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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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Lot 108*

A Rare Medieval Sabre
Late 15th Century, Probably Venetian Or Hungarian

Antique Arms and Armour Including The Ray Wilkinson Collection
24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Medieval Sabre
Late 15th Century, Probably Venetian Or Hungarian

In excavated condition, with broad curved blade double-edged towards the rounded point, the forte on one side inlaid in copper with cross potent in a circle, cross-guard with widely recurved 'fish-tail' terminals each deeply incised with lines, long flat tang of rectangular section, compressed wheel-pommel with raised circular boss on both sides and surmounted by a stepped pyramidal copper-alloy button
87.5 cm. blade

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Provenance
Sotheby's Olympia, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 5 December 2002, lot 52

A related sword, together with another inlaid with a similar mark is in the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. For a discussion of the type see J.V. Kálmar, 'Säbel und Schwert in Ungarn', Zeitschrift für Historische Waffen - und Kostümkunde, 5 Band, Berlin, 1935-36, pp. 150-155. A further example is in the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, Berlin

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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.