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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
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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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A Very Rare Spanish Gothic Casket
Late 15th/Early 16th Century

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

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A Very Rare Spanish Gothic Casket
Late 15th/Early 16th Century

With wooden body of rectangular form with domed hinged lid, entirely covered in cuir-boulli (right side partly replaced) tooled with a slashed design on the back and sides, the front tooled with foliage against punched grounds, the lid decorated en suite and involving Gothic inscriptions, blackened iron mounts (minor losses) comprising reinforcing straps with bevelled edges, incised with pairs of lines, secured by iron tacks and with scallop shell terminals, the lid with arched side mounts each pierced with repeated circles and diamonds and with an openwork tower at the corners, the front mount en suite and with hinged hasp with further openwork towers, the central one intended to fit over the keyhole, the lock incised and punched with trelliswork and with a scallop shell at each corner, and slender drop handle of diamond section curved in on both sides
15 cm. high x 22 cm. wide x 16 cm. deep

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Provenance
Christies's London, Catalogue Of The Important Collection Of Objects Of Art, Antiquities, Armour And Arms Formed By S.E. Kennedy, Esq., 18 March 1918, lot 136
The Mark and Peter Dineley Collections


A related coffer, formerly in the Louis Bachereau Collection, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Acc. no. 24.198). A number of similar caskets are in Spanish museums including the Fundación Lázaro Galdiano and the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

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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.