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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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A German Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger
Probably Late 16th Century

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

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A German Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger
Probably Late 16th Century

With associated bright blade of flattened diamond section double-edged over half its length to the point, ricasso struck on one side with a heart-shaped bladesmith's mark, blackened iron hilt comprising downcurved quillons each springing from a moulding and widening towards the tip, the latter each set on the outside with a cast and chased silver 'Green Man's' mask with silver button terminal, side-ring filled with a plate with two heart-shaped piercings and set on the outside with a silver human head, stopper-shaped pommel with later engraved silver cap, and tapering silver grip of oval section engraved with a bold design of symmetrical foliage against a punched ground, a shouldered moulded mount above, in its wood-lined black leather scabbard (some wear and damage) with silver locket and chape decorated en suite with the hilt and each centred on an oval landscape, a town beyond, the chape with baluster terminal, the locket with aperture for a by-knife (missing) and integral suspension loop at the back (silver tarnished)
31.9 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a sword with grip and pommel of similar form in the Veste Coburg Collection (inv. no. MAZ 00322), See Marco A.R. Leutenegger, Zwischen Politik und Krieg..., 2005, p. 38-39, pl. 12 and 13

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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.