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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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Lot 162*

A Very Rare Composite Italian Armet
Partly Late 15th Century

Antique Arms and Armour Including the S. James Gooding Collection
25 November 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Composite Italian Armet
Partly Late 15th Century

With rounded one-piece skull with low keel-shaped comb pierced with a hole for a crest, the back of the skull extending to form a 'tail' of flattened triangular section with scrolled terminal and fitted with a replacement roundel, the front of the skull with riveted reinforce with deeply cusped inner edges, beaked visor (lifting-peg replaced) recessed to form a narrow vision slit and pierced with slotted and circular breaths, and extending on both sides over the pivot-hinges each with securing pin, later large hinged cheek-pieces or wrappers each with flanged lower edge pierced with small holes, secured by a pin-catch at the front, and by a leather strap and buckle at the back (some pitting overall)
28 cm. high

Footnotes

For related armets formerly in the collections of William Randolph Hearst and Bashford Dean and now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, see C. Otto v. Kienbusch, The Kretzschmar Von Kienbusch Collection Of Armor And Arms, 1963, pp. 56-57, pl. XLII, nos. 53-55. See also Pierre Bergé & Associés Et Hermann Historica, The Karsten Klingbeil Collection, Part I, Brussels, 13 December 2011, lot 55

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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.