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Nation : British
Local Price : £5900

Click and use the code >25207 to search for this item on the dealer website Sublime Napoleonic Ist Empire French Superior Officer&#acute;s Blue & Gilt Officer&#acute;s Sword in the Mameluke Style, With Finest Deluxe Grade Chiselled Decor. We Always Try Our Utmost To Offer The Finest or Most Intriguing Pieces We Can From History

Nation : British
Local Price : £5850

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword with “S” Bar Hilt and Scabbard circa 1700. An early Scottish sword mounted with a basket hilt of “S” Bar form dating to the late 17th or turn of the 18th century. The basket guard is a sturdy example wrought with square and oblong section iron structural bars. The sword retains its scabbard which is a rare feature for a sword of this age. Early “S” Bar Scottish basket hilts of this type are not excessively rare, but they do not appear for sale very often compared to other types. The “S” bar feature is a throwback to the earlier 17th century baskets of ribbon-hilted, and other early Scottish basket forms, which were manufactured with more rudimentary “S” bars which fill the spaces between the side guard bars and rear guard bars. The guard is formed from square and rectangular section structural bars and mounted with two main frontal guard panels which are pierced with four heart shapes with the points directed to a pierced circle in the middle. The panels are incised with border lines inside each side and the edges are filed with decorative grooves and cusps. A secondary guard panel, to the front, forms the knucklebow which is decorated with similar edges and a single pierced heart at the base, above which four pierced circles are applied and the whole finished with three vertical filed lines which converge towards the top. Lateral lines are filed at the base in more defined form, consisting of a broad groove flanked by narrower incised lines. The side guards are formed with “S” shaped bars with grooved cusped merlons beneath. Two forward loop guards are applied to the front in the usual manner. The three upper guard arm terminals are tucked into a pronounced groove cut around the lower half of the pommel. The pommel is cone shaped top and bottom. It is mounted with a pronounced circular pommel button on top from which radiate four sets of lines, each with a broad groove in the middle, flanked by narrower incised lines, similar to the grooves at the base of the knucklebow. The broader middle groove in each case is decorated with punched dots which is a 17th / early 18th century feature. A thick leather liner lies in contour with the base of the basket guard interior. The spirally fluted baluster shaped grip has a hard wood core and is wrapped with shagreen and bound with metal strip. The scabbard is of early type and a rare survivor. It consists of two slats of wood bound with leather which is stitched together along the middle of the back. Two decorative lines run in parallel along each edge on both sides. The front is mounted with two filed and shaped suspension clips which are also an early feature. Patterns all along this side between the parallel lines are formed from the application of a single small punch in the approximate form of thistles. The chape is a modern replacement. Of tapering double edged form the blade has a pronounced ricasso extending for extending for 1.5 inches (4 cm) from the hilt. The remnants of vertical line decoration is present near each edge. From the end of the ricasso the blade is of lenticular section and a short central shallow fuller extends for 6.25 inches (16 cm) along the middle of the blade on each side. The remnants of floral decoration at the forte is present on one side. Generally the sword is in good condition although shows wear. The hilt has maintained its original shape and condition. The blade has light blackened age patches in places as often happens when a blade is left in its scabbard for too long without attention. For similar swords see Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, The Boydell Press, 2005, pages 86 to 93.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5,850.00

Scottish Beak Neb Ribbon Hilt Sword. Scottish Beak Neb Ribbon Hilt Sword mid 18th century. This sword has the characteristic beaked form with flat iron bars and original stag horn grip which has age wear and fits nicely in the hand. The wide blade double edged slowly tapering with two short and one central fuller running for 32cm of the blade. It is struck with various marking and GIO KNEGT to one side and Solingen to the reverse. We are assuming the blade was made by Georg Peter Knecht Jr. 1702“1773 dating the sword to mid 18th century Overall length 98cm the blade 85cm

Nation : Italian
Local Price : 7,800.00 USD

FINE ITALIAN BROADSWORD C.1650. This sword draws upon two closely related groups for form. Its finely embossed and chiseled guard with its central medallion of a classical figure is a variation of the sail form guards used on Maine gauches, Italian rapiers and broad swords. Those swords, are generally from a larger group of crab claw hilted swords which includes examples with and without the sail form guard. The form of its quillons places this sword in that group. The vast majority in the group are plain or modestly embellished for use by foot or mounted troops. This example, distinguished by the quality, and theme of its decoration, was made for an officer or member of an elite guard group. It is closely related to an example in the Royal Armouries, Leeds, #XV-178. 32 1/4" length blade.

Nation : ?
Local Price : £5750.00

Near Mint Cased Pair of Over and Under Pistols. New item, description to follow.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5,650.00

British Tower Eliott Carbine and Bayonet. British Tower Eliott Carbine and Bayonet in super condition with plain barrel stamped L H 383 and tang, the former with fore-sight also forming the lug for a bayonet, border engraved rounded lock with GR crowned and Tower across the tail, figured full stock, with apron around the barrel tang, stamped with inspector’s marks behind the trigger-guard tang, regulation brass mounts, flat side-plate of shaped outline, brass fore-end cap, steel sling bar, original steel ramrod with characteristic swelling cut with a groove, Tower proofs. This carbine takes its name from the designer General George Augustus Eliott. It was first approved in June 1773 and was intended for light dragoons. Although the design 20 years old at the onset of the Napoleonic War 1803-1815 and it was still in use long after 1815. Please note free shipping to UK only the rest of the world at cost.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5650

Click and use the code >24338 to search for this item on the dealer website Captivating Shinto Era Wakizashi, Circa 1650, Signed Fuyuhiro. A Wonderful and Elegant Edo Period Sword of Exceptional Sophistication.

Nation : British
Local Price : £5,650.00

Loyal North British Volunteers Officers Sword c 1790. Loyal North British Volunteers Officers Sword c 1790 a very rare sword in stunning condition. English half basket infantry officers back sword with polished mounts highly decorative pommel and tang button, the hilt with curved bars supporting the Georgian crown with thistle below and the motto Pro aris et focis – for hearth and home. The straight blade single edged becoming double towards the tip, with two fullers the top one marked ANDRIA FARARA. Complete with red liner possible a later replacement overall length 100cm the blade 83.5cm Notes: The Loyal North British Volunteers were a regiment of ex “ patriots Scots based in Knightsbridge. For reference please see Swords and Sword Makers of England and Scotland by Bezdek page 242

Nation : Dutch
Local Price : 7500.00 USD

Dutch Voc Silver Hilted Officer's Saber With Scabbard Dated 1771!. A very rare VOC, Dutch East India Company, officers saber with deep blade marks of the VOC, Amsterdam and dated 1771 both sides! Exceptional early saber with full scabbard and silver mounts (scabbard age shrunken and cracked in 2 beneath mid mound, but displays perfectly.) See photos. Blade is about 29” long. The silver hilt has no cracks or repairs, just a little age deformation. It can use a better cleaning. Grip and grip wire is completely intact and grip has some age cracking. This great sword most probably belonged to a VOC captain or admiral. Original silver hilted Dutch VOC swords are very seldom, if ever, encountered! Price is firm. Thanks for looking! Be sure to check out our other listings for more great swords, arms and armor! Our direct email address is: fineartlimited@yahoo.com

Nation : ?
Local Price : £5500.00

Cased Pair of Howdah Pistols. A Good Pair of 15 Bore Percussion Howdah Pistols by R. B. Rodda & Co, London. With browned, sighted over and under barrels, signed along the top flats, ‘R. B. RODDA & Co. PICCADILLY LONDON' and stamped at the side with London proofs, foliate engraved case-hardened breeches, fitted with rear-sights, profusely engraved box-lock actions, numbered 1647 and 1648, finely chequered walnut butts (repaired crack to one) with engraved ovoid butt caps with butt-traps, foliate engraved trigger guards and fitted with captive ramrods, with long-nosed percussion hammers, decorated en suite, in good clean condition retaining some original finish, vacant silver rectangular escutcheons: in a lined and fitted case with accessories including bullet mould, oil bottle and loading rod. In good clean order overall. RODDA Gunmakers 36 Piccadilly, 1845-7. Guns also marked Titchborne St. R. B. Rodda moved to Calcutta, but maintained a factory in Birmingham in 1860s. Became Gunmaker to Viceroy & Governor in General of India. Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. Dimensions: Bore: 15 Bore Barrel Length: 5.25 Inches (13.35 cm) Overall Length: 11 Inches (28 cm)

Nation : British
Local Price : £5450

Click and use the code >23637 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Rare WW1 German Airship Bataillon ´Luftschiffer´ Regt. Nr.1 Officer&#acute;s Sword, of the Elite Imperial German Kaiser´s Zeppelin and Airship Guarde Infantry, Only The Second We Have Seen in 30 Years

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £5450

Click and use the code >25331 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Fine Antique, Ancestral Chisa Katana Sword in Crew Gunto Mounts Signed Jumyo, Shinto. Swords By Jumyo Were Very Often Gifted to Noble Family Daimyo, As They Were Considered Very Auspicious

Nation : Italian
Local Price : 7,100.00 USD

FINE NORTH ITALIAN RAPIER C.1640-60. Milanese or Brescian. Iron hilt with double shell guards pierced with birds in foliage flanking portrait medallions. The shell edges and knuckle bow with scrolling foliage and ribbed central swells. Portrait medallion to the quillon block. The pommel with two portrait medallions on scrolling foliage ground. Fine copper and brass wire wrapped grip. 36 3/4" blade with fuller at the forte pierced with circles and key slots and stopped with a mark. Flattened diamond section blade with slightly concave edges and four facets to the flats, below the marks. Exceptional condition. The blade crisp with mottled patina. Hilt undoubtedly plated originally.

Nation : American
Local Price : £5250

Click and use the code >25315 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Fine Napoleonic, Ist Empire, General Staff Officer´s Sabre. Three Bar Hilt with Deluxe Imperial General Staff Officer´s Scabbard

Nation : British
Local Price : £5250

English “Mortuary” hilted sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century. A fine English “Mortuary” hilted sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century and the English Civil War, Commonwealth and Protectorate periods. The hilt of this sword is of typical form consisting of a broad saucer-shaped guard plate from which three main curved flattened guard bars taper upwards ending with flattened angled terminals screwed into the pommel. The sword is notable because of its robust build, fine condition and the higher than average quality of the chiselled decoration. The convex surface of the guard plate is covered with the finely executed busts of eight men, four located either side of the blade. Two, opposite each other, are wigged figures, probably judges. The others have a more grotesque appearance. The remaining spaces are filled with panels of delicate foliage and fine swirling tendrils. The pommel is decorated in the same foliate style. Two downward facing bars emanate from each side of the knuckle bow towards its middle and join the base of each side guard bar to add strength to the structure. The base of each side guard bar is strengthened with a fishtail or merlon terminal which joins the bars to the dish. The downwardly curled ribbed wrist guard strengthens the rear edge of the plate. The guard bars are decorated with chiselled lines. The pommel is globular in shape and has an integral button on top and a pronounced flared neck beneath. The grip is wrapped with a leather binding which covers the original grip covering of surface mounted wire. The base sits on an iron flanged plug mounted onto the inside of the guard plate from which two langets extend through the tang aperture to flank the blade either side for a short distance below the hilt. The single-edged blade has a pronounced fullered ricasso. A broad shallow fuller runs from the hilt underneath the blunt spine of the blade and terminates a short distance from the tip after which the blade is double edged. A second shorter fuller of similar width opposite the first runs each side for the length of the ricasso after which the main cutting edge of the blade begins. An unknown Blade Maker's stamp is applied on each side within the fuller as is an orb and cross mark a short distance away. The blade was probably made in Solingen in Germany. Huge numbers of blades were imported into Britain during the Civil War period to fulfil demand for swords on both Royalist and Parliamentarian sides. The blade is 33.75 inches long (86 cm) and overall the sword measures 40 inches (101.5 cm) long. Stuart C Mowbray in “British Military Swords”, Mowbray Publishing, 2013, dedicates a section to Mortuary Swords in pages 178 to 225, as does Cyril Mazansky, in “British Basket Hilted Swords”, Boydell Press 2005, Chapter 11, pages 233 to 280. The similarities between the engraved patterns on the hilts of the swords illustrated in these books and our sword, although they are all somewhat different, shows that the quality of chiselling and engraving present on our sword is of superior quality compared to most other than those known to have been commissioned for nobility of one form or another. This sword is of a style which does not adopt the secondary rear guard bars which appear on some mortuary swords which extend downwards from the side guard bars to fix on the guard plate nearer to the wrist guard edge. The robust and broad expanse of the guard of this sword dispenses with the need as can be seen in the examples present in Mowbray and Mazansky.

Nation : ?
Local Price : £5000.00

Cased Pair of Rigby Magazine Pistols. A Superb Pair of Cased 32 Bore Rigby Magazine Pistols. With etched twist octagonal sighted barrels each engraved ‘Dublin' on the top flat, pierced platinum plugs, sighted actions finely engraved with characteristic scrollwork on hatched ground and each with three bents, swelling butts with engraved hinged covers revealing cavities fro balls and caps, engraved trigger guards and stirrup ramrods, ramrod unscrew to reveal worms: in original blue velvet lined and fitted case with accessories in eluding unusual screw-top powder flask, bullet mould and oil bottle, etc, the lid with trade label. Notes: It appears the case was forcibly opened at some point in its past as there is a small repaired crack at the rear of the case and there are no locking teeth on the lid. RIGBY Dimensions: Bore: 32 Bore Barrel Length: 2.5 Inches (6.35 cm) Overall Length: 7 Inches (17.78 cm)

Nation : American
Local Price : $4995.00

Fine Presentation Civil War M1852 Naval Officer’s Sword. Fine quality and condition US M1852 Naval Officer's Sword made by Clauberg of Solingen and retailed by the famous New York firm of Schuyler, Hartley, & Graham; inscribed on the scabbard throat fitting “Presented to/Capt. E.A. Robinson/from the crew/U.S.S. Wilderness/1864″. Standard pattern with gilt brass hilt featuring pierced foliate decoration and ribbon bearing “USN” on the guard; sharkskin grip with brass wire wrap. Slightly curved 29 ½” single-edged blade with broad and narrow fullers, finely etched over its upper half with foliage, anchor, trident, and “USN” in ribbon on one side and “IRON PROOF”, capstan, stands of arms, and US flag on the other side. Ricasso marked “Clauberg/Solingen in an oval around a standing knight on one side and “SCHUYLER HARTLEY/& GRAHAM/NEW YORK” on the other side. Etching very clear and retains its original frosted finish. Black leather scabbard with brass mounts and double carry rings. Leather flaking but complete and mounts loose due to leather shrinkage. Retains a period gold bullion sword know, likely with it from the beginning (some wear and fading). USS Wilderness Originally built as the “B. N. Creary” in 1864 at Brooklyn, New York she was acquired by the Union Navy on 30 May, 1864 and simultaneously renamed “Wilderness”. She fitted out at the New York Navy Yard and was commissioned on 20, July 1864, being immediately assigned to the 2nd Division of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. After serving briefly at Hampton Roads and the James River she was sent to the North Carolina coast where she was fitted with four 24-pounders in October, 1864. She went into action almost immediately and on the night of 31 October while patrolling off New Inlet, North Carolina, pursued and captured the British blockade runner “Annie”. In December she participated in the attacks on Ft. Fisher where she assisted in the failed attempt to breach the fort by towing the sidewheel steamer “Louisiana” filled with explosives near the fort's walls. The ship exploded as planned but had little effect. On January 13, 1865 “Wilderness” brought troops to within 500 yards of the shore where they were loaded on boats for the final assault on Ft. Fisher. She was decommissioned on 10 June 1865 and transferred to the Treasury Department and served as a revenue cutter in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1873 she was renamed “John A. Dix” and was eventually sold in 1891.

Nation : British
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >23559 to search for this item on the dealer website Personalised & Named Naval Sword of an 1804 Naval Hero Commodore of a British East Indiaman Fleet & His Original Framed Portrait

Nation : ?
Local Price : £4950.00

Superb Pair of Flintlock Holster Pistols by Griffin.. A Superb Pair of Flintlock Holster Pistols by Griffin. With tapering round sighted barrels, signed within an engraved border along the top, ‘GRIFFIN LONDON' stamped with London proofs and Foreigners marks at the breech, profusely engraved steel tangs, rounded border engraved locks signed ‘GRIFFIN' cocks decorated en suite (one cock has an old repair) with set triggers, I have not seen this feature on pistols this early, full stocked in walnut with raised mouldings around the locks and the tangs, with gilt silver pierced side-plates depicting foliage, foliate escutcheons with the original owners crest, silver grotesque masks stamped with hallmarks and turned silver ramrod pipes, both pistols have steel trigger guard decorated with a flower head on the bow and shell-like finials, in good crisp untouched condition overall. Notes: The pistols are accompanied with what appear to be original leather frizen protectors. I have not seen another example of these for a long time. Griffin, B. [1739-1773] Shop in Bond Street, London. One of the early makers of double barrel pistols and fowling pieces. Made flintlock pocket and holster pistols with silver mountings, also double barrelled, side-by-side, flintlock pistols with two hammers and two triggers. The name became Griffin & Tow from 1773 to 1796, continuing on Bond Street. Made cannon barrel flintlock pocket pistols and silver mounted flintlock holster pistols. Also brass barrelled flintlock blunderbusses. A. Merwyn Carey (1954) English, Irish and Scottish Firearms Makers, Acro Publishing Company, New York.  

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >25275 to search for this item on the dealer website Rare, Napoleonic Wars Sabre of an Officer of The Grande Armee Carabiniers De Cheval Ist Empire, a Garde de Bataille

Nation : British
Local Price : £4,950.00

Royal Victorian General Officers Sword – Prince Arthur. Royal Victorian General Officers Sword belonging to Prince Arthur. Arthur William Patrick Albert was Queen Victoria favourite son and became Duke of Connaught and Strathearn in 1874. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1866 and did well in the army, becoming full general in 1893 and field marshal in 1902. He served in Egypt in 1882, commanding the 1st Guards Brigade at Tel el Kebir. The Sword Levee pattern with flat solid blade, etching includes monogram AWP below the coronet for a younger son and brother of a blood royal – Fairbains Crests – to the reverse is the royal garter with same crown above plus VR in a shield. By Wilkinson Sword London number 19350 and complete with matching brass scabbard.

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >22873 to search for this item on the dealer website A, Fabulous Samurai Sword, A Most Fine Shinto Wakizashi By Omni Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro Circa 1660.

Nation : British
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >21852 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb & Very Rare Original Grouping, 5th to 7th Century Roman & Goth Period ´Ceremonially Folded´ Sword, From a Pagan Ritual, A Warrior or Legionary´s Spartha Sword, and War Shield Mounts

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >24340 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Handsome Shinto O-Tanto, Around 300 years Old Circa 1720 With a Most Impressive and Beautiful Large Blade Used As A Powerful Close-Combat Small Sword and Suitable as a Post Combat ´Head Cutter´

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4950

Click and use the code >23481 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Beautiful Original Edo Period Shinto Samurai Wakizashi by Echizen ju Kozuke no Kami Fujiwara Kanesada, A Sword Maker Deemed SaijÅ

Nation : British
Local Price : £4750

Click and use the code >21865 to search for this item on the dealer website Stunning, Historical, Napoleonic War&#acute;s Period, 1796 Pattern Officer´s Combat Sword of William A. Cuninghame, of the 95th

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £4750

Click and use the code >24840 to search for this item on the dealer website Rare, Archaic Chinese Warrior´s Bronze Jian Sword, Engraved with Seal Script, Around 2,300 to 2,800 Years Old, From the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, Including the Period of the Great Military Doctrine ´The Art of War´ by General Sun-

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4750

Click and use the code >24556 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful 500 Year Old Koto Period Samurai ´Dragon´ Wakizashi Samurai Short Sword, Another Absolute Beauty From Our latest collection

Nation : British
Local Price : £4700

Scottish Ribbon Hilted Broad Sword Dating to the Mid 17th Century. A Scottish West Highland Ribbon Hilt, sometimes called “Beaked Neb”, Basket Hilted Sword, dating to the middle to late periods of the 17th century. These swords are often associated with Scottish Highlanders in the Civil War, Covenanting and early Jacobite Rebellion periods in Scotland. The sword has a characteristic “Ribbon” hilt formed from wide flat iron bars forged together into the typical rounded profile. The front of the cross guard provides the focus for the convergence of the frontal guard bars into a pronounced beak which is a distinctive feature of this sword type and from whence it gets one of its titles. The upper terminals of the guard arms are forged into a crescent of iron which fits into a groove cut for most of the way around the slightly flattened globular pommel just below its middle. The pommel has an integrally raised button on top. The hilt retains its shape and although worn, russet and possessing a blackened aged patination, is whole, without breaks, repairs or losses. The sparse simple linear decoration usually found on ribbon hilts which delineates the panels, and adds interest to the bars, is visible in most parts. The hardwood grip is baluster shaped, of oblong cross section and spirally grooved now without any binding. The high quality double-edged blade is of gently tapering form and of flattened lenticular section. The blade is thickened into a pronounced ricasso at the hilt which has a wide fuller alongside each blunt edge for the length of the ricasso (1.75 inches or 4.5 cm). The shoulders of the ricasso are accommodated and secured in a groove chiselled into the underside of the cross guard in the Scottish manner. A broad fuller runs from the end of the ricasso on each side for 7 inches (19 cm). Inside the fuller on one side is the feint mark in capital letters: “ANDREA FERARA” interspersed by dot patterns. The fuller on the other side shows evidence of the same device which is now illegible. Just beyond the end of the fuller on each side a clear running wolf bladesmiths’ mark is inscribed. This style of blade seems to be a relatively common type encountered on ribbon hilts, which are recognised for the high quality of the blades they are mounted with. The steel blade is in fine condition having stood the tests of time more robustly than the iron bars of the hilt. This is not an unusual feature with ribbon hilts. A contract dating to 1578 shows the bladesmiths Zanandrea and Zandona of Ferrara, working in Belunno, Italy, sixty miles north of Venice, secured a lucrative supply arrangement to manufacture thousands of blades for London based merchants John Brown and Lancelot Rowlandson, over a period of years before the turn of the 17th century. It seems the blades were of superior quality, hence the variations of the name stamped onto blades intended for import into Britain for over a century and a half to come by German blademakers as a spurious “copy-cat” mark of quality. This particular mark became especially popular with Scots and is often encountered on Scottish basket hilted swords of the 17th and 18th centuries. It may have had talismanic significance with some Highlanders even though most were illiterate. The blade was most likely made in Solingen. The only so far known portrait depicting a Ribbon Hilt sword is that of Lord Mungo Murray by John Michael Wright, circa 1670, and he is shown in full Highland dress armed with a contemporary dag, dirk and long gun. His sword hilt is handsomely gilded. For a further reference work on ribbon hilt evolution see “British Basket-Hilted Swords” by Cyril Mazansky (Boydell Press 2005) pages 69 to 73. The overall length of the sword is 41.5 inches (105.5 cm) and the blade is 35.75 inches (91 cm).

Nation : British
Local Price : £4,650.00

English Royalist Rapier Circa 1640. English Royalist Rapier, circa 1640 original condition, This type of sword was carried by both sides during the English Civil War however this example has characteristic figures of Charles 1st to all the parts of the hilt and cup guard to one side and of his wife Henrietta to the reverse. With tapering single edged blade, iron hilt comprising shallow cup-guard chiselled and pieced linked to the knuckle guard with down curved bar, the knuckle-guard screwed to the pommel, one straight quillon, one down-turned with animal head terminal, globular pommel engraved with foliage and characteristic figures, with button terminal. The original spirally twist grip is missing wood remaining between the original Turks heads. Overall length 108cm the blade 88cm

Nation : ?
Local Price : £4500.00

Pair of Queen Anne Pistols Circa 1720.. A Pair of Silver Mounted Flintlock Queen Anne Pistols by John Williams, Circa 1720. With two-stage cannon barrels, each with pronounced ring at the muzzle and engraved with bands of foliage the breech, border engraved tangs each secured by a screw and extending as a trefoil over the breech, shaped border engraved actions, signed ‘JOHN WILLIAMS' beneath the pans, foliate engraved cocks, fitted with safety catches (one frizen expertly replaced) trigger guards each with foliate finial, figured swelling butts (small repair to one) with raised mouldings around the tangs, cast and chased silver mounts, comprising serpent side-plates, escutcheons with traces of original crests, large foliate engraved butt-caps. Williams John Apprentice to Thomas Williams, 1693; free of Gunmakers Co., 1700. Proof piece, 1701. Elected Assistant, 1723; Master 1728. Gunmaker to Ordnance, 1702-19; East India Co., 1711-26; Hudson Bay Co., 1715-31; Royal African Co., 1715-22. Proved 34,261 muskets, 697 1/2 pairs pistols, 125 musketoons, 50 Blunderbusses, 1721-31. Died 1731. Business continued by widow, Elizabeth. Dimensions: Bore: 16 Bore Barrel Length: 4.5 Inches (11.43 cm) Overall Length: 11 Inches (27.94 cm)

Nation : British
Local Price : £4500

English Silver Hilted Officer’s Sabre by John Carman (II) of London with hallmarks for 1754 / 1755.. This fine officer’s sabre was once part of the Lattimer Collection and is published in Daniel D Hartzler “Silver Mounted Swords – The Lattimer Family Collection”, 2000, Josten's Printing Company, fig 130, page 68. An old collection reference number is painted in white on the blade near the hilt. See also the same sabre illustrated in Daniel D Hartzler, American Silver-Hilted and Early Federal Swords According to Their Geographical Areas of Mounting, Volume II, 2015, in the section on “Imported Swords”, fig 625, page 690. The hilt and curved fullered blade are of British mid-18th century individual proto-military / regulation type. The hilt is formed from a base made as a convex heart shaped dish with a strengthened brim from which the knuckle bow rises to a swollen hook terminal which fixes into the pommel front. The knucklebow is supported by a single scrolling secondary guard bar which protects the outside of the right hand of the user. The globose pommel has an integral button on top and a pronounced neck beneath. The baluster shaped grip is covered with a decorous binding consisting of different thicknesses of straight and roped silver wire. The grip has a cone-shaped ferrule at its base. The dish guard has a wristguard with a swollen downward facing terminal. The knucklebow is clearly stamped with London hallmarks and the stamp of John Carman. The curved blade has a short ricasso and a broad central fuller extending for most of the blade length with a narrower fuller underneath the spine of the blade for almost the same length. The John Carman that made this hilt was the second cutler and silversmith of that name working in London in the first half of the 18th century. His father was the first who died in 1741. John Carman (II) was born in 1721 / 2 and was indentured to his father for seven years from 1736. He was sworn free by servitude of the Cutlers’ Company in 1743 and registered his first maker’s mark at Goldsmith’s Hall in London in 1748. John Carman (II) was a successful businessman and sword maker. He rose through the ranks of the Cutlers’ Company to become Master for 1761-2. He died in 1764. The length of the blade is 31.25 inches (79.5 cm). The overall length is: 37.25 inches (94.5 cm). The hilt of this sabre is somewhat similar in structure to a more complex and decorous silver spadroon hilt by the same maker hallmarked for 1755 / 1756 which sold at Bruneau Auctions in their sale of April 9th, 2022 lot, 82 (hammer price $10,000).