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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 Persian Jambiyas
Qajar, 19th Century

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

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Two Persian Jambiyas
Qajar, 19th Century

The first with curved double-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel with narrow medial ridge over its entire length on each side (hilt missing) and retaining its chased gold pommel-cap set with sapphires centred on a cabochon ruby, all within a border of small turquoise beads, in original leather-covered wooden scabbard tooled with arabesques, silver chape, and gold polychrome enamelled suspension loop; the second with curved double-edged blade of finely watered wootz steel with medial ridge along its entire length on each side, the forte on both sides chiselled with a cartouche containing the Basmalla in thuluth against traces of a gold ground, a smaller cartouche above with one of the ninety-nine names of God against a gold ground, in its wooden scabbard covered in velvet (plush worn off) with brass locket and chape each crudely embossed with foliage, the former with suspension loop on the inside (2)
21 cm. and 20.5 cm. blades

Footnotes

Oliver S. Pinchot, The Arms of the Paladins, the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection..., 2014, p. 27, fig. 3-15 and p. 28, fig. 3-19

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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.