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Lot 508
A 19th Century .577/500 No.2 Express Double Barrel Tiger Rifle by R B Rudda & Co., London & Calcutta, the 71cm steel barrels with Henry`s Patent rifling, numbered 2918 and 2919, faintly stamped with maker`s name, the top rib with doll`s head extension and hinged leaf rearsight, signed side locks, under-lever break, with chequered walnut semi pistol grip butt and fore-end
Lot 509
A Remington Rolling Block 11.43 Egyptian Rifle, the 89cm steel barrel with hinged ladder rearsight, three band walnut full stock with sling swivels and original steel ramrod, the stock with an incised inscription ``Given to me by my father to whom it was presented by Hewett. F W Jenkins. Taken in Egyptian War 1882``, together with correct Chassepot style Yataghan sword bayonet, the ricasso with Alcoso markings (2)
Lot 510
A Victorian Martini Henry MkII .450/577 Calibre Service Rifle, the 82.5cm barrel with various proof marks and stamped N.S/N E P to the left side, with hinged ladder sight, the action stamped with crowned VR cypher over ENFIELD 1875, crowned arrow II, walnut full stock with various stampings to the butt, with steel sling swivel (one missing) and steel ramrod/cleaning rod
Lot 511
A 19th Century Three Band Volunteer Pattern Model 1858 .577 Service Rifle by Parker Field & Sons, the 99cm steel barrel with various proof marks and re-blued hinged ladder rearsight and bands, with dolphin hammer, the signed lock plate engraved with a martial trophy and foliage, the walnut full stock with brass fore-end tip, trigger guard and butt plated engraved J.N.R.A. over crossed rifles and PII. BROWN, 1874, with steel ramrod and re-blued sling swivels - restored condition
Lot 513
A Mauser Commercial Model 71/84 11mm Service Rifle, the 81cm steel barrel with hinged ladder sight, numbered 19600 and stamped 10,95, the polished receiver stamped WAFFENFABRIK MAUSER and polished out DEUTSCHE REICH, the matched bolt numbered 5839, walnut full stock with steel sling swivels and ramrod
Lot 515
A Greener Henry Cadet .310 Calibre Target Rifle by BSA, the 64cm barrel stamped MADE BY THE BIRMINGHAM SMALL ARMS CO.LTD. +310 12-120, with micro adjustable rearsight, the action numbered 80685 and stamped COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA 12237, the opposing side with maker`s name, the top front of the action stamped with a kangaroo logo, walnut full stock with steel sling swivels, the butt stamped CMF over Q 12237 1.12
Lot 521
A Rare Alexander Henry 450/577 Falling Block Volunteer Rifle by Westley Richards, the 84.5cm steel barrel stamped Henry Patent Rifling on the top, with hinged ladder rearsight, the left side of the action stamped HENRY`S PATENT, the right side W.R.A.& CO 1871, the lock plate stamped ALEXR HENRY, walnut full stock stamped on the butt with broad arrow N.S.W. 72 for the New South Wales Government, with steel bands, trigger guard, sling swivels and butt plate
Lot 484
A MARTINI HENRY ENFIELD FALLING BLOCK MILITARY RIFLE, dated 1879, obsolete calibre .577/450, having ladder rear sight and impressed 136 to the butt, profusely military marked, and AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY BRITISH YATAGHAN SWORD BAYONET circa 1860 in leather scabbard, mounted on a wall mounting display board
Lot 806
CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Fountain pen ink signature (`Winston S. Churchill`) on a slightly irregularly clipped piece removed from the conclusion of a letter signed. Three lines of text to the verso refer to a rifle and a court case involving Sir James Stevenson. Together with a selection of irregularly clipped signed pieces by various British Politicians, many of them Cabinet Ministers, all removed from letters or documents, including Herbert Morrison, Robert Cecil, Philip Sassoon, Clement Davies, R. Stafford Cripps, Lord Halifax, Max Aitken, Archibald Sinclair, Edward Carson, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Herbert Samuel, Christopher Addison, Kingsley Wood, J. R. Clynes, Austen Chamberlain, Philip Snowden, James Lowther, W. H. Beveridge etc. Generally G to VG, 34
Lot 882
REMINGTON ELIPHALET: (1793-1861) American Designer of the Remington Rifle, founder of the Reminton Arms Co. D.S., E. Remington & Sons, being a signed cheque, Ilion, 14th October 1854. The attractive partially printed cheque, featuring an engraving of a blacksmith, is drawn on the Ilion Bank and completed in Remington`s hand, made payable to L. L. Merry for the sum of $45. Together with a similar cheque signed by Remington`s son, Samuel, who joined his father`s business in 1845. Both cheques bear a very neat, small tear in the shape of a cross to the centre, being the bank`s cancellation, neither affecting the signatures. VG, 2
Lot 935
PORTER WHITWORTH: (1827-1892) British Major General of the Crimean War, served at the Siege of Sebastapol. A very fine, lengthy A.L.S., Whitworth Porter, eight pages, 8vo, Camp before Sebastapol, 7th April 1855, to his mother. Porter`s closely written letter acknowledges the receipt of his mother`s two letters and continues, in part, `I had just come up tired and dead beat from twenty four hours work in our advanced trenches….My principal duty here is to be in the trenches. There are four Captains to take command of the works, each of whom stays twenty four hours down there, so that my turn comes one day in four. We have a Subaltern under us who only stays twelve hours, so that I remain through two reliefs of Subalterns. The working parties are relieved every eight hours now as our advanced works are within seven hundred yards of the main batteries of the place, and they keep up a constant fire on our working parties. You cannot imagine how harassing this work sometimes is. No man be he ever so brave can stand under fire for so long a time, inactive as far as fighting is concerned without finding it a great wear and tear to his nerves. The first hour is the worst, after that one gets more used to it. The Russians treat us to a pleasing variety in the way of projectiles, first comes the round shot of all sizes which rushes past you with a shriek something like a railway whistle badly blown. Next comes the grape which fly slower and sound like a large covey of strong birds flying very swiftly. Then comes the gun shell which sounds like the round shot, but has the pleasing trick of bursting when it reaches you, so that you have to run a double risk, first the shot itself, then the pieces. Then comes the mortar shell which though really the worst of the large projectiles I somehow dread the least. It is in the air for nearly half a minute & in the night you can see it quite plainly owing to its burning fuse. It comes along so gracefully rising to a great height making a gentle whistle every now and then like a pee wit or plover becoming louder & louder till it drops. Although you can see it all the way, it is a most difficult thing to tell where it will drop and none but the oldest hands (men of whom it is said that they have got so immune to fire that a cannon ball would hop off the pit of their stomach) can really make a good guess. What makes it worse than a gun shell is that the former flying so low retains its impetus so that if it has once passed you before it bursts all the pieces will continue to fly forward and you are safe. Whereas as the mortar shell is pitched as high as it will go into the air and then drops, the pieces have no other impetus than what the bursting charge gives them, and fly in every direction for a radius of upwards of two hundred yards & sometimes considerably more. But my greatest horror of all & the deadliest one we have is the Russian Rifle Bullet. It is not so perfect as ours but as Mercutis says "It will do well enough". This little gentleman gives you no warning but flies about all day long and courses twelve hundred yards. At a quarter of that distance it will go through two men` Porter continues to provide his personal views on the Siege, `One thing I think I may say and that is that many and great blunders have been made in the conduct of the siege. I do not myself consider the celebrated flank march and consequent investment of the South side is clever particularly as the allied commanders have shewn by their subsequent conduct that they were not prepared to hazard an immediate assault. Now no one who has not seen the awful strength of the defences, stretching as they do, completely round this side with the tiers of batteries & entrenchments one behind the other, and frequent salient points flanking the entire line and bringing a tremendous cross fire upon every point, but must feel that an assault now will be attended with far more carnage than it would have been six months since and yet that assault must be made & within the next ten days in my humble opinion. God grant that it may be successful for on it will depend the safety of the entire army. I know that the assaulting columns are told off, and the engineer officer who is to lead them, but it is kept secret..... the weakest point in the Russian line is most undoubtedly the Malakoff tower and this they have strengthened lately by establishing themselves and constructing a most formidable battery on the Mamellon Hill so called from its round and knole like shape. I fancy this will be the point of the main assault though I make no doubt we shall assault in several places. If we seize the Mamellon we shall then push on & try to enter the tower works with the retreating Russians. Once established within the tower, we see all the rest of their lines in reverse and the South side of the town must be ours. Then comes the problem-for the North side is still a more powerful fortress than the South, & unless the fleet can help us we shall be completely under their fire and unable to retain possession of the place. Time however the disposer of events will shew & in the mean time we had better set our houses in order & prepare to do our duty as all Englishmen should`. In a signed postscript dated 9th April, Porter brings his mother up to date with events, `This afternoon..... the whole of the Batteries of the allied army opened fire this morning at 5.20 a.m. most unfortunately all last night & today if has been blowing a most fearful storm from the South West accompanied by torrents of rain, and the trenches and batteries, the roads, & the camp are like one vast swamp. You can have no conception of the quantity of rain that has fallen during the last twenty four hours, & as it is shewing no sign whatever of abatement there is no guessing what will be the end of it. I am sorry to say I am on duty in the trenches for twenty four hours from 5 p.m. this evening so that I shall have to pass the night exposed to the full fury of it in addition to the pleasing excitement of a tremendous cannonade. We can get but very meagre information as to how we are getting on because it is a work of considerable danger for any one to leave the batteries whilst the fire is so heavy & the fog is too great for us to see anything from camp. We have however had several flying reports all of which are favourable. We blew up one Russian magazine in the gardin Batteries this morning & they say have materially crippled the enemy`s fire both in the Redan and in the Malakoff Tower`. A letter of remarkable content providing a most detailed account of the Siege of Sebastapol. VG
Lot 938
ENGLAND RICHARD: (1793-1883) British General, served in the Crimean War with distinction and was the last of the original general officers who had accompanied the army to the Crimea to leave it. England directed the attack on the Redan, 18th June 1855. A.L.S., R England, one page, 8vo, Camp, 8th April 1855, to `My dear General`. England states `I send you a plan of the Green Hill works…at which we furnish daily 900 men (Rank & file) besides occasional working parties.` In a postscript to the integral leaf, signed with his initials, England adds `Each officer in command of this Pool is required to have an exact copy of this sketch in his possession.` Together with England`s original plan, an attractively executed sketch of the Ground in advance of 1st Parallel, one page, folio, n.p. (Camp), n.d. (8th April 1855), depicting Green Hill and the surrounding area including the positions of a French Battery, old Russian rifle pits, an advanced trench etc. England has added the figures of the covering party in various places on the plan, both at day and night, and an explanatory note, `There are 3500 yards of French (alltogether) in these works`. The plan is signed twice by England, once with his initials. Some light overall dust statining and age wear to both the letter and plan, G, 2. . . . . England`s letter and plan were prepared on the day that the Allies resumed their bombardment of the Russian defences at the Siege of Sevastapol.
Lot 584
Rifle - a good scarce Long Lee Enfield .303 Mk1 Boer War Service Rifle by BSA Co. Bolt Cover & Long Range volley sights. Profuse British and Australian Government markings. Magazine cut-off. In excellent untouched condition, very good working order, with certificate of deactivation, no licence required
Lot 895
First World War medal group Pte. James E Deakin, Surrey Yeomanry, Military Medal, 1914-5 Star, British War and Victory medals with miniatures and supporting photographs, letters and other documents. The lot includes several books including E D Harrison-Ainsworth`s book Surrey Yeomanry. This copy belonged to James Deakin and he has affixed his photograph to the front page and made many personal annotations in ink. Pages 229 and 230 refer to the occasion of his being awarded the Military medal during service in Salonica. "On September 17th L/Corp Deakin gained the Military Medal: `The patrol was reconnoitering towards Ada and Kispeki. The left section under L/C Deakin was heavily fired on by rifles and rifle grenades at a range of about 150 yards from a post South of Ada. A private`s horse was killed and fell pinning the man underneath. L/C Deakin extricated him from under his horse, and seeing he was shaken and unable to walk, gave him his own horse on which to ride away. Previous to this, on the enemy o ening fire, the horse belonging to another man bolted towards Kispeki, which was held by the enemy, and L/C Deakin helped him to get his horse under control by heading him off. His prompt action on each occasion enabled the whole of his section to get away with the loss of one horse only`" The following paragraphs relate to a raid several days later where Deakin has written in ink in the margin "I was in this attack. No mention is made here of heavy shelling we had to put up with." Included in the lot is a handwritten letter from the wife of the soldier who was saved in the Military Medal incident. Other items in the lot include four contemporary pocket war diaries, his typewritten autobiography "Memoirs of a pawn", some of his poetry, a Queen Mary`s regiment painted wooden shield, a collection of Deakin`s military badges, and two truncheons. There are also in this lot British 1914-8 War and Victory medals for Lt. George Henry Bingham 1892-1946, a Royal Warwickshire Regiment badge and a photograph. He was related to Deakin and served in France in 1916 being invalided out through shell-shock and pneumonia.
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