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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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A Balkan Bichaq, And An Ottoman Qama
Both 19th Century

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

Sold for £6,000 inc. premium

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A Balkan Bichaq, And An Ottoman Qama
Both 19th Century

The first with slightly hollowed single-edged blade (some pitting) with silver-inlaid stars along the back on each side, and silvered basal mount, in original wood-lined silver scabbard embossed and chased along each side with symmetrical designs of foliage involving trophies, chape with monster-head terminal, foliate loop for suspension, and retaining its pair of tweezers originally housed in the hilt (missing); the second with double-edged blade of flattened ovoidal section recessed and cut with a slender medial ridge along most of its length on each side to the slightly curved point of flattened diamond section, the forte on both sides with encrusted gold arabesques above chiselled arabesques en suite, the latter against stippled gold grounds (some gold and hilt missing), in original wooden scabbard entirely covered in silver finely embossed and chased along each side with flowering foliage within scrollwork, gilt throat mount, foliate suspension loop, and bud-shaped terminal (2)
27 cm. and 27.5 cm. blades

Footnotes

Literature
Oliver S. Pinchot, Arms of the Paladins, the Richard R. Wagner Jr. Collection..., 2014, p. 41, fig. 3-64 and p. 39, fig. 3-54

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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.