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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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A Cavalry Officer's Basket-Hilted Backsword
Mid-18th Century Or Later

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

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A Cavalry Officer's Basket-Hilted Backsword
Mid-18th Century Or Later

With tapering fullered blade double-edged towards the point and cut with a narrow fuller along the back for most of its length on both sides, the back at the forte stamped 'DRURY', iron guard of vertical rounded bars framing side panels each with fleur-de-lys shaped finial at the top and pierced heart-shaped terminal at the bottom, an oval panel at the front with a pair of hooked bars set either side of a central bar, fore-guards, scrolled wrist-guard, integral ring around the base of the bun-shaped pommel, and spirally-grooved leather-covered grip bound with a strand of twisted brass wire (light pitting overall)
88.7 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a related sword in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh (LA 153) see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 143, G5a

See also a sword with a very similar hilt by Walter Allan of Sterling, Christie's South Kensington, Antique Arms and Armour..., 19 July 2001, lot 61

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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.