George V 1897 Pattern Infantry Officers Sword Belonging to Major Thomas William Beard MBE Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters, Late Suffolk Regiment, Royal Lincolns and Anglian Regiment, standard model sword with George V cipher to the centre of the dish guard. The grip retains the original wire binding. Leather portepee attached to the guard. Housed in the original leather covered scabbard. Polished straight blade etched with foliage, Royal Arms and George V cipher. Sword stamped “04132” to the spine. Blade has been heavily polished for parade wear. Blade measures 81 cms, overall 101 cms. Interestingly Major Beard was not a serving officer during the reign of George V, indicating that this was possibly a handed down sword. This sword is being sold by family descent, please see the previous lot for sword belonging to him and lot 75 for medals awarded to Major Beard.
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French Infantry Officers Sword, gilt brass shell guard with brass French style eagle to the centre, flat brass knucklebow leading to bulbous pommel. Polished horn grip retaining the original wire binding. Reverse folding guard engraved “A Malbes”. Double edged tapered blade with central ridge. Etching and armourers stamp to the lower section of the blade. Housed in its leather scabbard with top brass mount, lower chape missing. The blade measures 77 cms, overall 93 cms.
French Artillery Officers Sword, having three bar swept hilt and knucklebow, steeped pommel and plain backstrap. Polished horn handle with copper wire binding. Housed in its steel scabbard with single hanging ring. Plain straight double edged blade with double central fullers. The blade measures 82 cms, overall 98 cms.
Scarce 20th Century Kingdom of Persia Infantry Officers Sword, brass knuckleguard with steeped pommel having relief of crown to the reverse. Housed in its steel plated scabbard with two ring fittings. Plain steel blade with fuller to the back edge. The blade measures 82 cms, overall 99 cms.
Very Rare WW2 Italian Naval Aviators High Ranking Officers Dress Sword, gilt brass large dish guard with Italian crowned fouled anchor to centre, Airforce style eagle head top pommel and white painted wooden grip retaining the original wire binding. Original officers bullion wire sword knot with blue fleck. Housed in its original leather and gilt mounted scabbard. Blade etched with foliage, trophies of arms and Italian eagle. Blade measures 77cms in length. Missing the securing post from the reverse of the scabbard and some splitting to the seem on the reverse of the scabbard but otherwise a good example of a scarce Italian sword.
Swiss 1889 Schmidt-Rubin Sawback Bayonet, with two piece wood grips, steel pommel and cross guard. Housed in the original steel scabbard having brown leather frog attached. Blade with sawback edge and stamped “WAFFENFABRIK NEUHAUSEN”. Blade measures 48cms, overall 64 cms. Accompanied by a Nepalese Kukri in leather covered scabbard and a Moroccan Jambiya in brass scabbard. (3 items)
British Martini Henry 1879 Pattern Artillery Sword Bayonet, good untouched example having two piece chequered grips, steel “D” shaped guard with muzzle ring and pommel. Blade with partial saw back edge and fuller. Housed in its original leather and steel mounts scabbard. Some surface staining to the blade and exterior steel fittings. Blade measures 65 ½ cms, overall 83cms. Re-offered due to non-paying bidder.
British 1856 Pattern Bayonet, with two piece chequered leather grips, steel cross guard with muzzle ring, Yataghan blade stamped with arrow above “I” to the edge. No scabbard; British Brown Bess style socket bayonet measuring 53cms in length and a Dutch socket bayonet with cruciform blade (M1871?). (3 items) re-offered due to non-paying bidder.
British 1888 Lee Metford Mk 1 Bayonet, being the second type with two brass nuts securing the wooden grips. Double edged knife blade with various acceptance stamps, no scabbard; Canadian Ross bayonet with wooden grips and no scabbard; Indian issue SMLE bayonet complete with its original scabbard. (3 items) re-offered due to non-paying bidder.
Lee Enfield No9 Mk1 Bayonet, complete with the original scabbard. Remains in good condition. Accompanied by P13 bayonet by Remmington complete with its original scabbard and a Australian Owen Sub-Machine Gun bayonet stamped “SLAZ 52” to the grip and blade “MA 53”, housed in the original 1944 dated scabbard. (3 items) re-offered due to non-payment
3x Indian Army Issue Bayonets, consisting of refurbished British 1907 bayonet by Sanderson, re-blued blade with fuller to the point. Housed in its leather scabbard with webbing fro;. MkII pattern bayonet stamped with crown GRI and RFI to the forte. Refurbished blade, housed in the original scabbard with webbing frog; Mk II Indian army issue SMLE bayonet with wooden grips, blade stamped with crown GRI Mk II 44 and RFI. Housed in original scabbard with webbing frog. All generally good condition. (3 items) re-offered due to non-payment
WW1 Austrian M1915 Pioneers Sidearm, fine example with two piece wooden grips secured by three rivets, “S” shaped steel guard. Housed in its original steel scabbard with remains of the paint finish. Complete with its correct pattern large leather hanging frog. Thick single edged blade stamped to the forte with Budapest maker and Austrian army acceptance stamp and “15” for 1915 issue. Shows wear but generally good condition. Blade measures 38 ½ cms, overall 55 cms.
Lithgow 1907 Hook Quillon Bayonet, with wooden grips having two securing screws, blade with stamps and “LITHGOW” mark. Fuller to the back edge of the blade. Complete with an original 1942 dated Australian leather and steel mounted scabbard. Ideal as a space filler. We believe this item to be a collectors reproduction in an original WW2 scabbard and is being sold as such. Re-offered due to non-payment.
3x Military Bayonets, consisting of short pattern Spanish M1905 Mauser bayonet complete with its original leather and steel mounted scabbard. Pitting to the exterior fittings and sharpening to the blade; WW2 German parade bayonet complete with its original scabbard. Black chequered two piece grip, plain un-maker marked blade with fuller to the back edge; East German AKM bayonet complete with its original scabbard, clipped blade with serrated edge. (3 items)
French Gras Bayonet, with wooden and brass hilt, cross guard with muzzle ring, triangular blade stamped with arsenal and 1879 date to the spine. Housed in the original blued steel scabbard. Accompanied by a French Chassepot bayonet with ribbed brass grip, cross guard with muzzle ring stamped with arsenal marks and “T 7148”. Well worn blade and housed in rusted scabbard. (2 items) re-offered due to non-payment
WW2 American Paratroopers M3 Fighting Knife Attributed to Corporal Robert H Cahoon Jr “C” Company 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division who Parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, Parachuted into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden and was Wounded at Bastogne in 1944, Superb example of an early pattern M3 fighting knife having the original leather binding to the grip and steel top pommel. Steel guard with downward end. Partially double edged blade measuring just over 16 ½ cms in length. Blade stamped “U.S. M3 – UTICA”. Housed in its original 1943 dated M6 leather scabbard. Reverse of the scabbard is inked “C-7018” in two places, which is Cahoon’s laundry number. The knife remains in very good overall condition and is accompanied by a file of research. Robert H Cahoon Jr was born in 1922 and was from Muskegee, Oklahoma. He enlisted in Oklahoma City on 5th April 1942. He joined the paratroopers and jumped into Normandy on D-Day 5th/6th June 1944. He was heavily involved in the fighting for Ravenoville, Purple Heart Lane and Carentan. He survived the heavy combat in Normandy in which the 101st Airborne division were involved and was then sent back to the UK with the rest of the division. In September 1944 he made his second combat jump, this was into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden (Arnhem). During the battle for Bastogne in the winter of 1944, Corporal Cahoon was seriously wounded on 31st December 1944. He was awarded the Purple Heart and also the Bronze Star for gallantry during the battle of Bastogne. He spent many months in hospital recovering from his wounds, as a result of his wounds he was discharged from the army.
Re-cast Lucotte French Napoleonic Line Infantry, (11 inc officer, bugler / drummer, and standard bearer), Lucotte Napoleonic French Grenadiers standing firing (6 inc 2 recasts), with officer, advancing figures (4), additional standing firing figure, possibly Danish infantryman, generally F-G, a few faults, (23), Recast figures, 1 scabbard detached, 1 missing. Grenadiers firing, 5 repaired rifles, 2 replaced scabbards, 1 missing bayonet. Advancing figures, 1 is recast, 1 scabbard incomplete. Additional figure has replacement musket which is in 2 pcs.
A variant 1788 Pattern Light Cavalry officers' sword, having steel "stirrup" hilt with reeded ebony grip and distinctive "feathered" langets, the blade un-marked, in steel-mounted leather scabbard, the locket engraved Foster, St James's St, sword cutler to His Majesty the Prince of Wales & Duke of York, blade approx 83 cm
An Edward VII Royal Navy Midshipman's dirk, retailed by Gieves, Matthews and Seagrams, the scabbard locket bearing the engraved initials CPB[Possibly that of Sir Cuthbert Patrick Blake, Bt. was born at Pimlico, London, on 2 January 1885, the son of Sir Patrick Blake, 5th Baronet, and entered the Royal Navy as Midshipman on 15 May 1900, serving in H.M.S. Britannia. Commissioned Sub Lieutenant, 15 December 1904, he was promoted Lieutenant on 1 April 1907 and Lieutenant-Commander on 1 April 1915. He served during the Great War in command of the destroyer H.M.S. Termagant, was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 6 July 1916), and took part in the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916: Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty reported that, ‘having defeated the enemy destroyers, he gallantly pressed home the attack with torpedoes on the enemy battle-cruisers’ (London Gazette 15 September 1916), and Blake was consequently awarded the D.S.O. and the Russian Order of St. Anne, 3rd Class, with Swords, ‘for distinguished service rendered in the Battle of Jutland’ (London Gazette 5 June 1917). Several times recommended for promotion during the Great War, he was finally promoted Commander on 3 January 1928. He succeeded his father as 6th Baronet of the Baronetcy Blake of Langham on 15 January 1930, and died, heirless, at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, on 27 June 1975.]
A Victorian exhibition-quality hunting knife, having a double-edged spear-pointed blade, bearing profuse etched decoration incorporating hunters' accoutrements and horn, and vignettes of deer and a hunter with hound, having an elaborate parcel-gilt bronze hilt, the cross guard decorated in a relief depiction of entwined serpents, with conforming electroplated and parcel-gilt cast bronze scabbard, blade 20 cm, 33.5 cm overall
An 1821 Pattern Light Cavalry Sword Marked To The 13th Light Dragoons (First Wave Of The Charge Of The Light Brigade 1854) A rare sword, dating to the Battle Of Balaclava, the blade impressed with Board Of Ordnance proof mark, the guard impressed '13 L D, A, 59'. Complete with original steel scabbard with two loose hanging rings and large shoe. Comprising a steel three bar hilt which was developed to provide superior hand protection in comparison with the stirrup hilt. The grip in ebonised wood with steel pommel, finished with original white kid lanyard finishing in traditional Acorn knot. Blade length, 35.5 inches, some small nicks to blade edge. Please see accompanying image.
1860 Pattern Italian Heavy Cavalry Sword - Blade Is Signed Hartkopf Made In Germany For Use by Italian Cavalry. A Very Nice Example of This Heavy Weight Sword with Good Patina, The Grip Is Complete, with Wire Windings, Original Double Ring Scabbard. Good Clean Blade and Scabbard, with Makers Mark for Hartkopf on Blade, Armourers Mark on Opposite Side of Blade, Also Marked on Scabbard Drag - Please See Photos.
18th century Court sword, with brass guard and wire bound grip, engraved flower and scroll blade, 96cm overall length, also a short sword and scabbard, possibly for a child or drummer of 1822 pattern and rifle brigade crest 71cm overall length also an A.W. Wills no. 1005 machete with horn grips, 73cm overall length.
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