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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
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THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
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A Very Rare German 'Landsknecht' Dagger
Circa 1540-50

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

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A Very Rare German 'Landsknecht' Dagger
Circa 1540-50

With tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section at the reinforced double-edged point, one side towards the forte deeply struck with a beaked bladesmith's mark, blackened iron hilt comprising short curved guard fitting over the front of the scabbard and pierced with chased and punched foliage, bow-tie shaped quillons (one replaced) each bent outwards and with punched and incised decoration on the outside, writhen tapering grip bound with twisted iron wire, retaining a pewter ferrule at the base, and rising up to a large disc-shaped pommel-cap embossed and chased with a quatrefoil centred on the tang button (tang hammered over), in original two-piece blackened iron scabbard retaining its original wood and leather velvet-covered liner with pocket for a by-knife or bodkin (missing), the outer side embossed and chased with two scrolled cartouches framing naked figures, all against a ground of foliage and with central piercing, the throat with prominent 'puffed and slashed' mount, baluster finial en suite, two fixed staples for suspension on the plain back (some file marks and patch of pitting), and retaining much of its original finish
25 cm. blade

Footnotes

For two related daggers in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and formerly in the Meyrick, Ressman and de Dino Collections respectively, see Bashford Dean, Catalogue of European Daggers..., 1928, nos. 114 and 115, pl. XL; and another in the Wallace Collection (A752). See also Leslie Southwick, The Price Guide to Antique Edged Weapons, p. 199, fig. 579

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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