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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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A Scottish Basket-Hilted Backsword
Mid-Late 18th Century

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

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A Scottish Basket-Hilted Backsword
Mid-Late 18th Century

With tapering single-edged blade, the forte on each side stamped respectively 'ANDREA' and 'FARARA', the letters divided by deeply struck profile Turk's heads marks and cut with a pair of narrow fullers running either side, iron guard finely formed of rounded bars framing fluted central and side panels with shaped borders and pierced with stylised hearts, the latter each set above a 'ram's horn' (one incomplete) with scallop shell terminal, the main panels on either side of cusped oval form centred on curved saltires and each pierced with four stylised hearts and central star, fore-guards, scrolled wrist-guard, fluted conical pommel with prominent button, original fish skin-covered spirally grooved grip (worn, some worming) bound with a strand of iron ribbon, and retaining its original buff-leather liner and remains of a knotted tassel (russet overall)
77.4 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a closely related hilt with initials identified as those of John Allen of Stirling see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 139, G1c (JA)

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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.