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Lot 324
Fly-Fishing interest. AFLALO (F G) A Book of Fishing Stories, 1913, 4to, plates, cloth gilt; GRIMBLE (A) The Salmon Rivers of Scotland, 3rd edition 1913, 8vo, maps and plates, unopened and uncut, vellum backed boards (slightly soiled), label rubbed; HODGSON (W Earl) Trout Fishing, 1904 8vo, cloth gilt; HAMILTON (E) Recollections of fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout and Grayling, 1884, 8vo, mezzotint frontispiece, plates, slight yellowing and spotting to first leaves, cloth gilt; AUSTIN (A B) An Angler`s Anthology, illustrated by Norman Wilkinson, first edition 1930, 4to, cloth (slight sunned); one other (6)
Lot 407
ENGLISH JOURNEYMAN ARTIST, 19TH CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN BUST LENGTH, IN WHITE STOCK AND BLACK COAT SEATED IN A RED CHAIR AND A PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, BUST LENGTH IN A BROWN COAT AND BOW TIE, WITH GOLD WATCH CHAIN, SEATED IN A RED CHAIR, PROBABLY A PENDANT, 69 X 57CM AND 69 X 57.5CM, UNFRAMED (2) ++ Seemingly both by the same anonymous artist, both bearing on the reverse the printed trade label of George Wilkinson & Son, Sheffield, established 1870 and presumably by whom lined and cleaned. The second with some bitumenisation of the medium and blistering extreme upper left, also a short closed tear on the sitter`s upper lip and old localised repair
Lot 268
A CASED LLOYDS PATRIOTIC FUND SWORD OF £50 TYPE PRESENTED TO CAPTAIN HENRY MERITON OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY`S SHIP EXETER, 1804, BY RICHARD TEED, SWORD CUTLER, LANCASTER COURT, STRAND with reblued, curved, fullered blade (cleaned, no decoration visible), gilt-brass hilt comprising quillons formed as fasces, langets applied with Naval trophies, knuckle-guard formed as Hercules` club entwined by a serpent and the back-piece as the pelt of the Nemean Lion; finely chequered ivory grip secured at the base by a laurel wreath, in its original, gilt-brass-mounted fishskin-covered wooden scabbard, the mounts cast and chased with Classical scenes including Hercules and the Nemean Lion and Hercules and the Lernean Hydra, the locket inscribed `Exeter`, with belt and slings, in a Lloyds fitted mahogany case lined with blue velvet, the lid fitted with brass carrying handle and plaque, the latter recently engraved `From the Patriotic Fund, Lloyds London to H. Meriton Esqr H.E.I.Co`s Ship Exeter 1804`, the interior with label including the maker`s name, 76.8cm; 30 1/8in blade Literature Frederick Wilkinson, Edged Weapons, 1970, p. 150, illustrated.This sword is one of fifteen Patriotic Fund swords of £50 value awarded to the ships` captains of the East India Company`s `China Fleet` involved in the celebrated engagement with the French of 15th February 1804 now known as `Dance`s Action`. All fifteen of these swords have the name of the relevant ship engraved in a scroll on the offside of the upper part of their scabbards. This feature, unique to the Fund`s £50 swords for `Dance`s Action`, enables this sword to be confidently associated with Captain Henry Meriton, captain of the Indiaman EXETER on that famous occasion - a sea battle memorably fictionalised by Patrick O`Brian in chapter nine of his `Jack Aubrey` novel H.M.S. Surprise (London, 1973).The `China Fleet` of Dance`s Action comprised sixteen homeward-bound Indiamen laden with cargo worth an estimated £8 million and eleven `country ships` sailing from China to India. It sailed without naval escort, being reliant upon the size of the Indiamen - easily mistaken at a distance for British 64- or even 74-gun warships - and the pugnacious spirit of their captains to fight off a French force known to be lurking in wait for them. The fleet and its predators, a squadron commanded by the French admiral Linois, met off Pulo Aor at the entrance to the Malacca Straits late on 14th February 1804. The fleet`s commodore, Captain Nathaniel Dance (1748-1827), was advised by some Royal Naval officer-passengers and, when the French were sighted, adopted tactics that were typical of the Royal Navy in order to delude Linois into thinking that he had met a powerful naval force and not a convoy of armed merchantmen: as night fell, he sent the country ships inshore and formed line of battle. The following morning, three of Dance`s ships hoisted blue ensigns and pennants - a tactic intended to reinforce the impression that they were line-of-battle ships of the Royal Navy - and the line stood on for the mouth of the Malacca Straits. At this, Linois signalled his ships to attack the rear of the line. Dance`s riposte was to signal his ships to tack in succession, bear down upon the French and engage them - not a manoeuvre that Linois might have expected from a convoy of merchantmen. The first six Indiamen, led by ROYAL GEORGE - the largest of them, approached the French squadron resolutely and in the face of French gunfire, so unnerving Linois by their evident enthusiasm for the fight and threat to surround and overwhelm his ships that he broke off the engagement after forty minutes and before the remaining Indiamen could join it. The Indiamen suffered only one casualty in the action and, after collecting a Royal Naval escort at St Helena, returned safely with their cargo and to enormous popular acclaim. Dance was knighted, lavishly rewarded and pensioned and received a sword of £100 value from the Patriotic Fund; each of his fifteen captains were also rewarded and each received a £50 sword, of which this is one. Henry Meriton (1762-1826) was born in Rotherhithe and served a seven-year apprenticeship in the brigantine JOHN AND RICHARD on the West Indies trade, working his way up from gunner to ship`s master, before joining the East India Company`s maritime service in 1783. For the next decade, he served on four Indiamen, progressing from 3rd mate to 1st mate and being one of the two survivors from the crew of HALSEWELL when she was wrecked off the Isle of Purbeck in 1786. He joined EXETER as 1st mate on her maiden voyage in 1793 and made three voyages in her, to Bombay and China and back, before being appointed her captain in 1799. On his first voyage to China as captain of EXETER, Meriton distinguished himself in an action off the Brazilian coast on 4th August 1800 when, under cover of darkness, he captured a French frigate, MÉDÉE, that he had pursued and whose captain believed he was menaced by a large British man-of-war. Dance`s Action, in which EXETER was not actively engaged, took place during his penultimate voyage as captain of that ship. In 1809 he was appointed captain of CEYLON, aboard which he was severely wounded and captured during an action in the Indian Ocean on 3rd July 1810, in which a French frigate squadron attacked and seized the greater part of a convoy of Indiamen. Taken to Mauritius, then called Île de France, with his ship, Meriton was released when the island was captured by the British in December 1810; he may have captained the Indiaman SOVEREIGN on a voyage in 1813-14. By 1816, Meriton had been appointed Superintendent of Marine and President of the Marine Board in Bombay, positions that he held until early 1826 when he returned home. Meriton died in Greenwich on 7th August 1826. See A. Farrington 1999, p. 536; the same author 1999, pp. 116 & 237-238; and J. Wright 1997, pp. 30-32.
Lot 315
AN EDWARDIAN FIELD OFFICER`S SWORD OF THE ROYAL SCOTS BY HENRY WILKINSON, LONDON NO 40950 FOR 1906 with fine slightly curved blade blade etched with thistle decoration, EviiR cypher, regimental title and devices, fishskin grip and steel thistle pattern guard (as Robson Fig 146 but with St Andrew in the cartouche), in a brown leather scabbard with leather chape 89cm; 35in blade
Lot 317
A GEORGE V OFFICER`S CLAYMORE OF THE ROYAL SCOTS BY HENRY WILKINSON, LONDON NO 61197 FOR 1927 with single-fullered blade etched with thistle decoration, Geo V cypher, regimental title and devices, and initials E.F.P.A., regulation basket guard complete with scarlet liner and crimson tassel, in its steel scabbard with ball chape 82cm; 32 ½ in blade
Lot 355
BLAIR, Claude, European & American Arms, London 1964; MARTIN, P. Armour and Weapons, London 1968; FFOULKES, C. Arms and Armament, London 1947; MÜLLER, H. Albrecht Dürer Waffen und Rüstungen, Berlin 2002; HUMBLE, R. Warfare in the Middle Ages, London 1989; BALDICK, R. The Duel, Norwich 1965; CLEPHAN, R. The Defensive Armour, London 1900; WILKINSON, F. Small Arms, London 1965; DOLÍNEK, V. & DURDÍK, J. The Encyclopedia of European Historical Weapons, Prague 1993; NORMAN, V. Arms and Armour, London 1969; VON MICHAELI, V. Schöne alte Waffen und Rüstungen, Bayreuth 1979; EDGE, D. & PADDOCK J. Arms & Armour of the Medieval Knight, London 1988 (11)
Lot 375
PETERSON, H. L. The Book of The Gun, London 1962; BAILEY, D. W., HOGG, I., BOOTHROYD, G. & WILKINSON, F. Guns and Gun Collecting, London 1972; HOGG, I. V. An Illustrated History of Firearms, London 1980; RILING, R. The Powder Flask Book, New York 1953; GARDNER, R. E. Small Arms Makers, New York 1963; HELD, R. The Age of Firearms, a Pictorial History, London 1957; WILKINSON, F. Antique Firearms, Enfield 1977; WESLEY, L. Air-Guns and Air-Pistols, London 1971, SWENSON, G.W.P. Pictorial History of the Rifle, London 1971; BAXTER, D. R. Blunderbusses, Harrisburg 1970; BOOTHROYD, G. Gun Collecting, London 1961; BOSTON, N. Old Guns and Pistols, London 1958; WILKINSON, F. The World`s Great Guns, London 1977; ROSA, J. G. & MAY, R. The Pleasure of Guns, London 1974; AKEHURST, R. The World of Guns, London 1972; HERMANN, W. & WAGNER, E. L. Battenberg Antiquitäten-Kataloge Alte Waffen, Munich 1979; JACKSON, H. J. European Hand Firearms of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries, London 1959 (16)
Lot 530
A RARE 8 BORE WILKINSON & SON PATENT UNDERHAMMER PERCUSSION SPORTING GUN, CIRCA 1840 with signed octagonal sighted barrel (worn), engraved tang, under hammer action (repaired) engaged directly by the forward portion of the trigger, figured walnut half-stock inset with a slender mother-of-pearl plaque, engraved steel trigger-guard (butt-plate replaced), and associated steel ramrod 77.8cm; 30 5/8in barrelHenry Wilkinson patented this `improvement in firearms` under no. 8119 in 1839. See S. V. Grancsay and M. Lindsay (ed.) 1969 pp.1-5.
Lot 70
A Victorian silver mug, Henry Wilkinson, Sheffield 1847, of baluster form with scroll decoration, scroll handle and raised on pierced foot, 11.5cm high, together with a silver two handled sugar bowl of oval half reeded form, Sheffield and a pierced silver butter dish (lacking liner), total weight of silver 8.5oz (3)WE DO NOT STATE CONDTION IN THE ABOVE DESCRIPTION – Before bidding please ensure you are satisfied with the condition of this lot – For details of condition please contact the auctioneer.
Lot 99
A George II silver taperstick, by William Cafe, London 1759, the shell capped knopped baluster column resting on shell capped shaped square base, monogrammed, 12.5cm high, and a Victorian silver taperstick, by Henry Wilkinson & Co, Sheffield 1863, of similar design, with damage, 13cm high (2)
Lot 217
An Elizabeth II 1897 Pattern Commissioning Sword to the Royal Army Medical Corps, the 82cm fullered steel blade etched with Corps badge, Royal cypher and foliage, and named to P.E.BROOKS, by Wilkinson Sword, the edge numbered 109452, the nickel plated hilt pierced and worked with ER cypher, with wire bound fishskin grip, leather service scabbard, frog and Sam Browne
Lot 220
A German K98 Knife Bayonet, one side of the blade ricasso stamped 43crs the opposing side stamped 7174 d, with steel scabbard and bayonet lug attachment; a British Pattern 1907 Mk1 ``SMLE`` Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Bayonet, by Wilkinson, with ssteel mounted leather scabbard; a British No.4 Spike Bayonet, with steel scabbard (3)
Lot 248
A British Pattern 1895 ``Martini-Enfield`` Socket Bayonet, the blade dated 10`99 and numbered 563, the brass mounted leather scabbard with stud numbered 597; two British Pattern 1907 Mk1 ``SMLE`` Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Bayonets, with steel mounted leather scabbards, one marked to Wilkinson (3)
Lot 280
A Spanish Mauser Bolo Bayonet, the blade ricasso marked TOLEDO and numbered 6014 b, with chequered wood grip scales, steel scabbard and Mauser adapter; a Lee Metford Model 1888 Knife Bayonet, the blade stamped 8`91 Wilkinson, with steel mounted leather scabbard; a Georgian Dagger, adapted from a small sword, the silver hilt worked with a figure, with gilt wire bound grip (3)
Lot 309
An Early 19th Century Indian Talwar/Khanda, the 75cm straight steel blade double edged for the last 23cm, the iron cruciform hilt with baluster grip and domed disc pommel; an Elizabeth II Presentation Sword by Wilkinson Sword Ltd., the 76.5cm double edge steel blade etched with a jousting scene and the initials J.H., the gilt nickel cruciform hilt with wire bound black plastic grip (2)
Lot 466
Two volumes British Trees, drawn and described by Rex Vicat Cole, volumes I and II, London published Hutchinson & Co., Paternoster Row, 1907, containing 430 reproduction and original drawings and paintings by the author, Ex Libris Rupert Potter, bought by H.V. Wilkinson from dispersal sale of Hilltop, Sawrey.
Lot 85
Central and South America. Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Suriname. A selection of American Bank Note Company, Bradbury Wilkinson and others Proofs. Majority perforated, in issued colours, in sheets and part sheets. Many with security punctures. Includes Surinam 1945 National Welfare Fund and 1945 Queen Wilhelmina
Lot 960
A first type Wilkinson F-S knife with double-edged blade, shortened to approx 15cm, retaining Wilkinson logo to forte, reversed steel crosspiece, chequered nickel plated grip (worn overall), in a made-up leather sheath, together with a knife made from a 1796-pattern infantry officer`s sword (pitted overall), in a made-up leather sheath.
Lot 1566
A Wilkinson Ltd. Royal Staffordshire Pottery lustre circular bowl, circa 1920, the base interior decorated as a lily pond, the blue glazed rim decorated with maidens by urns of pink roses, the pale blue glazed exterior raised on fruit and branch feet, black printed factory mark to base with indistinct painted numerals, diameter approx 31cm.
Lot 84
4 boxes of books, paperbacks, etc, including “British Regiments 1914-18” by Brig James, “Military Fashion” by Mollo, “Living History of Britain” ed Balchin, “Firearms” by Wilkinson, “British Army Collar Badges” by Churchill & Westlake, “Firearms: a Collector’s Guide” by Durdik, Mudra & Sada, etc., QGC to GC
Lot 289
A WWI officer’s sword of The R Artillery, almost straight blade 35”, by Wilkinson, no 49827 on backstrap (for 1916), etched with crowned R Arms, GVR in Union wreath and “Ubique” scroll, cannon, winged lightning and “Royal Artillery”, within scrolled Union floral panels, plated triple bar hilt, stepped pommel, chequered backstrap, wirebound fishskin grip, in its leather FS scabbard. GC (minor pitting, mostly to back edge, and stains to blade, a little pitting to hilt)
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