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A pattern 1853, Enfield rifle musket, second model with regulation socket bayonet in brass mounted leather scabbard. Lockplate marked Crown, VR, Tower, 1857. 39" barrel of .577" calibre. 55.25" long
Sold for £300
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A percussion, pepperbox revolver. 6 shot rotating 3.25" barrel group of approximately 100 bore (.360"). Bar hammer with engraved white metal frame and nipple shield and smooth wooden grips. Birmingham proofed. 8.5" long
Sold for £350
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A 7mm, double action, pin-fire revolver with folding trigger. 6 shot, gate-loading cylinder. Cylinder stamped "New English Pattern Pin Fire Pistol, 7m/m, 20 September 1876", also bearing Liege proofmarks. Hammer and cylinder axis-pin retaining screw missing. Barrel 2.4", 6.25" long
Sold for £60
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A pair of very small, pocket or muff percussion pistols by Collins of London. 1.25" barrels of approximately 140 bore. (.321"). Blued barrels, dolphin hammers with sliding top-safeties and folding triggers. Finely chequered bag shaped walnut grips with silver escutcheons. These pistols retain virtually all their original colour case hardening and blueing. Part of the nose of one hammer now broken off. 4.5" long
Sold for £680
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A French Chassepot bayonet made at St. Etienne in steel scabbard. Ribbed brass grip with yataghan blade. Blade 22.5"
Sold for £28
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A pattern 1845 Infantry Officer's Sword. The hilt is the brass half basket 1822 Pattern with a crown over the VR royal cypher as a cartouche badge and has a fold down inner edge. The fold down inner edge indicates manufacture pre 1854. The guard has a sword knot slot near the pommel and the grip is wood covered with fishskin and bound with copper wire. The slightly curved Pattern 1845 blade has a single fuller to each side and is etched for three quarters of the length on both sides and has the VR royal cypher in the centre of each side. Blade 32.5"
Sold for £50
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A pattern 1827 Rifle Regiment Officer's Sword. The hilt is the half basket 1822 Pattern of gilded brass with stringed bugle as a cartouche badge. The guard has a sword knot slot near the pommel and the grip is fishskin bound with copper wire. The slightly curved blade has a single fuller to each side and is etched for three quarters of the length on both sides and has the VR royal cypher in the centre of the left side and bugle horn to right side. The ricasso is etched with the retailer's name "Z. Read, Ipswich". Blade 33".
Sold for £65
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An Indo-Persian Tulwar. The curved, single edged steel blade has three fullers to each side of the blade. The hilt is iron with knucklebow guard, a large disc pommel and langets. The Tulwar originated in Persia, and became the preferred weapon throughout Indo Persia. It was extensively used by Cavalry. Blade 33".
Sold for £140
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A pattern 1822 Infantry Officer's sword. The hilt is the gilt brass half basket pattern with a crown over the VR royal cypher as a cartouche badge and has a fold down inner edge. The fold down inner edge indicates manufacture pre 1854. The guard has a sword knot slot near the pommel and the grip is wood covered with fishskin and bound with copper wire. The slightly curved blade has a pipe back and is etched for one third of the length on both sides and has the VR royal cypher on each side. Blade 31.75".
Sold for £50
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A pattern 1796 Infantry Officer's Sword. The gilt brass knucklebow with folding shell guard. Adam style pommel decorated with acanthus leaves with wood grip bound with silver wire. The blued and gilt blade decorated with the royal cypher of George III, royal coat of arms, stands of arms, foliate designs and makers name "John Gill's Warranted". Blade 31.75".
Sold for £230
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A pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sabre in scabbard by Gill. The stirrup hilted guard with slot for sword knot near the plain pommel. Plain curved, flat backed, single edged blade is etched on the right side with the maker's name "Gill's, Warranted" and on the left side engraved with the owner's name "Wm. Boycott, Donnington". The scabbard has two suspension rings and is also engraved with the owner's details as on the blade. Blade 32.5".
Sold for £640
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A Crescent bladed Indian axe, the blade damascened with foliate pattern mounted on hardwood shaft with copper ferrules and end-cap. The axe in the style common in the province of Scinde. Blade 4.25" wide, 24.75" long
Sold for £80
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A pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Trooper's Sabre in scabbard engraved "Wooley, Deakin". Manufactured 1800-1812. The plain curved, flat backed blade has a broad single fuller to each side. The stirrup hilted guard has a slot for a sword knot near the plain pommel with leather covered wood grip. The scabbard has two suspension rings. Blade 31.75"
Sold for £370
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A Household Cavalry Full Dress Sword, 1796-1857. Gilt brass boatshell guard with silver wire bound wood grip. Similar to the Pattern 1796 Heavy Cavalry sword but without the cross-bar quillon and with a vase-shaped tang button. Straight, flat backed, single edged blade with single fuller to both sides. Spear pointed blade is double edged for the last 9". Blade 35.5"
Sold for £310
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A pattern 1821 Volunteer Artillery Officer's Sword in Scabbard. Steel three bar guard with slot for sword knot near the pommel. Wood grip covered in black fishskin and bound with silver wire. The slightly curved, flat backed blade has a single fuller to each side to within 10.25" of the double edged spear point. The blade is etched over two thirds of its length with a foliate design. The right side of the blade is etched "VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY" and the left side with a flaming bomb and artillery piece. The left side of the ricasso is etched with the maker's name "FIRMIN & SONS, 153 STRAND, LONDON". Manufactured 1839. Steel scabbard with two suspension rings. Blade 32".
Sold for £170
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A pattern 1846 Royal Navy Officer's Sword. The gilt brass, solid half-basket guard has raised bars with a crown and foul anchor cartouche. Lions head pommel with wood grip covered with white fishskin and bound with gilt wire. The slightly curved blade bears remains of foliate etched design over half its length on both sides with crown and foul anchor to left side. The blade has a single fuller to each side to within the last 10" and is double edged to a spear point for those last 10". Left ricasso etched with maker's name "MATTHEWS, QUEEN STREET, PORTSEA". Blade 29.5"
Sold for £45
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A pattern 1796 Light Cavalry Sword and Scabbard. The stirrup guard has a slot for a sword knot near the pommel with ribbed wood grip bound with wire. The curved blade has a broad fuller to each side and is engraved on the left side with the royal coat of arms and on the right side with the cipher of George III. The flat back of the blade is engraved "J. Runkel, Solingen". In steel scabbard with two suspension rings. Blade 31.75"
Sold for £380
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An Indo-Persian Tulwar. Curved flat blade double sided for last 10". Iron grip and knuckleguard with etched foliate design. Blade 30".
Sold for £110
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An Indo-Persian Tulwar. Curved flat blade, double edged to spear point for last 9". Iron grip and knuckleguard with damascened foliate patterning to grip, guard and disc pommel. Blade 30".
Sold for £110
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A Victorian decorative sword of European 15th century style. Broad upswept quillons with a D-shaped ring attached to the crossguard to provide some protection for the hand. The grip is bound with wire and the pommel is shield shaped. The straight, diamond section blade has a spear point. Blade 33.25".
Sold for £55
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A Georgian Rapier. Chiselled steel hilt, quillons, shell guard and pommel with chain knuckleguard. Triangular section blade etched with floral and foliate design to top 8". Blade 32".
Sold for £100
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A Rapier. Brass hilt, knucklebow, pommel, quillons and double shell guard with wire bound grip, originally silver plated. The triangular section blade is etched for the first 5" of its length. Blade 29.75"
Sold for £290
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An Officer's Light Cavalry Sabre in steel scabbard. A variant of the 1796 Pattern light cavalry sabre, this blade has a broad single fuller to each side with a falchion type broadening of the blade to the last 9" which are double edged. The blade is engraved with the cypher and crown of George III on the right side and Prince of Wales feathers and motto to the left. Floral motifs are also engraved on the blade. The hilt is non-standard with a smooth wood grip bearing a gilded white metal shield to each side with the raised bust of a beaded figure in an Etruscan helmet, probably Mars. The stirrup knuckle guard and lions head pommel bear the remains of gilding. Blade 31".
Sold for £1800
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A Georgian Naval Dirk. Curved, plain, single edged blade with opposing gilded quillons with acanthus decorated acorns. The grip is of reeded ivory with a lions head pommel. The knucklguard chain is missing. Blade 12.75".
Sold for £270
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An Officer's Heavy Cavalry type sword. Straight, single edged blade with single broad fuller to each side. Blade engraved with trophies of arms and the crown and cypher of George III. Stirrup hilt with two curved knucklebars and ribbed, black wood grip. In steel mounted black leather scabbard with two suspension rings and a frog stud. The steel throat engraved "J. DEAN, No. 4 STRAND". J. Dean is noted at this address 1791 - 1803. Blade 31.75".
Sold for £880
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A Rapier. Iron hilted rapier with pierced and chiselled bowl and chiselled crossguard, bars and knuckleguard to chiselled ball pommel. The iron grip is bound with twisted copper wire. The straight, plain blade is double edged to a spear point. Blade 26.75".
Sold for £900
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An Indian Katar or punch dagger of traditional form in leather scabbard. Point thickened for penetrating mail. Blade 9.75". 16" long
Sold for £170
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A British yataghan bayonet for the .577" Enfield short rifle in correct steel mounted black leather scabbard.. Chequered leather grips riveted to tang of blade. Blade 22.75". 28" long
Sold for £100
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An South East Asian long handled dagger with two upswept quillons. Blade 8.25". 19.5" long
Sold for £12
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A Spanish Rapier. Probably late 18th / early 19th century. 30.5" diamond section blade. Short fuller to each face of blade inscribed "Hernantz" to one side and "y Sebastian" to the other. Double shell guard, one side open, the other solid and pierced with small square holes. Wire wound wooden grip with steel pommel.
Sold for £150
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