TWO DAY SPRING VIRTUAL ANTIQUE ARMS, ARMOUR AND MILITARIA AUCTION(#310535) 04/04/2023 10:00 AM GMT 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 1-48 of 845. View Lot 1 BISHOPSGATE VOLUNTEERS COATEE, BREECHES AND HOSE, 1798-1801. The dress coatee is of scarlet cloth with navy blue facings and edged all round with narrow white piping, there are 'wing' epaulettes trimmed with a silver wire fringe, presumably indicating that the volunteer was in the Grenadier or Light Company. The round cuffs fasten via cloth covered buttons one red one blue, thirty-nine plated buttons are present out of forty. These are all flat, open back, marked, 'I. Fearn' 'Lombard St.' 18mm. View details Estimate£1,500 - £2,500Winning Bid£1,600StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 2 GEORGIAN PERIOD, THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY CIVILIAN OFFICIAL'S FULL DRESS UNIFORM c.1822-1829, comprising a bicorne hat, coatee and knee length breeches, three very fine and rare items. The hat of stiffened black fabric is decorated at either end with blackened silver lace fringes, the front bears a single chevron of patterned gold lace 15mm in depth, with a small retaining gilt button at the point, open back, convex, bearing the HEIC Lion (12mm). The hat has the original waxed black linen lin View details Estimate£1,500 - £2,500Winning Bid£3,000StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 3 1ST REGIMENT OF FOOT OR THE ROYAL SCOTS OTHER RANKS SHAKO 1812-1816. A good quality period item, in plain black stout felt, the false front (19.4cm) is bound around the top with black braid (1.4cm) and at the base with similar braid (2.4cm), similar braid around the body (1.4cm). The height of the body is (14cm) and is (18.8cm) across the crown. The peak unbound. The thin gauge brass die-stamped plate of standard outline but bears the special badges authorised to the regiment, (not removable for View details Estimate£2,000 - £3,000Winning Bid£8,500StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 4 AN OTHER RANKS 1812-1816 SHAKO. The majority of which appears to be of the period, of stiffened black felt and bearing a die-stamped brass plate with central 'GR' cypher, this attached with wire through three points, the wire on two of these points is modern. The plate is also retained via a heavily rusted wire passing through the usual loop fasteners. Wear to the false front exposes a wire stiffener; the peak is bound and therefore not of the period. The one inch black braid binding around the View details Estimate£500 - £800Winning Bid£3,800StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 5 A BRITISH INFANTRY SHAKO 1800-1806. This example appears to conform to the pattern described in a General Order for 1800. However it is known that four Line Infantry regiments were ordered to adopt same in 1798 and the 5th/60th had worn a similar hat in 1797. This example is eight inches in height and seven inches across the crown. It is very solid in structure, the outer layer of the body being made from two panels of lacquered material; the bottom bracing band is of very stout leather, the cro View details Estimate£1,500 - £2,500Winning Bid£4,600StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 6 FRENCH 1ST EMPIRE, 37TH REGIMENT OF LINE, AN HISTORIC SHAKO. A most rare and important original example, worn by 'M. Berthon', who, according to a period label, saw service in 'Allemagne 1809, Hollande 1810, Espagne 1811, 1812, 1813, Waterloo 1815'. Further labels show that the shako was in the Jeanne Sully Collection, Fontainebleau. It was Catalogue number 780 at a famous Exhibition held in Paris? in 1900. Further details contained in this label show that Berthon was a Conscript in the class o View details Estimate£3,000 - £5,000Winning Bid£6,200StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 7 FRENCH 1ST EMPIRE, CARABINIERS, AN HISTORIC HELMET. A most rare and important original example retrieved from the battlefield of Waterloo. Period labels show that the helmet was formerly in the Jeanne Sully Collection, Fontainebleau and thence into the 'Waterloo Cotton Museum'. A small silver shield has been applied to the frontal plate stating, 'From Sgt-Major Cotton's Waterloo Museum Sale 1909'. The helmet is mainly in brass, the skull of sloping shape with pointed frontal peak, the high crest View details Estimate£3,000 - £5,000Winning Bid£4,400StatusCLOSED Lot 8 A 19TH CENTURY FRENCH CUIRASSIER'S BREASTPLATE, the plate with raised medial ridge, turned neck and arm apertures, shallow flared skirt, brass topped rivets, the reverse marked to the skirt Mre d'armes Chatt - Avril 1875 3eme Gaille 2eme Largeur No. 706. View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£200StatusCLOSED Lot 9 A 19TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL HEAVY CAVALRY BREASTPLATE, the plate with raised medial ridge, turned neck and arm apertures, shallow flared skirt, brass topped rivets, the left shoulder stamped 04 or 64, the right shoulder stamped ZUDERELI, the reverse with liner hooks. View details Estimate£250 - £350Winning Bid£320StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 10 A FRENCH CUIRASSIER'S BREASTPLATE FROM THE SERGEANT MAJOR EDWARD COTTON WATERLOO MUSEUM SALE OF 1909, the patinated plate with raised medial ridge, turned neck and arm apertures, shallow flared skirt, brass topped rivets, two attached labels, the first French Breastplate from the field of Waterloo E. Cotton, the next in French, together with a two page element from the 1909 catalogue, the reverse of the plate affixed with two labels, the 1st a Cotton Museum label, the second a Cotton Museum 1909 View details Estimate£600 - £800Winning Bid£6,000StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 11 IMPERIAL FRENCH SHAKO PLATES, A FUR CAP PLATE, WAIST BELT PLATES AND CLASPS, OTHER BADGES AND BUTTONS. A magnificent framed display and probably the finest collection of such items offered for auction for over 50 years. The fur cap plate is to the Imperial Guard, four diamond pattern plates, two being officers' in silver coloured metal the 86th Regiment and coiled bugle horn type. The 2nd & 21st Regiments are represented. Miniature 'St. Helena' Medals given out in 1857 to the survivors of the c View details Estimate£5,000 - £8,000StatusUnsold Lot 12 IMPERIAL FRENCH SHAKO PLATES. A mounted display of nine very fine items including two 'diamond' pattern. Numbered ones to the 2nd Grenadiers, 102nd 8th (two variable patterns) and 54th Regiments, one to the Imperial Customs Department (some wear), fasteners not examined. (9) View details Estimate£1,500 - £2,000StatusUnsold Lot 13 A FINE AND RARE SELECTION OF WATERLOO RELATED ITEMS AND BATTLEFIELD RELICS FROM THE MUSEUM OF SERGEANT MAJOR EDWARD COTTON, comprising four French shako plates, sixteen various French and English uniform buttons, some with cloth remnants, pistol frizzen, animal teeth, and pipe elements, hand written ink labels, some in French, some in English, various references to Hougoumont Farm, the principle label states "Spoils from Hougamont (sic) and environs on the field of Waterloo" and signed E. Cotto View details Estimate£800 - £1,200Winning Bid£3,600StatusCLOSED Lot 14 THE COLDSTREAM REGIMENT OF FOOT GUARDS OTHER RANKS SHAKO PLATE 1812-1816 PATTERN, A very rare fine quality period example in thin gauge die stamped brass. Of standard rococo outline with the Garter star in the centre, original soft iron soldered loop fasteners, good condition. View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£1,200StatusCLOSED Lot 15 1ST REGIMENT OF FOOT OR THE ROYAL SCOTS OTHER RANKS SHAKO PLATE 1812-1816. A very rare fine quality example in thin gauge die-stamped brass. Of standard rococo pattern, the Royal crown of a slight variable shape peculiar to the regiment. The plate with the various emblems of the Order of the Thistle, a GR cypher (domed), Union sprays, laurels, the Sphinx/Egypt and title The Royal Scots. Original flat brass loop fasteners on solder bases, good condition, possibly unissued. View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£4,200StatusCLOSED Lot 16 ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY SIDE BADGE FOR THE FUR CRESTED LEATHER HELMET, C.1793-1822. A fine and rare example in thin gauge die stamped brass (9.8 x 5.8cm), very slightly convex. A crowned strap with finely decorated edges, Royal Horse Artillery enclosing the GR cypher, two loop fasteners on solder bases (North and South), good condition. View details Estimate£800 - £1,200StatusUnsold Lot 17 ROYAL REGIMENT OF SAPPERS AND MINERS SENIOR NCO'S SHAKO PLATE C.1806-1822. A fine and most rare example in thin gauge die-stamped copper, (9.8 x 6.3cm). A crowned strap with decorated edges, Royal Regt. Of Sappers And Miners, in the centre the GR cypher on a finely lined ground, original soft iron loop fasteners on solder bases, good condition. View details Estimate£800 - £1,200StatusUnsold Lot 18 ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY SIDE BADGE FOR THE FUR CRESTED LEATHER HELMET, C.1793-1822. A fine and rare example in thin gauge die stamped brass (9.8 x 5.8cm), very slightly convex. A crowned strap with finely decorated edges, Royal Horse Artillery enclosing the GR cypher, two loop fasteners on solder bases (North and South), good condition, one loop fastener foot parted. View details Estimate£700 - £900StatusUnsold Lot 19 COPY SHAKO PLATES, one 1800-1812, four 1812-1816, and a cast brass pouch object. (6) View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£75StatusCLOSED Lot 20 92ND GORDON HIGHLANDERS OTHER RANKS BONNET BADGE C.1806-1820(?). A good quality early die-stamped example (5.4 x 3.6cm), original lugs on solder bases, good condition. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Lot 21 A 1797 PATTERN OFFICER'S GORGET. A good quality example in copper gilt correctly constructed, standard engraving of the crown over GR with attendant laurel sprays, slight loss of gilt. View details Estimate£300 - £400Winning Bid£380StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 22 A 1797 PATTERN OFFICER'S GORGET. A good quality example in copper gilt correctly constructed, standard engraving of the crown over GR with attendant laurel sprays, some gilt loss and a minor dent to the crown. View details Estimate£250 - £350Winning Bid£240StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 23 AN OFFICER'S SILVER COLOURED METAL GORGET, pattern shows the pre 1799 Royal arms in repousse with G and R respectively above the Royal supporters, knot and floral drop decoration on the upper areas, incorrect fabric liner, 11.3 x 8.6cm, no wire frame to the reverse. View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£180StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 24 TWO SPURIOUS GORGETS, one in white metal, the other in brass. (2) View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£360StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 25 ROYAL TRINIDAD BATTALION OFFICER'S EPAULETTES. A very rare pair of gold lace box epaulettes by 'Moore & Co. 39 St. James's St., London', gilt metal crescents with original gilt finial buttons (16mm), these show a crowned strap, 'Royal Trinidad Battalion' enclosing the double cypher of King George IV. Convex, closed backs, marked, 'C. Jennens London' (plus the P of Wales's Badge), attachment to the coatee via silk ribbons (not present), the lace requires overall cleaning but are in good sound con View details Estimate£200 - £300Winning Bid£220StatusCLOSED Lot 26 A YEOMANRY OFFICER'S UNDRESS SHOULDER SCALES C.1830-1855. Of standard pattern, the finial buttons unmarked, plating worn but otherwise good condition. View details Estimate£40 - £60Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 27 STRATHSPEY FENCIBLES OTHER RANKS OVAL CROSS BELT PLATE, 1793-1799. A good quality die-cast brass example with incised details, unit title, the crown and a thistle spray, standard single hook and stud fasteners, good condition. Note: The regiment was raised in March 1793 under the Colonelcy of Sir James Grant, Baronet. View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£170StatusCLOSED Lot 28 SIX HEAVY BRASS COPY OTHER RANKS CROSS BELT PLATES. All oval and engraved, 23rd, 33rd, 37th, 92nd, 2nd Bn. Royal Perth Vols., Royal Artillery. (6) View details Estimate£20 - £30Winning Bid£60StatusCLOSED Lot 29 WATERLOO MEDAL TO WILLIAM ASTON, 16th or QUEEN'S LIGHT DRAG. Replaced soldered suspender, clip impression, general knocks and age wear. View details Estimate£800 - £1,200Winning Bid£1,400StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 30 WATERLOO MEDAL AND MILITARY GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL PAIR TO JOHN ELLIOTT, NIVE and NIVELLE bars, 1ST FOOT GDS and CORPORAL 2nd BATT. GRENADIER GUARDS. New suspender to Waterloo medal, general age wear and knocks, minor. View details Estimate£2,000 - £3,000Winning Bid£2,400StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 31 WATERLOO MEDAL TO GOTTFRIED ZEUS, 2nd LIGHT BATT. K.G.L. Original suspender, good, very little age wear. View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£1,900StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 32 WATERLOO MEDAL TO WILLIAM RODGERS, 32nd REGIMENT FOOT. General age wear, knocks, rubbed and polished. View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£2,200StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 33 NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL TO FRANCIS SAUNDERS, ALGIERS bar, Private Royal Marines, HMS Queen Charlotte. Good, very little age wear. View details Estimate£500 - £800Winning Bid£1,200StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 34 NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL TO EDWARD SAUNDERS, NILE bar, Ordinary Seaman HMS MODESTE. Good, very little age wear. View details Estimate£500 - £800Winning Bid£1,500StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 35 AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY NAPOLEONIC PRISONER OF WAR STRAW-WORK BOX, in the form of a book, the outer decorated with panels of geometric designs, the lid lifting to reveal a watercolour of Westminster Abbey to the underside over fitted interior with lidded compartments, the central lid with straw-work scene of a boat with buildings beyond flying the Swiss flag, this lid also lifting to reveal five further lidded compartments, all above a pair of base drawers, 35cm wide x 24.5cm deep x 8.5cm high. Da View details Estimate£200 - £400Winning Bid£260StatusCLOSED Lot 36 AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY NAPOLEONIC PRISONER OF WAR STRAW-WORK BOX, with depictions of buildings to the lid and interior, (thought possibly to be Norman Cross Prison Camp, Peterborough, partially fitted interior, 22.5cm wide, together with a straw-work cigar case of rounded form, another similar possibly for sewing items and a straw-work glove box with geometric decoration, 24.5cm long. Damage and losses. (4) View details Estimate£100 - £200Winning Bid£160StatusCLOSED Lot 37 TWO VARIOUS EARLY 19TH CENTURY NAPOLEONIC PRISONER OF WAR STRAW-WORK STRING BOXES, each in the form of a book and decorated with geometric designs, each lid lifting to reveal original mirror and fitted interior, each 16cm wide, together with a further string box with sliding lid and decorated with foliate and floral panels, 16cm wide. (3) View details Estimate£100 - £150Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 38 AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY NAPOLEONIC PRISONER OF WAR BONE GAMES BOX, of rectangular form with a castellated pillar to each corner and decorated with dot work over all, the sliding lid pierced with star shapes flanking a carved clock face and interspersed with further dots, the interior containing 30 dominoes, 14.5cm long. View details Estimate£80 - £120Winning Bid£220StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 39 A COLLECTION OF EARLY 19TH CENTURY GAMES AND TRINKETS, probably Napoleonic prisoner of war made, comprising a carved wooden snuff mull in the form of a shoe, a turned bone bottle with screw lid, another in the form of a turret, a bone teetotum with traces of polychrome numbers, a miniature bone dice box containing three dice, three further larger bone dice, and a bone double ended crocodile. (Parcel) View details Estimate£50 - £100Winning Bid£150StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 40 OF PENINSULAR WAR INTEREST: TWO HORN BEAKERS, used in the Peninsular War by Lieutenant W. Hay, 12th Light Dragoons, the largest with copper lining and rim, 12cm high. Previously in the Royal United Service Museum. (2) View details Estimate£20 - £30Winning Bid£460StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 41 A SET OF EARLY 19TH CENTURY IRON PRISONER'S LEG SHACKLES, 51cm long approx. Bears what appears to be a museum or collection label printed "Napoleonic Prisoner Shackles, c.1800 although shackles of this design were also used in the African and Omani slave trades. View details Estimate£20 - £40Winning Bid£190StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 42 A .650 CALIBRE FRENCH MODEL ANXIII FLINTLOCK SERVICE PISTOL FROM THE SERGEANT MAJOR EDWARD COTTON WATERLOO MUSEUM SALE OF 1909, 8inch barrel, stepped bevelled lock engraved Mre Impl XXXX, half stocked with regulation brass mounts, brass topped steel ramrod, the left side of the stock applied with a white metal shield engraved SGT MP COTTONS WATERLOO MUSEUM RELIC SALE 1909. In a copy of the Museum Catalogue dated 1872 item 47 is listed as a French Cuirassier's pistol, it is possible that this is View details Estimate£350 - £450Winning Bid£660StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 43 A .800 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK HEAVY DRAGOON PISTOL FROM THE SERGEANT MAJOR EDWARD COTTON WATERLOO MUSEUM AUCTION OF 1909, 9inch barrel, bevelled lock faintly engraved TOWER across the tail, full stocked with regulation brass mounts, the left side of the stock applied with a white metal shield engraved SGT MP COTTONS WATERLOO MUSEUM RELIC SALE 1909. In a copy of the Museum Catalogue dated 1872 item 67 is listed as a Pistol of the 12th Light Dragoons and several other pistols, it is possible that this View details Estimate£350 - £450Winning Bid£740StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 44 A .650 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK LIGHT DRAGOON SERVICE PISTOL, 9inch barrel, border engraved lock stamped with a crown over GR and TOWER across the tail, full stocked with regulation brass mounts, the trigger guard engraved TY over 18, brass topped wooden ramrod. Split at the sideplate area, later ramrod. View details Estimate£600 - £800Winning Bid£720StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 45 A .650 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK LIGHT DRAGOON PISTOL, 9inch barrel with CB-622 Irish Registration stamp, border engraved lock stamped with a crown over GR and KETLAND & Co. across the tail, full stocked with regulation brass mounts, brass topped wooden ramrod. Neat repair to back of grip, pit/knock to left side of barrel. View details Estimate£400 - £600Winning Bid£420StatusCLOSED Lot 46 A .750 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK HEAVY DRAGOON PISTOL, 9inch barrel, border engraved lock stamped with a crown and TOWER across the tail, full stocked with regulation brass mounts, steel ramrod. View details Estimate£600 - £800Winning Bid£620StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 47 A .650 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK NEW LAND PATTERN SERVICE PISTOL, 9inch barrel, lock stamped with a crown over GR and TOWER across the tail, full stocked with various Ordnance stamps, characteristic repair being ramrod channel, regulation brass mounts, swivel ramrod. View details Estimate£400 - £600Winning Bid£640StatusCLOSEDBidding historyBidding history Lot 48 A CLEAN .550 CALIBRE FLINTLOCK LONG SEA SERVICE PISTOL, 12inch barrel, border engraved lock stamped with a crown over GR and TOWER across the tail, full stock with various Ordnance stamps and dated 1806, steel belt hook, regulation brass mounts, brass topped wooden ramrod. Crisp gun, stock and metal parts cleaned. View details Estimate£1,000 - £1,500Winning Bid£1,200StatusCLOSED Items per page 122448 Previous|12345678...18|Next123456789101112131415161718 Previous 123456789101112131415161718 Next Previous 123456789101112131415161718 Next
