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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 Caucasian Or Georgian Kindjals
Both 19th Century

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

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Two Caucasian Or Georgian Kindjals
Both 19th Century

The first with bright tapering double-edged blade cut with an off-set fuller over most of its length on each side, the forte on one side incised with owner's name 'Izzet(?) Khan' in nasta'liq, waisted hilt gold-damascened around the edge, dark horn grip-scale (the others missing), and retaining its gold-damascened grip retaining mounts, in its wooden scabbard now covered in plum velvet with original locket and chape each with shaped finial and damascened with symmetrical gold foliage within borders of running arabesques on the outside, the latter with suspension mount, the latter with spherical terminal; the second with blade of similar form (some pitting), the fuller on one side bordered by incised gold-inlaid pseudo inscriptions above a bird perched on foliage, and with deeply struck bladesmith's mark of 'Ali Wali' in thuluth on both sides of the forte within the fuller (hilt missing), in original velvet-covered (plush worn off) wooden scabbard with shaped silver locket and chape each nielloed with foliage against a hatched ground on the outside, the former with steel suspension mount (2)
40.7 cm. and 37 cm. blades

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Literature
Oliver S. Pinchot, Arms of the Paladins, the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection..., 2014, p. 34, figs. 3-36 and 3-37

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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.