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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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A Rare English Arming Sword
Late 16th Century

Antique Arms & Armour
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare English Arming Sword
Late 16th Century

With broad double-edged blade, hilt comprising large flat arched quillons with 'fish-tail' ends, short triangular shaped langets incised with vertical lines, tapering tang (grip missing), compressed globular pommel pierced through on one side for a thong, and separate button finial (pitted overall)
68 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a discussion of swords of this type, in connection with the swords of Justice and the Curtana among the Coronation Regalia, see C. Blair (ed.), The Crown Jewels, London, 1998, II, pp. 341-47

For another example see Sir Guy Francis Laking, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, 1922, vo. V, p. 173, fig. 1607

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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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.
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