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  • Nation : Spanish
  • Local Price : £9995
Click and use the code >23241 to search for this item on the dealer website Original 900 Year Old Templar Crusader Knights era &#acute;Sword of War&#acute;. A Broadsword With Brazil Nut Pommel. From the Period Immediately Following the Norman Conquest & As Used By the Templar Knights
  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £9995
Click and use the code >19377 to search for this item on the dealer website Superlative and Beautiful Koto Katana Circa 1500, A Museum Quality Ancient Sword, Sengoku Era, with Stunning Original, Edo Period, Soten School Mounts of Shakudo & Gold, &156;Koushi Seiyu Zu&157; Tsuba
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £9750
Click and use the code >23517 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Rare & Superb, Original, Imperial Roman Legionary´s & Cavalryman´s Spatha Long Sword, Late 3rd Century Over 1700 Years Old. The Very Form Of Sword As Our Tribune&#acute;s Ring Owner Would Use.
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £9500
Click and use the code >21508 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful, Original, German ´Zweihander´ Great Sword, 16th Century. Probably The Most Impressive And Largest Sword Ever Used in Historic Warfare. Following the Form of Sword Made Famous By The Scots in The Time Of Sir William Wallace
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £9500
Very Fine Scottish “Pinch of Snuff” Basket Hilted Sword. An attractive Scottish Officer's basket hilted sword dating to the second to third quarter periods of the 18th century. The sword is notable for its remarkably fine condition and is mounted with an imposing high quality blade.  These swords were carried by Scottish officers on British Army service with Scottish Highland Regiments in Europe and in North America during the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War periods. The sword is one of a distinctive group of Scottish military officers' swords. The complex hilt structure consists of oval shaped apertures, mounted between structural guard bars, which are infilled with an elaborate lattice of finely wrought iron of lace-like delicacy which obscures the robust strength of the hilt structure. The pommel is of typical mid-18th century British military bun shape with an integral pommel button. The pommel neck sits tightly in a circle of iron onto which the upper arms of the basket guard are attached. The hilt type is the same as three others depicted in contemporary portraits. The first is dated between 1757 and 1763 called “The Pinch of Snuff” by William Delacour, after which the sword type gains its name. It shows an officer in a Highland regiment, probably on service in the Americas, with one  tucked under his arm, whilst he pauses to take a pinch of snuff. The painting is illustrated in “History of Highland Dress”, John Telfer Dunbar, Oliver & Boyd 1962, Plate 47. The second shows Colonel William Gordon of Fyvie, in the uniform of the Queens Own Royal Regiment of Highlanders, painted in Rome by Pompeo Batoni in 1766, and illustrated in “The Clans of Scotland”, Micheil MacDonald, Brian Trodd Publishing, 1991, Page 108. The third is a painting of an officer in Highland military uniform, circa 1780, auctioned by Christies (“Pictures of Scottish Interest”, Glasgow, 2nd April 1969, (lot 1) and now in the National Museums of Scotland. The earliest dated sword of this type that we know of, is a silver hilted example with the maker’s initials stamped as “TB”, with London hallmarks for 1745, which sold through Thomas Del Mar Auctions in London in December 2014 (lot 330). This example does not have frontal loop guards and may be an English variant but nevertheless shows that the hilt type had arrived by the second quarter of the 18th century. It thrived until circa 1780. Clearly the sword type was popular with the Scottish officer class at a time when Scottish regiments were increasingly being mobilised by the British Army for service abroad. The tapering single edged blade is unmarked and of exceptional quality retaining much of its original polished finish. It is  just under 36 inches (91 cm) long with a short ricasso from which a long broad fuller extends to the tip where the blade develops a false back edge a short distance before. The attractive wooden baluster shaped grip is spirally grooved, covered with shagreen, and bound with a length of twisted copper wire with a narrower band on each side and finished with woven copper “Turks Heads” mounted top and bottom. The hilt has a shaped liner made from red cloth backed with leather stitched together with the remnants of a blue silken hem at the edge. The hilt type was manufactured with two styles of frontal guard loop. One form being a plate fashioned into loops, pierced with a diamond or heart shape, and secured to the hilt by three screws as in the manner of our sword hilt, and those illustrated in the Batoni and Christies Glasgow portraits. The bottom of the hilt in the Delacour painting is obscured by the clothing of the sitter and the loop guard assembly is not visible. In the second form the loops are integral to the hilt as in a sword illustrated in “Scottish Swords and Dirks”, John Wallace, Arms and Armour Press, 1970, fig 44. Overall the sword is 41.75 inches (106 cm) long. The condition overall is very fine with some parts of the hilt and blade exhibiting minor age blemishes in places.
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £9,450.00
Volunteer Baker Flintlock Rifle by I. Gill, fine. SN X2047. A Fine Volunteer Baker Flintlock Rifle by I. Gill. 46&157; overall, 30&157; 16 bore 7 groove twist barrel stamped with Tower private a& Ordnance proofs at breech, blade fore sight, block for bayonet on the underside of muzzle, leaf rear sights with one fixed and two hinged, the hinged leaves with V’s to top & sighting holes at a lower level, flat bevelled border line engraved lock with stepped tail signed ’I. GILL’ and Crown G.R. cypher to the centre, semi waterproof pan, roller to frizzen, ring neck cock, detented action, regulation brass mounted figured full walnut stock without slit for ram rod, with raised cheek rest, small brass patch box lid, the wrist escutcheon engraved ’T. W. W. V.’, sling swivels & iron ramrod.&194;&160; Circa 1802, serial no. T.W.W.V.&194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160;&194;&160; This is a superior example. Bore very good with seven grooves making one turn in 30in. (standard Baker 1/4 in 30in.). Made to use with a socket bayonet. Provenance: This rifle was produced for a volunteer rifle company by John Gill of Birmingham who took over the family business from his father Thomas Gill in mid-1801. A quantity of these Baker rifles were sold at Sotheby’s many years back and spread over a number of sales. There were two different grades, the superior grade such as this example had fast twist rifling, detented actions and superior sights. The standard grade had normal Baker rifling, standard sight and actions, all were marked "T. W. W" and a number. Apparently a quantity had been brought into Sotheby’s by a couple who had bought a large country house and found a rack of these rifles in one of the outhouses.&194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £9,450.00
Volunteer Baker Flintlock Rifle by I. Gill, fine. SN 9021. A Fine Volunteer Baker Flintlock Rifle by I. Gill. 46&157; overall, 30&157; 16 bore 7 groove twist barrel stamped with Tower Private and Ordnance proofs at breech and&194;&160; blade fore sight, block for bayonet on the underside of muzzle, leaf rear sights, one fixed and two hinged, the hinged leaves with V’s to top and sighting holes at a lower level, flat bevelled lock border line engraved, with stepped tail signed ’I. GILL’ and Crown G.R. cypher, semi waterproof pan, roller to frizzen, a ring neck cock, detented action. Regulation brass mounted, figured, full walnut stock without slit for ramrod, with raised cheek rest, small brass patch box lid, the wrist escutcheon engraved ’T. W. W. IIII’, sling swivels and iron ramrod. Circa 1802&194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160;&194;&160; This is a superior example with a fine stock, barrel&194;&160; rebrowned. Bore good with seven grooves making one turn in 30&157;. (standard Baker is 1/4 turn in 30&157;.). Made to be used with a socket bayonet. Provenance: This rifle was produced for a volunteer rifle company by John Gill of Birmingham who took over the family business from his father Thomas Gill in mid-1801. A quantity of these Baker rifles were sold at Sotheby’s many years back and spread over a number of sales. There were two different grades, the superior grade such as this example had fast twist rifling, detented actions and superior sights. The standard grade had normal Baker rifling, standard sight and actions, all were marked "T. W. W" and a number. Apparently a quantity had been brought into Sotheby’s by a couple who had bought a large country house and found a rack of these rifles in one of the outhouses.&194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)
  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £9450
Click and use the code >25215 to search for this item on the dealer website Stunning and Impressively Powerful Koto Katana, Circa 1500. With All Original Edo Period Koshirae Mountings. A Fabulous Sword of Likely a Seieibushi {the Highest Ranked Elite Samurai} Traditionally the Highest Rank of Elite Samurai
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £8995
Click and use the code >25224 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous & Rare US Civil War General´s Sabre With Its Original Civil War General Officer´s Pattern ´Acorn´ Sword Knot, & Steel Combat Scabbard. Superb Deluxe Etched Blade
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £8995
Click and use the code >24421 to search for this item on the dealer website Original, Rare, 4th Century, Original Roman Legionary´s Sword. An Amazing & Rare Historical Sword of The Roman Empire
  • Nation : German
  • Local Price : £8995
Click and use the code >24623 to search for this item on the dealer website Exceptional 1700 to 1600 Year Old Spartha Sword of A Warrior of the Roman Empire´s Invasions by the Huns and Visigoths. A Hun or Visigoth Horseman´s Sword Spartha With Its Lifstein, the Magical Life-Stone, and Original Crossguard
  • Nation : -
  • Local Price : £8,995.00
General Officer&#acute;s Sword “ Sir Thomas Arbuthnot. General Officer&#acute;s Sword 1803 style hilt which has had the royal cypher replaced with the family crest of the Arbuthnot&#acute;s family. Lion head pommel with bone grip and gold bullion sword knot. The curved fat back blade with broad fuller and hatchet point. The blade is engraved with crown over GR and stands of arms the back edge engraved J J Runkel Solingen. Complete with black leather scabbard with matching mounts the leather looks to have been replaced however the sword is in excellent condition so maybe original. It is possible the sword belonged to either Sir Thomas Arbuthnot or Sir Robert Arbuthnot the former seems to be more likely. Reference: Blade Length: 32.25 inch Overall Length: 36.0 Inch
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £8950
Click and use the code >22607 to search for this item on the dealer website Exceptionally Beautiful Gold Hilted Sword With &#acute;Laminated Damascus&#acute; Pattern Steel Blade. A Sword of Highest Museum Quality. An Indian Prince´s Tulwar, Accompanied With His Oriental Annual 1838
  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £8750
Click and use the code >23998 to search for this item on the dealer website Fine Shinto Samurai Katana Signed By Mino Swordsmith, Nodagoro Fujiwara Kanesada Circa 1720 Around 300 Years Old, With a Horai-zu Style Tsuba
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £8,750.00
Officer´s or Coaching Flintlock Pistols by W. Parker, cased pair. SN 9096. An Unusual Cased Pair of Officer´s or Coaching Flintlock Pistols by W. Parker of London. 18 &194;&190;&157; overall, 13&157; 10 bore round sighted Damascus barrels engraved ’London’ along the top flat, London proofs, plain tangs with back sight. Stepped flat locks with hound´s tooth engraved board line, engraved ´W. Parker´, swan necked cocks, spoon shaped pans. Figured full stocks with flattened rounded butts, brass trigger guards bow engraved with flower head, with acorn finials brass ramrod pipes. ´S´ shaped side plate scroll shaped escutcheon, original horn tipped ramrods both with a worm. In a contemporary, possibly their original relined, mahogany case with accessories comprising two way brass and copper powder flask, loading rod with jag, steel 12 bore bullet mould and oil bottle. With original W. Parker label. The exterior of the lid with brass flush fitting carrying handle. Circa 1790.&194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160;&194;&160; A very unusual pair of pistols, probably officers pistols, but may have been coaching pistols land used with shot, in used condition, the case relined some time ago and the label refitted. William Parker worked at 233 High Holborn, 1793-1841; 10 Chamber Street 1839 - 41. Gunmaker to the Duke of Kent, Prince Edward and William IV. He held contracts to ordnance, East India Company and The Hudson’s Bay Company. Supplied arms to the London Police from 1803 and Metropolitan Police from 1829. Died aged 68 in 1841. Succeeded by Park Field and Sons.&194;&160;&194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)
  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £8750
Click and use the code >21721 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Wonderful 16th Century Koto Era Katana, Museum Quality Mounting, With Shakudo & Pure Gold Decorated Menuki of Takeda Shingen in Armour With His Tiger&#acute;s Tail Saya Mounted Sword & War Bow
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £8500
Fine Scottish Basket Hilted Sword dating to 1720 to 1740. A fine Scottish basket hilted sword from the collection of Geoffrey Jenkinson dating to the years preceding the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The sword was exhibited in the 1996 exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden held at the Culloden Visitor Centre at the battlefield. It is also featured in the “The Swords and the Sorrows”, the publication which supported the exhibition. The sword is in fine condition and of fine quality, being well forged from sturdy iron bars and mounted with an imposing backsword blade. The fully formed basket guard has a pleasing oval outline formed from thick rectangular section structural bars. The two primary guard plates, the knuckle bow and the secondary guard panels at the sides, are pierced with decorative designs of flanged hearts and circles and finely fretted at the edges with merlons and rectangles. The primary guard plates are further enhanced with lines along each inside edge and saltires in the middle. The knucklebow and side panels are filed with vertical wide grooves down the middles with finer lines on each side. The merlon terminal at the base of each side guard bar is pierced with a flanged heart. The loop guard bars emanate downwards from the side guard bars and curve forwards to join the front quillon at the base of the knucklebow. The cross bar of the guard forming the front and rear quillons cants downwards from back to front in early style. The guard arm tops are secured in a groove chiselled around the pommel just below its middle in the traditional Scottish manner. The pommel is cone shaped and mounted with a pronounced button on top of separate manufacture from which three sets of grooved lines, flanked by narrower lines, radiate to the pommel edge. This style of decoration is consistent with that applied along the middles of the side guard bars and knuckle bow as described above. The recesses of the hilt, particularly underneath the pommel rim, show the remains of a layer of black Japanning that once covered the whole hilt (see the photos below). Japanning of sword hilts was not uncommon in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A base black layer was applied highlighted with features in gold on top.  This provided both a decorative and protective layer for the exterior of the hilt. The fashion seems to have died out by the beginning of the second quarter of the 18th century when the Japanning, as in this instance, was removed. The grip is made from a slightly baluster shaped spirally grooved wooden core of an oval cross section. It is covered with shagreen and bound with silver riband. A leather liner is mounted beneath the grip and a coloured woollen fringe at the top. The single edged blade is of fine quality as is often found on 17th and early 18th century Scottish basket hilted swords. It has a short ricasso. A deep and well formed fuller extends from the hilt under the back edge of the blade to a distance of 7 inches (17.5 cm) from the tip. Each fuller is engraved with floral patterns on each side. These are the remnants of decoration that was once present all over the blade near the hilt, having been abraded away through cleaning over time, these remnants having been protected in the groove of the fuller. A second fuller runs underneath the first commencing 9 inches (23 cm) from the hilt and extends almost to the tip. The blade was most likely made in Solingen in Germany as were many of the high quality blades mounted onto Scottish hilts. The sword is in fine condition overall. The hilt is noticeably robust and has maintained its pleasing oval profile. The wrist guard which is usually forged as an extension of the rear quillon has been broken off at some time in the distant past. Further evidence of use is present in an old nick in the blade near the end of the first fuller. The sword is a fine representation of the Scottish armourer's craft during the run up to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. The blade is 33.75 inches (85.5 cm) long and tapers gently to its tip. Overall the sword is 39.75 inches (100.5 cm) long. Provenance: The Geoffrey Jenkinson Collection collection tag number 46. Publications: “The Swords and the Sorrows”, National Trust for Scotland, 1996, page 29, plate 1:12.
  • Nation : Italian
  • Local Price : $8500.00
Rare Venetian Hand-and-a-half Sword, ca. 1490. Featuring hand-forged iron hilt of half-round and diamond-section bars with single side ring joined to a large pas d'ane. Single quillon with scroll finial, short knuckle bow ensuite and a diagonal bar extending from the base of the knuckle bow to the center of the side ring with a grasping hand at the junction. Large iron pommel of schiavona style; leather-wrapped wood grip. Broad 39 5/8″ double-edged blade with half-length central fuller, stamped with an “S” maker's mark on both sides on the ricasso (reverse strike weak). In a modern wood storage scabbard with collection label at the throat. Overall length 47 7/8″, not inlcuding scabbard. Very good condition for its age and does not appear to have ever been apart; the hilt with dark brown patina, blade moderately pitted with a few shallow edge nicks. Grip wrap possibly an old replacement. For similar Venetian swords, see “Armi Bianche Italiane”. The “S” mark is found on other Venetian swords of the late 15th Century.
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £8,495.00
Pair of Flintlock Silver Mounted Pistols by Hadley. Ref 9169. A Pair of Flintlock Silver Mounted Pistols by Hadley. 14&157; overall, 8&157; two-stage brass barrels 18 bore each slightly swamped towards the muzzle with turned girdle, octagonal breeches each signed ´Hadley London´ in capitals along the top flat & engraved with foliate rocailles fore & aft, border engraved tangs decorated with foliage. Tower private proof marks. Border engraved flat bevelled locks each signed ´Hadley´ in capitals on a foliate rococo scroll & decorated en suite on the tail, engraved cocks & steels. Figured walnut full stocks each carved with a shell behind the barrel tang, rounded butts with swelling pommels, silver mounts&194;&160;comprising pierced & engraved ribbon side plates, vacant escutcheons cast & chased with a flower above & drapery below, grotesque mask caps, trigger guards each with shell & flower finial engraved with a flower head in a diamond shaped panel on the bow, turned ramrod pipes, & original horn tipped ramrods, one with iron worm.Silver Hallmarks For 1777, maker’s mark of Charles Freeth Handsome pistols in fine condition, some minor bruising to stocks. The maker is almost certainly Thomas Hadley, gunmaker Birmingham, who was apprenticed to Thomas Hudson in 1750. On the death of his father, also Thomas, in 1766 he continued the business in Birmingham and is recorded as having died in 1789. Many Birmingham gunmakers signed their firearms ’London’&194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)
  • Nation : American
  • Local Price : £8495
Click and use the code >25287 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb, Rare, Original, French Napoleonic Wars Deluxe Grade Sabre of a French General of Napoleon´s General Staff, a Wonderful & Most Beautiful Sabre of Napoleon´s Grand Armee. Consulate to Ist Empire Period
  • Nation : American
  • Local Price : 10,600.00 USD
RARE AMERICAN SILVER HILTED SMALLSWORD C.1750. This rare American sword was made by Bilious Ward of Middleton Connecticut and bears his mark on the knuckle bow terminal. Ward was born in Guilford in 1729. His mark is shown p.320, American Silversmiths, Old Silver, English, American and Foreign which is considered the standard reference for silver marks. His Father, William Ward Jr. and his son, James Ward were also silversmiths (Early Connecticut Silver, Bohan). Yale University Art Gallery has five spoons by Bilious War, 3 identified as C.1750-70 and two C.1755. New York Historical Society has a single spoon dated to 1750-70. The form of the sword is iconic. 1740s and 50s in America was the period of the Great Awakening, a time of strengthening religious values and reverting to basics. In a sense, a return to Puritanism. In American Silver Mounted Swords, 1700-1815, Peterson states “American silver hilted small swords are characterized by simple chaste lines. In Europe, most of the silver mounted smallswords of the same period were completely covered with heavily modeled or pierced decoration. In this country, however, such surface decoration was extremely rare as American craftsmen relied more upon the pure beauty of line and form to attain their artistic effect.” He illustrates and discusses 16 examples. #1-4 dated 1722-30. Three of the four incorporate traditional (European) decorative elements. #5-13 date C.1740-50 and are all of the same spartan form of this example with the iconic ringed slightly elongated pommel. In fact, the ten including this one are nearly indistinguishable but for minor details. #14-17 date C.1770-1815 and fully embrace the later European forms. Also notable is that of #5-13, eight of nine are maker marked, while none of the first four are and two of the last four are not. The blade of this example is flat, 28 5/8” in length, undecorated with a narrow fuller to the forte. Of the comparable group, seven of nine are triangular and two flat. At that time (1955) five of the nine comparable examples were in museum collections. Silver hilted swords in Colonial America were very rare and the zenith of gentlemanly style. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston reports, in a description of a sword by Jacob Hurd “Between 1730 and 1750 he (Hurd) made about ten swords, far more than his peers, most of whom made only one or two.” The 1762 inventory of silversmith John Edwards includes “One silver hilted sword at 60 pounds, 3 shillings” at a time when the per capita income in America was 15 pounds, 12 shillings. A historic Colonial American sword for which there have been no comparable examples on the market for decades.
  • Nation : -
  • Local Price : 10,500.00 USD
MAGNIFICENT SWEPT HILT RAPIER AND COMPANION LEFT HAND DAGGER. Early 20th century, by Anton Konrad, and built on matching 16th-century blades. Faithfully replicating a very fine-matched pair of German rapier and sword of about 1580-1600. Iron hits beautifully chased in high relief scrolling foliage, flowers, and fruit. Fine wire-wrapped grips with turban form terminals. The blades, 41” and 12 ½” respectively, each with maker's marks to each side of the ricasso and with deep fuller marked * PAR * CE * SIGNE * TU * VAINCRAS * (BY THIS SIGN YOU OVERCOME) on each side. Made to the very highest standard of the period craftsmen which they emulate, this very pair has been known to fool more than one accomplished expert and surely has been sold as of the period in the past.
  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £7995
Click and use the code >24820 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb Shinto Period Samurai Katana By Bizen Osafune Sukesada, Named By The Swordsmith, Likely For its Original Samurai Owner
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £7995
Click and use the code >22370 to search for this item on the dealer website Original, Incredibly Rare ´Damascus´ Presentation Sword, Presented to the German Fuhrer of 1898, An Imperial German, Damascus Steel, Blue & Gilt, Presentation Fuhrer´s Sword. Set With Genuine Rubies and Silver Crossed Cannon
  • Nation : British
  • Local Price : £7995
Click and use the code >23230 to search for this item on the dealer website Circa 600 ad Middle Ages Sword Blade, Re-Hilted Around 1000 Years Ago At The Time of the Norman Invasion in 1066
  • Nation : Spanish
  • Local Price : £7950
Click and use the code >22160 to search for this item on the dealer website Possibly The Finest 17th Century Silver Sword Cum Plug-Bayonet, Complete With It&#acute;s Original Scabbard & Belt Mount, Outside of the Royal Collection..
  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £7950
Click and use the code >21795 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful & Captivating Ancient Samurai Sword of the Nambokochu Era Circa 1370
  • Nation : German
  • Local Price : £7,950.00
German Cup Hilt Rapier c 1620. Cup Hilt Rapier c 1620 possibly German or Swiss, highly decorative chiselled pommel. The D guard leading down to form the cross guard which has inset stones, sweeping langets finish with large flower buds and curved sections to support the excellent cup guard with pieced and chiselled designs. The blade double edged with central fuller engraved with imperial orb and maker mark IOHANES WVNDES “ Johannes Wundes 1560 “ 1620 please note the engraving is worn but letters can be made out. Overall length 102cm the blade 92cm
  • Nation : ?
  • Local Price : £7950.00
Superb Pair of Irish Duelling Pistols. With round sighted barrels, cut with long sighting grooves that run the entire length of the barrels, signed in gold along the ribs, ‘McDERMOTT DUBLIN' double gold line breech plugs with platinum touch-holes, foliate engraved, case-hardened tangs, both cut with sighting grooves, signed border engraved locks, water proof pans and French style cocks, set-triggers, half-stocked in walnut , chequered at the grips, silver mounts comprising foliate butt-caps, and fore-end caps, with engraved oval escutcheon, depicting a Rampant Lion above the initials E. B. blued spurred trigger guards, decorated with a bird among foliage, pineapple finials, with original horn-tipped ramrods with worms. McDermott Dimensions: Bore: 32 Bore Barrel Length: 9.75 Inches (24.75 cm) Overall Length: 15 Inches (38 cm)
  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £7950
Click and use the code >25268 to search for this item on the dealer website Stunning Antique Edo Samurai Katana With Signed Blade, Kashu ju Darani Tachibana Katsukuni Saku, Katsukuni of the Tachibana clan, the Darani school of smiths, made this {sword} in Kashu Province, With Full Length Hi and Incredible Hamon of Sanbon-sugi
  • Nation : Japanese
  • Local Price : £7950
Click and use the code >23038 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful, Shinto Period, Handachi Mounted Samurai Katana. Fitted With All Original Edo Mounts. Showing Great Quality, Shibui {Quietly Reserved} And Without Undue Extravagance. An Impressive Sword With Incredible & Elegant Lines & Curvature
  • Nation : North European
  • Local Price : £7850
Fine North European Rapier with Gilt Swept Hilt dating to the early 17th Century mounted with a fine quality blade by MEVES BERNS of Solingen. A splendid swept hilt rapier which has survived in fine condition and retains much of its original gilt finish to the hilt. The type is illustrated in many portraits of early 17th century date located across Europe including England, Scandinavia and the German States. This indicates that the rapier form was very popular amongst the social elites in these regions in the early 17th century. In contrast, few have lasted the rigours of time and over four hundred years later surviving examples are scarce. This scarcity makes this example particularly attractive given its fine condition. The weapon is an elegant example of the early 17th century armourer's craft formed with attractive flowing curves to the complex hilt which complement the strength of its construction. The hilt is made from oval section bars which give a stylish contoured appearance. The rapier is 45.25 inches (114.5 cm) long overall and it is well balanced and comfortable in-hand. The hilt platform is the strong quillon block with short downwardly pointing langets from which extends the rear quillon, which curves downwards, and the front quillon, which is slightly longer and curves upwards into a knuckle bow. Both quillons swell slightly into smoothed squared off terminals. Beneath the block outwardly curved symmetrical finger rings extend downwards either side of the langets. On the outer side of the hilt an imposing guard ring is linked by a diagonally downcurved bar to a small side-ring underneath. This is mounted onto the finger ring terminals. Three slender bars of circular section form the inner counter guards which are “swept-up” into one bar and merge into the forward quillon. The tall faceted ovoid pommel is of bold form with an integral button on top and ribbed flared neck beneath. The baluster shaped grip is bound with alternately spaced twisted and straight lengths of wire. The fine quality blade is of stiff, gently tapering, flattened, hexagonal section and is just over 38 inches (97 cm) long.  It has a ricasso 1.5 inches (3.5 cm) long cut with two bold fullers which fill the width of the space side by side on each face. The right side fuller, seen when the rapier is held point down on each side, is stamped with a roundel containing a stag which is the mark of Meves Berns. A deep central fuller extends for 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) from the end of the ricasso and is cut with lines on the ridges either side and stamped with a stylised cross just beyond its terminal on each side. The fuller is incised each side with “M E V E S    B E R N S” in spaced capital letters with a cross potent mark between the words and at each end. Berns was an accomplished blade maker based in Solingen. For more information regarding other examples and locations of rapiers of this type see A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820, Arms & Armour Press, 1980, pp. 94-95. The guard is of Type 31 in Norman's typology. Plate 49 shows a rapier of the type in the Wallace Collection (Collection Number A627) dated to circa 1610-1620 with a russet steel hilt counterfeit damascened with gold and of North European origin. Plate 51 shows another with fire-gilt steel hilt of the same date and locality, originally from the Electoral Armoury in Dresden. Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, Antique Arms, Armour & Collectors Firearms, 22 June 2011, lot 109. Price Realised: £15,000 Including Buyers Premium. Sotheby's Olympia, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 29 June 2005, lot 35. Price Realised: £12,350 Including Buyers Premium.
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