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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.
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An Ottoman Kard With Gold-Inlaid Jade Hilt
The Hilt Late 16th Century, The Remainder 18th/19th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £7,200 inc. premium

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An Ottoman Kard With Gold-Inlaid Jade Hilt
The Hilt Late 16th Century, The Remainder 18th/19th Century

With slightly hollowed single-edged blade (probably shortened), rounded gilt-copper basal mount, and tapering light green jade hilt of oval section flat along the back and finely inlaid in gold with scrolling interlaced arabesques, the slightly beaked pommel with replacement silver-gilt inlays including chequered panels (probably replacing gems, finial missing), in its wooden scabbard covered in green-stained leather with deep border engraved silver-gilt locket and chape each stamped with indistinct tughra, the former (slightly split along one side) with integral suspension loop, the latter with foliate terminal
10.2 cm. hilt, 15.5 cm. blade

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Cf. a very similar example sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour, 23 July 2008, lot 133 (£21,600 including premium)

For other examples with similar hilts see Christie's London, Islamic Art and Manuscripts, 13 October 1998, lot 111; and Sotheby & Co., London, Arts of the Islamic World, 24 October 2007, lot 270. For the first of these see also Bashir Mohamed, The Arts of the Muslim Knight, The Furusiyya Art foundation Collection, 2007, p. 174, no. 162

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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.