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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 : $3,495.00

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 : British
Local Price : £3,495.00

Wilkinson General Post Office Packet Boat Flintlock Pistol, Very Rare. Ref 9302. A Very Rare Wilkinson General Post Office Packet Boat Flintlock Pistol. 15 1/2&157; 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.&194;&160; ´The Falmouth Packets 1689-1851´ by Tony Pawlyn, 2003. &194;&160; ´The Falmouth Packets´ by David Mudd, 1978.&194;&160; &194;&160; 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.&194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; 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&194;&160; Nock packet ship pistols and none by Wilkinson (page 256) compared to 66 recorded surviving Mail Coach pistols. &194;&160;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.&194;&160;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. &194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160;&194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £3,495.00

Fine Spanish Cup Hilt Rapier. Ref 9359. A Fine Spanish Cup Hilt Rapier. 50&157; overall, 43&157; 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,&194;&160;&194;&160;guardapolvo with pierced scrolls, a pair of twisted scroll&194;&160; straight steel quillons with button &194;&160;terminals,&194;&160;&194;&160;knuckle-guard en suit, solid&194;&160;pommel. The grip bound with plaited wire between Turks heads. Circa 1630 Very fine Spanish rapier in good condition.&194;&160;&194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160;&194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : Italian
Local Price : 4,850.00 USD

AN ITALIAN CRAB CLAW BROADSWORD DATED 1644. So-called crab claw form hilt after its curved cross guard. See Armi Bianche Italiane, pl.585-91 for related examples and particularly pl.586 which is closely related. Iron hilt with radially fluted shell guard and fluted pommel. Oval ring guard with scalloped medial and matching scallops to the quillon terminals. Iron wire wrapped grip. 31 ¾ d.e. blade of flattened diamond section. The front with large 1644 and the reverse with the running wolf mark chiseled. This is an infantry sword of well know type. Its blade length is calculated to optimize its effect for close hand to hand fighting. At the time, Venice was a city state which encompassed most of north of the Italian peninsula and the territories north and east of the Adriatic. It was the power which held the Ottoman Turks in check. Her fleet of over 3000 ships protected the coastline from marauding Turks and pirates both on land and at sea. This sword likely saw service aboard a ship as well as on land.

Nation : German
Local Price : 4,800.00 USD

GERMAN SWEPT HILTED RAPIER C.1600. Type identified in The Rapier and Smallsword 1460-1820, Norman, as type 52, dated C.1550-1630. Iron hilt with elegantly swept bars and faceted pommel. Iron wire wrapped grip. 42 ¾” blade marked CLEMENS ENCRETS EN TOLEDO. That inscription is likely spurious, intended to embrace the cachet of foreign, particularly Spanish blade makers. The practice was common and is well documented in museum catalogs. An iconic example of magnificent proportions well preserved for the period.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,450.00

British Generals Scimitar – General Sir Robert Mansergh. 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 : £3,450.00

British Officers Royal Artillery Sword – General Sir Robert Mansergh. 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