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Lot 235
A GENTLEMAN'S HANGER with double edged 60cm blade, angled bone hilt with braided wire spiral grip, possible silver fittings, illegible stamps, Cullum Charing Cross Pin engraved on scabbard plus crest "Stag", fittings on scabbard have military appeara nce, helmet with flags and cannon, circa 1800
Lot 298
A wooden handled dagger with steel blade in a leather scabbard, length 46cm, together with a circular, lidded wooden box, diameter 11.5cm. Provenance: The dagger was given to the current vendor by an elderly gentleman in the late 1950s, who spent some of his working life in Java, where it came into his possession
Lot 387
A Burmese Dha-Iwe sword, owned by Jack Chalker, the British WWII artist who painted the atrocities he witnessed as a prisoner of war on the Burma Railway known as the 'Railway of Death'. The wooden handle with brass fittings and white metal collar with incised cross hatched decoration. Square ended blade of 51.5cm, total length including handle: 70.5cm. Blade 3cm at widest point. Square ended wooden scabbard with brass throat, single circle of plaited rattan (possibly missing others) and white cord baldrick. Jack Chalker, 1918-2014. Chalker had won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art but his studies interrupted by the outbreak of the WWII. He joined the Royal Field Artillery and was posted to Singapore in February 1942. Within a month he was captured by the Japanese. He was first sent to the Changi area for a few months, then a further four months at Havelock Road labour camp in Singapore Town before the journey up-country to Bampong in Thailand. From there groups were marched to various camp sites to begin the construction of the Burma Railway line. Chalker spent almost six months at Kanyu River working on the railway project. In March 1943 after succumbing to dysentery and dengue fever he was sent down-river to Chungkai where a large hospital camp was being established. In June 1944 he was moved south to the Nakhon Pathom Hospital camp where he remained until the Japanese capitulation in August 1945. Throughout his captivity, despite great personal risk to himself, Chalker sought to capture daily life in the camps in pen and ink. The making of any records was strictly forbidden and infringement of the rules resulted in savage punishment. Drawings were hidden in sections of bamboo buried in the ground, the roof of jungle huts or in an artificial leg worn by an amputee prisioner. Chalker kept an important record of the subhuman conditions endured by the allied POWs. He was a hospital artist for the renowned Australian surgeon Colonel Sir Ernest Edward "Weary" Dunlop and sketched the diseases, tropical ulcers and operations. After the war in 1945, Chalker joined the Australian Army HQ in Bangkok as a war artist; some of his work was used in evidence at the trials of Japanese officers and NCOs at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. On return to the UK he resumed his studies. In 1950, after teaching History of Art at Cheltenham Ladies' College he became principal of Falmouth College of Art and, in 1957, principal of West of England College of Art, where he remained until his retirement in the mid-1980s. Chalker did not talk about his war-time ordeal or look at his pictures for almost 40 years. In 2002, a bout of ill-health forced him to auction over 100 drawings and paintings. "I feel reluctant and in a way guilty about doing this, but it will help us out," he said. They sold for almost £200,000 and were acquired by several private collectors and museums, among them Britain's National Army Museum. The highest-selling lot was a painting of the Australian surgeon Colonel Edward Dunlop performing an amputation, which sold for £24,600. He published two books of his POW drawings and has featured in a BBC documentary about the Burma Railway. Jack Chalker's son describes his father as never being without a useful knife of some sort and also an avid collector. Knifes and swords were one of his passions. He is not aware of where his father acquired the African Ida sword but it is his belief that he brought the Dha-Iwe back home with him when he returned from Burma after the end of the war.
Lot 260
ËœA FRENCH SILVER-MOUNTED COMBINED HUNTING KNIFE AND PLUG BAYONET, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY with tapering blade double-edged towards the point, slender tang threaded at the base for the reversible plug-grip, moulded silver hilt comprising small cross-piece (mark rubbed), small cap pommel, carved ivory grip, the lower portion bulbous and the upper fluted (small crack), in its shagreen-covered wooden scabbard with moulded silver locket and chape 30.2 cm; 11 7/8 in blade
Lot 197
A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, PARIS, 1795 with slender hollow-triangular blade inscribed 'ISB' on one side at the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief (rubbed), including oval shell-guard decorated with a large flowerhead enclosed by a frieze of flowers within beadwork frames, quillon pierced with a flowerhead, knuckle-guard, pommel and integral grip all en suite with the shell, in its wooden scabbard with silver locket and middle band (the lower portion chipped, chape replaced) 83.8 cm; 33 in blade
Lot 135
A BRITISH OFFICER'S MAMELUKE-HILTED SABRE, CIRCA 1801-10 with curved blade, etched and gilt over two thirds of each face with Royal Arms, trophies, and scrolls of foliage, close-plated hilt including a pair of langets, quillons formed as lions' paws, lionhead pommel, knuckle-chain, and banded horn grip, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with close-plated mounts, and two loops for suspension 70.5 cm; 27 ½ in blade
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Lot 136
ËœA BRITISH INFANTRY OFFICER'S SPADROON, CIRCA 1788-96 with tapering fullered German blade engraved '[Run]kel ... Solingen' on the back-edge, double-edged towards the point, etched with 'GR' crowned and a scroll of foliage on each face (worn), gilt-brass hilt comprising quillon, double ring-guard, knuckle-guard, cushion-shaped pommel, and reeded ivory grip, in its brass-mounted leather scabbard 81.0 cm; 31 7/8 in blade
Lot 74
A BATTACK SWORD (PISO PODANG), 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade, brass hilt engraved with pairs of slender lines, including a pair of shaped quillons, integral grip, and moulded knob-shaped pommel with hair finial, in its wooden scabbard encased in embossed silver with fine ropework borders, with small rings for a fringe and a pair of rings for suspension 74.5 cm; 29 3/8 in blade
Lot 83
AN ARAB BROADSWORD (KATARRA), OMAN OR ZANZIBAR, 18TH CENTURY with broad blade formed with a short fuller on each face and cut with a running wolf mark, hilt of characteristic form with tall faceted silver pommel and the grip bound with plaited silver wire, in its silver-mounted tooled leather scabbard with two decorated bands with rings for suspension, chape en suite and plain locket 81.0 cm; 31 7/8 in blade
Lot 354
A RARE FRENCH GLAIVE FOR THE ECOLE DE MARS, CIRCA 1794 of regulation type, with broad double-edged blade, hilt comprising a pair of strong down-curved iron arms with brass bud-shaped finials, iron knuckle-guard, block-shaped brass guard cast with a Phrygian cap in low relief on each side, integral grip cast with an overlapping design of leaves and oval-section pommel, in its fabric-covered wooden scabbard with large brass mounts decorated with neoclassical designs 48.4 cm;19 1/8 in blade The Ecole de Mars was created on 13 prairial An II (1 June 1794) and disbanded in September of the same year. The schools was for teenaged men and organised along classical lines with three corps of 'milleries' each composed of ten 'centuries', in turn divide into ten 'decuries'. See Ariès 1967 and Petard.
Lot 302
TWO LEFT-HAND DAGGERS IN LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE, SPAIN, 20TH CENTURY the first with pierced broad double-edged blade, iron hilt with drooping forward-canted quillons, side ring and faceted pommel all inlaid with gold flowers and scrolls within oval frames, in its scabbard with iron mounts en suite; the second with pierced fullered blade, iron hilt with drooping quillons, side-ring and pommel all decorated in gold with scrolling foliage and cherubic masks the first: 27.7 cm; 11 in blade (2)
Lot 334
AN 1847 PATTERN NAVAL OFFICER'S SWORD RETAILED BY MACKAY, DEVONPORT, EARLY 20TH CENTURY of regulation type, the blade with traces of etched decoration and the maker's details at the forte, brass hilt with folding side-guard, complete with its sword knot in its scabbard 78.2 cm; 30 ¾ in blade
Lot 206
A FRENCH SMALL-SWORD WITH CUT STEEL HILT, LATE 18TH CENTURY with polished hollow-triangular blade, finely pierced and chiselled steel hilt set with numerous beads in imitation of brilliants, including oval shell-guard decorated with expanded flowerheads, a pair of matching quillons, knuckle-guard (now detached), pommel and openwork integral grip all en suite, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with iron mounts (chape detached) and complete with a contemporary chain and openwork belt hook 78.8 cm; 31 in blade
Lot 131
A BRITISH INFANTRY OFFICER'S SABRE WITH SILVER-GILT HILT BY GOLDNEYS, ST JAMES'S, LONDON, CIRCA 1795-96 with curved blade double-edged towards the point, cut with a shallow fuller on each face, etched and gilt on a blued panel over the lower third with trophies involving celestial motifs, silver-gilt stirrup hilt including a pair of langets, lionhead pommel, and wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its silver-gilt-mounted leather scabbard with locket, chape and band with loops for suspension, the locket engraved 'Goldneys, late Neild, St James's Street, Sword Cutlers to his Royl. Highness the Prince of Wales' and stamped with the maker's mark HF 81.0 cm; 31 7/8 in blade Sabres became popular with flank company officers of British infantry regiments in the 1790s and were ultimately officially recognised as the swords of such officers in 1803. The firm of Goldneys - a partnership between the brothers Thomas (1769-1856) and Samuel (1770-1843) Goldney - took over the premises of James Neild (1744-1814) at 4 St. James's Street in 1793 and continued in business until 1828; the firm was noted as prominent Royal sword cutlers.
Lot 143
A BRITISH INFANTRY OFFICER'S 1822 PATTERN LIGHT-WEIGHT SWORD, RETAILED BY I. LEVY, 2 HEMMING'S ROW, ST MARTIN'S LANE, LONDON, CIRCA 1837-45 with pipe-backed blade etched with the crowned Royal cypher, foliage (worn) and 'I. Levy, 2 Hemming's Row, St Martin's Lane, London' at the forte, gilt-brass regulation hilt with openwork folding side-guard and wire-bound fishskin-covered grip, in its gilt-brass-mounted leather scabbard 81.5 cm; 32 1/8 in blade The scabbard is of the type worn by officers below field rank.
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