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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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Two Indian Kards
18th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
11 May 2016, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Two Indian Kards
18th Century

The first with tapering single-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel, the forte on each side with a cartouche-shaped border of gold-damascened running flower-heads and arabesques, one side gold-damascened with the name 'Baquir' in nasta'liq, and 'O Ali' on the other, and faceted waisted basal mount gold-damascened en suite, the decoration extending down the back of the blade, and retaining its gilt suspension loop pierced with an arabesque (grip missing), in original wooden scabbard covered in blue velvet (worn and slightly incomplete) with gilt-copper locket and chape each pricked with a design of trellised flower-heads, and each with pierced border, the former with pierced suspension loop, the latter with fluted bud-shaped terminal; the second with sharply tapering hollow-ground blade of watered steel, the back of T-section cut with converging ribs along its entire length, beaked hilt (grips missing) and pinched-in basal mount damascened with engraved silver foliage, and small finial pieced for a tassel, in original wooden scabbard (broken above the chape) covered in burgundy velvet (worn) with linear engraved gilt-copper locket and chape each with shaped borders, the former with suspension ring carrying a woven tassel, the latter with bud-shaped terminal (2)
25.5 cm. and 29.5 cm. blades

Footnotes

Literature:
Oliver S. Pinchot, The Arms of the Paladins, the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection..., 2004, p. 48, fig. 3-97 and p. 50, fig. 3-110

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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.