April and May auction including Spring Connoisseur Collectors Auction

A post-1902 officer’s blue cloth spiked helmet of The Cheshire Regiment, with peak binding, top mount and spike, velvet backed chinchain and ear r...

A post-1902 officer’s blue cloth spiked helmet of The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), brass peak binding, top mount and spike, velvet backed...

A good pre 1908 officer’s blue cloth spiked helmet of the Cinque Ports Volunteer Battalion The Royal Sussex Regiment, silver plated peak binding, ...

A Victorian officer’s lance cap of the 21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers, black patent leather skull and embroidered peak, gilt braid and regiment...

An officer’s 1817 pattern helmet of The 1st Life Guards, silver plated skull, peaks and comb, with gilt edge binding, laurel sprays, scalloped edg...

A fine officer’s 1818-34 pattern helmet of The 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), black japanned skull, peaks and comb, with gilt edge binding, lau...

An officer’s full dress uniform of the 3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards, comprising: helmet with ear to ear laurel wreath, oak wreath at bac...

A khaki tropical helmet of a Scottish Regiment, silk puggaree with diamond shape piece of tartan cloth on either side, leather head-band and chins...

A post-1902 officer’s blue cloth spiked helmet of The Hampshire Regiment, gilt peak binding, top mount and spike, velvet backed chinchain and ear ...

A good officer’s khaki slouch hat of the Middlesex Yeomanry, silk binding to brim, narrow leather headband, leather and silk lining with maker’s n...

A.577” prize Volunteer 3 band Enfield percussion rifle to the 26th Middlesex Rifles, by the London Armoury Company, 55” overall, barrel 39” with o...

A .577” prize Volunteer 3 band Enfield percussion rifle to the Queen’s Westminster Rifles, by the London Armoury Company, 55” overall, barrel 39” ...

A brass barrelled flintlock holster pistol, c 1770, by N. Atkinson, 16½” overall, tapered barrel 10” engraved “London” in teardrop panel, the bree...

A good .65” Tower New Land Pattern flintlock holster pistol, 15” overall, barrel 9” with Tower proofs; unlined stepped lock with raised pan, plat...

An officer’s 16 bore percussion holster pistol by Tatham c 1800, converted from flintlock with breech drum, 14” overall, flat topped round twist b...

A good .56” Tower percussion Sea Service belt pistol, 11½” overall, barrel 6” with Tower proofs and ordnance inspector’s marks, with button fore ...

A mid 19th century 20 bore percussion holster pistol by Smith, London, 11½” overall, sighted octagonal twist barrel 5” with two platinum lines at...

A .577” Volunteer Snider 3 band rifle by Reilly, 55” overall, barrel 36½” with London proofs and Enfield inspector’s mark, the breech block having...

A .577/450” Mark II Martini Henry rifle, 49½” overall, barrel 33” with Birmingham proofs and government sale mark; action stamped “Martini Patent...

A good .577/450” Mark II Martini Henry rifle, 49½” overall, barrel 33½” with ordnance proof and view marks and London nitro proofs; the frame sta...

**A good .303” Enfield Martini cavalry carbine by Holland & Holland, 37½” overall, barrel 21½” with London proofs; the otherwise unmarked frame en...

A good .66” private purchase Royal Midlothian Yeomanry percussion carbine, by Bryce of Edinburgh, 36” overall, twist barrel 20” with break off bre...

A good .451” Westley Richards “Monkey Tail” breech loading percussion carbine, 36” overall, barrel 20” with Birmingham proofs, serial number 2511...

An early 19th century brass barrelled flintlock blunderbuss pistol, by Theops. Richards (Birmingham), 13” overall, 2 stage barrel 8”, signed at th...

A mid 18th century silver mounted 22 bore “Queen Anne” style cannon barrelled flintlock boxlock side action pistol, by Griffin, Bond Street, 12” o...

A pair of 38 bore percussion boxlock sidehammer belt pistols, by Alexander Martin, Glasgow, 9” overall, octagonal barrels 4¾” engraved on the top ...

A 55 bore cannon barrelled flintlock boxlock pocket pistol, by Murdoch, c 1780, 8” overall, turn off barrel 2¾”, numbered “3” on barrel and breech...

A heavy mid 18th century 8 bore military style flintlock musket, 56½” overall, unusually heavy 3 stage barrel 39”, plain early style banana shaped...

A good scarce .75” Prussian 1740/73 Pattern Potsdam flintlock musket, 57” overall, barrel 41” with proof marks at the breech and brass blade fore ...

A scarce 10 bore Victorian Brown Bess flintlock musket, 55” overall, barrel 39” with ordnance proofs and standing rearsight, lock stamped with cr...

A good private purchase pistol bore (.56”) Baker flintlock rifle, by Ezekiel Baker, probably made to special order for an officer, 45½” overall, b...

A rare .65” 1776 type Volunteer military flintlock rifle, by Morris (Birmingham) c 1800, 44” overall, octagonal twist barrel 28”, with 8 groove ri...

A scarce Hodges’ Patent elastic powered catapult “gun”, to fire a bolt, 47” overall, octagonal twist “barrel” 30” engraved “T.E. Hodges, Patentee...

A 5 shot 54 bore 1851 Adams self cocking percussion revolver with “Improved Frame” and Robert Adams 1854 safety bolt and arbor latch, 12” overall,...

A pair of brass cannon barrelled and brass framed flintlock boxlock pocket pistols by Ketland & Co, c 1775, 7¾” overall, turn off barrels 2½”, th...

A scarce 3 barrelled 150 bore tap action flintlock boxlock pocket pistol, by Whalley, Macclesfield, c 1800, 6” overall, turn off barrels 1¾”, the ...

A scarce 3 barrelled 150 bore tap action flintlock boxlock pocket pistol by J. H. Bolton, London, c 1800, 5½” overall, turn off barrels 1¼”, muzzl...

A good quality 40 bore flintlock boxlock pocket pistol by Sykes of Oxford c 1810, 6¼” overall, turn off barrel 1½” with engraved fern tip border a...

A 24 bore flintlock duelling pistol by Wogdon, c 1785, 14” overall, sighted round barrel with flat top signed “Wogdon, London”, and with floral e...

A 30 bore percussion duelling style target pistol by James Wilkinson & Son, probably converted from patch or tube lock by the maker, 15” overall, ...

A 40 bore percussion duelling pistol by Joseph Manton, number 4468 (1807), converted by Manton from flintlock, 15” overall, heavy well rebrowned o...

A 32 bore percussion duelling pistol by Joseph Manton, number 8832 (1821),15” overall, heavy browned octagonal twist barrel 10” with dovetailed si...

“The History of the Steel Helmet in the First World War” by Hazelgrove and Radovic, a comprehensive work in 2 vols, detailing the helmets of the n...

20 books mainly on antique firearms, mostly of “coffee table” type, including “Guns and Rifles of the World” by Blackmore, 1965, “The Book of Gu...

“British Military Firearms 1650-1850” by Blackmore (DW AF), “The British Soldier’s Firearm, 1850-1864” by Roads, “Civil War Guns” by Edmonds and “...

“Armies of 1812” by von Pivka, “Napoleon’s Enemies” by Warner, “The Book of the Gun” by Peterson, 13 books from the “Famous Regiments” series (lib...

“World War I” by Barnett, “World War II” foreword by Earl Mountbatten, “Weapons of War” by Cook and Stevenson, “Decisive Battles of Hitler’s War”,...

A WWI “Short Service Attestation” certificate, for Percy Edward Nosworthy, Army Pay Corps, d 19th March, 1915, in a large frame. Basically GC (ed...

An album of press cuttings, pictures and ephemera, relating to Bury (Lancs) c 1920-1950, in a folio sample binder marked “Exclusive Mens’ Wear” on...

6 interesting WWII Japanese propaganda match box labels, text rendered in Roman lettering, one in English “Bar Sakura ... Courtly Service of Beaut...

5 sets of cigarette cards: Players “Cycling” (in album), “Cricketers 1934” and “Derby and Grand National Winners”, Churchman’s “Well Known Ties”, ...

Player’s cigarettes “Victoria Cross” set of 25, in double sided frame, 18½” x 12”. GC

4 albums of photographs, mostly privately taken, 1935-39, many identified, of the Near East and India, many relating to the Quetta earthquake of 1...

3 different framed photographs of HMS Cumberland, one d. “Columbo 1944”, average size 7” x 11”, framed, and 2 other framed photos of warships, uni...

A Heath Robinson coloured print “First Lessons in the Goose Step”, in modern glazed oak frame; 3 coloured prints of German cavalry officers from o...

A coloured print “Wellington’s Finest Hour”, Waterloo, after the original by David Cartwright, limited edition of 850, well mounted and framed, wi...

2 applied oil paintings: British infantrymen on a ridge silhouetted by the inferno beyond; and 2 dead infantrymen face down in mud with fence and ...

A black and white print “The Zulu War: the Entrenched Position at Rorke’s Drift”, from a sketch by Lt. Col Crealock, in the Illustrated London New...

A black and white print “The Kaffir War: driving the Kaffirs out of the Iron Mount and Waterhloop”, from a sketch by the special artist of the Ill...

A coloured print “Isandlwana: Saving the Guns”, showing a troop of the R. Horse Artillery dashing through a Zulu ambush, mounted and framed, 22” x...