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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 Turkish Yataghan
The Blade Dated 1208 A.H. Corresponding To 1793 A.D.

Antique Arms and Armour
26 November 2014, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,200

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A Turkish Yataghan
The Blade Dated 1208 A.H. Corresponding To 1793 A.D.

With single-edged blade cut with a narrow fuller along the back on each side and inlaid in silver Turkish script over both sides with the date, maker's name 'Hussain', verses and a talismanic inscription with the names of the Seven Sleepers, a shaped white-metal mount cast with foliage over the forte on each side, brass hilt with grip-strap set with diamond shapes and brown-stained beads, and 'eared' grips each set with a brown-stained bead centred on a flower-head and within roped borders, in original wood-lined white-metal scabbard embossed and chased with foliage overall, the locket set with beaded ropework and diamond shapes, the chape formed as a monster-head
54.8 cm. blade

Footnotes

The Seven Sleepers (As-hab al Kahf in Arabic) of Ephesus were a group of Christian youths who hid inside a cave outside the City of Ephesus around 250 A.D., to escape a persecution of Christians during the reign of the Roman Emperor Decius. Having fallen asleep inside the cave, they supposedly awoke some 180 years later during the reign of Theodosius II. The story has its highest prominence in the Muslim world and is told in the Qur'an (Surah 18, Verse 9-26)

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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.