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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.
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An Indian Zaghnal, A Chinese Axe, And Three African Tribal Weapons
19th Century And Later

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

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An Indian Zaghnal, A Chinese Axe, And Three African Tribal Weapons
19th Century And Later

The first with steel head comprising beak-shaped double-edged blade of flattened diamond section overlaid in brass with a male and female figure in contemporary costume between brass-inlaid line borders and pierced with an arabesque on both sides, socket with foliage en suite, and cupola-shaped peen, surmounted by a spike, on hardwood haft of tapering circular section with spherical brass terminal; the second with heavy crescentic blade decorated on each side with silver-damascened bats within a roped border, and mounted on a cast dragon's head retaining some original gilding, on threaded tubular steel haft retaining traces of silver-damascened whorls and geometric ornament (some wear and rust patination) and multi-faceted terminal en suite; the last comprising a Nagala execution knife, with characteristic blade hooked at the top, pierced with holes and with four projections along the back, and wooden grip of three graduated compressed spheres: in a perspex display case, a Poto of russet steel, with broad double-edged leaf-shaped blade incised with notched line ornament over both sides, and mounted on a wooden grip (termite damage): in a perspex display case, and a Banza throwing knife (rusted overall), of characteristic form with hooked and arrowhead-shaped blades, and wooden grip bound with twisted copper wire (5)
The first 26 cm. head

Footnotes

For the last three see Werner Fischer and Manfred A. Zimgibl, African Weapons, 1978, p. 140, figs. 192 and 193, p. 195, fig. 357 and p. 94, fig. 163

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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.