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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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An Italian All-Steel Stiletto
Mid-17th Century, Probably Brescian

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

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An Italian All-Steel Stiletto
Mid-17th Century, Probably Brescian

With sharply tapering blade of stiff triangular section with moulded ricasso, hilt with short up bent quillons each with monster-head terminal, and grip pierced and chiselled in the round as a kneeling monkey holding his ears and supporting a standing naked human figure on his head (russet overall)
18.3 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a similar example formerly in the Dr. Ernst-Joachin Rogahn Collection and sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms & Armour..., 27 November 2013, lot 175

For two related daggers see Bashford Dean, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue of European Daggers..., 1928, pp. 151, nos. 228 and 229, pl. LXVIII

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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.