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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
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THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
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A Rare French Officer's Pot Helmet
Second Quarter Of The 17th Century

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

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A Rare French Officer's Pot Helmet
Second Quarter Of The 17th Century

Of blackened iron, with rounded two-piece skull with low turned comb flanked by slender double incised lines, the back of the skull (small hole on one side) with large elaborately pierced brass plume-holder surmounted by three fleur-de-lys and secured by rivetted brackets each pierced with two holes, the base of the skull, bluntly-pointed neck-guard of four simulated upward-lapping lames and pointed peak all with double incised line borders followed by a row of dome-headed brass rivets, two small brass fixed rings on the left side above the ear, and turned borders (some old rust patination)
18 cm. high

Footnotes

For a very similar plume-holder on a French armour for a youth in the Musée de l'Armée see J-P. Riverseau, Armes et Armures de la Couronne au Musée de l'Armée, 2004, pp. 195 and 236

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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.