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Lot 356
A selection of assorted commemorative medallions and medals including George III to Elizabeth II, including George IIII bronze accession medallion, Edward VII white metal medallions, George V white metal medallions, white metal Stratford on Avon National Schools 1899 medallion, Victoria coronation medallion, Victoria and Prince Albert 1851 Prize medal of the Exhibition bronze medallion, Prince Albert Founder of the International Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862 bronze medallion, Photographic Society of London 1855 bronze medallion, awarded to William A. Clark 1903, bronze 1866 medallion for the marriage of Princess Helena and Prince Christian, Royal Academy of Music medal, white metal Elizabeth II Northern Ireland 1921 to 1971 medallion etc, together with a cased Avery sovereign scales and two Harrison Improved Sovereign Balance. (39)
Lot 7
A George II silver cream jug, unmarked, circa 1725, shell-shaped A George II silver cream jug, unmarked, circa 1725, shell-shaped, the handle chased with scales and capped with a grotesque mask, applied beneath the spout with a cherub mask, a grotesque animal stem, on an oval foot with a chased formal foliate border, engraved with a crest, 10cm.(4in) high, 222g (7.15 oz) The crest as used by BRIDGES. Provenance: from the collection of Lord Fitzwalter , Goodnestone Park, Kent. See Hartop, Christopher The Huguenot Legacy: English Silver 1680-1760: from the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection London 1996, p. 288 for a silver gilt example marked by David Willaume II, London 1721-22. A number of similar cream jugs are recorded, most of which are unmarked, but all those which are bear the maker s mark of David Willaume II.
Lot 89
A Victorian silver gilt mounted glass scent bottle modelled as a fish by the... A Victorian silver gilt mounted glass scent bottle modelled as a fish by the Army & Navy Cooperative Society Ltd (Frederick Bradford Macrea), the screw-on silver gilt tail with fine natural engraving, the opaque green glass possibly by Thomas Webb & Sons, with registration no. 15711, cut and gilded with scales, fins and eyes, 16cm (6 1/4in) long Provenance: the Angling Collection of George Miskin.
Lot 91
A Victorian silver mounted glass scent bottle modelled as a fish, maker A Victorian silver mounted glass scent bottle modelled as a fish, maker's mark D & .. (probably Deakin & Francis), Birmingham probably 1889, the screw-on silver tail with fine natural engraving, the opaque light green glass gilded with scales, fins and eyes, 13.5cm (5 3/8in) long; and a Continental porcelain etui or box modelled as a fish, painted and gilded with flowers, blue painted mark, 13.5cm (5 3/8in) long (2) Provenance: the Angling Collection of George Miskin.
Lot 147
**A COMPOSITE CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, GERMAN AND ITALIAN, MID-16TH TO EARLY 17TH CENTURY comprising close helmet of so-called 'Savoyard' type with rounded skull formed in two halves joined by a turn along a low medial comb, peak, face-defence and bevor attached to it by common pivots (replaced) with heads cast in relief as lions' masks, the peak of narrow obtusely-pointed form, the face-defence formed as a human mask with flanged oval eye-opening, a nose embossed in high relief and pierced with nostrils, and an engraved grinning mouth pierced with five circular ventilation-holes, the face-defence and bevor each secured by a pierced stud and swivel-hook (the latter probably replaced), and the lower edges of the skull and bevor each flanged outwards to receive a single deep rounded gorget-plate (both associated and the lower edge of the rear one restored); collar of three lames front and rear; breastplate formed of a medially-ridged main plate projecting forward over the belly, possessing a shallow neck-opening, fitted at its arm-openings with movable gussets, struck with four bullets, two of which have respectively pierced or cracked the metal, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of three lames (associated) the lowest of which is cut with a shallow arch pierced just above its centre with a hole for the attachment of a codpiece and fitted to either side of it on three straps (the inner one in each case broken) supporting a knee-length tasset of ten lames, divisible between the fifth and sixth, and terminating in a winged poleyn of three lames; backplate (restored) formed in one piece with shallow neck and arm-openings and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a culet of three lames; large symmetrical pauldrons each formed of eleven lames of which five at the front serve as a fan-like extension of the lower edge of the third and main one, operating about a pivot (replaced) furnished with a lion's-mask head en suite with those of the helmet (the lowest three lames of the right pauldron protecting the outside of the arm associated); two fully articulated vambraces (not a pair), each fitted at its upper end with a turner of one lame and at its elbow with a winged couter of three lames open at the inside of the elbow, the second decorated at the point of the elbow with an embossed eight-petalled flower-head (the right couter cracked and patched at points and having associated upper and lower lames); fingered gauntlets each formed of a moderately long flared and pointed cuff fitted with a shorter separate inner plate, a wrist-plate, five metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate, a shaped finger-plate and scaled finger and thumb-defences (some scales detached or missing); and a pair of full-length tubular greaves each terminating in an integral broad-toed sabaton of eight lames; the main edges of the armour turned inwards and, except on the helmet and greaves, extensively decorated with roping, and the subsidiary edges of the collar, tassets and pauldrons decorated with pairs of scored linesSee note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance The Vigier family, Solothurn Count R. von Kaunitz, sold Gallerie Fischer, 13 May 1936, lot 85 JWHA Inv. No. 2354 Literature Stephen V. Grancsay, The John Woodman Higgins Armoury, Worcester Masssachusetts, 1961, pp. 98-9
Lot 148
**A COMPOSITE FIELD ARMOUR IN THE 'GOTHIC' FASHION, GERMAN, CIRCA 1480-90 AND LATER comprising bevor formed of a main plate shaped to the chin and throat, a tall face-plate (restored) articulated to its upper edge and supported at its right by a spring-catch, the right of the plate pierced with nine small circular ventilation-holes in rosette formation and three more holes to the outside of it, and two gorget-plates (restored) of which the lowest and deepest has a square lower edge pierced at each corner with a hole to accommodate a retaining-bolt; lance-rest (restored) with an arm of inverted L-shaped section fitted on its front face with a fretted decorative plate and issuing from an integral rectangular base-plate fitted with two screws of which the upper one is welded in place and the lower is secured by a nut; tassets (restored) each of scutiform outline and fitted at its upper end with a pair of suspension-buckles; backplate formed of three downward-overlapping plates (the first patched at its upper corners, the second restored and the third associated), the first cut at its upper edge with a V-shaped neck-opening filled with a triangular gusset (restored), and at each side with an arm-opening, and the third flanged outwards at the waist to receive a culet of three lames descending to a multi-cusped lower edge; large left pauldron (restored) of Italian fashion, formed of four downward-overlapping lames; three-piece vambraces (restored and the right disarticulated), each formed of a gutter-shaped upper and lower cannon open linked by a shell-like couter open at the inside of the elbow; mitten gauntlets (the left and all but the cuff of the right restored), each formed of a long acutely-pointed cuff open at the inside of the wrist, five metacarpal-plates, a shaped knuckle-plate, four fluted finger-plates and a laterally-hinged thumb-defence of four scales; cuisses (the left and all but the upper six lames of the poleyn of the right restored) each formed of a gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its outer edge with a hinged side-plate and at its lower edge with a medially-cusped extension-plate terminating in a poleyn of seven lames overlapping outwards from the fourth which is shaped to the point of the knee and fitted at its outer end with a separate fan-like wing, and has medially-cusped upper and lower edges; ankle-length tubular greaves each open at the inside of the calf; and sabatons each formed of a rear section of one plate having a threaded hole at the heel for the attachment of a spur, and joined by a hinge at its inside to a front section of thirteen plates, the foremost of which takes the form of a long acutely-pointed toe-cap articulated to the preceding plate in such a way as to suggest that is detachable; the main edges of the armour formed in part with either inward or outward turns, the subsidiary edges of the backplate, pauldron, and gauntlets cusped at points, the surfaces of the backplate, pauldron vambraces and poleyns decorated with sprays of flutes in the 'Gothic' fashion and the bevor decorated with a roped transverse rib and incised lines (extensively pitted and patinated with some rust-perforations, cracks and patching) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Stadtrath Richard Zschille, Grossenhain, Saxony, sold Christie's 25 January 1893, without present bevor, tassets and lance-rest Possibly Oliver H.P. Belmont, New York City and Newport,Rhode Island to 1911 Clarence H. Mackay, Harbor Hill, Long Island, New York (sold from his estate by Jaques Seligman & Co, New York, 9 November 1939) JWHA Inv. No. 2608 Exhibited Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 17 February - 12 December1941 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1 April 1942 - 14 October 1947 Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 4 October-28 November 1965 'Renaisance Hardware: The Art and Technology of Armor', National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee,4 September 1987 - 3 January 1988 'The Art of the Printmaker', J. W. Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 2 June - 6 September 1998
Lot 51
## A BALKAN SHORT DAGGER (YATAGHAN), BOKO KOTORSKA, DATED 1794 with single-edged blade inlaid with silver along the back-edge on each face (losses, worn), retaining traces of its nielloed silver hilt, fitted with a pair of ivory grip-scales retained by four pairs of rivets, in its finely decorated dated nielloed silver scabbard, the locket and chape each chased with scrollwork, the remaining surface decorated with scrolls and flowers against a punched ground, with a loop for suspension 22.5 cm; 8 7/8 in blade See Elgood 2009, p. 85 no. 70.
Lot 52
##A BALKAN SHORT DAGGER (YATAGHAN), BOKO KOTORSKA, DATED 1800 with single-edged blade with traces of silver inlay along the back-edge on each face (worn), retaining a portion of its chased silver hilt, fitted with a pair of ivory grip-scales retained by four pairs of rivets (one ear chipped), in its finely decorated dated nielloed silver scabbard, the locket and chape each chased with scrolls and beadwork, the remaining surface decorated with scrolls and flowers against a punched ground, with a loop for suspension 22 cm; 8 5/8 in blade See Elgood 2009, p. 85 no. 70.
Lot 57
AN OTTOMAN SWORD (SHAMSHIR), TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade etched with a 'watered' pattern, and the owner's initials, FW, and crest a greyhound holding an arrow, engraved brass hilt including langets and quillons chiselled with flowers and foliage, the latter with a pair of engraved button-shaped terminals, a pair of horn-grip-scales, and pierced pommel, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with engraved copper mounts 80 cm; 31 1/2 in blade
Lot 58
##AN OTTOMAN SWORD (YATAGHAN), TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY with curved single-edged blade decorated in silver with four panels of calligraphy on one face and a star on the other, base metal hilt extending over the forte and set with coloured pastes, the back-strap set with fluted pear-shaped coral, and a pair of large ivory grip-scales retained by four brass rivets, rising to a large eared pommel, in its painted wooden scabbard, retaining its plain iron top mount (small chips) 57.5 cm; 22 3/4 in blade The inscriptions include, in the cartouches on the left, a couplet in Turkish (with mistakes), 'ey gönül bir can içün her cana minnet eyleme/isret-i dünya içün sultana minnet eyleme', (Oh heart, for the sake of a single life, do not bow to every soul/And for the sake of worldly pleasure, do not bow to a sultan). In the cartouches on the right 'sahib wa malik ibrahim agha tawakkaltu 'ala allah/la fata illa 'ali la sayf illa dhu'l-fiqar' (The owner and possessor, Ibrahim Agha, I put my trust in God. There is no hero but 'Ali and no sword but Dhu'l-Fiqar); in the roundel ''amal 'ali sana 1277' (Made by 'Ali, year 1277 [1860-1]).
Lot 65
AN OTTOMAN SWORD (YATAGHAN), TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY AND A SUDANESE KASKARA, 19TH CENTURY the first with curved single-edged blade cut with an inscription involving a tughra on one face, chased silver hilt extending over the forte and around the back-strap, and a pair of large horn grip-scales rising to form an eared pommel; the second with broad double-edged blade engraved with a stylised city gate at the forte on each face, iron cross-piece and reptile skin grip the first: 60.2 cm; 23 3/4 in blade (2)
Lot 167
A leather cased 'Lady's Companion', in blue leather with gilt tooled decoration and titled to the spine, the interior with tablet, folding morocco skein/tool card with two mother of pearl handled tools, silver thimble on needle packet drawer, silver pencil and folding knife, blade shortened, mother of pearl scales, box 9.5cm x 5.7cm x 3.8cm.
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