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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 : 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 : ?
Local Price : £8950.00

Cased Pair of Percussion Duelling Pistols by Prosser. New item, description to follow.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £8750

Click and use the code 24044 to search for this item on the dealer website What an An Exceptional Katana, And a Great Privilege to Own, A Sword Bearing the Name of Bizen Osafune Ju Yokoyama Sukenaga with a Breathtakingly Beautiful Choji Midare Hamon

Nation : Austrian
Local Price : £8,750.00

Snaphaunce Musket c1630. A very rare early Snaphaunce Musket c1630 possibly earlier and Austrian or German. The musket is full stocked with a curve profile below the barrel line running the full length and with iron ramrod pipes, pins and muzzle end. The ramrod in original with horn tip matching the inlay to the stock. The barrel with excellent engraved decoration to the beech and flared muzzle. The stock with sliding small patch box with basic catch and a named detailed in ink Von ?? possibly the Austrian – German connection however the stock is stamped with A P and under the lock L H which could indicate the property of Col Alexander Popham of Littlecote House c 1605 – 1669 complete with iron large trigger guard and trigger Please note the lock has been cleaned and a small age repair to the forend which is hardly visible overall length 44 inches 112cm the barrel 37.75 inches 88cm

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 : £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 : ?
Local Price : £7995.00

Fine Flintlock Sporting Gun, ex. Keith Neal. A Fine 16 Bore German Flintlock Sporting Gun by Johann Weis (Weiss) A Zella, Circa 1735, ex Keith Neal Collection. With heavy swamped barrel in two stages divided by a turned girdle and with blade fore-sight and ring back-sight each of silver, the octagonal breech section engraved in front of the back-sight with a panel of silver-covered symmetrical strapwork and foliage, and inlaid behind the back-sight with a rectangular silver plaque engraved with the maker's signature in front of three silver-lined maker's stamps, at the rear of the barrel an inlaid broad engraved silver band, brass-lined touch-hole, tang engraved with strapwork, large flat lock with moulded border finely engraved with a scene of the chase in a landscape involving sportsmen in pursuit of a stag and a boar, the stepped tail with a mother bear and her young, engraved bevelled cock, faceted pan, cock-jaws and steel, moulded figured walnut full stock (minor bruises) finely carved in relief with strapwork and foliage, finely engraved partly chiselled steel mounts, the tang of the butt-plate decorated with a sportsman, dogs and game within borders of régence strapwork, the shaped bevelled side-plate with a boar-hunt in a landscape involving an archer and another sportsman impaling the boar with a spear, bevelled trigger-guard with a standing sportsman on the bow and with foliate finial, large escutcheon of chiselled steel decorated in relief with elaborate scrollwork enclosing a grotesque mask, three turned and faceted steel ramrod-pipes, steel sling mounts, horn fore-end cap, and original horn-tipped ramrod, in fine little-used condition throughout. Notes: This gun was sold at Bonhams sale â€˜Fine Antique Firearms from the W. Keith Neal Collectionâ€™ 10th November 2005. Lot 55 and sold for £11,400. Dimensions: Bore: 16 Bore Barrel Length: 39.5 Inches (100.40 cm) Overall Length:

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 : British
Local Price : £7995

Click and use the code 23371 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous Quality King George IIIrd Cased Double Barrel Sporting Gun By World Renowned Gunsmith S.Nock, Early Transitional Flintlock To Percussion

Nation : ?
Local Price : £7950.00

Cased Pair of Westley Richards Officers Pistols. A Cased Pair of Percussion Officers Pistols by Westley Richards. With browned sighted octagonal barrels signed along the top-flats, Westley Richards 170 New Bond St London with foliate engraved breech blocks with single platinum lines, tangs incorporating rear-sight, beautifully foliate engraved, signed foliate engraved tangs fitted with sliding safety catches, full stocked in walnut, deeply cut with chequering at the grips, with vacant rectangular escutcheons, blued steel trigger guards engraved with foliage on the bow, complete with captive ram-rods. In original lined and fitted mahogany case with accessories including three way flask, the lid with trade label and flush fitting carrying handle. Both pistols are numbered 510 on the barrels and the trigger guards. Richards, William Westley & Westley (son) [1812-1872] William Westley Richards was born in Birmingham, England in 1788 of a family of merchants and silversmiths. In 1812 he established a gunsmiths shop at 82 High Street, Birmingham, selecting his gunsmiths from the already thriving gun trade in Birmingham. His first production was high-grade flintlock fowling pieces. In 1813 he was an active petitioner in establishing the Birmingham Proof House through an act of Parliament. He had the foresight to realise that he had to have a London outlet for his firearms, as the London market was by far the largest, and also for possible export trade to the Continent. He chose the most fashionable quarter of London, a street made famous as the resort of the luxury class to which his guns appealed. The establishment was opened in 1815 at the then numbered 170 Bond Street. A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York. RICHARDS William Westley Gunmaker, Birmingham from 1812. Retail shop (with William Bishop as agent) 170 New Bond Street.,1826-72; 25 Lawrence Pountney Street., 1853-5. Gunmaker to Prince Albert. Died 1865. Firm then run by son, Westley Richards. Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. Dimensions: Bore: 16 Bore (Carbine Bore) Barrel Length: 7 Inches (17.78 cm) Overall Length: 12 Inches (30.48 cm)

Nation : Dutch
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 : -
Local Price : £7,950.00

Pair of flintlock Pistols by Winckhler – Munich c 1700. Three stage barrels octagonal then round with muzzle rings blued and rifled cal 13mm. Brass outlined master&#acute;s mark appears above each powder chamber in the form of a standing lion below W between the signature Hanns Winchhler. Curved locks the floral engraved domed lock plates with masks. Adjustable back triggers one spring tired lightly carved walnut stocks with dark horn fore-end caps plus open iron work decoration on the side plates complete with ramrods with horn tips overall length of each pistol 53.5cm. Hans Winckhler is known in Munich between 1680 and 1710. Early pair of pistols in beautiful condition.

Nation : Italian
Local Price : $9500.00

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 : £7750

Click and use the code 21774 to search for this item on the dealer website Singularly Beautiful Napoleonic Wars, The Peninsular Campaign, & The War of 100 Days Culminating at Quatre Bras & Waterloo, A Presentation Quality 1796-1803 Sword 15th Hussars

Nation : British
Local Price : £7500

Rare .780 Calibre Land Pattern Musket for Dragoons dated 1759 on the Lock. This pattern of Dragoon Carbine was a modification of the more numerous Land Pattern Musket produced for infantry. It was issued to dragoons from the early 1740s until it was replaced with a regular Dragoon Carbine from circa 1770. The carbine is mounted with a 42 inch barrel which is 4 inches shorter than the usual infantry Land Pattern length of 46 inches in use when this carbine was made. This shorter length barrel was later adopted by British line infantry from 1768 and referred to as the “Short” Land Pattern Musket. The carbine differs in some other minor ways in that the ramrod is of wood with a brass tip and the rounded fore-end is without a brass cap. In the 1760's some new carbine designs appeared for dragoons with a smaller bore of .65 inch from which carbines evolved into more of a specific class of firearm of their own rather than as a modification of the Short Land Pattern. The bevelled lock of this musket is of 1740 Pattern engraved around the border and stamped with a crown over GR in front of the cock, with the government ownership mark stamped beneath the pan. The tail is stamped “TOWER” over the date “1759”. The sighted barrel is stamped “4” at the breech with two unclear Ordnance marks nearby. The barrel is retained by three pins and the upper swivel screw. The musket is mounted with a full stock with typically high butt comb, regulation brass mounts and four cylindrical brass ramrod pipes of standard Land Pattern type. The side plate is of the usual Land Pattern rounded form. The lock-side of the butt is stamped with a Georgian store keeper’s mark and the reverse side is deeply incised with the letters “B B”. The stock is stamped twice beyond the tail of the trigger guard with worn inspectors' stamps. See pages 46 and 47 of British Military Longarms 1715-1815 by D.W. Bailey.

Nation : ?
Local Price : £7500.00

Superb Cased Pair of Flintlock Pistols. A Superb Cased Pair of Flintlock Overcoat Pistols by Beckwith. With browned sighted barrels, engraved BECKWITH LONDON along the top flats, with single platinum lines and platinum touch holes, profusely engraved steel tangs incorporating rear-sights, foliate engraved locks fitted with sliding safety catches and signed beneath the pans, full stocked in walnut cut with fine chequering at the butts, complete with steel mounts comprising engraved trigger guards with pineapple finials and turned ramrod pipes, the mounts retaining some original colour, with captive ramrods: in their original lined and fitted case, complete with all accessories including bullet mould, loading rod and oil bottle etc, the box lined in green baise with W. A. BECKWITHS trade label, the exterior with a vacant circular brass escutcheon. A superb cased set. BECKWITH William Andrew. Apprenticed to Wattell Clark, 1785; free of Gunmakers Co., 1801. Elected Assistant (and Livery) 1805; Master, 1808, 1814, 1825, 1840. Died 1841. Gunmaker, 58 Skinner St., Snow Hill, 1802-41. 125 Strand, 1818-2. Contractor to Ordnance, 1838; East India Co., 1823-41. Business continued at 58 Skinner St., by Widow Elizabeth 1841-68. Contractor to East India Co., as Elizabeth Beckwith & Son, 1842-53. Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. Dimensions: Bore: 22 Bore Barrel Length: 5 Inches (12.70 cm) Overall Length: 9.5 Inches (24.13 cm)

Nation : ?
Local Price : £7500.00

Fine and Very Rare Cased 80 Bore Tranter. With blued octagonal sighted barrel engraved with a band of foliage at the muzzle and sprays of scrollwork at the breech, border and scroll engraved blued top-strap and frame, blued arbor-pin, arbor-pin-catch and sprung hammer-safety, case-hardened cylinder cut with a decorative roped band towards the front edge, bright hammer and patent trigger, chequered figured walnut butt, blued border and scroll engraved trigger-guard, foliate and scroll engraved case-hardened butt-cap and bright border and scroll engraved Tranter patent rammer, retaining virtually all its original finish throughout, in original fitted mahogany case lined in green baize with accessories including a fine Dixon revolver flask, a Tranter patent double-cavity brass bullet mould, a Dixon oil bottle and Japanned tins for Tranter's 'Lubricating Composition' and 'Lubricating Bullets', the exterior with circular brass escutcheon 4½in. (11.4cm.) barrel Provenance: Rock Island Auction, Premier Firearms Auction, 30 November 2012, lot 104.

Nation : German
Local Price : $8995.00

German Two-handed Sword, Last Quarter 16th C. Impressive and heavy Landsknecht “Zweihander”of gigantic proportions. German and Swiss Landsknechts (mercenaries) of the 15th and 16th Centuries usually carried two swords. The smaller sword, the Katzbalger, was used primarily for one-on-one combat. The second sword, the huge Zweihander (two hander), was often used to attack pike squares, cutting the heads off the pikes to make them vulnerable to cavalry attack. Only the biggest and strongest soldiers carried these massive swords, which could cut a man in half with one blow. Soldiers who carried these were known as Doppelsoldner, or double soldier, because they received double pay for their strength and expertise. This example features iron hilt with original blackening. Quillons and large side rings formed of diamond-section bars; the quillons each with three scrolled finials. Fleur de lis on each side extending from the quillon block within the side rings (old collection tag attached). Spiral twisted wood grip with its original leather wrap (worn, dry, and flaking) and the remains of textile tassels at the top and bottom. Segmented conical pommel with rounded top and button finial. Iron parts chiseled with simple floral and geometric decoration. Double-edged 48″ blade of lens section with stamped maker's mark on each side and two large side lugs, showing lamination and widening at the point. The long flat ricasso with its original wood and leather covering (dry with losses). Guard is loose due to shrinkage of the wood and leather over time. Overall length 64″. A large and impressive sword in untouched original condition.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £7450

Click and use the code 24472 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb 15th Century, Ancient, Signed Samurai Sword, From the Famous Sukesada Line of Early Samurai Sword Smiths

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £7450

Click and use the code 24723 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful Ancient Samurai Long Sword, A Koto Period Katana Around 500 Years Old Sengoku Period With All Original Edo Period Mounts & Fittings

Nation : British
Local Price : £7350

Click and use the code 24093 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful, Inscribed, Elizabethan Tudor & Renaissance Nobleman&#acute;s Rapier 16th Century, Circa 1570

Nation : ?
Local Price : $6995.00

Exceptional Gilded Pappenheimer Rapier, ca. 1630. Symmetrical guard formed of diamond-section bars with large pas d'ane and three up- turned concentric rings extending from the lower end, the uppermost one joined to the knuckle bow. The opening inside the smallest ring is covered by a pierced shell-shaped plate attached with two screws. Vertically recurved quillons and shield-shaped quillon block. Knuckle bow with large finial unconnected and curved away from the pommel. Grip with flat and twisted iron wire wrap and finished with grooved ferrules top and bottom. Faceted ovoid pommel with button. Hilt retaining approximately 90% of its gilded finish. Straight hexagonal-section 41″ blade with three narrow 9″ fullers and long flat ricasso stamped on one side with a clear crowned “S” in a shield, possibly the mark of the famed Sahagun family of Toledo blade smiths. Very good condition for its age with very light pitting on the blade. Overall length 47 ½”. This style rapier named for Field Marshal Gottfried Heinrich Graf (count) zu Pappenheim, Imperial cavalry commander of Thirty Years War fame. A gilded pappenheimer rapier was carried by Swedish King Gustavus II Adolphus when he was killed at the Battle of Lutzen in 1632 and is preserved in the Stockholm Royal Armouries. Coincidentally, Field Marshal von Pappenheim was also killed in this battle.

Nation : Indian
Local Price : £9¸000

Beautiful Antique Silver Indo-Persian Rulers Sword. Beautiful Antique Silver Indo-Persian Rulers Sword\"This is a long curved¸ early antique Mughal Blade and is very rare. It is almost last 17th and early 18th century old sword and belongs to North India (at that time). The Hilt of this sword is called kuftgari hilt and is Silver.

Nation : ?
Local Price : £6950.00

Superb Flintlock Pistol by Tatham.. A Superb Flintlock Over and Under Pistol by Tatham of London. With browned sighted barrel block, inlaid with a platinum poincon stamped TATHAM LONDON, platinum touch holes, stamped below with Birmingham proofs, profusely engraved tang fitted with a rear sight, stepped bevelled locks, fitted with sliding safety catches, rain proof pans and engraved TATHAM LATE TATHAM & EGG, half-stocked in walnut cut with chequering at the grip, vacant rectangular escutcheon, engraved steel mounts including trigger guard, border engraved on the bow and decorated with scrolling foliage. TATHAM Henry born 1770. At Firth St. Sword Cutler & Beltmaker-in-Ordinary to George III, 1798; gunmaker to Prince of Wales, 1799. Gunmaker & Sword Cutler, 37 Charing Cross, 1800-33 (in partnership with Joseph Egg as Tatham & Egg at same address, 1801-14). Also at 60 Firth St., Soho, 1805-8. Supplied Ordnance with Malaysian ‘Cresses' [Kris] 1801; presentation rifle for Indian Chiefs, 1816. Died 1835. Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. Dimensions: Bore: 16 Bore Barrel Length: 7 inches (17.78 cm) Overall Length: 12.5 Inches (31.75 cm)

Nation : British
Local Price : £6875

Scottish Basket Hilted Broad Sword dating to the second quarter of the 17th Century. A Scottish basket hilted sword of early form mounted with a broad and robust double edged blade. This is a rare example and a noteworthy representation of its type. This sword form evolved in the early part of the 17th century and was used through to the English Civil War periods. It is the ancestor of the fully developed Scottish basket hilted swords of the later 17th and 18th centuries. This example has its frontal guard plates formed as diamonds engraved at the edges with pairs of parallel lines to emphasise the shape. Further pairs of lines form a decorative cross inside each panel area. Notches are cut into the sides of each plate marking the beginning of the trend of Scottish sword makers to file frets and merlons into the edges of guard plates which became more complex and decorative on later swords with larger guard plates. The dome-shaped pommel has a groove chiselled around its circumference just below its middle which secures the main guard arm terminals. The tang end is peened over inside a flattened circular area on top of the pommel from which four pairs of parallel lines radiate outwards and terminate at the edge. The flattened butterfly shaped merlon bars at the sides strengthen the hilt structure by joining the main guard bars and are decorated with lines and crosses. The spirally grooved grip is wrapped with a leather covering stitched together down the front and bound with contra-twisted double sided lengths of wire. The grip retains the shrunken remnants of its original deer skin liner with the remains of its hair underneath. The double-edged blade is of lenticular section and gently tapers to its tip. It has a rudimentary ricasso and central fuller with the remnants of an armourer’s mark each side formed as a series of letters. The lack of definition to the fullers and the ricasso indicate that the blade may have been slimmed down from a larger earlier blade. This is not infeasible given the popularity of two-handed and hand-and-a-half size swords in Scotland until the beginning of the 17th century when they went out of fashion in favour of basket hilted swords for which many of the redundant larger blades were ground down for single hand use with companion targes. The hilt closely resembles the basket guards of a number of Scottish swords illustrated in Cyril Mazansky’s “British Basket-Hilted Swords” (Boydell Press 2005), and in particular references D9, D10, D10a and D10b on pages 80 to 82. These swords have similar hilt structures and engraved line patterns to the frontal guard panels and side guards. These swords are housed in various important collections including Blair Castle in Perthshire, the Marischall Museum in Aberdeen and The Royal Armouries. Two further similar swords housed in the National Museums of Scotland, are illustrated in John Wallace, Scottish Swords & Dirks, 1970, Arms and Armour Press, figs 23 and 24. The blade length is just under 31 inches (78 cm) and the overall length is 36 inches (91.25 cm).

Nation : North European
Local Price : £6850

Fine North European Military Sword “Tessak” Dating To Circa 1600. A fine North European military sword dating to circa 1600. The hilt type conforms to the general group also known as “Sinclair Sables”, with which the ill-fated Scottish mercenary expedition to Norway was equipped in 1612. Surviving swords are mounted mainly with curved, and more infrequently with straight blades, as is this piece. This is a good example, in original condition, well balanced and practical whilst aesthetically pleasing to the eye. A sword with an identical hilt is illustrated in “The Price Guide To Antique Edged Weapons”, Leslie Southwick, Antique Collectors Club, 1982, page 139, fig 374. The imposing gently tapering blade is just over 37 inches (94 cm) long and is single edged for half of its length after which it becomes double edged to its tip. The blade is of thick stiff construction capable of being used both for cutting, thrusting through mail and teasing through the joints in plate armour. On one side the worn mark of a cross in raised relief inside a panel is stamped and corresponds with the mark of Wundes Theis a German maker recorded as working in Solingen in the 16th century. The well executed and complex hilt has a broad quillon span of 9.5 inches (24 cm). The quillons are well formed of octagonal section swelling towards the ends and terminating in delicate waisted bands and large globular terminals with the surfaces filed into a complex trellis in raised relief terminating in small knops. The quillons are vertically counter-curved with the front quillon turned upwards and the rear quillon faced downwards to form a wristguard. Guard plates are attached to the quillon block either side. A thumb loop is applied to one side and the knuckle bow turns upwards from the top of the front quillon to form a scrolled terminal at the pommel. The solid pommel is mushroom shaped with a flared waisted neck below. It is skilfully incised with a seven sided floret on top and surrounded with similar raised trellis patterns in raised relief to those seen on the quillon terminals. The wooden grip retains its original shagreen cover now blackened with age. This is an interesting and rare sword which holds a place in the evolution of complex hilt design in the late 16th century. Overall length 43.25 inches (110 cm).

Nation : North European
Local Price : £6750

North European Sabre of “Sinclair Sable” Type Circa 1600. An imposing and robust North European sabre dating to circa 1600. The hilt type conforms to the general group known as “Sinclair Sables”, with which the ill-fated Scottish mercenary expedition to Norway was equipped in 1612. This is a well balanced and practical example. The sabre is featured in a paper by Hagen Seehase in DWJ (Deutschland Waffen-Journal), April 2021, pages 84 & 85. The imposing, heavy, stiff, curved blade is single edged, becoming double edged for the last quarter of its length, with a broad shallow fuller running underneath the spine from hilt to tip. Near the hilt on one side a rubbed armourers mark is present inside an oblong panel, now indistinct. The hilt is constructed from a solid block from which two vertically counter curved quillons of rounded oval section extend to terminate in swollen spoon shaped terminals. A knuckle bow extends from the front quillon upper surface, the terminal of which is secured in an aperture in the lower part of the pommel front. The outside of the hilt is formed with a strong scallop shell shaped guard joined to the pommel in a similar manner to the knuckle bow, by a single bar emerging from its top. Cut ridges radiate from the base of the shell guard where it joins the quillon block to accentuate the scallop appearance. An “S” shape bar of rounded section strengthens the structure by joining the shell with the knuckle bow. The inside of the guard is formed with an inner ring guard and thumb loop joined with the knuckle bow by two further scrolling round section bars above. The original leather covered grip swells to its top where it meets with the underside of the pommel and is mounted with a copper ferrule at its base. The oblong shaped pommel radiates filed lines of “scallop” form similar to the clam guard from its truncated pyramid shaped pommel button. The pommel is cut with double decorative lines around its edge. Beneath, the pommel base narrows to accommodate the oval shaped grip top. This is an interesting and rare sword which holds a place in the evolution of complex hilt design in the late 16th century. Blade 30.5 inches (80 cm) long and overall 37 inches (94 cm). Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, 23rd November 1988, lot 501

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £6750

Click and use the code 23939 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Stunning 15th Century Sengoku Period Wakazashi Samurai Short Sword Circa 1480 With Shobu Zukuri Form Blade

Nation : British
Local Price : £6650

Flintlock Blunderbuss by Robert Silke of London circa 1680. A scarce late 17th century English blunderbuss by Robert Silke. This gunmaker was part of the notable dynasty of gunmakers by the name of Silke that worked in London. The earliest records of this name extend back to 1610, and it was heavily represented in the 17th and into the 18th centuries. Robert Silke was a prominent gunmaker and this blunderbuss is a fine example of his work. The blunderbuss is mounted with a heavy brass barrel of octagonal section at the breech marked on one of the flats with the initials of Robert Silke as the barrel maker, plus the Proof Mark of the London Gun Company and View Mark both under a crown. An arched rib reinforces the breech from which the iron tang extends and beds into an apron moulded into the stock. Beyond the octagonal flats towards the muzzle the barrel is shaped in hexadecagonal section for a short distance terminating with an engraved parallel-lined band after which the barrel is of smooth rounded section gently narrowing then widening towards the muzzle. The bowed lock has a nippled tail bedded into a moulded apron on the stock. The cock, the area behind it, and in front, is engraved sparingly and attractively with leafy scrolls. The maker’s mark of R SILKE is engraved underneath the scroll in front of the cock. The lock is secured to the stock by three screws with dome heads visible on the reverse side. The trigger terminates in a backward scroll, and the trigger guard is of iron, underneath which the head of the screw which secures the barrel tang to the stock is visible. The stock is of walnut mounted with a brass butt plate secured to the stock with seven iron tacks flush with the surface of the plate. The tapered ramrod has a brass cap at the wide end and is mounted with an iron worm at the tip. The ramrod is secured to the stock by a tube bored into the stock and a single ramrod pipe. The absence of a side plate, and tail pipe for the ramrod, combined with the method of securing the butt plate with flat headed iron tacks, together with the entry method of the barrel tang screw into the stock from underneath, are, amongst other features, indicative of a late 17th century date for the blunderbuss. Following the Restoration of the monarchy in England in 1660 blunderbusses increased in popularity in civilian life and in the Services, particularly the Navy. A manuscript dated 1684 shows that ships were entitled to a number of blunderbusses represented as a proportion of the number of cannon employed on board. Robert Silke was apprenticed to his father, John, the fourth Silke of that name, in 1659. He obtained his Freedom of the Gunmakers' Company in 1666, and submitted his proof piece in 1667. Robert was elected as Assistant to the Company in 1679, and progressed to be elected as Master of the Company in 1689, 1696 and once more in 1700. He was based in the Minories in London and worked as a gunmaking Contractor to the Ordnance 1667-1701, to the Hudson's Bay Company 1678-1701 and to the Royal African Company 1683-1701. In 1689 Silk was appointed Chief Gunmaker of the Tower of London and also became a Captain of the London Trained Bands (the London Militia) from circa 1690. Robert Silke died in 1701. It is unlikely that the signature on this blunderbuss is that of the second and only other recorded Robert Silke, who was the son of the first described above, due to his short career, the absence of many surviving works attributed to him, and the fact that he predeceased his father. He was apprenticed to his father in 1686, made free in 1693 and was deceased by 1696. Possibly he worked in the Minories with his father for a short time after being made free and is recorded like his father as a Contractor to the Ordnance for a short time in 1694/5. References: D R Baxter, “Blunderbusses”, Arms and Armour Press, 1970 and Howard L Blackmore, “A Dictionary of London Gunmakers”, 1350-1850, Phaidon – Christie’s Limited, 1986. The blunderbuss is in fine condition with some minor speckling and staining to the iron parts as visible in the photographs. The wooden stock is in fine condition with some minor dents. The barrel is just over 16″ (41 cm) long and the overall length of the blunderbuss measured extremity to extremity is 31 inches (just under 80 cm).

Nation : German
Local Price : $6495.00

German Wheellock Officer’s Pistol, ca. 1630. Octagonal to round 16 ½” barrel of approximately .56 caliber, stamped with “P” maker's mark at the breech. Smooth lock plate with external wheel and beveled edges; cock with simple line engravings, still holding a period pyrite with lead packing in its jaws. Tiger- stripe fruitwood full stock with lovely rich patina, showing normal wear from age and use. Tight old stress crack from breech to lock plate screw. Steel fore end cap, ramrod thimble, trigger guard, and butt cap. Wood ramrod. Smooth uncleaned metal with slight age discoloration. Overall length 24 1/4″. Excellent example in original condition. Most of these have been shortened or restored.

Nation : North European
Local Price : $6495.00

Exquisite Chiseled North European Rapier, ca. 1650. Unique and superbly chiseled iron hilt with separate lower guard featuring down-turned acorn-shaped knob on the obverse side and an upturned hollow heart on the reverse. Partial pas d'ane with long chiseled quillon block and single chiseled acorn-shaped quillon. Single side ring curving upward to join the knuckle bow, which in turn joins the acorn- shaped pommel with large button. Decorated ensuite with chiseled acanthus design in relief. Original grip wrapped with two sizes of twisted copper wire and finished with turks heads top and bottom. Cleaned hollow-ground single-edged 35 3/8″ blade with ridge on the spine and double-edged for the last 8 1/4″; remains of engraved design at the forte. Overall length 42″. Beautiful and unique sword of extraordinary quality, much better in person than photos.