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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 Italian All-Steel Stiletto
Mid-17th Century, Probably Brescian

Antique Arms and Armour
27 November 2013, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An Italian All-Steel Stiletto
Mid-17th Century, Probably Brescian

With sharply tapering blade of stiff diamond section with moulded ricasso, hilt with short upbent quillons each with monster-head terminal, and grip pierced and chiselled in the round as a kneeling monkey supporting a standing monkey on his head, both covering its ears with its hands (minor pitting)
12.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

For another example with very similar hilt see Christie's South Kensington, Antique Arms And Armour, 5 April 1989, lot 40

For two related daggers see Bashford Dean, The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Catalogue of European Daggers ..., 1928, pp. 151, nos. 228 and 229, pl. LXVIII

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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.