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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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Eleven Various Spurs
The First 11th Century, The Remainder 15th To 19th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£350 - £450

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Eleven Various Spurs
The First 11th Century, The Remainder 15th To 19th Century

The first of iron, with slender heel-band of triangular section with small flattened figure-eight terminal for leathers on one side, neck of diamond section, and deeply fluted six-sided pyramidal-shaped goad; the second in excavated condition, with broad downcurved heel-band with crest, and straight tapering neck (rowel missing); the third of similar form and in similar condition, with slender heel-band and figure-eight terminals, and straight tapering neck; the fourth with chiselled heel-band, and tapering neck downbent towards the rowel (missing); the fifth of slender form with short neck (rowel missing); the sixth of brass, with tapering heel-band with pair of button terminals for leathers, one retaining the original iron buckle, and with short sharply-pointed goad; the seventh, probably English, of brass with slightly downcurved heel-band of flattened triangular section with figure-eight terminals, short crane-neck (rowel missing), and with punched decoration overall retaining very faint traces of original gilding; another three of similar form and in excavated condition (incomplete, rowels missing); and a gilt-brass ceremonial or dress-spur cast with roses, thistles and shamrocks (11)
The first 15 cm.

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Late Claude Blair

For a similar spur to the first, formerly in the Bashford Dean Collection, see Stephen V. Grancsay, A Loan Exhibition Of Equestrian Equipment From The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, May 4 to July 3 1955, no. 73 (illustrated)

The sixth spur with old handwritten label attached reading 'Two old brass spurs from Ham House'

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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.