't mean myself', one decorated with a couple at the altar below the motto 'The Single Married, the Married happy', and one printed with a distressed man holding a broken jug watched by a young woman holding a recorder 5.4cm longest
AN ENGLISH ENAMEL SNUFF BOX, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 oval, painted with a deer hunting scene below the inscription 'Chas. Savage' within a pellet border, cobalt blue body, brass hinge mounts, 8cm long; together with three enamel patch boxes, South Staffordshire, circa 1800, oval, one lid painted with a dog in a landscape below the motto 'An Emblem of Craftiness' above a blue body, one painted with a charging cavalryman above a pale blue body, and one in sepia with a roaring lion above a yellow body (4)
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH CENTURY oval, brass hinge mounts, one lid decorated with a jolly toper seated on a barrel surrounded by the couplet 'May all Nations be free. / and happy as me' above a pale green body, one painted with the bust of a red cheeked bearded man below the inscription 'Laughing' above a pale blue body, one painted within a pellet border with a half length old man below the motto 'Pity the sorrows of poor old MAN' above cobalt blue sides, and one painted within a pellet border after Isaac Taylor (1730-1807) with the 'Sad historian of the pensive Plain' above cobalt blue sides 5.5cm longest The scene on the last box is taken from Isaac Taylor's vignette for the title page of the first edition (1770) of Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village', a pastoral poem lamenting rural depopulation resulting from land enclosures. It depicts the old woman featured in the poem showing the poet a deserted homestead whilst in the background a ship carries away rural emigrants to pastures new.
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL 'BATH SOUVENIR' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY oval, brass hinge mounts, one lid decorated with the titled view 'NEW ROOMS / BATH' above a cobalt blue body, one transfer printed with the titled view 'NEW BRIDGE BATH' above a mauve body, one transfer printed with the titled view 'THE ABBEY CHURCH / BATH' above a pink body, and one inscribed 'A Bath Toy' within a simple blue leaf border above lobed sides 5.2cm longest
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL 'CHELTENHAM SOUVENIR' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY oval, with brass hinge mounts, two lids decorated with similar garden views below the legend 'CHELTENHAM WELLS', one with pale blue waisted body, the other with white waisted body painted with leaf and puce line borders, the third decorated with a view towards a church below the same legend above a white lobed body painted with leaf borders, and the last decorated with a similar view taken from further away flanked by the legend 'A Present / from / Cheltenham' above a waisted pink body 5cm longest
A GROUP OF THREE ENGLISH ENAMEL 'COUNTRY SEAT' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH CENTURY / EARLY 19TH CENTURY one oval lid decorated with a view of Holland House in Kent titled 'KINGS-GATE' showing the house, castle and 'Convent' above pale green lobed sides, one pointed oval painted with a view titled 'Broadlands L'd Palmerston' above a pink waisted body and one oval decorated with a view titled 'Woburn Abbey the Seat of the Du. of Bedford' above a beige-pink waisted body 5.5cm longest Holland House at Kingsgate Bay between Margate and Broadstairs was built between 1762-68 for Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland (see lot 374 for an enamel box with an early caricature of Fox). The flintstone eye-catcher folly 'Kingsgate Castle' was used as a stableblock, the 'Convent' (orginally intended for Anglican nuns) as overflow accommodation for the main house.
A GROUP OF THREE ENGLISH ENAMEL 'SOUVENIR' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 all waisted oval, one lid transfer printed with a view titled 'HAWKSTONE INN & HOTEL' above a pink body, one printed with a cathedral view below the legend 'A Trifle from CAMBRIDGE' above a pink body, and one decorated with a view of a building below the title 'MIDDLEDITCH' and above the legend 'A Present from Ipswich' and with green body 5cm longest Hawkstone Inn was built in the 1790s by Sir Richard Hill for visitors to the famous pleasure grounds of Hawkstone Park in Shropshire. The Inn still exists as Hawkstone Park Hotel, although altered and enlarged.
A GROUP OF FIVE ENGLISH ENAMEL BRIDGE RELATED PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY oval, one lid transfer printed with a view titled 'A Trifle from the Iron Bridge' above blue lobed sides, one decorated with a view titled 'Sunderland Bridge / Span 236 Feet Height 100 Ft.' above blue sides, another similar but not coloured above a green body, one painted with a view titled 'Maidenhead Bridge' within a pellet border above blue sides, and one decorated with a view titled 'A Trifle from Staines' above pale blue sides 5.7cm longest
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL 'BATH SOUVENIR' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 all oval, with brass hinge mounts and lids transfer printed with architectural views, three with some blue colouring, one titled 'A Trifle from BATH / Laura Place' above a pale green body, one 'New Room / BATH' above a pink body, one 'Abbey Church Bath' above a blue body and one 'A Present from BATH / MILSOM ST.' above a mauve body 5cm longest
A GROUP OF THREE ENGLISH ENAMEL 'SEASIDE SOUVENIR' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 oval, with brass hinge mounts, decorated with views, one lid titled 'RAMSGATE PIER' above pink lobed sides, the second titled 'A Trifle from MARGATE / HOOPER'S HiLL' above mauve waisted sides, the third titled 'A Trifle from Margate / The Endeavour entering the Pier.' above pink sides 5cm longest
A GROUP OF FIVE ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY each decorated with a portrait bust of a Coalition War figure, oval, one lid titled 'MARQUES WELLINGTON' above blue waisted sides, one 'MARQIUS OF WELLINGTON' above pink lobed sides, one 'ALEXANDER 1st EMPEROR OF RUSSIA' above pink lobed sides, one 'MARSHAL BLÜCHER' above a blue body, and one 'FREDERICK WILLIAM KING OF PRUSSIA' above a green lobed body 5cm longest
A GROUP OF THREE ENGLISH ENAMEL SOUVENIR PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 oval, two with the legend 'A Trifle from Harrogate' and decorated with a view, one titled 'Fountains Abbey' and the other titled 'Knaresborough Castle', the third transfer printed with a street scene titled 'A Perspective View of / Tunbridge Wells Walks' and with leaf and puce flower simply painted waisted sides 4.5cm long
AN ENGLISH ENAMEL SNUFF BOX, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1770 circular, the lid painted in yellow and black with 'GEO,e JONES' flanked by scrolls, the waisted sides with flower sprays, metal hinge mounts, 6.2cm diameter; together with an enamel patch box, South Staffordshire, circa 1770, circular, black painted 'Mary / Desbrough' within puce scrolls, the waisted sides with flowers, steel mirror, gilt-metal hinge mounts 5.3cm diameter; and another enamel patch box, South Staffordshire, circa 1800, oval, cobalt blue ground, the lid with white pellet and gilt borders around 'SARAH ASTON', 5.4cm diameter (3)
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY oval, one with raised and yellow bordered flowers and a butterfly on a blue trelliswork ground, the second with raised white enamel of flowers and leafage surrounding the legend in gilt 'A Token of Respect' all on a cobalt blue gound, the third in raised white enamel of a dove on an urn below the legend 'A Lovers GIFT' on a cobalt blue ground, the fourth sparsely embellished with white pellets on a cobalt blue ground 5.4cm longest
TWO ENGLISH ENAMEL 'SEASONS' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, CIRCA 1800 oval, each decorated from a set of prints, one lid titled 'Spring' with the young woman holding a floral wreath flanked by flowering plants above a pink body, the other titled 'Autumn' with the young woman holding a bunch of grapes flanked by vines and a harvesting scene above a blue body 5.4cm long
AN ENGLISH ENAMEL 'HONEYSUCKLE GROUP' SNUFF BOX, BIRMINGHAM, CIRCA 1765 rectangular with waisted sides, the central panel painted with a parrot looking over a landscape towards a church, with flower filled panels to the corners and each side all framed by gilt Rococo scrolls on a blue ground with raised honeysuckle motifs, gilt-metal hinge mounts milled at intervals, 6.3cm long; together with an enamel patch box, South Staffordshire, circa 1770, in the form of a basket, the lid painted with a landscape panel and flower vignettes, the sides with three flower panels, all with raised gilt scroll frames on a blue ground with gilt trellis pellets, gilt-metal rim and hinge mount with two small handles, 3.4cm high (2)
TWO ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES COMMEMORATING LOUIS XVI, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH CENTURY oval, metal hinge mounts, one lid transfer printed with a bust of the king below the legend 'LOUIS XVI' above a bright blue body, the other with a painted scene of the king's execution below the legend 'La Guillotine' within a white pellet and gilt border and above blue sides 5.3cm long Another patch box painted with the same execution scene but bordered by the inscription 'He died Lamented by all / Good Men' is held by the British Museum, No.1987, 0708.1.
A GROUP OF FOUR ENGLISH ENAMEL PATCH BOXES, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY oval, one lid decorated with Scottish country dancers under the legend 'The Reel of Tullochgorum' above a waisted blue body, one with a raised panel painted with figures beside a lake surrounded by the legend 'A Trifle from LEEDS' above waisted blue sides, one decorated with Cupid on a Lion above a pink body and one transfer printed with a riverine landscape with buildings above a waisted green body 5.5cm longest
A GROUP OF SIX ENGLISH ENAMEL 'PATRIOTIC' PATCH BOXES, SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE, LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY oval, one lid decorated with Britannia and a lion before a battleship under the banner 'NELSON / VICTORY' within a laurel wreath above a puce frond and green leaf painted body, one decorated with a view below the banner 'GIBRALTAR' above a pale blue body, one commemorating the marriage of the Duke of York and Princess Frederica of Prussia in 1791 and painted with shaking hands surrounded by the legend 'The HAPPY Union / of England & Prussia' above blue waisted sides, one with a sun rayed crown, fronds and sceptre and the legend 'KING / AND / CONSTITUTION' above pale blue lobed sides, one inscribed 'Sacred / to the memory / of George III. / Obit 1820 / Aged 82' above a pale blue lobed body, and the last circular and printed with a portrait bust of 'GEN CORNWALLIS' surrounded by the couplet 'Cornwallis is just / And true to his trust' above a blue body 5.4cm longest
WW2 British Mechanised Transport Corps Battle Dress Blouse, fine quality female battle dress with yellow on blue rectangular arm patch. Blue felt collar patches and four blue felt bars to the cuff. MTC buttons to the shoulders and one to the front, other buttons being wartime plastic examples. Plain lining to the interior and quilted shoulder pads. Couple of scattered moth nips but generally good condition.
Imperial German M-17 Camouflaged Steel Combat Helmet, fine example of a standard M-17 steel combat helmet which has a bright patch work pattern camouflage paint finish in the usual green’s, browns and ochre colours with black separation lines. Interior of the shell is stamped “BF 64”. Original metal liner band with the three white leather liner pads still present. Helmet has a black leather pickelhaube chinstrap attached to the chinstrap lugs, detached at the end. Old hanging wire is attached to the helmet. Good untouched example.
WW2 German Army Panzer Reconnaissance Wrap-Over Tunic Collar Patch, a quite crude but original tunic collar patch for the black wrap-over tunic. The black wool body collar patch with zinc panzer skull fitted to the centre and a thick golden yellow piping to the border. Backing material to the reverse of the collar patch. Uniform removed.
A German 25-Bore Wheel-Lock Sporting CarbineLate 17th/Early 18th CenturyWith swamped octagonal sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, short plain tang, flat lock engraved with a bird amid foliage, domed brass wheel-cover engraved with a flower-head and foliage, sliding pan-cover and cock pierced and engraved as a monster-head, fruitwood full stock (repairs around the lock) inlaid along both sides of the fore-stock with engraved staghorn or bone running hounds between scrollwork and ball-flowers, all within white staghorn or bone line borders, the butt inlaid en suite and involving a townscape inhabited by a boar on the hollowed cheek-piece, and with a further hound above the sliding patch-box, the latter (rear mount missing) with an engraved running hare in a landscape, iron trigger-guard indented for the fingers, horn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap engraved with stylised ropework, dark horn butt-plate with iron button rest, adjustable set trigger, and later horn-tipped ramrod 63.2 cm. barrel For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Silesian 120-Bore Wheel-Lock TschinkeMid-17th CenturyWith octagonal sighted barrel swamped towards the muzzle, rifled with six grooves and set with border engraved brass panels over the top breech flats decorated with scrolls between ropework, plain tang, characteristic lock overlaid with brass engraved with foliage within roped borders, those over the main and cock-springs against blued steel plates, the former pierced and engraved with foliage and a bird, the latter pierced and engraved with pairs of bird's heads, the cock en suite and involving a moustachioed profile head, arched wheel-cover faced in engraved brass pierced with a heart on either side of the spindle, foliate engraved sliding pan-cover with release button, the latter with domed brass head, button-catch for setting the sear en suite, figured full stock, butt inlaid with shaped pieces of mother-of-pearl (some replacements) inset with green-stained and plain staghorn or bone, and brass plaques engraved en suite with the lock and including monsters, all against a ground of mother-of-pearl roundels and small brass nails, sliding patch-box cover en suite, replacement iron trigger-guard indented for the fingers, horn butt-plate (minor damage) with iron button, engraved brass ramrod-straps each pierced with three slots, engraved brass fore-end cap, and later ramrod with engraved brass tip 94.7 cm. barrelFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Rare .577 Percussion Sharps 1855 Model British Breech-Loading Carbine Circa 1855-57With leaf-sighted barrel rifled with three spiral grooves, slanting breech, tape-primed action with hinged cover stamped 'Edward Maynard Patentee 1845', plain back-action lock, figured butt and fore-end (chipped), brass butt-plate and hinged rectangular patch-box cover, and trigger-lever with locking-catch (old rust patination, saddle-bar and ring removed); together with the action and butt of a .577/.450 Martini Henry service carbine, dated 1894, the action stamped with crowned 'V.R' over 'B.S.A. & M.C.' and the date on one side (action defective, replaced imitation barrel detached), the original wooden fore-stock retaining its forward barrel band (3)The first 49 cm. barrel For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A 10-Bore (.800) Percussion Big Game Rifle By Charles Nephew & Co., London & Calcutta, Mid-19th CenturyWith heavy rebrowned twist sighted barrel (minor patch of pitting) with four wide spiral grooves and engraved 'London & Calcutta' on the top flat behind the folding adjustable long range back-sight, border engraved breech with platinum plug and decorated with a foliate scroll on the top flat, tang, signed flat detented lock and dolphin hammer all en suite, figured half-stock (small repair at rear ramrod-pipe) with chequered grip, steel butt-plate and spur trigger-guard decorated en suite with the lock, the latter with pineapple finial, vacant white-metal escutcheon, barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end cap, adjustable set trigger, sling mounts, and original ramrod (horn tip insect damaged), Birmingham proof marks; together with a quantity of .784 lead rounds in a leather drawstring bag (2)80 cm. barrel Footnotes:Charles Nephew & Co. appear to be unrecordedFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Cased 22-Bore (.600) Percussion Sporting RifleBy Staundenmayer, London, No. 30, Circa 1830With rebrowned twist octagonal leaf-sighted barrel signed along the top flat at the breech and rifled with eight bright spiral grooves, border engraved case-hardened breech decorated with foliate scrolls and with platinum line and pierced platinum plug, border engraved tang, signed case-hardened flat detented lock with safety-catch and hammer (top of hammer and spur repaired) all decorated en suite with the breech, the lock with safety-catch, figured half-stock (some old bruising) with cheek-piece and chequered grip, steel mounts retaining in some original blueing and decorated with foliate scrolls en suite, comprising butt-plate, hinged rectangular patch-box cover, and trigger-guard with looped spur and pineapple finial, vacant silver escutcheon, barrel-bolt escutcheons and fore-end cap, adjustable set trigger, sling mounts (forward ramrod-pipe replaced), original steel ramrod with brass button tip, and traces of original finish (some old rust patination in places): in contemporary relined (lining moth damage) and fitted mahogany case with G. & J.W. nickel-plated powder-flask with bag-shaped body covered in brown pigskin (minor loss of finish on one side), brass-mounted bullet starter, and earlier turnscrew, the exterior of the lid with circular vacant brass escutcheon centred on a circular flush-fitting carrying handle, London proof marks 74.5 cm. barrel Footnotes:Samuel Henry Staundenmayer, former workman of John Manton, was gunmaker to the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. He is a noted maker of rifles and repeating air riflesFor further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A 15-Bore (.680) Percussion Big Game Rifle By C. Maybury, 15 St. Mary's Square, Birmingham, Mid-19th CenturyWith heavy browned twist octagonal barrel with bright bore cut with five spiral grooves and signed in full along the top flat behind the blued folding leaf back-sights, each leaf with central platinum line and calibrated from '100' to '500' yards, and dove-tailed for a sight behind the blued fore-sight, border engraved case-hardened breech with platinum plug centred on scrollwork and decorated with a tiger's mask on the top flat, case-hardened border engraved tang decorated with foliate scrollwork, signed flat detented lock and hammer en suite, figured half-stock (comb of butt with minor chip) with chequered grip and fore-end, the latter with dark horn cap, case-hardened border engraved steel mounts decorated with scrolling foliage and comprising butt-plate and trigger-guard with chequered spur, trigger-plate with scroll engraved pineapple-shaped finial, hinged circular border engraved patch-box cover decorated with a tiger in a landscape, vacant shield-shaped silver escutcheon, sling mounts, original white-metal mounted ramrod, and much original finish, Birmingham proof marks; together with a quantity of .680 lead rounds in a leather drawstring bag (2)75 cm. barrel Footnotes:Charles Maybury is recorded at 15 St. Mary's Row, Birmingham, between 1837 and 1886Cf. a cased pair of d.b. percussion sporting rifles by the same maker and sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 30 November 2016, lot 254For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A 26-Bore (.500) Percussion D.B. Sporting RifleBy Venables, Oxford, Circa 1860With browned twist sighted barrels each rifled for a belted ball and signed along the rib behind the folding leaf back-sights calibrated from '100' to '300' yards, case-hardened border engraved breeches decorated with a boar's head between and each with pierced platinum plug, border engraved case-hardened tang decorated with foliate scrollwork, signed detented flat locks and dolphin hammers en suite, the former with engraved safety-catch and decorated respectively with a prone tiger and prone leopard in a landscape, figured half-stock (some old bruising) with chequered grip and fore-end, border engraved blued steel mounts (some loss of finish) comprising butt-plate decorated with foliate scrollwork on the heel tang, trigger-guard with chequered spur and a prone stag and hind in a landscape on the bow, trigger-plate with engraved pineapple-shaped finial, hinged circular border engraved patch-box cover decorated with a male lion in a landscape, vacant silver escutcheon, brass-mounted ramrod, and some original finish, London proof marks 75.5 cm. barrel Footnotes:John Venables is recorded at 21 St. Aldates Street, Oxford between 1846 and 1863For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Highly Unusual Irish 16-Bore Flintlock D.B. Carbine With Spring Bayonet By Pattison, Dublin, Early 19th CenturyWith browned twist octagonal barrels and rectangular breeches, broad sighting rib signed in gothic script within scrollwork, engraved with a foliate martial trophy involving a Britannia shield and with silver fore-sight, border engraved case-hardened box-lock action signed beneath a starburst over each side, the upper tang plate decorated with an elaborate martial trophy involving a boar's head, the lower signed behind the trigger-guard, engraved safety-catches each engaging with the back of the border engraved ring-neck cock, the latter each with hinged starburst engraved top jaw adjusted by a threaded bolt with winged head of Aston's patent type, rectangular pans each with platinum-lined touch-hole, highly figured butt with chequered grip, border engraved steel mounts comprising butt-plate decorated with a martial trophy and foliage on the heel tang, hinged rectangular sprung patch-box cover with a martial trophy involving a field gun in a landscape and released by a small button disguised as a screw on the heel of the butt-plate, trigger-guard decorated with a martial trophy on the bow and retaining much of its blueing on the inside, spring bayonet with catch and mechanism mounted in front of the trigger-guard, and brass-mounted ramrod, probably original 35 cm. barrels Footnotes:Cf. two related examples, one by Farrell McDermot, Dublin of circa 1815 and formerly in the W. Keith Neal Collection, Christie's London, 25 October 2001, lot 36; and another, by George Turner of Dublin and sold in these Rooms, The Daniel Williams Collection..., 28 November 2018, lot 89For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A Pair Of 20-Bore Flintlock Silver-Mounted Turn-Off PistolsBy J. Smith, London, Mid-18th CenturyWith two-stage cannon barrels, breeches each engraved 'London', signed beneath the steel-spring (one with a patch of pitting over the signature) and with a band of foliage behind, waisted border engraved tangs each decorated with foliage, border engraved actions, foliate engraved cocks and steels, trigger-guards each engraved with a flower-head on the bow, figured rounded swelling butts (each with small repair behind the action on one side) carved with a simple shell behind the barrel tang, cast and chased mounts comprising pierced foliate side-plates, vacant foliate escutcheons, and grotesque mask butt-caps, London proof marks and Evan Lloyd's barrelsmith's mark (2)13.5 cm. barrelsFootnotes:The maker is probably John 5 Smith who was free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1712, and recorded as a gunlock maker at Little Gray's Inn Lane or Liquor Pond Street, London between 1743 and 1744Evan Lloyd was apprenticed to Isaac Morris in 1700 and free of the Gunmakers' Company in 1708 of which he was elected Assistant in 1727. He died in 1729For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
An impressive selection of Polish medals and military insignia spanning two World Wars formerly the property of K Szmidla including First War - 1921 period - Polish Virtuti Militari Cross 5th Class No. 3720 (minus ring suspension); Silesian Cross of Bravery; Silesian Cross of Valour and Merit; unofficial Polish Bravery Cross engraved K.S. 1920; enamelled suspended shield badge named to the 115th Polish Lancers 1920-21 and engraved "Szmidla Kourimierz Ulan"; suspended pennant engraved with initials and dated "1/7/1920"; Polish Vistula 1920 pin badge; Polish 1919-1920 pin badge; two Polish 100th Anniversary 1917 patriotic badges; a miniature 1918-1928 Anniversary of Independance medal; miniature Polish War medal 1918-1921; Polish First Light Horse Regiment enamelled Star badges, 1920s period Polish cap badges and other insignia Early Second War Period - Polish plated steel cap badge marked "DSP"; 1940 Swiss Bronze Red Cross badge; 1930s enamelled Polish army sports badge; two marksman's badges; Polish silver and enamelled "U 25" badge; various Swiss Red Cross related badges and insignia and a selection of miniature Polish Airborne "Lopp" pin badges, etc, together with various postal cards mainly dated 1940 relating to the Red Cross in Switzerland, various photographs of soldiers and invalids, etc Second War Period A selection of 8th Army cloth patches, Poland titles, 3rd Carpathian Rifle Divison patch and others, Polish 2nd Corps badge, pair of Combined Operations arm badges, Polish cap badges, original Second War Polish red beret with insignia and various other regalia, etc, together with a Polish commemorative magazine 1920-1939, Polish map, single volume "The Unknown Revolution 1917-1921"; Varsovia 1944" volume and other publications, etc
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