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Nation : British
Local Price : £3,250.00

Basket Hilted Sword Royal Horseguards, rare. Ref 9215. A Rare Royal Horseguards Basket Hilted Sword. 41&157; overall, 35 1/2&157; broad blade with twin fullers with GR crown to one side and ´Harvey´ engraved on the other. Basket hilt welded from pierced panels and straps, bun shaped pommel, leather grip with twisted wire. No scabbard Circa 1755&194;&160; An attractive large sword in good condition, blade engraving faint.&194;&160;&194;&160; Provenance Robert E Brooker Jr Collection author of British Military Pistols 1603-1888.&194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : British
Local Price : £3250

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 Although many swords of this type are mounted with blades of shorter length, the majority of those that were originally made with this longest type were cut down during the working lives of the swords.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.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,250.00

Georgian 21st Royal Scotch Fusiliers Officer&#acute;s Mameluke. 21st Royal Scotch Fusiliers Officer&#acute;s Mameluke c 1815 – 1820 gilt brass decorative hilt with bone grips secured by two studs. The single edged blade with clip point and etched in gold with thistleÂ and regimental badge the reverse with floral decoration. Complete with metal scabbard with three gilt mounts repainted and officer&#acute;s sword knot. Submission reference: ZPS39U5K Information: Blade Length: 73cm Overall Length: 86cm

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,250.00

English Dragoon Basket Hilted Sword c 1740. English Dragoon Basket Hilted Sword c 1740 good solid basket with dome pommel and raised tang button, the grip leather bound secured with turks heads top and bottom. The basket is engraved with 1 over 8 however other marks seem to have be removed which may indicate a battle field pick up please see images. The blade single edged with double fullers again with stamps which have been obscured near the hilt. Overall length 42 inch the blade 36 inch for reference please see British Basket Hilted Swords by Mazansky pages 94 and 95

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,250.00

British 1796 Variant Cavalry Sword. British 1796 Variant Cavalry Sword larger than normal in all proportions. The hilt regulation with langets, sword knot slot near pommel with leather bound grip secured by wire. The blade curved flat sided with a cut back point and 1.5 inch in width at the hilt increasing to 2.25 inch near the point. It is complete with match scabbard with two loose ring overall length 33.5 inch the blade 28 inch a very interesting one-off sword we assume.

Nation : ?
Local Price : 3,250.00

. A Superb Cased Over and Under Pistol by Blissett of London. With sighted round barrels, engraved ‘JOHN BLISSETT. 322 HIGH HOLBORN LONDON' along the sighting grooves, with double gold lines at the breech and fitted with a captive ramrod below, struck with London proofs, border engraved box-lock action, decorated with scrolling foliage throughout, cocks decorated en suite and retaining much original finish, chequered walnut grip with vacant oval escutcheon, oval butt cap with engraved trap, blued trigger guard and fitted with a side mounted belt hook: in, what appears to be, their original fitted box with all accessories including powder flask, bullet mould, etc, the lid with trade label for ‘John Blissett. Gun & Rifle Maker. No. 322 High Holborn. London. Every Description of Pistols and Air Guns Manufactured'. the exterior of the box has a vacant flush fitting circular brass escutcheon. BLISSETT John (Son of Isaac) born 1808. Gunmaker and jeweller, 74 High Holborn, 1832-5; 321 High Holborn, 1836-50 (316 High Holborn, 1847) 322 High Holborn, 1851-66. Became John Blissett & Son. Granted Regd. Design No. 1050 (air-gun walking stick) 1847; British Patent No. 2069 (revolver loading lever) died 1855. Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London, 1350-1850. George Shumway Publisher. USA. Dimensions: Bore: 28 Bore Barrel Length: 3.75 Inches (9.52 cm) Overall Length: 8.5 Inches (21.59 cm)

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,245.00

Brass Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss by P. Jackson. SN X3241. A&194;&160; Brass Barrelled Flintlock Blunderbuss by P. Jackson. 29 1/2&157; overall, 141/2" ring turned brass octagonal to round three stage barrel flared at the muzzle, with cannon barrel turnings, signed on the top ’R. Jackson London’. Struck with Post 1813 Birmingham proofs and Birmingham Tombstone mark, with steel flick bayonet. Stepped flat lockplate, swan necked cock, roller on feather spring. The trigger guard has a pineapple finial, the brass buttplate engraved with floral patterns on the tang. Walnut full stock chequered at the wrist. &194;&160;Original horn tipped ramrod with worm retained by 2 brass ramrod pipes. In good condition. Circa 1815. &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/)

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Local Price : 4,400.00 USD

RARE EXPERIMENTAL US M.1860 CUTLASS. Unmarked but obviously produced by Ames as the tooling specifically compares to production examples made for Civil War use which are encountered both marked (usually with 1862 date) and unmarked. The pattern was adopted in two variations for officer and seaman. The officer's pattern (Peterson #140) varied from the seaman's with scrolling foliage on the pommel. As well, the semi bowl guard was fluted cut out (pierced) with U S N. This example is fluted, but not pierced and the pommel is plain, without the floral scroll as adopted. The grip and scabbard conforming to the adopted pattern. The distinctive features are the guard, absolutely identical to officer's swords but not pierced with the universal U S N. The key is the tooling: The guard accords in detail and dimensions with the production examples, indicating that the dies had been produced at the time when this sample was submitted. The other distinguishing feature is that the blade is unmarked, indicating that it was a prototype. In our collection for 40 years, it has been shown to those who need to see it with no constructive result, verifying its one of a kind identity. Clearly made by Ames, it represents the step before approval for production of the 1862 cutlass, possibly contending for approval as either the enlisted man's or officer's pattern. That dated Ames cutlass' are dated 1862 and the Civil War broke out in April 1861 after 7 states declared their succession in February 1861 indicates that an immediate call for securing the coasts, the source of supply for the South, was made. The 1841 cutlass was Old School based on the Napoleonic/post-Napoleonic model of heavy blade suitable for whacking as a last resort. The 1860 cutlass was a cut (marginally) and thrust weapon and notably the only swords, other than cavalry, which were primary weapons. The dependence by the South on imports by sea foretold the need for extensive naval action to choke off the supply necessitating maximizing naval resources including adopting an improved cutlass.