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:A SILVER-MOUNTED PERSIAN KARD, early 19th century, with 7 1/2in. single-edged tapering blade, the hilt encased in silver decorated with panels of chased foliage against a stippled ground, the borders set with small blue enamelled pieces, in original dark blue velvet-covered scabbard with silver mounts decorated en suite with the hilt (some damage to chape), the locket with four stone buttons with gold-inlaid Arabic inscriptions (some loss to enamelled pieces throughout).
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:AN INDIAN KARD, late 18th / early 19th century, with 10in. watered single-edged blade (watered pattern feint) with a chiselled waved back-edge and raised forte, the flat of the right side of the blade with a band of gold-damascened decoration and a gold-damascened cartouche containing an inscription, the back-edge and forte decorated with gold-damascened bands and foliage, the hilt comprising a gilt collar decorated with scrollwork and a polished agate one-piece grip with gilt button finial (finial stone missing), in original purple velvet-covered scabbard (velvet worn) with silver-gilt locket and chape decorated in low relief with flowers and foliage.
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:A MAGNIFICENT PAIR OF CUSTOM BROWNING 'FRENCH REVOLUTION BI-CENTENNIAL' 12-BORE SIDEPLATED SINGLE-TRIGGER OVER AND UNDER EJECTORS, serial no. 17052 / 3, 27 1/2in. nitro barrels with 6mm ventilated matt top-ribs, relief engraved and gold-inlaid at the breech ends with ornate scrolls and chain links, the ribs gold inlaid respectively with 'LA ROYAUTE EST ABOLIE EN FRANCE' and 'DECLARATION DES DROITES DE L'HOMME', 2 3/4in. chambers, bored approx. 1/2 and 3/4 choke in both, hold-open toplevers, pierced with the portrait of a revolutionary soldier (17052) and a revolutionary bonnet and key (17953), manual safeties with integral barrel selector switches, actions and lockplates fully engraved with representations of key events and historical figures of the French Revolution in deep relief and fine bulino styles, with gold highlighting on the fences and borders, both guns dated '1789 - 1989'; gun no. 17052 with an armed citizen on the toplever and the underside with a scene depicting the 'The Tennis Court Oath', encircled with an elaborate border, inscribed 'LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE OU LA MORT', the triggerplate with an angel and stone tablets carved with the 'Declaration of the rights of Man and the Citizen', the backstrap listing the spring and summer months of the French Republican Calendar, the action and lockplates with scenes of the storming of the Bastille and a meeting of the Estates General within the halls of the Palace of Versailles, with portraits of Camille Desmoulins (accredited with the first public call to arms to the French people), Jacques Necker (reforming French finance minister, whose dismissal by Louis XVI sparked Desmoulins outburst) and the Marquis de Lafayette (founder of the French National Guard and leading figure among the Feuillants) on the left; Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (King and Queen of France) and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (a moderate who campaigned for the introduction of a constitutional monarchy) on the right, with emblematic representations of the people (in the form of agricultural implements) and the Church (in the form of garments and accoutrements of the Catholic Church), the whole surrounded and invaded by bold acanthus foliage on a matt background; gun no. 17053 with a windmill on the toplever and the underside with a scene of execution by guillotine encircled with an elaborate border, inscribed 'LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE OU LA MORT', the triggerplate with a protrait of Claude-Joseph Rouget De Lisle (composer of 'La Marseillaise') with bars of music and the words of the first line 'Allons enfants de la Patrie', the backstrap listing the autumn and winter months of the French Republican Calendar, the action and lockplates with scenes of the storming of the Tuileries Palace and a victorious Napoleon Bonaparte on horseback being hailed by his troops, with portraits of leading revolutionary activists and politicians including Georges Danton, Jean Paul Marat, Louis de Saint Just, Maximilien Robespierre and Napoleon Bonaparte (ruler of France as Premier Consul of the French Republic), with an anonymous portrait named 'Charette' - the type of cart used to carry the condemned to the guillotine, with emblematic representations of the Republic (in the form of a book, mirror, serpents and coins to denote knowledge, truth, wisdom and renewal) and the monarchy (in the form of royalist arms and paraphernalia), the whole surrounded and invaded by bold acanthus foliage on a matt background, the fore-end irons engraved en-suite, with cartouches inscribed 'FEUILLANT' , 'BRETON' and 'CORDELIERS', 'JACOBINS' to signify the different revolutionary factions, triggerplates engraved 'Les Graveurs de Herstal', 14 1/2in. exhibition grade roachbelly stocks including buttplates, weight 6lb. 12oz., in their leather case with original certificates, confirming that the guns were completed in 1990
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A rosewood cased two-day marine chronometer Barraud, London, circa 1845 The four-pillar single fusee movement with Harrison's maintaining power and Earnshaw type spring detent escapement with auxiliary compensation weight to the split bi-metallic balance, with helical balance spring and diamond end-stone, the 3.75 inch circular silvered Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds dial, up/down register and signed BARRAUD, 41 CORNHILL, LONDON, MAKER TO THE ROYAL NAVY No. 2840 to centre and with two gilt applied badges and gold spade hands contained behind screw-down bezel and within brass bowl and gimbals with locking lever, in original brass line inlaid and edged three-section box with winding key, 19cm wide. Paul Phillip Barraud (born 1752) worked with his father at first until his death in 1795 after which Barraud turned his attention more towards chronometers. Using the valuable experience gained whilst working on Mudge's timekeepers with W. Howells and G. Jamieson to good effect, he became very successful. After his death in 1820 the business was continued by his sons, taking John Richard Lund into partnership in 1838 who developed the auxiliary compensation balance weight to correct for middle temperature changes. The use of this compensation weight was signified by Barraud by the addition of applied gilt badges on the dial.
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