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Click here to subscribeA 19th Century Malayan Small Kris, with 22cm straight double edge steel blade, silver wire decorated mendak and bone Garuda bird hilt, with foliate embossed silver mounted wood scabbard; a Malayan Kris, 29cm straight double edge steel blade, dished brass mendak, carved wood Garuda bird hilt and scabbard (2)
A 19th Century Indian Scissor Katar, the 21cm double edge steel blade with central opening to reveal a further blade, inlaid at the forte with silver lancet panels, the steel V shape crossguard, and side pieces inlaid with silver foliate scrolls and tendrils, the top bar of the two bar grip sliding down to operate the scissor action of the blade, with crimson cloth covered scabbard
A First World War Pair, awarded to 3343 S.O. J.LIVINGSTONE. O.H. R.N.R., comprising a British War Medal and Victory Medal; a First World War Pair, awarded to BENJAMIN LAMBERT., comprising British War Medal and Mercantile Marine War Medal; Militaria, comprising nine Badges, including silver ARP badge, Merchant Navy lapel badge, Primrose League badge, three cap badges and three cloth insignia, a silk handkerchief printed with Engagements of General Sir Redvers Buller`s Natal Field Forces, and another Second World War printed handkerchief (15)
A 19th Century Indian Executioner`s Sword (Tegha), the 73cm broad curved single edge steel blade double edged for the last 26cm, each side chiselled with panels of deities, one side applied with a brass deity, with T section back edge, the Talwar type steel hilt inlaid with silver scrolls, with bar langets, compressed globular quillons to the short crossguard and disc pommel, with cloth covered scabbard
A Burmese Dha, the 60cm single edge steel blade with a fuller inlaid with silver and copper tendrils at the forte, with faux watered edge, the plated brass hilt chased and engraved with foliage, with shark skin grip and brass mounted wood scabbard; a Similar Dha, the wood hilt with black enamelled brass mounts (2)
A Good 28 Bore Percussion Cap Travelling Pistol by Riviere, London, converted by the maker from flintlock, the 10.5cm polygonal steel barrel engraved RIVIERE LONDON to the top flat, the case hardened breech engraved with leaf tips and with platinum star plug, with foliate engraved and signed stepped lock plate, dolphin hammer, walnut full stock with steel ramrod pipe and trigger guard, with bag butt inlaid with silver vacant escutcheon, with horn tipped wood ramrod
An India Medal 1895, awarded to 3672 Lce. Sergt.C.Wright 2d Bn.York Regt., lacks suspender, ribbon and clasp; a Second World War Trio, of France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals; three Jewels to the Knights of the Golden Horn, in gilt metal and silver, engraved to T E Bedford; a Royal Masonic Institution for Girls Steward`s Breast Jewel, for 1969, in gilt metal and enamel, boxed (8)
An 18th Century Double Barrel Flintlock Sporting Gun by Hampton, the 76cm steel barrels engraved at the breech and tang with leaf tips, the hammers and signed lock plates engraved with husks, the walnut half stock with steel foliate engraved fore-end tip, trigger guard with acanthus bud finial, butt plate with bird and leaf engraved tang, with chequered grip, silver escutcheon and brass tipped wood ramrod with steel worm
A 19th Century Indian Flintlock Blunderbuss, the 44cm flared steel barrel inlaid with scrolling tendrils, star motifs, diapering and script in silver, with similarly decorated rounded lock plate, the beech stock inlaid with bone geometric and foliate panels, with wood ramrod (later additions)
A Collection of Fifteen Canadian Cap Badges 1900 - 1914, in brass, bronze, bi-metal and white metal, including 5th Gordon Highlanders, 10th Royal Grenadiers, 97th Algonquin Rifles, and a silver example to 63rd Halifax Rifles (hallmarks for Birmingham 1910) etc, all loose mounted on a card display
Gallipoli Interest - A First World War Pre RAF Aviation Cockpit Timepiece, the circular white enamel dial with large black Arabic numerals and blued steel spade hands enclosing a subsidiary seconds dial, the jewelled movement with compensated balance, the backplate stamped with a Swiss type cross P33103 - DRP 175275 U.S.A. R 816321, the nickel case with extended top winding, the whole set into an aluminium mount with screwed bezel on a circular teak cockpit mount set with a silver plaque engraved ``SALVED FROM A BRITISH AEROPLANE SHOT DOWN BY THE TURKS, SALT LAKE, SUVLA BAY, GALLIPOLI. OCTOBER 1915`` with hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, 13cm diameter overall **Reports include - Derbyshire Yeo War History: ``On another occasion one of our own planes provided the excitement. When at 9,000 feet and well behind the enemy lines its diving gear jammed, necessitating a forced descent. It appeared as if it must land behind enemy trenches but just cleared them, being fired at by everything which the Turk could bring to bear. It literally skimmed our trenches and took the ground in the mud of Salt Lake..... Turkish field guns immediately opened fire, hitting it with the third or fourth shot and at the same time making what seemed very close shooting at the two airmen who were ploughing their way in thick deep mud back to Lala Baba but without hitting them``; Captain Kenneth McKenzie, 3rd LH Bde HQ, Table Top, From his diary entry of Thursday 14th October, a report of the shooting down of an English aeroplane over the Salt Lake by the Turks:``British aeroplane came down on dry lake. Aviators ducked & plane shelled by Turks, smashing one wing. Brought in at dark``; The Roughriders (A S Hamilton MM) `` The Trenches were violently bombarded on the 13th, after the Turks had smashed up a British plane which made a forced landing on the Salt Lake...``
A Pair of Edwardian Silver Bullion Epaulettes by Hawkes & Co., 14 Piccadilly, London, the silver lace boards set with silver button and silver and gilt thread rose applique, within a crescent, with twenty three large and twenty two small bullions, backed with crimson cloth and morocco, contained in a fitted black japanned tin case, the hinged cover set with a brass plaque engraved Colonel Foster and with maker`s label
An India Medal 1895, awarded to 3672 Lce. Sergt.C.Wright 2d Bn.York Regt., lacks suspender, ribbon and clasp; a Second World War Trio, of France and Germany Star, Defence and War Medals; three Jewels to the Knights of the Golden Horn, in gilt metal and silver, engraved to T E Bedford; a Royal Masonic Institution for Girls Steward`s Breast Jewel, for 1969, in gilt metal and enamel, boxed (8)
A Collection of Fifteen Canadian Cap Badges 1900 - 1914, in brass, bronze, bi-metal and white metal, including 5th Gordon Highlanders, 10th Royal Grenadiers, 97th Algonquin Rifles, and a silver example to 63rd Halifax Rifles (hallmarks for Birmingham 1910) etc, all loose mounted on a card display
Gallipoli Interest - A First World War Pre RAF Aviation Cockpit Timepiece, the circular white enamel dial with large black Arabic numerals and blued steel spade hands enclosing a subsidiary seconds dial, the jewelled movement with compensated balance, the backplate stamped with a Swiss type cross P33103 - DRP 175275 U.S.A. R 816321, the nickel case with extended top winding, the whole set into an aluminium mount with screwed bezel on a circular teak cockpit mount set with a silver plaque engraved ``SALVED FROM A BRITISH AEROPLANE SHOT DOWN BY THE TURKS, SALT LAKE, SUVLA BAY, GALLIPOLI. OCTOBER 1915`` with hallmarks for Birmingham 1916, 13cm diameter overall **Reports include - Derbyshire Yeo War History: ``On another occasion one of our own planes provided the excitement. When at 9,000 feet and well behind the enemy lines its diving gear jammed, necessitating a forced descent. It appeared as if it must land behind enemy trenches but just cleared them, being fired at by everything which the Turk could bring to bear. It literally skimmed our trenches and took the ground in the mud of Salt Lake..... Turkish field guns immediately opened fire, hitting it with the third or fourth shot and at the same time making what seemed very close shooting at the two airmen who were ploughing their way in thick deep mud back to Lala Baba but without hitting them``; Captain Kenneth McKenzie, 3rd LH Bde HQ, Table Top, From his diary entry of Thursday 14th October, a report of the shooting down of an English aeroplane over the Salt Lake by the Turks:``British aeroplane came down on dry lake. Aviators ducked & plane shelled by Turks, smashing one wing. Brought in at dark``; The Roughriders (A S Hamilton MM) `` The Trenches were violently bombarded on the 13th, after the Turks had smashed up a British plane which made a forced landing on the Salt Lake...``
A Pair of Edwardian Silver Bullion Epaulettes by Hawkes & Co., 14 Piccadilly, London, the silver lace boards set with silver button and silver and gilt thread rose applique, within a crescent, with twenty three large and twenty two small bullions, backed with crimson cloth and morocco, contained in a fitted black japanned tin case, the hinged cover set with a brass plaque engraved Colonel Foster and with maker`s label
A Victorian Black Patent Leather Binoculars Case to the 17th Lancers, the deep flap fascia set with a silver coloured metal regimental badge of skull and crossbones over OR GLORY, with brass acanthus leaf strap rings; a Late Victorian Farrier`s Register to the 17th Lancers, with vellum binding, marbled fore-edge, the brass clasp set with white metal regimental badge and with Bramah type lock, the back stamped Patent, Mordan & Co. Makers, London, the pages hand numbered from 41 to 729, with some entries beginning 1889 af (2)
A Victorian 1871 Pattern Officer`s Brass Helmet to the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen`s Bays), with silver, red and blue enamel garter star helmet plate, fluted plume holder with black horsehair plume, with foliate ear rosettes, red leather backed brass chinscales and quilted gold silk lining
A Victorian Officer`s Tropical Spiked Helmet to Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, the gilt brass fluted spike with leaf sheathed spike plate, the brass, silver and enamel helmet plate with Queen`s crown over a central black velvet boss, with white painted six panelled skull and buckskin bound brim, the cream canvas liner with stencilled numbers and with leather sweatband, with leather backed chinscales
A Post Second World War Polish Army Officer`s Peaked Cap, in khaki with silver bullion thread cap badge, leather peak and chinstrap; a West German NCO to the Signals Peaked Cap, by Bamberger Mutzen Industrie, 1969; a British Fire Services Association Peaked Cap, in black wool; a Black Peaked Forage Cap, with black lace trim and badge to the County of London `The Rangers` (4)
A German Third Reich Fire Police Officer`s Tunic, in dark blue wool with pink piping, pink and silver coloured metal shoulder straps and collar badges, the left arm with pink embroidered black cloth insignia, lined in black rayon, with maker`s label embroidered `ALOYS LAUFER, MUHLHAUSEN i/Thur. Lieferant in Feuerwehrartikeln`
An Interesting Silver Second World War Period Wristwatch, retailed by J.W.Benson, London, 1939, lever movement, silvered dial with Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, tonneau case with a unusual engraved inscription to the back cover bearing the name of ``ERNST UDET BLUE MAX LUFTWAFFE``, Birmingham hallmark, makers mark ALD and numbered 703773, 25mm by 37mm **Brought home by the vendor`s colleague who was a bat man to an officer in Germany after the Second World War. The watch was subsequently given to the vendor **Ernst Udet was a German ace fighter pilot in the First and Second World Wars
A German Third Reich Army Officer`s Dagger, the steel blade etched with maker`s mark Siegfried, Ernst Pack & Sohne MBH Waffenfabrik, Solingen, Waffen, the white metal hilt bearing traces of silver plating, with wrythen fluted orange plastic grip, silver metal thread portapee and with pebbled white metal scabbard
A German Third Reich Army Sword, the 83cm single edge fullered steel blade with maker`s mark for E Pack & Sohne, Solingen, the brass dove head hilt worked with acorns and oak leaves, with eagle and swastika to one langet, wire bound black plastic grip, black painted steel scabbard and silver metal thread portapee with silver and leather strap
A German Third Reich RAD Enlisted Man`s Hewer, the clip point steel blade with a narrow fuller to each side, one side etched Arbeit adelt, the other with maker`s logo for Carl Eickhorn, Solingen below RJAD within a triangle and GES.GESCHE., the silver plated hilt with two piece antler grip scales, the black enamelled steel scabbard with plated mounts engraved with Celtic style knotwork and RAD badge
A 19th Century Prussian Infantry Sword, the 83cm single edge double fullered steel blade stamped with the maker`s logo for Alcoso, the gilt brass hilt with triple bar guard cast with the Prussian eagle, the silver wire bound fishskin grip set with crowned W III R cypher, with plated steel two ring scabbard
An Early 19th Century Persian Kard, the 26cm single edge straight steel blade with foliate gold inlay to the forte, with brass ferrule, the tapering cylindrical enamelled grip painted with panels of figures on a ground of foliage in colours, set with a wrythen fluted silver band, the silver coloured metal scabbard with fluted bud tip
A 19th Century Indian War Axe, the crescent shape blade bearing traces of silver foliate inlay, with block shape socket, square tapering beak and top spike, on a slender tubular haft with single collar and globular pommel, 60cm; a 19th Century Indian Axe, the curved blade issuing from the head of an antelope, with knopped facetted haft and domed pommel, 64cm (2)
A 19th Century Indian War Axe, the crescent shape blade bearing traces of silver foliate inlay, with block shape socket, square tapering beak and top spike, on a slender tubular haft with single collar and globular pommel, 52cm; a 19th Century Afghan Lohar, one side of the sickle shape steel blade and square section haft with brass and silver foliate inlay, the bone grip incised with dot and circle motifs, with brass ferrule and pommel, 40cm (2)
A 19th Century Malayan Small Kris, with 22cm straight double edge steel blade, silver wire decorated mendak and bone Garuda bird hilt, with foliate embossed silver mounted wood scabbard; a Malayan Kris, 29cm straight double edge steel blade, dished brass mendak, carved wood Garuda bird hilt and scabbard (2)
A 19th Century Indian Scissor Katar, the 21cm double edge steel blade with central opening to reveal a further blade, inlaid at the forte with silver lancet panels, the steel V shape crossguard, and side pieces inlaid with silver foliate scrolls and tendrils, the top bar of the two bar grip sliding down to operate the scissor action of the blade, with crimson cloth covered scabbard
A 19th Century Indian Executioner`s Sword (Tegha), the 73cm broad curved single edge steel blade double edged for the last 26cm, each side chiselled with panels of deities, one side applied with a brass deity, with T section back edge, the Talwar type steel hilt inlaid with silver scrolls, with bar langets, compressed globular quillons to the short crossguard and disc pommel, with cloth covered scabbard
A Burmese Dha, the 60cm single edge steel blade with a fuller inlaid with silver and copper tendrils at the forte, with faux watered edge, the plated brass hilt chased and engraved with foliage, with shark skin grip and brass mounted wood scabbard; a Similar Dha, the wood hilt with black enamelled brass mounts (2)
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