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Lot 23
AN INDIAN SHAMSHIR, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade of watered steel (small chips, areas of wear), silver hilt including engraved cross-piece with button terminals, later cap pommel and grip; and A GENERAL OFFICER'S MAMELUKE-HILTED SWORD, 19TH CENTURY, with gilt-brass hilt cast in low relief, ivorine grip-scales, in its scabbard complete with a pair of buff leather suspensions the first: 76.5cm; 30 1/8in blade (2)
Lot 72
**A RARE FRENCH RESTORATION PERIOD OFFICER OF JUSTICE SABRE, FIRST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY with very broad curved fullered blade double-edged towards the point, large gilt-brass hilt formed of an oval dish-guard decorated with foliage around the border, knuckle-guard formed of a pair of flattened entwined bars with roped borders, the inner face finely chiselled as a cushioned ground sewn with minute flowerheads, oval front guard pierced and chiselled with oak foliage involving a central panel filled with a pair of scales on the left, the Royal Arms on the right and a pair of shaking hands between, all beneath a phrygian cap, the upper border pierced with an inscription including 'La Nation, La Loy....' (incomplete), finely chiselled lionhead pommel, and later grip (repaired), in its original leather-covered wooden scabbard with large brass mounts (areas of wear) 76.2cm; 30in blade
Lot 98
A VICTORIAN 1871 PATTERN LIFE GUARD OFFICER'S HELMET AND CUIRASS with German silver skull fitted with gilt-metal edges, enamelled and gilt helmet-plate, white horsehair plume, gilt-brass chinchain and rosettes, and padded leather lining (the lining worn and with some losses); the cuirass of polished steel lined with red leather retained by large brass studs, and complete with its gilt-brass shoulder scales and belt the first: 42cm; 16 1/2in (3)
Lot 160
4 MULTIBLADED FOLDING KNIVES the first with silver scales by Harrison Brothers and Howson 2 3/4in (7cm), the second with silver scales 4in (10cm) folded; the third by Ibberson with mother of pearl scales 3 1/2in (9cm) folded; the fourth with antler scales and nickel mounts by Nowell and Sons 4 in (10cm) folded (4)
Lot 161
ELEVEN MULTI BLADED PENKNIVES WITH ANTLER SCALES the first a lock knife by Taylor 'Eye Witness' 5 1/2in (14cm); the second "The Lord Mayor's own" by Thomas Turner 4in (10cm); the third 'Real Lambsfoot IXL' G. Wolstenholme; the fourth by George Gill 3 1/2in (9cm) the fifth by J.Blyde and blades 3 3/4in (9 1/2cm). The remaining five multibladed mainly 20th Century (11)
Lot 277
A VICTORIAN MAMELUKE-HILTED OFFICER'S SWORD OF THE WARWICK YEOMANRY BY C. SMITH, 12 PICCADILLY, LONDON, CIRCA 1840 with curved blade double-edged towards the point, etched with scrolling foliage the crowned Royal cypher, crossed lances, 'Warwick Yeomanry' and rose flowers and foliage, brass cross-piece cast with foliage, bud-shaped foliate quillon terminals, a pair of ivory grip-scales, in its steel scabbard etched with the maker's details at the mouth and with brass mounts cast with foliage, and complete with its bullion sword knot 76.5cm; 30 1/8in blade Inv. no. E226 Charles Smith is recorded at this address in the circa 1835-67.
Lot 351
A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN THREE-QUARTER FIELD ARMOUR, 16TH / 17TH CENTURY comprising close helmet with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high roped comb (patched at its apex) and fitted at the nape with a slashed and gilt plume-holder, forward-sloping visor with stepped and centrally-divided vision-slit fitted at is right side with a small lifting-peg (replaced), upper bevor of blunt prow-shaped form pierced at its right side with nine small circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation, linked by radiating incised lines, and secured by a pierced stud and swivel-hook (replaced), bevor (replaced) fitted at its right side with a fixed slender visor-prop, the visor, upper bevor and bevor attached to the skull by common pivots (replaced), and two gorget-plates front and rear (replaced), collar of three lames front and rear (the first and third at front respectively associated and trimmed, and the first and second at the rear replaced), breastplate of early peascod form with deep neck-opening, shallow arm-openings fitted with moveable gussets, and deep waist-plate flanged outwards to receive a fauld of two lames, the lowest of which bears, to either side of a shallow central cut-out, a long pendent tasset each formed of twelve lames (nine of the left, and five of the right replaced) terminating in winged poleyns of four lames, backplate with broad shallow neck-opening (pierced at its centre with later slot and hole) and waist lame (replaced) flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a culet of two lames (replaced), large symmetrical pauldrons each of seven lames (the top three replaced) connected by a turner to an articulated vambrace formed of a tubular upper cannon, a winged bracelet couter of three lames and tubular two-piece lower cannon, and later gauntlets each formed of a flared and pointed cuff with hinged inner plate, four metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate, scaled finger-defences, hinged thumb-defence with matching scales and artificial leather lining-glove, the main edges of the armour decorated with inward turns, partly file-roped and in some accompanied by recessed borders, and the subsidiary edges in many cases decorated with double or single incised lines (the armour lightly pitted and patinated overall) Stand not included.
Lot 352
A COMPOSITE EUROPEAN CUIRASSIER'S ARMOUR, EARLY 17TH CENTURY comprising German close helmet of 'Todenkopf' fashion with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a high medial comb and fitted at the nape with a plume-holder now occupied by modern black and white ostrich feathers, peak and bevor attached by common pivots, the peak fitted within its brow with a U-shaped face-defence pierced with inverted L-shaped openings for the eyes and a small rectangular opening for the mouth, the face-defence and bevor each secured at the right side by a swivel-hook, and a single gorget-plate front and rear, collar of three lames front and rear, the lower front one marked W over an indistinct four-digit number, heavy one-piece breastplate of late 'peascod' fashion, fitted at each side of the chest with a stud for the attachment of a shoulder-strap and at each side of its flanged lower edge with a hinged bolt and wing-nut (both replaced, the left bolt missing) for the attachment of long tassets each of eleven lames (the first associated), the lowest six detachable and terminating in a winged poleyn of four lames, heavy one-piece backplate en suite with the breastplate and fitted with scaled shoulder-straps, buckles for the attachment of pauldrons and a waist-belt (all except left shoulder-scales replaced), its flanged lower edge (showing small loss at right end) fitted at either side with a pierced stud to receive a culet of two lames secured by a pair of swivel-hooks, and large symmetrical pauldons each of seven lames overlapping outwards from the third and largest which is decorated at the front with nine rivets in rosette formation, and connected by a turner to a late 16th century Italian vambrace consisting of a tubular upper and lower cannon and bracelet couter of three lames, the central one fitted with a separate wing of small size, the main edges of the armour turned inwards, those of the pauldrons and vambrace decorated with roped inward turns, accompanied in the case of the vambraces by roped ribs, and those of the remainder left plain and variously accompanied on the helmet and cuirass by recessed or incised borders, the breastpate and backplate each decorated with radiating trios of incised lines, the surface of the armour painted black overall (the collar, pauldrons and couters replaced), on a wooden stand painted black
Lot 364
A PAIR OF GERMAN GAUNTLETS WITH FLUTED DECORATION IN THE 'MAXIMILIAN' FASHION, CIRCA 1520 differing from one another in minor details and formed in each case of a short straight-ended cuff with a hinged inner plate, five metacarpal-plates, the first decorated at its outer end with a small almond-shaped boss, a knuckle-plate decorated with a boldly roped transverse rib, five finger-plates and a laterally hinged thumb-defence consisting of a shaped mainplate originally terminating in four scales (the first of the right and all of the left missing), the main edges of each gauntlet decorated with file-roped inward turns accompanied at the upper edge of the cuff by a double recessed border and at the lower edge of the final finger plate by a single one, its outer surfaces decorated with a pattern of continuous flutes emphasised by pairs of incised lines (heavily patinated overall and pierced with a few small wiring holes and rust perforations; the cuff and first metacarpal-plate disarticulated at their outer end) (2)
Lot 365
AVERY RARE PAIR OF GERMAN ETCHED AND BLUED GAUNTLETS, EARLY 17TH CENTURY each formed of a strongly flared and pointed cuff made in one piece with a riveted join at the inside of the wrist, its upper edge decorated with a plain inward turn accompanied by a recessed border and retaining its original lining-band, two wrist-plates, five metacarpal-plates, shaped knuckle-plate, scaled finger-defences and laterally-hinged thumb-defence with matching scales, the leathers of the scales in each case original, the cuff, wrist-plates and metacarpal-plates medially ridged, the subsidiary edges of all parts of the gauntlet bevelled, its surfaces blued and in the case of the outside of the cuff etched through the bluing with four framed panels of foliate scrolls (lightly pitted and patinated overall) Given its extreme delicacy, decoration of the kind seen here, produce by etching with a weak acid through a blued surface to bright metal, rarely survives. It can be recorded as early as 1477 on a bard made by Lorenz Helmschmied of Augsburg for the Emperor Frederick III, and now preserved in the Hofjagd-und Rüstkammer, Vienna, Inv. No. A 69 (Thomas & Gamber 1976, pp. 104-5, pls 32-3). A mid-16th century besague, probably of Brunswick make, in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, also shows such decoration, as does an early 17th century couter, possibly of Flemish make, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Lot 366
A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN GAUNTLETS, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY DUTCH of notable weight, each formed of a flared and pointed cuff (pierced with later wiring-holes) with a fixed inner plate fitted at its lower edge with a short extension-plate projecting over the base of the thumb, two wrist-plates, five metacarpal-plates (the fourth and fifth of the right disarticulated), shaped knuckle-plate, detached fragmentary finger-scales (some not matching) and later buff leather lining-gloves (detached), the main edges of the gauntlets decorated with file- roped inward turns, all their edges, main and subsidiary, bordered by single incised lines, and their surfaces blued overall (now extensively pitted and patinated; the cuffs)
Lot 425
A set of Victorian oak framed jockey scales by W. & T. Avery of Birmingham, the buttoned upholstered armchair seat with turned galleried rails, the cast iron scales with japanned decoration above a small drawer flanked by two heavy brass carrying handles, raised on baluster turned and ringed legs, 89 cm wide (ILLUSTRATED)
Lot 449
A 16th Century Italian Cassoné. The single plank lid bordered in a decorative pen-worked band above chip carved moulding and a dentil moulded frieze. The three front panels enriched with beastly foliated face masks spewing from their mouths leafy sprays issuing seeding flower heads and framed in moulded surrounds carved with chains of overlapped scales. The pilasters adorned with atlantes & caryatids above a carved and beaded base rail raised on replacement lion paw feet. The sides fitted with iron swing carrying handles, 24 1/4 ins (62 cms) high, 68 ins (173 cms) wide and 22 ins (56 cms) deep,
Lot 239
O Gauge Layout with 2 working Hornby tinplate, clockwork locos, rolling stock, station buildings, level crossings and assorted accessories. A quite wonderful layout measuring approximately 11' x 6' that folds into a very manageable wooden box measuring 4' 6" x 1' 6" x 1' 6". Locos are pre-war LNER Tank 5154 and LMS 2270, both in extremely good condition and working (there is also a Hornby loco 1368 and tender requiring attention - the mechanism is in bits and one wheel is broken). Rolling Stock comprises: - 2 Shell Tankers, 1 LMS Van with integral Breakdown Crane, an LMS open Wagon, an NER open Wagon, an NE Guards Van and an NE Cattle Wagon. Tinplate station buildings include 2 different types of Signalbox, Gangers Hut, Water Column and Engine Shed (along with many wood and card buildings. Plenty of track/points including approx 70 spare pieces not on the layout. Also a box of accessories to include 14 Lead Characters, 14 Lead Farm Animals, 3 Platform Machines (Scales and 2 Vending Machines) a Telephone Box, Porter with Trolley, 4 tinplate Trunks, 7 Milk Churns, a Water Trough, No Entry Sign and a Signal.
Lot 639
A JOHN SPEED POLYCHROME MAP OF HUNGTINGTON "Both Shire and Shiretowne with the ancient citie Ely described", c.1662, sold by Thomas Basett in Fleet Street and Richard Chiswell in St. Paul's Churchyard. 4cm x 51xm; Also A ROBERT MORDEN POLYCHROME MAP OF HUNTINGTONSHIRE with three scales of miles, sold by Swale, Awnsham and Churchill, c.1695. 36cm x 42cm. Both framed under glass (2)
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