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Lot 388
The George Haywood archive of ephemera and articles relating to the life of a rifleman 1891 - 1901. To include army account book, pay books, record book, three albums of period photographs of India and China. An opium pipe, a Chinese ladies cloak, Emperors Guard Uniform and books including 'Rifle Brigade' chronicles 1892, 1893, 1897, 1900 and 1901.
Lot 589
A good pair of Minton Majolica game tureens and covers, date code circa 1865, of graduating size, the oval twin handled outline moulded with hare in scroll border before pheasant game bird to reverse, the covers moulded with resting gun hound, together with powder flasks and rifle, turquoise glazed interiors, impressed marks C41, the largest approx 37cm h. (2)
Lot 640
A pair of Dresden porcelain sweetmeat figures, circa 1880, each seated in 18th Century dress, above ozier moulded baskets, scroll bases, blue cross swords mark to base, 16 cms h approx, an early Derby porcelain sheep ornament, circa 1780, bocage back and a Derby style porcelain figure, seated with dog and rifle beside (4)
Lot 205
Model of Sailor Standing to Attention by Carlton China, blue trim, inscribed `Handy Man`, (Rosyth), 130mm high. Rosyth was a Royal Naval Dockyard and base during WW1. Model of Soldier Standing to Attention with Rifle, unmarked, inscribed `Our Brave Defender`, inscribed to underside of base `Salisburys Ltd Weston-Super-Mare`, (Weston-Super-Mare), 130mm high. Model of Sailor Standing to Attention, unmarked, inscribed `Our Brave Defender`, inscribed to underside of base `W.H. Salisbury 1&2 Royal Arcade Weston-Super-Mare`, (Weston-Super-Mare), 125mm high. Model of Soldier Standing to Attention Holding Rifle with Rifle Touching Hat by Clifton China, (Windsor), 135mm high. (4).
Lot 206
Model of Soldier Standing to Attention with Rifle by Wy Knot Crest China, with Union Jack, inscribed `Bravo! Kitcheners Army` to chest, inscribed `Our Brave Defender` to base, 130mm high. Model of Soldier Standing to Attention with Rifle by Willow Art China, with the flags of the allies `United We Stand` to chest, inscribed `Our Brave Defender` to base, 130mm high. Model of Sailor Standing to Attention by Willow Art China, with the flags of the allies `United We Stand` to chest, inscribed `Our Brave Defender` to base, 126mm high. Model of Soldier Standing to Attention with Rifle by Waterfall Heraldic China, inscribed `Our Brave Defender` to base, (East Yorkshire Regt), 128mm high. (4)
Lot 16
Solid silver Regimental Shooting Trophy. The large twin handled trophy inscribed ‘Sirhind Rifle Meeting 1910, won by the Duke of Wellington Regiment, the opposite side inscribed Inter Company March and Shoot Competition’. London hallmarked, dated 1909; makers mark Charles Bradbury, 23 x 26 cms, 1300 grams
Lot 31
Solid silver Regimental Trophy. The Arts and Crafts style trophy inscribed ‘Malaya Command Rifle meeting 1926 Vickars Gun Competition presented by General Officers Command’ with the names of the Regimental winners. Together with a twin handled Regimental Sporting trophy with reeded belly and stem, hallmarked London dated 1886, makers mark Charles Steward Harris. The trophy inscribed ‘Challenge Cup Rifle meeting Bermuda 1887’ and with winning team members. Re-designated ‘Inter Company Basketball competition 1981 C Company’ 12 x 20 cms. Combined weight, 920 grams. (2)
Lot 32
Solid silver Regimental Sporting Trophy. The twin handled trophy inscribed ‘1st Battalion Duke of Wellington Regiment, won by Private B Thorpe Bantam weight 1918’, also engraved 1932,33,34 with other winners in addition dated 1976,77. London hallmarked, dated 1918, 11 x 18 cms together with another solid silver twin handled Regimental Sporting Trophy inscribed ‘Rifle Brigade Athletics meeting 1937 open relay race won by the 1st Battalion Duke of Wellington Regiment’ and re designated ‘Chain of Command 1981 A Company’. Birmingham hallmarked, dated 1934, 10 x 20 cms. Combined weight 820 grams (2)
Lot 34
Miscellaneous collection of four solid silver Regimental Trophies. The twin handled trophies include Inter Platoon Cross Country 1932, Rifle Shooting 1936, Rugby 1927 1930 inclusive, inscribed with the names of the winning team and a Shooting trophy with winners from 1955 1985 inclusive, in addition Best Private Soldier dated 1955. Various dates and hallmarks, combined weight 1300 grams. (4)
Lot 91
**A 28 BORE CAUCASIAN MIQUELET-LOCK RIFLE, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with octagonal etched twist sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, retained by four plain white metal bands and encrusted with a broad band of gold flowers and foliage at the breech and muzzle, standing back-sight, matching tang, characteristic lock encrusted with gold scrolls and with a brief inscription, probably the date beneath (the gold rubbed throughout and with small losses), fluted bud-shaped trigger, full stock, rounded butt formed of two sections, applied with a plain white metal plaque about the tang, inset with three star and crescent motifs and a single white metal band, horn barrel bolt escutcheons, and horn fore-end cap (ramrod missing, losses) 89.2cm; 35 1/4in barrel
Lot 249
A FINE 25 BORE BAVARIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE BY ABRAHAM DELLEMAYR IN MÜNCHE, DATED 1695 with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, signed, dated and engraved with conventional foliage over the breech, flat lock finely engraved with a Classical scene (probably the third labour of Hercules), including a shot stag set upon by hounds before a castle, a male and female Classical figure, signed with the gunmaker`s initials `A.D.` top right, and the engraver, `C. I. Stenglin` bottom left, fitted with internal wheel, engraved flash-guard, sliding pan-cover, pierced dog decorated with a wild boar, a hound and a monster, and with pine cone finial, pierced bracket decorated with a further monster, double set trigger, full stock moulded over the fore-end (repaired), inlaid in staghorn with segmental lines and pellets, a reclining doe amidst scrollwork opposite the lock, the butt inlaid with a lion on the cheek-piece, and with patchbox fitted with staghorn cover engraved with foliage involving a hare pursued by a hound (the stock and inlays with minor restorations and repairs), gilt iron trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, gilt iron trigger-plate, engraved horn butt-cap, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipes (the forward with small chips, now detached), engraved fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod with engraved staghorn tip, probably the original 90cm; 35 1/2in barrel Abraham Dellermayer is recorded in Munich circa 1669-1701. A number of guns engraved by Johan Christoph Stengl (or Stengel) are preserved in the Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, Munich. See E. Benezit 1976, p.818 and E. Schalkhauser 1988, p.86.
Lot 250
A FINE AND RARE 80 BORE THURINGIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, CIRCA 1590 with very heavy swamped sighted barrel, small bore, probably for birding, rifled with eight slender grooves, flat lock struck with the maker`s initials `V.S.` , retained by two side nails, fitted with external wheel with low domed brass cover engraved with scrollwork and retained by an engraved moulded brass band decorated with trellis pattern interrupted by fruit and foliage, finely engraved pan-fence, engraved sliding pan-cover decorated by a grotesque and with button release, engraved dog formed as a scaly monster rising from a scroll of foliage, and a later grotesque rondel, the inside with filed spring and details retained by a shaped bridle delicately engraved with a grotesque mask, full stock profusely inlaid over its entire surface in staghorn with scrolling ball flower tendrils inhabited by exotic birds within ropework frames, a broad ropework panel along the entire length of the underside of the fore-end, a staghorn panel decorated with a bird-of-prey plucking fruit beneath the lock, the tang enclosed by staghorn panels decorated with bearded profiles within scrollwork frames, the butt applied with staghorn veneer engraved with strapwork involving masks, garlands of round fruit and podded legumes on the spine, with raised cheek-piece decorated en suite including a stag set upon by a hound on the left and with patchbox with sliding cover veneered in staghorn with a Wildman clutching an arrow and a flaming orb beneath further matching garlands of fruit on the right, later engraved staghorn butt-cap, steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipes and fore-end cap (the inlay with minor restorations and lifting, the butt with a small crack), and wooden ramrod with staghorn tip, perhaps the original 100cm; 39 3/8in barrel Provenance The Lord Astor of Hever, sold Sotheby`s, London, 5th May 1983, lot 75. A sporting rifle, formerly in the collection of Beriah Botfield at Norton Hall, signed by the same lockmaker and decorated in an identical manner is preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds (inv. no. XII.1197). The armouries rifle is of larger bore, shorter barrel length and is engraved with the arms of Saxony on the butt-cap. It is evident that these two guns were made for the same patron and probably formed part of a larger garniture. See G. Rimer 2001, p.42. This rifle belongs to a distinctive group of highly decorated wheel-lock firearms that have been attributed to the hand of Klaus Hirt of Wassungen, Thuringia on the basis of a single pistol that is signed by him and is preserved in the Historischen Museum, Bern. A pistol from this group signed by the stockmaker `L.B.` was sold Sotheby`s Olympia, 5th December 2002, lot 241. Another unsigned pistol decorated in this manner was sold in these rooms, 5th December 2012, lot 303.
Lot 251
A 20 BORE COMPOSITE AUSTRIAN WHEEL-LOCK SPORTING RIFLE, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, engraved with sprays of foliage at the breech and inlaid with a decorative mark, flat lock engraved with a garland of flowers about the wheel spindle, fitted with internal wheel, engraved dog decorated with a wolf profile, sliding pan-cover and flash-guard, double set trigger, moulded fruitwood full stock carved with strapwork beneath the lock (repairs), carved butt with patchbox fitted with sliding cover veneered in horn on the right, steel trigger-guard shaped for the fingers, engraved staghorn side-nail washers, engraved staghorn ramrod-pipes, horn butt-plate, engraved staghorn fore-end cap, and wooden ramrod with engraved staghorn tip 74.2cm; 29 1/4in barrel
Lot 266
A 22 BORE GERMAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE BY V. FUNK & SOHNE IN SUHL, CIRCA 1858-70 with octagonal swamped sighted barrel rifled with eight grooves, signed in silver, engraved breech inlaid with silver lines, scroll-engraved tang fitted with adjustable peep-sight behind, signed border and scroll-engraved lock fitted with gravity stop (restorations), double set trigger, figured walnut full stock cut with a foliate panel of fine chequering over the grip and the fore-end, the butt with carved raised cheek-piece and patchbox with sliding cover, engraved steel mounts comprising two-piece sideplate, scrolling trigger-guard, butt-plate and strongly moulded ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, horn fore-end cap, German silver barrel bolt escutcheons and steel ramrod 74.2cm; 29 1/4in barrel
Lot 267
A .577 CALIBRE 22 BORE D.B. BOHEMIAN PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE BY JOHAN CZERMAK A POLICZKA, CIRCA 1830 converted from flintlock, with rebrowned sighted barrels rifled with seven grooves and signed in silver, reblued percussion bolsters with pierced platinum plugs, engraved tang numbered `2` in gold and incorporating the back-sight, border-engraved flat locks decorated with trophies, figured walnut full stock carved with a panel of chequering over the fore-end and the grip, the latter beneath a bouquet, the butt with raised cheek-piece decorated with flowers and foliage on the left, engraved steel mounts including trigger-guard with shaped finial decorated with foliage and wooden rear portion, butt-cap and ramrod-pipe en suite, silver escutcheon engraved with the owner`s initials `EGvB`, steel fore-end cap, and associated wooden ramrod 74.5cm; 29 3/8in barrels
Lot 268
**A 28 BORE GERMAN PERCUSSION TARGET RIFLE BY ANTON BAUMANN, CIRCA 1820 with octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, inlaid with a line and signed in silver (losses) between sprays of engraved foliage over the breech, engraved breech tang with provision for a peep-sight behind, engraved lock decorated scrolls of monsterhead foliage, double set trigger, figured walnut full stock, chequered grip and fore-end, the butt with raised cheek-piece carved with a panel of foliage behind on the left (cracked), and patchbox with sliding cover on the right, engraved steel mounts comprising small flush-fitting side-plate, wooden trigger-guard reinforced with engraved steel plaques, butt-plate and three ramrod-pipes, horn fore-end cap, German silver barrel bolt escutcheons, and horn-tipped wooden ramrod (the lower half missing) 70cm; 27 1/2in barrel Anton Baumann is recorded in Munich and was Hofbüchsenmacher to Prince Carl Theodor from 1798.
Lot 285
A .577 CALIBRE THREE BAND PERCUSSION ENFIELD RIFLE, NO. 5041, DATED 1868 of regulation specifications, the barrel (now smooth) stamped with Ordnance markings and serial number, dated lock with `VR` crowned and `Enfield`, full stock, regulation brass mounts (worn), and steel ramrod 84cm; 33in barrel The vendor acquired this gun in Afghanistan in 2002, proof of purchase and an extensive file of notes accompanies this lot.
Lot 286
A .577 CALIBRE TWO BAND PERCUSSION ENFIELD RIFLE, DATED 1870 of regulation specifications, the barrel (now smooth) stamped with Ordnance markings and a native cartouche, including the date `1330 and `Ensha`, dated lock with `VR` crowned and `Enfield`, full stock, regulation brass mounts, and steel ramrod 84cm; 33in barrel The vendor acquired this gun in Afghanistan in 2002, proof of purchase and an extensive file of notes accompanies this lot.
Lot 318
**A .58 CALIBRE U.S. REMINGTON MODEL 1863 PERCUSSION RIFLE with blued sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves, stamped with the date, Ordnance marks and retained by two brass barrel bands, case-hardened lock with standard markings, retaining nipple protector, regulation full stock, brass mounts including patch box with hinged cover, steel ramrod, retaining its muzzle tampion, worm, screw and an additional nipple, and in characteristic good to fine condition throughout 84cm; 33in barrel
Lot 71
A Guernsey Militia rifle shooting trophy London 1906, maker Robert Pringle, engraved `Militia Rifle Meeting Cup, Presented by Copes Ltd.Tobacco Manufacturers, Liverpool 1906`, within a laurel, the reverse side engraved `Won by Serg. H.J.Bougourd 2nd R.G.L.I.` weight 210 grams, 8 ins (21.5cm) high.
Lot 97
A rare Doulton Lambeth stoneware figure of a Boar War soldier by John Broad, the salt-glaze figure on socle base, with metal rifle with bayonet attached impressed marks, incised signature 31cm. high Literature Desmond Eyles & Louise Irvine The Doulton Lambeth Wares Richard Dennis, page 272 for a comparable figure.
Lot 201
Mixed jewellery, to include, oval agate set brooch, carved cameo brooch in 9 carat gold mount, filigree RAF brooch, commerative WW1 brooch in the form of a rifle mounted with Officers cap, silver ingot pendant on chain, mother of pearl floral pendant, various other silver and white metal jewellery etc., (qty)
Lot 317
A 19th Century British percussion sporting rifle, heavy octagonal barrel 33 1/4in., marked to the top flat ‘Joseph Bourne London’, blade front sight and notch rear sight with two additional graduated folding leaves, acanthus engraved back action lock plate marked ‘Bourne’, half-stock with chequered wrist, adjustable trigger, trigger guard with chequered finger spur, brass tipped wooden ramrod, approx 12 bore.
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