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Nation : British
Local Price : $3,895.00

English Silver Hilt Smallsword with Original Scabbard, ca. 1775. Exquisite cast and chased silver hilt, the shell guard pierced and depicting stands of arms amid geometric shapes and scrolling foliage. Small pas d’ane, forward and reverse scroll quillons, quillon block, knuckle bow, and spherical pommel with button decorated ensuite. Grip wrapped with alternating twisted and single-strand silver wire. Bright, hollow ground, triangular-section 34″ colichemarde blade etched with geometric design on the broad section. Original vellum-covered scabbard with matching silver throat with frog hook and chape; reverse of throat inscribed in script “Bock/Cock Spur Street/Charg. Cross” . Mark Bock (1729-82) was a London gilder, goldsmith, and silver hilt maker and sword cutler working at that address from 1774 until his death. Very fine quality and condition. Similar example illustrated and described in “Silver Mounted Swords” , by Daniel Hartzler, Fig. 114, with scabbard throat signed in similar script. Overall length 40 1/2″, not including scabbard. Swords of this type were carried by officers and gentlemen on both sides during the American Revolution, including George Washington.

Nation : Unknown
Local Price : £3,850.00

WR Paget 16-Bore Tower Flintlock Cavalry Carbine. £ 3,850.00 Paget 16-Bore Flintlock Cavalry Carbine, the barrel with brass fore-sight, stamped with Tower proofs and crowned M inspection mark, plain tang with inspection mark, flat engraved lock with WR crowned, figured full stock stamped with Board of Ordnance ownership mark on one side of the butt, initial P under the saddle ring, two inspection marks behind the tang of the trigger guard, and with regulation brass mounts, saddle-bar and ring, and stirrup ramrod. UK shipping Free – Rest of the World at cost

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,850.00

Scottish Fencibles Officers Sword c 1794. £ 3,850.00 A rare basket-hilted sword for an officer of the Fencibles, 1794 circa. Single edged blade with wide fuller the spine maker marked Woolley and Co. Basket-shaped hilt with flattened bars and consisting of two halves with engraved decoration, the central part featuring the large Georgian crown, round pommel with extended tang button, and fish-skin grip secured by twisted brass wire. Information: The Fencibles from the word defencible were British regiments raised in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and in the colonies for defence against the threat of invasion during the Seven Years’ War Blade Length: 77cm Overall Length: 92cm

Nation : Unknown
Local Price : £3,850.00

A Good Flintlock Duelling Pistol by H.W. Mortimer.. A Good Flintlock Duelling Pistol by H.W. Mortimer. With swamped sighted octagonal barrel, signed ‘H.W.MORTIMER. LONDON GUNMAKER TO HIS MAJESTY’ decorated with a geometric band at the breech and gold touch-hole, beautifully engraved tang fitted with rear-sight, border engraved lock, signed beneath the pan and fitted with a sliding safety catch, full-stocked in walnut, cut with crisp chequering at the grip and with characteristic Mortimer butt, original horn-tipped rammer. In good clean order overall. MORTIMER Harvey Walklate Son of Samuel Mortimer, born 1753. Apprenticed to father, 1772; free of Farriers Co., 1782; elected Assistant, 1807. Gunmaker, at Mr Greens ironmonger, 6 Kings Street., Lincolns Inn Fields, 1779; 89 Fleet Street., 1782-99. Appointed Gunmaker to George III, 1783. Contractor to East India Co., 1796-1806. Specialised in repeating pistols and gold mounted guns for the Eastern market. Advertised For the Inspection of the Curious, just finished, Three pair of Elegant Pistols, mounted in solid gold value 547 intended as a present to a foreign Prince, 1784 (Morning Herald, 20 August). Registered mark as small worker at Goldsmiths Hall, 1798. Made gold-mounted firearms set with diamonds for the U.S. Government as present for Bey of Tunis, 1801-2. Member of Law Association Volunteers, provided their muskets, 1803. His own musket in Inns of Court Museum, London. Became H. W. Mortimer, Son & T. Mortimer. Retired, 1811. Died 1819. Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. Dimensions: Bore: 25 Bore Barrel Length: 10 Inches (25.40 cm) Overall Length: 15 Inches (38.10 cm)

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,850

An English early 17th century Military Officers’ Rapier mounted with a Boat Shell Guard and Tomas Ayala Blade. An English Military Officers’ Rapier dating to 1625 to 1650 and the early period of the English Civil War. The fine quality double edged blade is designed for cutting as well as thrusting in general and military use rather than for the more specialist function of dueling which utilised longer thrusting blades. The boat shell hilt is intricately chiselled and pierced with floral fan shapes in the English style. The dish guard is forged in one piece from beaten iron with an upturned prow at the front in boat shell shape. The aperture for the blade is surrounded by a double lined circle inside which incised lines radiate from the aperture. Another circle is cut slightly further out with the space between the two circles filled with delicately bored patterns of small holes which are also applied to the rest of the hilt. Outside this second circle connected double lined arches radiate outwards to create a crescented edge to the guard, corresponding to the shaped tops of the outermost arches. At the front the prow extends above the front quillon and is decorated with a further floral shape with radiating arches, the tops of which create the same crescented edge. The rectangular section quillon block is decorated on each side with lines at the side and pairs of lines which extend along the middle to the tips of the pointed langets. Front and back quillons emanate from the block and terminate in downward scrolls with swollen terminals. The rear quillon is forged onto the guard rim with a short curled bar on each side. The front quillon passes through the upturned prow. A leather washer is present between the shoulders of the blade and the hilt aperture. From the front a slender knuckle bow emanates from the top of the front quillon near the block and is attached to the top of the prow. It is swollen with a ribbed knop in the middle, tapers and terminates in a flattened angled aperture which is screwed into the pommel front. The solid onion shaped pommel has an integral waisted neck beneath and a raised ribbed button on top. It is decorated with chiselled crescents which radiate downwards from the button and upwards from the neck in similar style to the hilt. The baluster shaped grip is of rounded rectangular section spirally bound with different thicknesses of counter-curved copper wire and with woven copper “Turks’ Heads” mounted top and bottom. The tapering double edged blade is of stiff hexagonal section and 33 inches (84 cm) long. It has a deeply cut fuller which tapers from the hilt to its end for 5.5 inches (14 cm). Inside the fuller on each side the name of the blade maker TOMAS AYALA is stamped along with cross marks. Just past the end of the fuller a stylised cross is also stamped. Tomas Ayala was a famous sword maker based in Toledo in Spain who made swords for Spanish royalty. His work was of such high quality that other smiths particularly in Solingen copied his mark as a spurious sign of quality. The rapier has an even patination all over its iron and steel parts. The hilt retains its pleasing original profile without damage or repairs. The overall length of the rapier is 40.75 inches (103.5 cm). English rapiers of this date exhibit a broadly common form and style, however, there are many variations under this umbrella. Many are seemingly unique like our example discussed here. For examples of the different styles and types of English military rapiers see Stuart C Mowbray, “British Military Swords”, 2013, Andrew Mowbray Publishers, Volume One, 1600 to 1660, pages 254 to 281, and particularly pages 262, 263, 264, 265 and 266 for hilts with similar pierced and crescented decoration to ours. --> --> Gallery

Nation : Indian
Local Price : £3795.00

Indian Army Prize Sword by Wilkinson, Very Fine. Ref X3401. A Very Fine Indian Army Prize Sword. 40” overall with 34 ½” flat etched blade. Etched to one side ‘Won by Troop Sgt Major William Busby Mayes 11th P.A.O. Hussars Delhi Camp 1871/2 . Presented by Col. C.C. Fraser C.B. and V.C. 11th P.A.O. Hussars.’ Initialled CCF and Wilkinson proof mark. To the obverse ‘For the best man-at-arms prize sword in the Bengal Army’ and with initials W.B.M. and Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall London. Blade number 1877 on the spine. Three bar light cavalry hilt with silver back strap engraved with 11th P.A.O. Hussars monogram and ‘W.B.M. from C.C.F.’. In its original steel scabbard. Circa 1872. An uncommonly fine high quality prize sword in very good condition, comes with an extensive file of provenance and research. Ex G. R. Worrell collection

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £3750.00

An Absolutely Beautiful 17th to 18th Century, Sino-Tibetan Noble's Sword Inlaid with Coral and Torqoise Cabochons, Silver Mounts, Rayskin and Traditional Batwing Engraving Throughout. 'Maiden's Hair' Steel Blade. Continually Used Into the19th Century. Likely the sword of a Chinese or Tibetan noble or high ranking warrior. A functional combat sword yet with elements of extravagant decor, that clearly shows to high status of its owner, during the early Qing also called Ching dynasty, that followed the late Ming dynasty. Only the third such sword we have acquired of this style and quality in the past twenty years Steel hilt with silver wire bound grip, stylised traditional Chinese batwing engraved pommel and steel edged mounting bands of the scabbard, the scabbard is panelled in giant rayskin, and a bottom chape panel in repousse silver metal, with decor of swirling winds, mounted with cabouchons of torqoise and coral to one side. The scabbard also has some silver wire re-enforced binding. This a most rare, beautiful and original antique Sino-Tibetan sword. The work was primarily created in its capital, also known as Derge, now located in Sichuan, China Old original Chinese antique arms very rarely survive, and now are generally only to be seen in the biggest and best museums in China. The fittings are very much in the form popular in the south to eastern region of the old Chinese empire in the Xizang province, and Eastern Tibet. This sword is a textbook representative example of the familiar Chinese form, well made and of good quality. The blade has traces still visible of the prominent ‘hairpin’ lamination pattern, the hallmark of traditional blades of the region, consisting of seven dark lines alternating with six light lines, caused by the different types of iron that were combined during the forging process. This was formed by combining harder and softer iron, referred to as "male iron" and "female iron" in traditional ancient texts from the region, which was folded, nested together, and forged into one piece in a blade-making technique called pattern welding. The hilts are often made of engraved silver set with coral or turquoise, or in some rare instances are intricately chiseled and pierced in iron that is damascened in gold and silver. The different styles of swords that were once found in greater China can be distinguished by several basic features, which include the type of blade, the form of hilt, the type of scabbard, and how the sword was designed to be worn. Traditional texts divide swords into five principal types, each of which has a main subtype, for a total of ten basic types. These are in turn subdivided into dozens of further subtypes, many of which may, however, reflect legends and literary conventions rather than actual sword forms. A few excellent examples of arms and armour from the region can be found in museum collections today. Other types were preserved for ceremonial occasions, the most important of which was the Great Prayer Festival, a month-long event held annually in the local capitol. Historical armour and weapons were also very fortunately preserved due to the long-standing tradition of placing votive arms in monasteries and temples, where they are kept in special chapels, known as gonkhang (mgon khang), and dedicated to the service of guardian deities. Although there are representatives of the Manchus in Tibet, the region is largely left to function independently and does so for the next 200 years. Currently in one of the worlds greatest museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is an exhibition of Chinese & Tibetan arms and armour. Item 36.25.1464., within the exhibition, is a near identical sword, dated as 17th century, used until the 19th century, but theirs is lacking its scabbard. The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing pronounced Ching, was the last imperial dynasty of China and Mongolia. It was established in 1636, and ruled China proper from 1644 to 1912. The Qing multi-cultural empire lasted for almost three centuries and formed the territorial base for modern China. It was the fifth largest empire in world history. The dynasty was founded by the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan in Manchuria. In the late sixteenth century, Nurhaci, originally a Ming Jianzhou Guard vassal, began organizing "Banners", military-social units that included Manchu, Han, and Mongol elements. Nurhaci formed the Manchu clans into a unified entity. By 1636, his son Hong Taiji began driving Ming forces out of the Liaodong Peninsula and declared a new dynasty, the Qing. In an unrelated development, peasant rebels led by Li Zicheng conquered the Ming capital, Beijing, in 1644. Rather than serve them, Ming general Wu Sangui made an alliance with the Manchus and opened the Shanhai Pass to the Banner Armies led by the regent Prince Dorgon. He defeated the rebels and seized the capital. Resistance from the Southern Ming and the Revolt of the Three Feudatories led by Wu Sangui delayed the Qing conquest of China proper by nearly four decades. The conquest was only completed in 1683 under the Kangxi Emperor reign (1661-1722). The Ten Great Campaigns of the Qianlong Emperor from the 1750s to the 1790s extended Qing control into Inner Asia. During the Qianlong Emperor reign (1735-1796) the dynasty reached its apogee, but then began its initial decline in prosperity and imperial control. The population rose to some 400 millions, but taxes and government revenues were fixed at a low rate, virtually guaranteeing eventual fiscal crisis. Corruption set in, rebels tested government legitimacy, and ruling elites failed to change their mindsets in the face of changes in the world system. Following the Opium Wars, European powers imposed "unequal treaties", free trade, extraterritoriality and treaty ports under foreign control. The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) and the Dungan Revolt (1862-1877) in Central Asia led to the deaths of some 20 million people, most of them due to famines caused by war. In spite of these disasters, in the Tongzhi Restoration of the 1860s, Han Chinese elites rallied to the defense of the Confucian order and the Qing rulers. The initial gains in the Self-Strengthening Movement were destroyed in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895, in which the Qing lost its influence over Korea and the possession of Taiwan. New Armies were organised, but the ambitious Hundred Days' Reform of 1898 was turned back in a coup by the conservative Empress Dowager Cixi. When the Scramble for Concessions by foreign powers triggered the violently anti-foreign "Boxers", the foreign powers invaded China, Cixi declared war on them, leading to defeat and the flight of the Imperial Court to Xi'an. Overall 23 3/4 inches long. A most similar example is within the Metropolitan Museum collection Object Number: 36.25.1466a, b Original surviving antique swords from China and Tibet are extremely scarce due to the Cultural Revolution in the mid 20th century in China, when 99.99% of all existing antique swords were destroyed or ordered melted down for their metal content. Of course the manufacture and sale of reproduction Chinese swords in China is a thriving market, many are intimated and sold to be old and original, but very sadly, none are.

Nation : Unknown
Local Price : £3,750.00

A Huge Flintlock Swivel Blunderbuss. A Huge Flintlock Deck Blunderbuss or Wall-Piece. With large swelling barrel flared at the muzzle, engraved LONDON stamped with London proofs and barrel smiths mark, with plain tang, plain lock signed J & W SHERWOOD ring-neck cock, figured full-stock, regulation style brass mounts, blackened iron stirrup peg mount with wooden ramrod: mounted on a custom made stand. A fine and impressive gun.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3750.00

A Most Rare & Stunningly Beautiful Imperial Russian Superior Cavalry Officer's Sword, Romanov Era, From the First Quarter to Mid 19th Century. A War Trophy of the Crimean War. Curved, bright polished single edge blade, cut with 2 fullers (one broad, one narrow), very fine brass hilt decorated throughout with laurel and acanthus leaves and foliage in relief, a knuckle bow with two bar guards, and a superb original wire bound polished horn grip, with a typically Russian form of forward slanted pommel, with pommel ball. Original Imperial Russian Romanov period officer's swords of the 19th century appear very rarely indeed, as so few survived the revolution, and when they do, if they are the very fine quality examples, they can achieve extraordinarily high prices. It is certainly possible this sword is a trophy of the Crimean War. This superb sabre would likely have seen its most combative service in the Crimea, such as at The Battle of Balaclava that is remembered in Britain for the actions of two British units. At the start of the battle, a large body of Russian cavalry charged the 93rd Highlanders, who were posted north of the village of Kadikoi. Commanding them was Sir Colin Campbell. Rather than "form square", the traditional method of repelling cavalry, Campbell took the risky decision to have his Highlanders form a single line two men deep. Campbell had seen the effectiveness of the new Minié rifles with which his troops were armed at the Battle of Alma, a month earlier, and he was confident that his men could beat back the Russians. His tactics succeeded. From up on the ridge to the west, Times correspondent William Howard Russell saw the Highlanders as a "thin red streak topped with steel", a phrase which soon became the "Thin Red Line". Soon afterward, a Russian cavalry movement was countered by the Heavy Brigade, which charged and fought hand to hand until the Russians retreated. That caused a more widespread Russian retreat, including a number of their artillery units. After the local commanders had failed to take advantage of the retreat, Lord Raglan sent out orders to move up and to prevent the withdrawal of naval guns from the recently captured redoubts on the heights. Raglan could see those guns because of his position on the hill. In the valley, that view was obstructed, and the wrong guns were in sight to the left. The local commanders ignored the demands, which led to the British aide-de-camp, Captain Louis Nolan, personally delivering the quickly-written and confusing order to attack the artillery. When Lord Lucan questioned to which guns the order referred, the aide-de-camp pointed to the first Russian battery that he could see and allegedly said "There is your enemy, there are your guns", because of his obstructed view, which were wrong. Lucan then passed the order to the Earl of Cardigan, which resulted in the Charge of the Light Brigade. The House of Romanov was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. They achieved prominence after Anastasia Romanovna married Ivan the Terrible, the first crowned tsar of all Russia. Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, and his immediate family were executed in 1918, but there are still living descendants of other members of the imperial house. Romanov 19th century history; Paul I was murdered in his palace in Saint Petersburg in 1801. Alexander I, succeeded him on the throne and later died without leaving a son. His brother, crowned Nicholas I, succeeded him on the throne in 1825. The succession was far from smooth, however, as hundreds of troops took the oath of allegiance to Nicholas's elder brother, Constantine Pavlovich who, unbeknownst to them, had renounced his claim to the throne in 1822, following his marriage. The confusion, combined with opposition to Nicholas' accession, led to the Decembrist revolt. Nicholas I fathered four sons, educating them for the prospect of ruling Russia and for military careers, from whom the last branches of the dynasty descended. Alexander II, son of Nicholas I, became the next Russian emperor in 1855, in the midst of the Crimean War. While Alexander considered it his charge to maintain peace in Europe and Russia, he believed only a strong Russian military could keep the peace. By developing the Imperial Russian Army, giving increased autonomy to Finland, and freeing the serfs in 1861 he gained much popular support for his reign. The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont. Geopolitical causes of the war included the decline of the Ottoman Empire (the "Eastern Question"), the expansion of Russia in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in the Concert of Europe. The flashpoint was a disagreement over the rights of Christian minorities in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, with the French promoting the rights of Roman Catholics, and Russia promoting those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Crimean War marked a turning point for the Russian Empire. The war weakened the Imperial Russian Army, drained the treasury and undermined Russia's influence in Europe. The empire would take decades to recover. Russia's humiliation forced its educated elites to identify its problems and recognise the need for fundamental reforms. They saw rapid modernisation as the sole way to recover the empire's status as a European power. The war thus became a catalyst for reforms of Russia's social institutions, including the abolition of serfdom and overhauls in the justice system, local self-government, education and military service. In excellent condition overall considering this fabulous and incredibly rare sabre’s cavaly officer has obviously seen hand-to-hand combat, thus there is very light and minuscule overall surface wear to the steel blade, but it is still very fine indeed, very bright and wonderfully polished. On the hilt’s upper section of knuckle-bow, on the inner side, there is a very fine tiny combat-stress hairline {see photo 6}. Likely caused by a combat punch action impact of the hilt against a resistant object, possibly a helmet. Blade overall 38 .75 inches long, blade 31.75 inches long. No scabbard Possibly by Schaaf & Söhne St. Petersburg. We have seen Imperial Russian, of very similar quality and design, officer’s dragoon swords, such as a later pattern St Anne’s dragoon sword for bravery, sell for up to £30,000, so relatively, this sword is most inexpensive by comparison..

Nation : -
Local Price : £3750.00

Presentation Sword to the Earl of Dudley, very fine. Ref X3403. A Very Fine Presentation Sword to the Earl of Dudley. 40” overall with 34” flat etched blade, etched on one side with foliage, Worcestershire Yeomanry badge, Earl Dudley’s crest & ‘Comme Je Fus’ (As I Was) & ‘Henry Wilkinson Pall Mall London’ on the forte . The reverse with initials under a coronet, foliage & in a tablet ‘From Keith Frazer Inspector of Cavalry To William Earl of Dudley Queens Own Worcestershire Yeomanry May 18 th 1892’. Three bar Light Cavalry hilt with backpiece embossed with Earl of Dudley coronet & initials. Numbered 31114 on back edge of the blade. Three bar light cavalry hilt with backpiece embossed with Earl of Dudley coronet and initials. Fish skin grip with twisted three strand silver wire. In its plated steel scabbard. No 31111 for 1892 A superb sword in very good condition with very extensive research documentation William Humble Ward, 12th Lord Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley & Viscount Ednam, was born 25th May, 1867, the son of William Humble Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley (2nd Creation) and Georgina, Elizabeth Moncrieffe. His first marriage was to Rachel Gurney (daughter of Charles Gurney) in 1891. She died in 1920. Amongst his many endeavours, Dudley joined the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars as a supernumerary lieutenant on 18 April 1885 and was promoted to captain on 2 June 1888 and major on 23 September 1893. he served in the Yeoman Cavalry from 1899 to 1900 and became the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1895 to 1902. He travelled extensively, becoming Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1902 to 1906, and the Govenor General of Australia from 1908 to 1911. He was also active during the First World War (1914-1918) by commanding the 1st Worcestershire Yeomanry in Egypt and Gallipoli in 1915. During his life he had owned around 30,000 acres of land which included mineral deposits in Staffordshire and Worcestershire, as well as iron works and coal mines. He also had commercial interests in Jamaica. His second marriage was to Gertie Millar in 1924. He died in 1932. Lieutenant-General James Keith Fraser CMG (20 September 1832 – 30 July 1895) was a British Army officer .In 1855, he served as military attache at Viennna. He gained the rank of Colonel in the 1st Life Guards and was Inspector-General of Cavalry in Great Britain and Ireland in 1891

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,750

An early 18th century Scottish Basket Hilted Broad Sword mounted with an ANDREA FARARA marked blade. A robust and nicely patinated Scottish basket hilted sword dating to circa 1720 to 1740. The sword is an “attic find” having never been cleaned or restored since it was laid away probably centuries ago. It has a nice aged even patina all over. The hilt is typical of those made in Scotland for the Highland clans between the Jacobite Rebellions of 1715 / 1719 and that of 1745. As such it dates to the final years of the independent clan social structure in the Highlands before it was dismantled by the government after the failure of the 1745 Rebellion. The sword hilt is of functional quality and belonged to a front line clansman rather than a more senior member of clan hierarchy. The sword is mounted with a fine quality double edged blade stamped with kings head armourers marks. The fully developed iron basket guard is forged from robust rectangular structural bars with the spaces between infilled with traditional flat pierced and engraved panels. The two main guard panels to the front are decorated with vertical and horizontal border lines incised into the exterior surfaces towards the panel edges to form squares. Inside these squares a circle is pierced into the centre surrounded by four pierced hearts and circles in the corners. Each outside edge is decoratively fretted with a merlon in the middle. The more slender, secondary guard plates to the sides, and the knucklebow plate at the front, are decorated with two circles in the middle, with a heart above and below, enhanced with three decorative vertical lines and lateral lines at the base in each case. The outside edges are fretted with dome and square shapes. The hilt structure is strengthened by a merlon at the base of each side plate with a shaped middle finial. The basket is mounted with looped guard bars to the front and a small curled wrist guard emanates from the rear quillon. The upper guard arms converge into three terminals at the front and sides which fit into a chiselled groove which extends for the full circumference of the pommel just below its middle to secure the structure. One of the guard arm tops is bent slightly out of shape as it meets the pommel groove. The dome-shaped pommel has three sets of triple grooves which radiate from the pommel top. The spirally grooved wooden baluster shaped grip is covered with shagreen. It was once bound with twisted wire rope and mounted with decorative metal ferrules, or woven wire Turks’ Heads top and bottom, which are now missing but the imprint remains. The fine quality double edged tapering German-made blade is most likely of Solingen manufacture. It has a pronounced ricasso which extends for one inch (2.5 cm) from the hilt which has a worn armourers’ mark on one side in the form of a cross inside a panel and the remnant of a second mark on the reverse side partly obscured by the hilt. From the end of the ricasso the blade is of hexagonal section for a few inches then becomes lenticular in section to the tip. A short fuller on each side starts a few inches beyond the ricasso and runs underneath each cutting edge for 4.25 inches (11 cm). The blade is stamped with letters between the fullers along the middle to create the blade maker’s mark “ANDREA” on one side and “FARARA” on the other with the letters spaced by four stamped Kings Head marks. These marks are often associated with the Wundes The blade shoulders sit in a chiselled groove cut into the cross guard bar in the Scottish manner. The blade length is 33.5 inches (85 cm) and overall the sword is 39.25 inches (99.5 cm) long. The hilt is in original condition with an even patination all over. The blade is also in fine condition with patches of age staining along its length. For similar contemporary swords see Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, The Boydell Press, 2005. --> --> Gallery

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,700

A scarce and early 17th century English Basket Hilted Sword of “Irish” Type. A functional and robust English basket hilted sword dating to the early 17th century mounted with a broad tapering double-edged blade. From the end of the 16th century the basket hilted sword became a permanent feature of the English armoury. It evolved in the Gaelic speaking regions of Britain in Ireland and in the Scottish Highlands. The Gaelic language of these regions was known as “Irish” at the time. English armourers copied and developed their own variant of the hilt type which they referred to as “Irische” (Irish) hilts to differentiate them from other English swords. This example is in unusually fine and original condition. The sword is an early English example of the “Irish” hilt which was used by infantry alongside other English sword types of the time. It dates to the reign of James I of England & VI of Scotland and the early British colonial era in North America. It is in fine complete condition with an even blackened patina. The basket guard is formed from strong rounded structural bars. A knuckle bow curves upwards to the pommel from the front quillon and two side guard bars are forged onto the cross guard which curve upwards in the same manner. The frontal loop guard bars are forged onto the side guards and curve upwardly forward to join the base of the knuckle bow at the front quillon. In the spaces between the knuckle bow and side guard bars, two saltire bars are attached, with small diamond shaped guard plates forged into the middle areas. These show the remains of engraved decoration in the form clusters of crescents forming floral shapes. At the back, two rear guard bars curve upwards from the rear quillon and join the side guard bars at the top near the pommel. Merlons connect the rear guard bars and the side guard bars on each side at the base to complete and strengthen the hilt structure. The large globular pommel has an integral raised button on top from which incised lines radiate at an angle. The cylindrical wooden grip is covered with its original leather binding. The lenticular section blade is 31.5 inches long ( 80 cm). It has a pronounced ricasso 1.75 inches long (4.5 cm) and a broad shallow central fuller which extends from the hilt for 6 inches (just over 15 cm) with a series of worn stamped pairs of crosses inside and the remains of incised border lines near the hilt. Just beyond the end of the fuller a stylised cross resembling an anchor is stamped on each side. Further along on one side is a boldly cut running wolf mark, and an orb and cross mark on the other, both inlaid with copper, now with minor losses. The overall length of the sword is 37 inches (94 cm). For further examples of the Irish hilted sword type see “British Military swords 1600 to 1660”, Stuart C Mowbray, Mowbray Publishers, 2013, pages 110 to 126. --> --> Gallery

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £3,550

A Spanish Cup Hilted Rapier of the late 17th century. An attractive Spanish Cup Hilted Rapier dating to the late 17th century. This is an imposing weapon retaining its full length blade of 48.75 inches (124 cm). This distinctive Spanish style of hilt consists of two convex circular shell guards which protect the inner and outer hand of the user attached at the sides with conjoined radial loops of iron which complete the cup structure. The clam guards are joined with further subsidiary bars at the upper rims to the long slender quillons. The shells are chiselled on the outsides with geometric scrolls with a roundel at the middle. Three late 17th century rapiers of comparable construction mounted with similarly slender blades of stiff section can be seen in Leslie Southwick, The Price Guide to Antique Edged Weapons, Antique Collectors’ Club, 1982, page 57, figs 120, 121 & 122. The hilt type conforms to AVB Norman’s type 83 (see “The Rapier and Small-Sword, 1460-1820”, Arms and Armour Press, 1980, page 156). Norman believed that the hilt type flourished from circa 1625 to circa 1700. It appears in a portrait known as Prince d’Angri, a member of the Neapolitan branch of the Doria family, painted by Van Dyck around 1627. Norman comments further on other portraits featuring the hilt and examples in various collections. The hilt has noticeably slender quillons with swollen ribbed terminals and a long span of 12.25 inches (31 cm). The knuckle bow extends from the cross guard front to terminate with a ribbed swelling a short distance from the pommel middle. Of flattened globular section, with integral ribbed button on top and flared neck beneath, the pommel sits on top of a slightly baluster shaped oval section grip which is attractively wrapped with roped copper wire and mounted with woven copper “Turks’ Heads” top and bottom. The copper wrapping to the grip is reinforced with four iron staves. The fine quality tapering diamond section blade is of stiff construction made primarily for thrusting. It has a deep central fuller which extends for 8 inches (20 cm) from the hilt. Inside the fuller an inscription on one side reads: MI SINAL SON LES ARMAS DEL REY and on the other side: PEDRO COELLER EN SOLINGEN which loosely translates to Pedro Coeller of Solingen (presumably the blade maker) announcing that he is a maker of arms for the king. The blade passes into the grip through a rectangular aperture at the join of the shell guards, where the forte changes to a rectangular section ricasso, the top of which is secured between pointed triangular langets which face downwards from the quillon block. The rapier sits comfortably in hand and is well balanced. The surface condition is clean and good across the main iron and steel parts. The rapier retains its pleasing contours. One subsidiary guard bar which attaches the guard rim to a quillon is cracked. Otherwise the rapier is undamaged. The overall length is 56 inches (142 cm). --> --> Gallery

Nation : -
Local Price : £3,500

A Rare Hanoverian Flintlock Holster Pistol dating to the middle of the 18th century. A very fine carbine bore Flintlock Cavalry Holster Pistol dating to the middle of the 18th century. The pistol is in excellent condition and due to subtleties in its features is highly likely to be from the state of Hanover. The British King George III was the Elector of Hanover at this time when there were established relationships between the Britain and mainly seven German states, of which Hanover was one, that provided German troops under contract to serve in the British Army. The pistol is in excellent condition and in crisp mechanical working order. It is an imposing piece of higher quality than the more usual military arms of the time. It has a flat bevelled lock, an unbridled faceted pan and frizzen, and faceted jaws. The full walnut stock is well figured and moulded around the tang, sides and fore end. The brass mounts are well formed and consist of a beveled side-plate, vacant oval escutcheon, a faceted and linearly engraved spurred pommel, a protective finial to the fore end, ribbed and faceted ramrod-pipes and a tapering ramrod with a brass cap. The barrel has a sighted tang and a brass front sight. Until recently the pistol was part of the collection of Robert Booker in the USA (collection inventory number 2079) who is a respected authority and accomplished writer on early European pistols. The above description is based upon his collection catalogue entry. The barrel is 13.25 inches (33.5 cm) long and overall the pistol is 21.25 inches (54 cm) long. --> --> Gallery

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,500.00

English Civil War Period Mortuary.... A superb English Civil War period “Mortuary” sword. Broad double-edged blade that shows the maker's mark 'Andrea Ferrara' running along the central

Nation : British
Local Price : 3495.00 USD

Very Fine & Very Elegant Queen Anne British Silver Hilted Small Sword!. Here is a rare example of an early 18th century British silver hilted small sword from the Queen Anne Period and bearing the Queen’s Royal Initials on the blade! (a great rarity) This very fine example is one of the most detailed and beautifully designed examples that you will ever see. A true museum piece! This sword would have belonged to a staunch supporter of the Crown, either a high ranking military officer, a wealthy aristocrat or possibly a relation of the Royal Family. It is in exceptional original condition with only a few inconsequential dings and light wear as might be expected from a 300 year old sword. See photos. It has never been dismantled or re-peened and retains its original twisted silver and copper grip wraps along with its original Turk’s Head ferrules. It has 2 sets of silversmith’s touch marks: one on the counter-guards and one on the knuckle-bow (some wear) that indicate it was made 1709 – 1710 (letter date O), along with the Britannia figure, a lion’s head erased and the silversmith’s mark “WI” inside a heart which may be the mark of Charles Williams registered in 1697. (at that time it was common for silversmiths to use the first 2 initials of their sir-name) Its blade is in nearly new condition and still retains much of its original sheen. It is deeply stamped, in “olde” English style, “AR” for Anna Regina ("Anne the Queen" in Latin). The sword must have spent at least a few hundred years in its scabbard (now lost) to have survived in such fine condition. The stout, very strong blade retains its original length and never has been altered or shortened. It is about 26.5” long. The hilt is magnificent. Starting from the top down: Round pommel, with octagonal faceting, with a central belt. It sits on a double stepped neck and is topped off by a 3 tier mantle with tang button; all integrally designed. The knuckle bow nicely designed with an elongated inset diamond design, both sides and topped off by a graceful flirt. The grip beautifully wound with double strands of twisted silver wire and copper wire creating a chevron effect. All wire completely intact. Both original silver braided Turk’s head ferrules completely intact. The quillon block is exceptional. It gently flares from round to hexagonal and sits above a multi beaded base. The base plate is multi faceted in a flaring octagram design! A similar design is found on the underside of the counterguards. The elegantly detailed quillon even has a "nightcap" and terminates with a nipple! The graceful pas d'ane both branch out into 2 sections, flaring out above and below the kidney shaped counter-guards. The counter-guards both employ the same inset diamond shapes, atop and below, as does the knuckle-bow. A small graceful loop design joins the counter-guards on each end. The guard even retains its original leather washer! (sheath pad) The stout, “hollow ground” tri-foil blade measures about 1” at ricasso and is deeply stamped with Queen Anne’s Royal Initials. (very rare) Overall this sword is an exceptional example of the Queen Anne Period silversmith’s art! Through the years we have seen a few other examples of this silversmith’s small swords and they are nowhere near the exceptional design and quality of our sword. Although they were beautiful, they were of the common simpler design usually employed on swords of this period. Our sword has to be the finest example of a silver-hilted sword that this silversmith produced! Obviously made for someone very special. A similar sword, but not as nice, is illustrated in Aylward's book The Small sword in England #35. Another similar, but again not as nice, is pictured in The Rapier and Small-Sword by Norman, plate 114 and is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and still another similar example (again not as nice as ours) is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. If you want to own the epitome of a Queen Anne silver hilted sword this is it! Price is firm. Thanks for looking!

Nation : German
Local Price : 3495.00 USD

Massive 16th Century Germanic Cutlass / Short Sword!. Here is a super rare circa 1575 - 1600 battle sword. Probably custom made for a landsknecht warrior. Made for a very large person with a giant shell guard and a very wide (just over 2 ¼”) blade. This type of shell guard hilt often used on cutlasses and Sinclair type sabers of the late 16th - early 17th centuries. However this type blade is sometimes found with a blunt tip on katzbaldgers of the 1520 – 1550 period. Entire sword is in as found, lightly cleaned condition and its massive blade is an amazing display of early hand forged metal, Damascus type lamination throughout! The original wood grip is still intact but with some losses and decay (no restorations). Wonderful cross and orb brass inlay on blade! Blade is about 24 3/4" long. About the same length as an early katzbaldger! Extreme rarity! You will never see another like this! Price is firm. Thanks for looking! Be sure to check out our other listings for more rare and important swords! Our direct email address is: fineartlimited@yahoo.com

Nation : British
Local Price : 3495.00 USD

Ex Rare 18th Century British Dragoon Basket Hilt Sword!. Here is a very rare C 1740 British heavy cavalry sword of exceptional weight! It is actually a full basket version of the so called “Irish Hilt” ¾ hilt dragoon saber. According to Cyrill Mazansky this full basket pattern does not exist. See “British Basket Hilted Swords” page 229. BUT, according to George Neumann “Swords and Blades of the American Revolution” page 150, it does! Sword is in fantastic “untouched condition” with original fish skin ferrules and braided wire Turk’s head ferrules. The basket is beautifully forged and the lap forging can be prominently seen on the inside of the basket, see photos. Both basket and blade have a wonderful gentle age patina with no pitting. Blade is about 36 1/4" long. Basket is very hefty and heavy. NO KNOWN PUBLISHED EXAMPLES! RARE!!! Price is firm. Thanks for looking. Be sure to check out our other listings for more great swords, arms and armor! Our direct email address is: fineartlimited@yahoo.com

Nation : -
Local Price : £3495.00

Wilkinson General Post Office Packet Boat Flintlock Pistol, Very Rare. Ref 9302. A Very Rare Wilkinson General Post Office Packet Boat Flintlock Pistol. 15 ½” overall, 9" 16 bore round brass barrel with London proof marks, flat border engraved military style lock plate stamped ‘Wilkinson’ & a crown over 2 inspectors mark, ring necked flat cock, regulation style brass mounts. With original ramrod. A Light dragoon style pistol in good condition, belt hook removed (whilst in service). Circa 1805 The General Post Office ran a small fleet of 16 armed cutters or Packet boats delivering mail to British outposts, Henry Nock and then Wilkinson had the contract to provide them with pistols. See ‘British Ordnance Single Shot Pistols’ by Davies, Chisnall and Brooks, this pistol illustrated Chapter 7 page 33. ‘Those Entrusted with Arms’ by Frederick Wilkinson, 2002. Appendix 4, pages 254-258 plus pages 125-126 for details of Nock contract. ‘The Falmouth Packets 1689-1851’ by Tony Pawlyn, 2003. ‘The Falmouth Packets’ by David Mudd, 1978. When Henry Nock died in 1804, his contract to supply these Packet Ship pistols appears to have been taken over by his successor James Wilkinson with a few ‘WILKINSON’ marked examples surviving of near identical pattern to Nock. Only a handful of these extremely rare packet ship pistols have survived. Considerably rarer than the mail pistols made by Mortimer and Harding for land use. Appendix 4 in the book ‘Those Entrusted with Arms’ by Frederick Wilkinson, lists just two of Nock packet ship pistols and none by Wilkinson (page 256) compared to 66 recorded surviving Mail Coach pistols. This is hardly surprising as there were approximately 120-140 Mail Coaches but just 16 packet ships (1808 list) operating out of Falmouth with many wartime losses of packet ships and crews. Research reveals just 5 surviving packet ship pistols by Henry Nock - the three recorded in the above books one of which in museum condition was sold by West Street Antiques in 2011, plus one excellent condition example with a belt hook in a private collection in the USA, one (without a belt hook) owned by the Postal Museum and on loan to the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth.

Nation : British
Local Price : $3,495.00

Nazi Kriegsmarine Dagger of U-Boat Commander Hans-Joachim Schwarz. Oberleutnant zur See Hans-Joachim Schwarz, (1919-2013) began his naval career in 1939 in administration, but became a line officer in January, 1943. His first and only command came in June, 1944 when he was given command of the newly built U-1105, a Type VIIC U-boat commissioned on 3 June, 1944. However, the submarine did not go on patrol until it left Kiel on 2 April, 1945, only a few weeks before Germany’s surrender. U-1105 was one of only four U-boats that went on patrol with the experimental Alberich tiles, which inspired her nickname “Black Panther”. These were synthetic rubber tiles with a pattern of holes applied to the hull which would absorb and disperse sound waves, making sonar detection up to 60% less likely. They would appear to have been successful, because the U-1105 evaded detection by an Allied destroyer patrol while patrolling the convoy routes off the Irish coast in April, 1945. Three days later the U-boat detected three British destroyers and sank the Frigate HMS Redmill with two torpedoes. For the next 31 hours British patrols searched unsuccessfully for the submarine, which evaded detection until the end of the war. By the end of the war the survival rate of U-boats and their crews was very low, with a total of 765 boats lost during the war out of 1154 boats commissioned- a staggering rate of over 66% lost. Crews fared even worse, with about 28,000 killed of the 40,900 recruited, a loss rate of over 68%. After the U-1105’s surrender to the British on May 10, 1945 she was designated as the N-16 by the Royal Navy before being turned over to the United States for testing. She was sunk and re-floated several times during the testing before being sunk for the last time by a depth charge off Piney Point, Maryland in about 90 feet of water. She was re-discovered in 1985 by a team of sport divers and eventually designated as Maryland’s first historic shipwreck preserve. The dagger offered here features a near mint 10” double-edged blade with twin fullers etched with foliage, anchors, and Poseidon’s trident, and bears the Eickhorn squirrel maker’s mark on the ricasso. Hilt of standard form with gilt cast brass guard depicting anchors on the quillon block; pommel with eagle on a wreath bearing the swastika; white celluloid grip with twisted brass wire wrap. Gilt brass scabbard with twin carry rings, hand engraved “H.-J. Schwarz” at the throat. Very good plus condition, with traces of gilding in protected areas and several shallow dents on the lower part of the scabbard. Blade etching is like new. Most of the U-boat officer’s daggers are resting on the bottom of the ocean, so surviving ID’d examples are scarce.

Nation : American
Local Price : $3,495.00

High Quality ID’d US Eagle Pommel Infantry Officer’s Saber, ca. 1810. Featuring gilt brass hilt, comprising reverse scroll quillon, pierced counterguard depicting a spread-wing eagle and shield surrounded by stars, and stirrup-shaped knuckle bow connected to the “floating” eagle-head pommel. Ribbed bone grip. Deeply curved 30″ single-edged blade with single fuller; the upper half etched, blued, and gold and silver gilt with scrolling foliage, stands of arms, and Federal Shield. Original black leather scabbard with decorated brass mounts, including long drag, middle band with carry ring, and throat with carry ring and frog stud; the reverse of the throat period engraved “Nathaniel Cook/his sword” in script. The sword in very good plus condition for its age, retaining approximately 90% of its original bright bluing and gilding (bluing with some spotting); the guard slightly loose and retaining approximately 30% of its original gilding, primarily in protected areas; grip smooth and defect free. Scabbard leather is dry and flaking, with electrical tape repairs and the drag separated; mounts very good. Overall length 35 1/2″, not including scabbard. Though unmarked, this sword is almost certainly the work of Birmingham maker Solomon Jackson (active 1803-1815). This sword clearly shows the close economic ties between Great Britain and the fledgling United States on the eve of the War of 1812. Sword with identical counterguard illustrated in “The American Eagle Pommel Sword, The Early Years 1794-1830″ by E. Andrew Mowbray, p. 109, fig. 13.B Nathaniel Cook was born in Orange County, Virginia around 1776. His family later moved to Kentucky, and in 1802 he married Honour Madden in Ste Genevieve District, New France, which became part of the Missouri Territory after the Louisiana Purchase. He served in the War of 1812 as a Major in the Missouri Rangers under Henry Moses Dodge. Cook was appointed as Colonel around 1816 and commanded the 6th Regiment. In 1820 he was a member of the Missouri Constitutional Convention. He made out his will on 26 August, 1852 in Washington County, Missouri and is thought to have died shortly thereafter. Positively identified early American swords are quite scarce, especially with rare Missouri Territory history. Well worth having the leather restored on the scabbard.

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £3495.00

Fine Spanish Cup Hilt Rapier. Ref 9359. A Fine Spanish Cup Hilt Rapier. 50” overall, 43” slender flattened diamond section blade with full length narrow fuller. Steel hilt comprising deep cup guard, the outer face pierced & chiselled with a symmetrical arrangement of tight scrolls of foliage, four masks with inlayed rose gold and silver inlayed scrolls with rolled brim and a running pattern of foliage & mythical beast heads, guardapolvo with pierced scrolls, a pair of twisted scroll straight steel quillons with button terminals, knuckle-guard en suit, solid pommel. The grip bound with plaited wire between Turks heads. Circa 1630 Very fine Spanish rapier in good condition.

Nation : -
Local Price : $3,495.00

Unusual European Dagger, Late 17th/Early 18th C. Uniquely designed steel hilt with twin sets of vertically recurved quillons arranged in opposite directions, each with an antler-shaped finial. Single side ring with matching pierced design. Pommel decorated ensuite; the grip with its original copper wire-wrapped grip arranged in a chevron shape and finished with Turks heads top and bottom. Tapering 13 1/4″ blade of hollow-ground triangular section, engraved on both sides with foliage, geometric designs, a spread-winged eagle, and sun faces. Very good original condition; the metal generally smooth, with some very light pitting and age staining. Wear to engravings. No scabbard. Overall length 19 1/4″. A rapier with similar antler motif recently sold at auction in Germany for 15,000 euro.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,450

A Fine 1798 Pattern Scottish Highland Infantry Officers’ Sword with Original Scabbard. A fine example of the distinctive basket hilted sword introduced for Scottish Infantry officers in Highland Regiments in 1798. It was replaced by the regulation steel basket hilt 1828 pattern three decades later. The sword type was used throughout the Napoleonic War period. This sword is in fine original uncleaned condition and retains its scabbard. The bronze hilt and scabbard mounts were once covered with a gilt finish much of which has now worn away or is hidden under the patina. An inscription on the knucklebow reads “UNION LODGE NO 555 Carlisle”. It would seem that at some time the sword was gifted to the Masonic Lodge in Carlisle. Carlisle is an English town near the Scottish border. The hilts of these swords were most usually made of gilt copper, bronze or brass. The hilt of this sword is of gilt bronze and made of rounded bars and flattened plates in the usual manner with forward loop guards and a swollen solid wrist guard terminal extending from the rear quillon. The upper terminals of the guard arms are fixed onto a ring inside which the stem of the mushroom shaped pommel is fitted. The pommel is dome-shaped with a large separate waisted pommel button on top from which four sets of decorative grooves flanked by narrower lines radiate to the pommel edge. The double-edged gently tapering blade is 32.75 inches (83 cm) long and in fine condition. Typically it is of lenticular section with a short ricasso. A central fuller commences a short distance from the hilt on each side and is 9 inches (23 cm) long. The blade is unmarked and probably a German import which was the norm for this sword type and most probably of Solingen manufacture. The grip is of spirally grooved wood covered with shagreen held in place with thin ropes of twisted copper wire flanked with plainer thinner wire now coloured with age. It is mounted with gilt bronze ferrules top and bottom which are incised with decorative lines. The scabbard is in fine condition made with a wooden core covered with granulated leather stitched along the middle on one side. The mouthpiece and middle band retain their ring carrying mounts. The chape has a knopped terminal. For other examples of the 1798 type see: Harvey J S Withers, “The Scottish Sword 1600-1945”, Paladin Press, 2009, pages 13 to 151 and Cyril Mazansky, “British Basket-Hilted Swords”, Boydell Press, 2005, pages 131 to 133. --> --> Gallery

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,450.00

British Officers Royal Artillery Sword – General Sir Robert Mansergh. £ 3,450.00 British Officers Royal Artillery Sword General Sir Eric Carden Robert Mansergh, GCB, KBE, MC Robert Mansergh was born in Cape Colony and educated at the Rondebosch Boys High School in Cape Town and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1920 He served with the British Military Mission to Iraq between 1931 and 1935, being awarded the Military Cross in 1932 The sword is George 5th regulation pattern by Wilkinson Sword London number 58559 and although the Wilkinson Sword register is blank it was obtained directly from the family with two further very interesting sword which will be listed shortly. The blade with pitting towards the tip and one small area of staining please see images. Complete with field service scabbard and frog

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,450.00

British Naval Officer’s Sword c1800. £ 3,450.00 Excellent sword with gilt brass hilt with decorative extended beak pommel possibly inspired by the Egyptian campaign. The grip is bone bound with gilt wire, single edged curved blade with false damascus pattern. Complete with matching scabbard maker marked Johnstons London two loose rings and frog stud

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,450.00

British Generals Scimitar – General Sir Robert Mansergh. £ 3,450.00 British Generals Scimitar – General Sir Robert Mansergh GCB, KBE, MC by Wilkinson Sword London number 82917 which was sold to Hobson 8th May 1961 however it was obtained directly from the family with two further very interesting sword. Regulation ER 2 sword in great condition just contact marks please see images. Commander-in-Chief of the United Kingdom Land Forces from 1956 to 1959 In that capacity he headed a Committee which looked at the Administration of the British Army. Mansergh also served as Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery and the Royal Horse Artillery Regiments. The grips are Ivorine which is Synthetic ivory, made from cellulose nitrate. However this could still cause issues with shipping – customs to certain countries due to the similarities to Ivory.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3300.00

A French Hussar's Light Cavalry Officer's Heavy Grade Sabre, Sabre de Hussard, Late 18th/Early 19th Century Ist Empire Pattern. From the former P.T.Norheim Collection of Finest French Arms A strong robust brass hilt (old bruising in places) with ovoidal langets, rear quillon with faceted button terminal, knuckle-guard with medial ridge, pommel and back-piece in one, and wire-bound leather-covered grip, With curved fullered blade double-edged towards the point and with Coulaux Freres Klingenthal manufactory details along the back at the forte, in original brass scabbard (with some old denting, predominantly up from the chape) lined in brown leather and open along each side at the top, steel shoe, and two rings for suspension 33.75 inch. blade. The word “hussar” identifies the light horsemen and comes from the Hungarian “huszar”. The most famous hussar units were the French regiments of the Napoleonic era. They were employed for scouting and communication purposes, and to screen the movement of the Emperor's corps, like during the advance that allowed the French to flank the Austrian general Mack at Ulm in 1805. The hussars, such as of the 1st Hussars employed at Jena in 1806, are characterized by the ornate Hungarian style uniform, sabretache, sabre and carbine. The hussars also played a prominent role as cavalry in the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), serving in campaigns in Austria (1804 & 1809), Prussia (1805 -1806), Poland (1806), Spain (1809 - 1813), Germany (1812), France (1814 - 1815), and Belgium (1815) before being disbanded by the Bourbon Restoration. As light cavalrymen mounted on fast horses, they would be used to fight skirmish battles and for scouting. Most of the great European powers raised hussar regiments. The armies of France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia had included hussar regiments since the mid-18th century. In the case of Britain, four light dragoon regiments were converted to hussars in 1806–1807. Hussars gained notoriety in the Grande Armée after the invasion of Egypt. At the Battle of Salalieh in August 1798, brigade commander Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle fought "like a demon" and solidified his reputation as a maverick rider upon returning to France and receiving Weapons of Honour. At the ceremony (in a remark often mistakenly attributed to Napoleon), Lasalle quipped "Any hussar who isn't dead at age 30 is a layabout." The hussars of Napoleon's army created the tradition of sabrage, the opening of a champagne bottle with a sabre. Moustaches were universally worn by Napoleonic period hussars, the British hussars were the only moustachioed troops in the British Army – leading to occasional taunts of "foreigner" from their brothers-in-arms. French hussars also wore cadenettes, braids of hair hanging to either side of the face, until the practice was officially proscribed when shorter hair became universal. This sabre is from a private collection of one of the foremost experts and authors of swords in Scandinavia, and chairman of the the Norwegian Weapons Historical Society A famous military commander in Bonaparte's army who began his military career as a hussar was Marshal Ney, who after being employed as a clerk in an iron works joined the 5th Hussars in 1787. He rose through the ranks of the hussars in the wars of Belgium and the Rhineland (1794–1798) fighting against the forces of Austria and Prussia before receiving his marshal's baton in 1804 after the Emperor Napoleon's coronation. On the French Revolution, it was numbered as the 5th Hussar Regiment during the army reorganisation of 1 January 1791, as the fifth oldest cavalry unit in the French army, before being promoted to 4th Hussar Regiment in 1793 after the previous holder of that title. In 1814, just before the fall of the First French Empire, it was renamed the régiment des hussards de Monsieur, though it resumed the title of 4th Hussar Regiment during the Hundred Days before being disbanded on the Bourbon Restoration which followed. After Napoleon returned from exile and invaded Belgium, the 4th Hussar Regiment would enter combat at the final battles of Ligny, and Waterloo, in which Napoleon would be defeated.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,300

An English Mortuary Sword dating to the second quarter / middle of the 17th century. An attractive English “Mortuary” sword with a boldly engraved and chiselled hilt dating to the English Civil War and Protectorate / Commonwealth periods. The sword is in darkly patinated original condition. The designs on the hilt are mainly of foliate sprays and swirls with two “Green Man” heads incorporated into the engraving. The sword is mounted with a robust, single-edged, multi-fullered, ANDREA FERARA marked blade. The hilt is of typical form consisting of a broad boat-shaped guard plate from which three curved primary guard bars, the knuckle bow and two side guard bars, extend upwards ending in flattened angled terminals screwed through eyelets into the pommel. Each side guard bar bifurcates at the base to join the guard plate with two counter-facing scrolled terminals. Two downward facing secondary guard bars emanate from each side of the knuckle bow near its middle and join the base of each side guard bar to strengthen the structure. The guard plate is covered with chiselled decoration to the outside. A double roundel surrounds the tang aperture. Between this roundel and the rim of the guard plate a sequence of panels is cut containing foliate sprays, swirls and a green man on one side. One side guard bar is engraved on its middle swelling with foliage and the other contains a further green man image. Both green man images have mustaches formed as leaves. The solid pommel is globular in shape and has an integral button on top and a pronounced flared neck beneath. It is also chiselled with panels of foliate sprays. The spirally grooved wooden grip is baluster shaped and of oval cross section. It has lost its original wire binding. The grip base sits on an iron flanged plug mounted into the middle of the guard plate from which two langets extend through the tang aperture to flank the blade either side for a short distance from the hilt. The single-edged blade has a pronounced ricasso extending for 2 inches (5 cm) from the hilt. Stacked beneath the blunt back edge four fullers extend from the hilt and terminate 12 inches from the rounded tip after which the blade becomes double edged. Nine inches from the hilt (23 cm) the uppermost middle fuller is stamped with “ANDREA” and the lowermost with FERARA. The top and bottom fullers are stamped with crescents above and below the name. The name is probably a spurious mark of quality emulating the mark of an earlier bladesmith of this name whose blades gained popularity in Britain. This blade was probably made in Solingen in Germany which was an important manufacturer of blades for use in the English Civil War. Huge numbers were imported into Britain during this period for use by both Royalist and Parliamentarian sides. The blade is just under 35 inches (88.5 cm) and overall the sword is 41.25 inches (105 cm) long. For further examples of Mortuary swords see Stuart C Mowbray’s “British Military Swords”, Mowbray Publishing, 2013, in the section dedicated to Mortuary Swords, pages 178 to 225. And see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket Hilted Swords, Boydell Press 2005, Chapter 11, pages 233 to 280. The sword is in good, original, tight condition overall with a blackened patination to the hilt. The blade is in a similar condition but becomes patchy and pitted towards the tip. The hilt is firm and in good shape apart from a break to the pommel eyelet for the knucklebow which is missing its top half. The “Green Man” has Celtic origins in English folklore. These grotesque, bearded, wild-eyed faces are often carved on English weapons of the 17 th and 18 th centuries. As well as on weapons, the Green Man is depicted amongst foliage in medieval English churches carved on fonts, pillars and lintels. In history the Green Man appeared in traditional springtime rural village fetes and ceremonies as a symbol of growth and fertility for the coming farming season. The figure, dressed in green garlands, was exhibited then sacrificed by ritual decapitation, hence the appearance of the head separated from the body in later designs. The roots of the ceremony lie in Pagan England and the practice was so embedded in rural communities that it survived into the Christian era. Embedded with the ideal of “renewal” the Green Man may have been thought to embody some form of spiritual protection for the owner then later became more of a “good luck” charm in the 17 th and 18 th centuries as it appears on the sword discussed here. --> --> Gallery

Nation : French
Local Price : £3250.00

French Flintlock Long Barrelled Rifled Pistol. Ref X3391. A French Flintlock Long Barrelled Rifled Pistol. 15 ¾” overall, 6 ¾” 70 bore turn off rifled three stage cannon barrel, plain octagonal breech and tang, rounded bevelled cock, figured half stock with apron around the barrel tang. Iron mounts comprising sideplate, spurred pommel of flattened ovoidal form, and trigger guard. Circa 1670 Rare early pistol in aged condition, old rusting to metal parts, stock with chips and a split.

Nation : -
Local Price : £3250.00

Flintlock Duelling Pistol by Wogdon, Fine. Ref 9363. A Fine Flintlock Duelling Pistol by Wogdon. 14” overall, 9” octagonal 34 bore sighted barrel with flat sighting rib, engraved ‘Wogdon London’, with false breech & tang incorporating the rear sight. London proofs & maker’s mark ‘RW’ on underside. Flat stepped lockplate with chamfered edges & safety bolt, signed ‘Wogdon’, swan neck bevelled cock, spoon shaped pan. Walnut full stock with flat sided butt. Engraved iron furniture consisting of butt cap, trigger guard with acorn finial & two ramrod pipes. Rammer with worm. Set trigger, trigger guard tang engraved ‘Banastre Parker Esq. York LD’. Circa 1780. Good condition, original faded brown. Metalwork in good condition. Banastre Parker of Cuerden Hall (1758–1788) cousin of General Banastre Tarleton.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,250

A Mid-18th Century British Dragoon Basket Hilted Sword. An impressive example of a horseman’s basket hilted back sword made for an Officer, or Trooper, of a North British / Scottish Regiment of Dragoons towards the middle and third quarter of the 18th century. These swords were issued by the Board of Ordnance to British regiments and were manufactured in the Scottish manner. They were first issued in the second quarter of the 18th century and were used during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Britain’s wars in Europe and the American Revolutionary War. The sword is a rare example of one that retains its remarkable full length blade of 38 inches (just over 96 cm) designed mainly for striking downwards at opposing infantry soldiers with greater reach than the more usual blade lengths of the time could afford. Although many swords of this type are mounted with blades of shorter length, the majority of those that were originally made with this longest type were cut down during the working lives of the swords. This is a rare survivor with its metal parts in extremely well preserved and undamaged condition as visible in the photographs. The fully formed basket is pierced with flanged hearts and circles in the main front and side panel guards which are also finely fretted at the edges with chevrons and merlons. One of the more usual frontal guard plates has been replaced in the hilt design with an oval ring in the “horseman” fashion. The arms of the guard are forged onto a circle of iron into which the base of the bun shaped pommel sits. The pronounced button is integral with the pommel and not of separate manufacture. The original spirally fluted grip is of hardwood and has its shagreen cover but retains its wire binding. The robust single-edged blade has a thick spine and is double edged for the last 17.5 inches (44.25 cm) towards the point. It has a short ricasso and two fullers which commence 4.25 inches from the hilt. One wide broad fuller runs down the middle of the blade to the point and a second narrower fuller runs just underneath the spine to where the blade becomes double edged. Overall the sword is in fine and original condition. For a further example of this sword type see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, Boydell Press / Royal Armouries, 2005, plate F1e page 97 for a sword in the National Museums of Scotland, collection reference LA33. --> --> Gallery