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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
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An 1822 Pattern Infantry Officer's Sword Carried By Major General James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt Adjutant General Of The British Army In The East
By Prosser Maker To The King & Royal Family, Charing Cross, Circa 1835

Antique Arms and Armour and Modern Sporting Guns
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An 1822 Pattern Infantry Officer's Sword Carried By Major General James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt Adjutant General Of The British Army In The East
By Prosser Maker To The King & Royal Family, Charing Cross, Circa 1835

With bright slightly curved slender pipe-backed blade (small areas of pitting) etched over each side of the forte with maker's details and elaborate crowned 'WR IV' monogram, the latter over sprigs of laurel and oak, regulation gilt-brass half-basket guard of fluted bars incorporating an elaborate crowned 'W IV' in an oval, numbered '1970' on the inside and with pierced folding inner-guard, and wire-bound shagreen-covered (shagreen incomplete) grip, in original wooden scabbard covered in black shagreen (open along the seam) with linear engraved gilt-brass mounts and two rings for suspension, the locket engraved with maker's details on one side, and inscribed 'Major General James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt Adjutant General of the British Army in the East' on the other
82.5 cm. blade

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James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt was born on 12 July 1802 and was educated at Harrow. at the age of eighteen he became an ensign in the 44th Regiment and in June the following year transfered to the 43rd Monmouthshire Light Infantry. In 1834 he was second in command to Colonel F.R. Chesney on the Euphrates Valley expedition and on 21 October was promoted to the rank of Major. He was MP for Devizes between February 1848 and February 1852, and in 1854 he was recalled, promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General and was made Adjutant-General to the expeditionary force to the Crimea. On 12 December 1854 he was promoted to Major-General and died of cholera, with his wife by his side, on 24 June 1855

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.