TWO DAY SUMMER VIRTUAL ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR AUCTION(#310532) 12/07/2022 10:00 AM GMT+1 CLOSED Auction Information Advanced Search ▼ Items per page 122448 Advanced Search Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 241-288 of 721. View Lot 241 A VICTORIAN ROYAL ARTILLERY OFFICER'S BLUE CLOTH HELMET, the blue cloth covered skull with copper gilt fittings to include ball finial with quatrefoil base, rose bosses, QVC Royal Arms helmet plate, velvet backed chin chain, leather and red silk liner. Estimate£250 - £350Winning Bid£280StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history View details Estimate£250 - £350Winning Bid£280StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 242 A 19TH CENTURY PRUSSIAN INAFNTRY HANGER, 64.5cm blade etched with crowned cyphers to either side, regulation brass hilt with heart-shaped guard, D-shaped knuckle bow, spherical pommel and spirally fluted grip, various regimental markings 2 : No. 121.28.L.R. Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 243 A SCARCE ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET HAT AND EPAULETTES ENSEMBLE, regulation bullion trimmed bicorn hat, the leather and silk liner with maker's panel for Walton Gosport and with owner's initials JDK (John Kelly), together with its companion bullion epaulettes and bullion decorated leather sword belt. Kelly was Commanding Officer of HMS Dublin during the First World War before going on to serve on a variety of other ships including HMS Princess Royal. Estimate£700 - £900Winning Bid£5,500StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history View details Estimate£700 - £900Winning Bid£5,500StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 244 A RARE HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY STATE TRUMPET, the plated white metal body cast with bands of scrolling acanthus leaves within borders of geometric designs, the outside of the flared mouth decorated to match. 79cm over all length. Estimate£500 - £700Winning Bid£1,600StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history View details Estimate£500 - £700Winning Bid£1,600StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 245 A TIPSTAFF, in 18th Century style, the brasswork engraved BETHNAL GREEN 1796 and C.2.19.W, pierced brass crown finial (losses) with blue velvet lining, on a turned wood handle, 18.5cm long. Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£800StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history View details Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£800StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 246 A TIPSTAFF OF NORFOLK INTEREST, the brasswork engraved III GR CONSTABLE OF THE HUNDRED OF DEREHAM, acorn finial, ring turned wood handle, 25.5cm long. Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£1,800StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history View details Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£1,800StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 247 A 19TH CENTURY ROYAL NAVAL BOARDING PIKE, 239cm over all length, triangular section head with reinforcing straps and Ordnance stamped, original full length wooden haft with various Ordnance stamps towards the foot and the rack number 16413 over 4, further stamped W. HARWOOD W. HONNOR, metal reinforcing collar to the foot. Estimate£300 - £500StatusUnsold View details Estimate£300 - £500StatusUnsold Lot 248 A 19TH CENTURY ROYAL NAVAL BOARDING PIKE, 239cm over all length, triangular section head with reinforcing straps and Ordnance stamped, original full length wooden haft with various Ordnance stamps towards the foot and the rack number 16413 over 1, metal reinforcing collar to the foot. Estimate£300 - £500StatusUnsold View details Estimate£300 - £500StatusUnsold Lot 249 A 17TH CENTURY SWISS HALBERD, the 60cm flattened diamond section spike with 18cm crescent head and flattened diamond section fluke, shortened reinforcing straps, 171cm later wooden haft with original iron mounts. Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 250 A 17TH CENTURY FRENCH PARTISAN, 36cm leaf-shaped blade with triple curving spikes to each side of the forte, faceted collar with reinforcing straps and short turned guards, 187.5cm faceted wooden haft. Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£320StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£320StatusCLOSED Lot 251 AN 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH PARTISAN, the 54.5cm head with flattened diamond section blade, the shaped forte painted with the Royal Arms surmounting a GR cypher, the reverse engraved but not painted to match, gilt collar, four screw bracing straps, steel foot. 270cm over all length. Probably the George III's personal bodyguard. Estimate£600 - £800StatusUnsold View details Estimate£600 - £800StatusUnsold Lot 252 A TRAFALGAR PERIOD FRENCH NAVAL BOARDING PIKE, 17.5cm flattened diamond-shaped head with raised medial ridge, ringturned collar with bracing straps, steel foot. 253cm over all. Estimate£300 - £400Winning Bid£260StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£300 - £400Winning Bid£260StatusCLOSED Lot 253 A MILITARY COMMEMORATIVE MIRROR, in 19th Century style, gilt frame incorporating bevelled mirror plate below a composite marble effect panel depicting cavalry and infantry profile busts, the reverse inset with a medallion inscribed Free Trade 1846, 97 x 48.5cm over all. Estimate£200 - £250StatusUnsold View details Estimate£200 - £250StatusUnsold Lot 254 EIGHT VOLUMES THE INVASION OF THE CRIMEA, by A. W. Kinglake, William Blackwood & Sons, together with a History of The Second World War - The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany 1939-45, together with a collection of further books on Arms and Armour and shooting. (Parcel) Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold View details Estimate£40 - £60StatusUnsold Lot 255 OF AUTOGRAPHICAL INTEREST: HENRY JOHN TEMPLE 3RD VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, LATER PRIME MINISTER (1784-1865), a signed document from the War Office, dated 7th September 1815, framed and glazed. Estimate£60 - £80Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£60 - £80Winning Bid£10StatusCLOSED Lot 256 SUPERIMPOSED LOAD FIREARMS 1360-1680, by D.R. Baxter, together with Die Waffensammlung Des Fursten Salm-Reifferscheidt Zu Schloss Dyck. (2) Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED Lot 257 OF ENGLISH CIVIL WAR INTEREST, catalogues for the Sotheby's Littlecote House auction. Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£30 - £40Winning Bid£35StatusCLOSED Lot 258 SWORDS FOR SEA SERVICE, Volumes I and II by Commander W.E. May, R.N. and P.G.W. Annis. (2) Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history View details Estimate£50 - £70Winning Bid£110StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 259 A SMALL COLLECTION OF BOOKS ABOUT ARMS AND ARMOUR AND BAYONETS, British Military Longarms 1715-1865, Small Arms, Antique Arms and Armour, Swords and Bayonets, Swords in Colour, German Bayonets, The Sword and Bayonet makers of Imperial Germany and German Clamshells. (8) Estimate£60 - £80StatusUnsold View details Estimate£60 - £80StatusUnsold Lot 260 AN EARLY 17TH CENTURY GERMAN SCHNEPPER OR STONEBOW, 60Ccm over all length and with 41cm bow, dual braided draw string, dual post fore-sight, the integral cocking lever retained by a pivoting catch, the former struck with a maker's mark of a stag within a shield form, characteristic scroll carved wooden butt set with polished bone plaques decorated with scrolling foliage, wild animals and the crest of Bavaria, losses to the latter, red painted inventory number 1106. Old fracture to lever pivot po Estimate£1,500 - £1,800StatusUnsold View details Estimate£1,500 - £1,800StatusUnsold Lot 261 A 17TH CENTURY GERMAN CROSSBOW, 70cm over all length, the fruitwood stock border inlaid with polished horn and bone border, further decorative panels of bone and horn incised with acanthus scrolls and flower heads, one incised with the owner's initials H.M. and the date 1677, steel mounts, set trigger. One or two 19th Century replacements, probably ivory. Ivory Declaration Submission Reference C9F1KVHL Estimate£2,000 - £3,000StatusUnsold View details Estimate£2,000 - £3,000StatusUnsold Lot 262 A 16TH CENTURY NORTH EUROPEAN VISOR AND BEVOR ENSEMBLE, the bevor etched with three linear panels of scrolling foliage and pierced with circular breaths to the right side, turned and roped upper edge, the visor finely drawn out to a peak and with narrow vision slits, the forehead with raised medial ridge drawn up to a peak and decorated to match. Circa 1550 Probably French or German. Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£800StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£800StatusCLOSED Lot 263 A LATE 16TH CENTURY SPANISH MORION OR CABASSET, raised from a single plate, skull with distinct medial ridge and 'pear stalk' finial, down turned brim with narrow shallow gully and turned edge, pierced for suspension, retaining its embossed brass lining rivets (5 rivets missing). Estimate£250 - £400Winning Bid£400StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£250 - £400Winning Bid£400StatusCLOSED Lot 264 AN EASTERN EUROPEAN LOBSTER TAILED POT IN THE 17TH CENTURY STYLE, the single piece ridged skull with ribbed domed finial, riveted geometric head band, crescent form peak with turned edge, adjustable nasal bar with trefoil terminal and matching nut, four-lame riveted neck guard with turned edge. Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£740StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£740StatusCLOSED Lot 265 A 17TH CENTURY NORTH GERMAN BLACK AND WHITE COMB MORION, the two-piece skull with tall raised comb and down swept shallow brim with turned edge, 12 plain domed lining rivets. Blacked over all. Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£980StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£980StatusCLOSED Lot 266 A GOOD ENGLISH CIVIL WAR PERIOD LOBSTER TAIL HELMET OR DUTCH POT, the one piece skull embossed with six radial ribs surmounted by an iron suspension ring, four lame articulated neck guard with turned edge, fixed peak with turned edge underside deeply struck with armourer's punched markings, adjustable nasal bar with pear-form finial secured by a heart-shaped thumb screw, ear defences with circular piercings. Circa 1640-1650. Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£1,200StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£1,200StatusCLOSED Lot 267 A LATE 16TH CENTURY SPANISH MORION OR CABASSET, raised from a single plate, skull with distinct medial ridge and 'pear stalk' finial, down turned brim with narrow shallow gully and turned edge, pierced for suspension, the base of the skull pierced for (missing) lining rivets. Estimate£250 - £400Winning Bid£420StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£250 - £400Winning Bid£420StatusCLOSED Lot 268 A PAIR OF GERMAN BLACK AND WHITE GAUNTLETS, turned and roped cuffs with tapering broad medial ridge, transitioning onto the five-lame articulated hands, hinged thumb defences, multi-lame articulated fingers. Partly 16th Century. (2) Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£860StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£800 - £1,000Winning Bid£860StatusCLOSED Lot 269 A COMPOSITE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR ARMOUR, comprising a later lobster tailed pot, the radial ribbed skull with drawn out peak and nasal bar, pierced leather lined ear defences, four lame neck guard with turned edges and drawn out to a peak, blacked breast plate with raised medial ridge drawn down to a shallow peak at the flared waist, turned arm and neck apertures, reinforced leather shoulder straps, the back plate probably German with tramline decoration, flared waist, turned edges and incised with Estimate£1,500 - £2,000Winning Bid£1,600StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£1,500 - £2,000Winning Bid£1,600StatusCLOSED Lot 270 A GROUP OF ETCHED ITALIAN ARMOUR IN THE 17TH CENTURY STYLE, comprising tall almond form morion with turned and roped edges, the whole etched with tramline decoration and bands of foliage, the associated gorget and breast plate decorated in a similar fashion and embellished with figures of nobility, together with a pair of gauntlets decorated in a similar fashion. (Parcel) Estimate£800 - £1,200StatusUnsold View details Estimate£800 - £1,200StatusUnsold Lot 271 A NORTH EUROPEAN ENGLISH CIVIL WAR PERIOD PIKEMAN'S POT, the two-piece skull with low turned comb, mounted with a plume holder to the rear, broad downturned brim with narrow shallow gully and turned edge, the right side struck with a James II stamp, domed rivets. Some perforation and parting. Estimate£1,200 - £1,500StatusUnsold View details Estimate£1,200 - £1,500StatusUnsold Lot 272 A GOOD 17TH CENTURY HARD LEATHER HOLSTER FOR A WHEELLOCK OR FLINTLOCK PISTOL, of conventional form with reinforced band around the top, adjustable leather strap with tinned iron buckle, overall length 41cms. Estimate£350 - £500StatusUnsold View details Estimate£350 - £500StatusUnsold Lot 273 A GROUP OF ETCHED ITALIAN ARMOUR IN THE 17TH CENTURY STYLE, the two-piece morion profusely etched with panels of scrolling foliage, a profile of a nobleman within a shield surmounting the name Marco Barbarigo, the other side etched with a mythical beast within a shield holding a text, together with a breast plate, tassets and shield decorated in a similar fashion, the shield bearing a biscione at the centre of the crest of the city of Milan. (Parcel) Estimate£800 - £1,200StatusUnsold View details Estimate£800 - £1,200StatusUnsold Lot 274 A MEDIEVAL PERIOD WROUGHT IRON PRICKET CANDLE STAND, 53cm wide, with a pair of prickets with wavy drip trays flanking a central plain pricket, together with a medieval iron fire dog element of massive proportions, decorated with an armorial crest incorporating a knightly sword and IX XI IX flanked by stylized panels, 90.5cm high, and a large iron door lock fitting, decorated with dot and linear decoration, 68cm high. (3) Estimate£1,000 - £1,500StatusUnsold View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500StatusUnsold Lot 275 A CENTRAL EUROPEAN SMALL GOTHIC WAR HAMMER HEAD, 14cm over all length with spiked square section head, opposing tapering square section down turned fluke, rectangular haft slot. Probably Polish. Estimate£350 - £450StatusUnsold View details Estimate£350 - £450StatusUnsold Lot 276 THREE 17TH CENTURY OR EARLIER SWORD OR RAPIER POMMELS, the first of flattened cylindrical reeded form, the second of flattened spherical form and chased with foliage, probably from a mortuary sword, the last, of bronze ovoid form and flanked with a classical figure to either side, possibly Italian. (3) Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£120StatusCLOSED Lot 277 A COLLECTION OF TEN VARIOUS CANNON BALLS, to include examples from the 17th Century and later. (10) Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Lot 278 AN EARLY 18TH CENTURY GERMAN BACK PLATE, the shaped plate body with central gulley and concealed turned edges, riveted, reinforced shoulders and sides, original leather shoulder and waist straps. Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSED Lot 279 A LATE 18TH CENTURY BRONZE PIVOT CANNON, 32inch three-stage sighted barrel bearing an inscription across the mid-point, mounted on a wooden plinth complete with pivot mount and adjustable tail bracket. Estimate£2,000 - £3,000Winning Bid£1,600StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£2,000 - £3,000Winning Bid£1,600StatusCLOSED Lot 280 A FINE QUALITY 19TH CENTURY MODEL OF A NAPOLEONIC PERIOD FRENCH 12 POUNDER FIELD CANNON, 20cm four-stage brass barrel engraved with a crowned N at the breech and stamped with the maker's details JEANMAIRE A PARIS 1863, the trunnions marked DE12L and on the other side 490G, mounted on its steel trimmed wooden carriage with dished spoked wheels and various accoutrements, complete with its companion limber, finely trimmed to match. Estimate£1,800 - £2,200Winning Bid£3,800StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£1,800 - £2,200Winning Bid£3,800StatusCLOSED Lot 281 A GOOD QUALITY VICTORIAN MODEL OF A BRITISH NAVAL CIRCA 1805 32 POUNDER CANNON, 40cm over all length, five-stage tapering barrel with ring turned muzzle, plain trunnions, bun-shaped cascabel with rope loop, mounted on its wooden carriage. Estimate£450 - £550Winning Bid£380StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£450 - £550Winning Bid£380StatusCLOSED Lot 282 A 19TH CENTURY CAST IRON CANNON, 18inch four stage barrel with a 1.5inch bore, plain trunnions, bun-shaped cascabel, mounted on a later wooden carriage. Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£440StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£440StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 283 A RARE IRON AGE LA TENE CULTURE SWORD AND SCABBARD, 60cm blade permanently sheathed in its scabbard, characteristic hilt with four oval mounting slots for the grips, the multi-piece iron scabbard with embossed panels decorated with an X form in raised dots, a longitudinal form, a runic form symbol and a further domed form, the rear of the scabbard with belt hook. It is rare to find a complete and intact scabbard. Good excavated condition. Estimate£2,500 - £3,500StatusUnsold View details Estimate£2,500 - £3,500StatusUnsold Lot 284 A RARE VIKING PERIOD PATTERN WELDED AND INLAID SWORD CIRCA 900, 75.25cm fullered blade, characteristic hilt of Petersen Type H form, inlaid to the cross guard with geometric designs and inverted swastika forms, the triangular form pommel with oblong plinth decorated to match. A similar sword was lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Laird Landmann and Kathleen Kinney (accession number L.2008.29.2). That particular sword was marked with the name of its maker Hartolfr. See plate VI Swords of t Estimate£8,000 - £10,000Winning Bid£7,000StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£8,000 - £10,000Winning Bid£7,000StatusCLOSED Lot 285 AN EARLY 17TH CENTURY ITALIAN RAPIER AND SCABBARD, 84.5cm flattened diamond section fullered blade incised to one side FRANCISCO RUL and on the other EN TOLEDO, characteristic hilt with looping side guard, elongated tapering quillons, D-shaped knuckle bow with scrolling side bar supports, spirally fluted ovoid pommel, fine wire bound spirally fluted grip with Turk's heads, contained in its leather wrapped wooden scabbard with steel chape. See The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820 by A.V.B. Norman Estimate£1,500 - £1,800Winning Bid£3,000StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£1,500 - £1,800Winning Bid£3,000StatusCLOSED Lot 286 A LATE 16TH CENTURY ITALIAN RAPIER, 107.5cm flattened diamond section blade, characteristic hilt with looping side guard, elongated tapering quillons, D-shaped knuckle bow with scrolling side bar supports and scroll terminal, tapering pommel, wire bound grip with turk's heads. See The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820 by A.V.B. Norman, plate 3, and Hilts 60 & 61, page 132 for similar examples. Also Rapiers by Eric Valentine, plates 11 & 12, page 23. Estimate£1,250 - £1,350Winning Bid£1,800StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£1,250 - £1,350Winning Bid£1,800StatusCLOSED Lot 287 A LATE 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY GERMAN TWO-HANDED PROCESSIONAL SWORD, 125cm broad flattened diamond section blade with long fullered ricasso flanked by a forward pointing fluke on either side, the left struck with a maker's mark, characteristic hilt with elongated flaring crossguard with spiral twist terminals, two large looping side guards, large tapering spirally chased pommel, later leather wrapped cord bound grip. Estimate£1,400 - £1,800Winning Bid£3,800StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£1,400 - £1,800Winning Bid£3,800StatusCLOSED Lot 288 A SCARCE EARLY 17TH CENTURY ENGLISH HOUNSLOW SWEPT HILT RAPIER, 86cm blade incised FECIT HOUNSLO to either side in the short fullers, characteristic swept hilt composed of rounded bars, recurving quillons, D-shaped knuckle bow with scrolling supports, ovoid pommel, later wooden grip. Tip rounded. Estimate£1,500 - £2,000Winning Bid£1,800StatusCLOSED View details Estimate£1,500 - £2,000Winning Bid£1,800StatusCLOSED Items per page 122448 Previous|1...456789...16|Next12345678910111213141516 Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516 Next