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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 Axe
Late 16th/Early 17th Century, Probably Swiss

Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Axe
Late 16th/Early 17th Century, Probably Swiss

The head with bellied blade rising to a triangular point, flat rectangular socket, and peen shaped as a four-pronged hammer-head deeply struck on each side with a maker's mark and incised with a band of line ornament behind, and secured by four long riveted side-straps to the remains of the original staff of octagonal section
56 cm.

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Provenance
The Stanley Knight Collection, Meaford, Ontario, Canada

For two related examples in the Landesmuseum, Zurich (inv. nos. K2-1263 and K2-601) see John Waldman, Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe..., 2005, pp. 156 and 160, figs. 130-131

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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.