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Lot 2240
19th century Naval Officer's sword. The 1827 pattern sword , has a pommel lion's head half-basket hilt and is of gilded brass The bowl of the guard bears the crown and fouled anchor of the Royal Navy. Inner folding guard. Sharkskin grip with wire wrap. The 73 cm blade is etched with a crown and the Royal Navy fouled anchor motif. The obverse of the blade bears the Royal coat of arms amidst floral scrollwork. marked for WH Whiteman, Lion Terrace, Portsea. leather and gilt scabbard..
Lot 433
A 19th century sword bayonet, with a steel guard and textured grip, in a leather and steel scabbard, 85cm long CONDITION REPORT: Press stud does not function, blade and cupboard are relatively straight, blade 68.5cm long, scabbard 70.5cm long, blade is pitted, scabbard is rusted, in poor condition
Lot 44
An early 19th century French Foot Soldiers Gladius Sword, 1831 pattern, ribbed brass hilt, cross guard with roundel terminals, 39cm double edged fullered steel blade inscribed either side below cross guard bears letter S and another makers stamp, brass mounted stitched leather scabbard, 66.5cm overall
Lot 250
A Japanese katana sword, possibly 19th century with a wrapped white shagreen handle covering the signed manuki and with an ornately floral decorated pierced tsuba housed in a lacquered wooden scabbard with single ashi in dark brown leather cover, sword blade 67cm, overall length 92cm (hilt lacking original pin)
Lot 240
A British 1885 Pattern Cavalry Troopers Sword and scabbard the hilt with pierced Maltese cross design and two piece chequered grip, the Solingen blade with markings now relatively indistinct and steel scabbard with two fixed opposing steel suspension rings, blade length 87cm, overall length 101cm
Lot 460
A Second World War German Army Officer's dagger and scabbard with hanger by Eickhorn with a dark amber celluloid grip, with nickel-plated steel blade with slightly sharpened edges and a semi-pointed tip, blade is marked “Original Eickhorn, Solingen” with the company’s logo on the reverse ricasso, the pommel also constructed of nickel silver exhibiting an oak leaf design, scabbard constructed of silvered metal (magnetic), with a traditional pebbled finish and ball final, with the throat retained by a single mounted screw, decorated with oak leaf bands and rings for attachment to a hanger with silver and brown cloth and a silver portepee, blade length 26cm, overall length 37cm (hilt a.f - section of amber celluloid to grip cracked and missing) Provenance: Owned by Flight Lieutenant George POW DFC RAF, whose plane was hit by enemy fire when returning from a radar detection mission over Germany. As the American B17 Flying Fortress caught fire, its pilot, Flight Lieutenant John Wynne, ordered his men from the 214 Sqaudron to bail out. They were rounded up by the German army and marched through the town of Pforzheim to the nearby village of Hichenfield where they were held in a boiler room. Only three weeks before this event, Pforzheim had been hit by a devastating raid by Bomber Command. Once a thriving community of 70,000 souls, the town was now only ruins and rubble. Mosquitos had dropped 1,825 tons of bombs on Pforzheim in just 22 minutes, causing a firestorm that destroyed more than 80 per cent of the town's built up area and killed at least 17,000 people. Many died in their cellars, when their lungs burst with the intense heat. The town had been badly hit in the wartime bombing raids with many civilian casualties. After a few hours an angry mob, egged on by the local mayor, burst into the boiler room, beat up the captive men and marched them to the cemetary of a local church, where they were shot by Hitler Youth who were dressed in plain clothes and ordered to incite violence by posing as outraged villagers. Air Gunners, Sidney Matthews, Harold Frost and Edward Percival and wireless operator, Gordon Hall were all killed. The navigator, Dudley Heal and air gunner George Pow, were taken prisoner and eventually sent back to the UK without knowing the fate of their comrades. Air gunner, Norman Bradley and wireless operator, Tom Tate, managed to break free and successfully escape the execution mob. The plane's pilot Flt Lt Wynne eventually managed to bring home the badly damaged plane, landing it at Cambridgeshire Basingbourn airfield. The German ringleaders of the execution were eventually sentenced to hanging by the war crimes tribunal and others were given various jail terms. The minister in the church of the German town of Hichenfield, where the men were murdered, was so outraged that he erected a plaque in their memory. *With photocopied news articles and provenance.
Lot 242
A French model 1831 Infantry sword lacking scabbard, modelled after a classical Roman Gladius design, unmarked, blade length 48cm and overall length 63cm together with three naval corded tobacco plugs by R&J Hill - suppliers to the Royal Navy and a North African dagger and scabbard inset with white metal and coral (5)
Lot 251
A Kaskara sword from the Sudan region 19th century, the 66cm length blade etched to both sides with Islamic inscriptions, with a brass crossguard and a wooden hilt wrapped in brown leather and a flat disc form pommel, overall length 73cm together with red leather clad scabbard, now in two pieces
Lot 220
George V British Royal Navy Volunteers Officers Sword with 31 inch straight single fullered blade with engraved detail including crowned fouled anchor, the half basket hilt with crowned RNV and fouled anchor crest, with slide locking plate and lion pommel, complete with brass and leather bound scabbard
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