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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 Rare Turkish Karabella
Late 17th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Turkish Karabella
Late 17th Century

With broad curved blade (some minor rust patination) double-edged towards the point, hilt with silver-gilt guard cast and chased with flowering foliage against a finely punched ground highlighted with nielloed foliage, and comprising pointed langets and downscrolled quillons each with pierced foliate terminal, and beaked grip (strap missing) with rounded wooden grips each carved with fluted chevrons and retained by three iron pins each with silver-gilt floret-shaped head (two missing), in original wooden scabbard covered in black leather seamed along one side and with locket, chape (bottom incomplete) and suspension mounts en suite with the guard, the suspension mounts each pierced with foliage on the outside and with a ring for suspension (one missing), and retaining much of its original gilding
69 cm. blade

Footnotes

For related examples in the Kurfürstlich-sächsischen Rüstkammer, Dresden, see Holger Schuckelt, Die Türckische Cammer..., 2010, pp. 176, 212, 249, 266, 267, 280 and 300, figs. 198, 202, 242-245, 254 and 295

See also Christie's London, The Armoury of Their Serene Highnesses the Princes zu Salm-Reiferscheidt-Dyck (Part II), 23 September 1992, lot 472; and Christie's London, Fine Antique Arms and Armour, 26 October 1994, lot 105

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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.