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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 Turkish Yataghan
Early 19th Century, Probably Foca

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

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A Turkish Yataghan
Early 19th Century, Probably Foca

With slightly recurved single-edged blade cut with a narrow fuller along the back on each side, the forte on both sides gold-damascened with decorative panels of foliage (some loss of gold and areas of pitting) now against a blued ground, one side involving two rectangular panels with owner's and maker's names respectively in thuluth, and a roundel centred on a star of Solomon and enclosing the names of the Seven Sleepers in thuluth, a shaped silver mount over the forte set with silver diamonds and pellets enriched with a red coral (corallium rubrum) bead on each side, silver hilt with grip-strap en suite and set with ten red coral beads and two nielloed panels, and 'eared' grips both set with a red coral bead centred on a silver filigree star of Solomon, all between twisted silver lines, in original wooden scabbard covered in black leather (some damage) with wire seam along the inside and silver locket and deep chape, the former en suite with the hilt, the latter embossed and chased with scrolling foliage issuing from a fish's mouth along both sides, from a serpent's mouth on the back, and with monster-head terminal
57 cm. blade

Footnotes

Cf. another example sold in these Rooms, Eastern Arms & Armour From the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection, 29 April 2015, lot 56

A similar example is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. no. M. 964-1928). See Anthony North, An Introduction to Islamic Arms, 1985, p. 26, fig. 18d

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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.