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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
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A Highly Decorated Ear-Dagger In Spanish Or Venetian Style Of The Late 15th/Early 16th Century
19th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£3,000 - £4,000

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A Highly Decorated Ear-Dagger In Spanish Or Venetian Style Of The Late 15th/Early 16th Century
19th Century

With tapering double-edged blade of flattened slightly hollowed diamond section, one edge slightly extending into the slightly hollowed ricasso and struck with a mark, the ricasso made in one with the grip and gold-damascened with running foliage, gilt hilt comprising a rounded basal mount on each side set with an ivory panel carved with a foliate design, grip chiselled with running foliage against a punched and gilt ground, carved dark horn grip-scales each beaked at the centre and secured by three gilt transverse pins to steel shims rising up to the characteristic out-bent eared pommels, the latter each chiselled en suite with the grip on the inside, and set with an ivory roundel on the outside carved with a mask of Bacchus secured by a bluntly-pointed gilt stud, in original wooden scabbard covered in burgundy velvet with steel locket and chape gold-damascened en suite, the former with suspension loop, the latter with bud-shaped finial
22 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a related dagger see Christie's South Kensington, Arts of the Islamic World, 9 October 2015, lot 438

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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.