Rare WW2 Australian parachutist machete bayonet and scabbard. Features well blued hilt conforming in all respects to a pattern 1907 Australian issue piece. Slazenger manufacturer's marks to the wood scales stamped SLAZ 43 broad arrow stamped with working mortise button. 28.5cm heavy bolo-style machete blade, with sharpened edge & back blade, false edged for the last 12cm, carries majority of factory blueing. Correct WW2 issue canvas and webbing scabbard with riveted tin reinforcement at throat and chape, normal storage age wear, marked R.M.B.ltd.1944. Both the bayonet and the rifle Lee Enfield No1 MKIII 'Intermediate' which it was paired with were only produced in small numbers. It is believed that only around 2000 bayonets were produced. The official designation for the bayonet was 'Bayonet Parachutist, ex machete 'I' type' and it was intended for Para troop and Commando use in jungle warfare against the Japanese. Measures 43.5cm long.hete bayonet & scabbard.
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An oxidised and lacquered brass theodolite Supplied by J.B. Tibaut-Disempleare, Brussels, late 19th/early 20th century The telescope with rack and pinion focus adjustment and mounted via a pivot onto a pierced two-part support over rotating limb applied with spirit level and with silvered Vernier scales to each end for reading against the fixed silver divided horizontal degree arc beneath, fitted with a glazed compass annotated N, E, S and O within degree circle and the underside with lockable rotating pivot over ball and socket joint with turned tapered tripod socket beneath, in original oak box with applied paper trade label J.B. Tibaut-Disempleare,… MAGASINS, Rue de Laeken 15-17, BRUXELLES… and inked stamp J.B. Tibaut Disempleare, Bruxelles to the interior of the lid, the box 33.5cm (13.25ins) wide.
A fine Victorian oxidised brass Newman type mercury station barometer Negretti and Zambra, London, circa 1870 Constructed with two square section uprights joined at the top with a D-shaped section inset with silvered plate engraved Negretti & Zambra, 1 Hatton Garden, 122 Regent Street, 59 Cornhill, 153 Fleet Street, LONDON over central tube flanked by silvered scales calibrated in millimetres and barometric inches with rack and pinion adjusted Vernier slide between, the base with substantial cylindrical cistern incorporating glazed collar between screw-clamped collars to upper section, the instrument suspended via pivoted joint from a scroll-cast bracket with conforming steady bracket to base inside a glazed mirror-backed wall case with hinged front door secured by brass thumb catches, (mercury removed), 128.5cm (50.625ins) high. Provenance: The interior of the case is applied with a paper label typed BAROMETER, Presented by, HERMAN BICKNELL, January 1873. Herman Bicknell was a surgeon, orientalist, linguist and an intrepid traveller and he was one of the first Englishman to penetrate Mecca as detailed in his account published in The Times of August 25th 1862. The general form of the current instrument was derived by John Frederick Newman who is recorded in Banfield, Edwin BAROMETER MAKERS AND RETAILERS 1660-1900 as working from 122 Regent Street, London 1827-62. Banfield states that Newman made standard and portable barometers for the Ross Antarctic Expedition and his meteorological station barometers were installed throughout the British Empire. Newman barometers of this design usually incorporated movable scales to allow calibration against the mercury level in the cistern which may vary very slightly with changes in temperature. Newman’s business was taken over by Negretti & Zambra in 1862 who Banfield records as being established in 1850 when a partnership between Enrico Negretti and Joseph Warren Zambra was formed. The firm became one of the most prolific makers of scientific instruments and continued trading well into the 20th century.
A Victorian mahogany cased set of portable diamond scales De Grave, Short and Company, mid 19th century With sculpted metal pivoted beam incorporating pointer within the suspension armature over hemispherical brass pans contained within a fitted box incorporating lidded compartment enclosing weights calibrated in carats, the lid applied with a paper label entitled A table by which may be Calculated the Value of any Weight of Diamonds incorporating BY DE GRAVE, SHORT & COMPY., (Late M. De Grave & Sons), continuing with 59. ST. MARTIN LE GRAND, LONDON, the exterior with brass tweezers contained within a slot to the lower rear right hand corner, with caddy-moulded lid and canted angles flanking brass plate push button clasp to front 17.5cm (6.75ins) wide; with another Victorian cased set of portable diamond scales, De Grave, Short & Fanner, London, mid 19th century, the form the same as the larger of the first two but incorporating BY DE GRAVE, SHORT & FANNER within the paper label applied to the inside of the lid, 12.5cm (5ins approx.) wide, (2). The De Grave family were well known as scientific instrument makers specialising in weights and measures throughout the 19th century. The first member to set up business was Charles De Grave who is recorded in Clifton, Gloria Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working in St. Martins le Grand, London from 1780. The business traded as De Grave, Short and Fanner from 59 St. Martins Le Grand 1845-71 and was eventually absorbed by W. and T. Avery and Co. Ltd in the early 20th century.
Taxidermy. A George VI preserved perch by J. Cooper & Sons, the fish with painted scales and mounted in a naturalistic setting, with a printed paper trade label, inscribed 'Preserved by J. COOPER & SONS 78 BATH ROAD, HOUNSLOW, MIDDX.', within a glazed gilt and ebonised bowfront case, inscribed in gilt 'PERCH 1 lb 1ozs, Caught by Baxendale, 8th July 1948 Aughenreoch Loch', 26.7cm high, 45.7cm wide.
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