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Nation : Spanish
Local Price : 9,100.00 USD

SPANISH CUP HILT RAPIER C.1650. This fine rapier is distinguished by retaining a considerable original gold overlay. It gives us a glimpse of what most fine weapons would have looked like when they were being used. While most rapiers survive in the white, with bare iron surfaces, each had a surface treatment when produced. Many were blued or browned (russet) but a considerable proportion were gold or silver overlaid which served to protect the hilt as well as enhance them aesthetically. This example is of further interest as it represents the cup-hilt rapier in its most highly developed form, with long elegant thrusting blade and robust grip for the gloved fencer's hand. 44" length blade.

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £6995

Click and use the code >25277 to search for this item on the dealer website Incredibly Rare French Naval, Sabre D´Officier De Marine Model Prairelle An XII 1804. Officer´s Sword, Most Likely Surrendered or Captured At Trafalgar in 1805. Possibly Even From the Redoutable or Bucentaure

Nation : Indian
Local Price : £9¸000

Beautiful Antique Silver Indo-Persian Rulers Sword. Beautiful Antique Silver Indo-Persian Rulers Sword\"This is a long curved¸ early antique Mughal Blade and is very rare. It is almost last 17th and early 18th century old sword and belongs to North India (at that time). The Hilt of this sword is called kuftgari hilt and is Silver.

Nation : -
Local Price : £6,950.00

Pair of flintlock Pistols by Winckhler – Munich c 1700. Three stage barrels octagonal then round with muzzle rings blued and rifled cal 13mm. Brass outlined master&#acute;s mark appears above each powder chamber in the form of a standing lion below W between the signature Hanns Winchhler. Curved locks the floral engraved domed lock plates with masks. Adjustable back triggers one spring tired lightly carved walnut stocks with dark horn fore-end caps plus open iron work decoration on the side plates complete with ramrods with horn tips overall length of each pistol 53.5cm. Hans Winckhler is known in Munich between 1680 and 1710. Early pair of pistols in beautiful condition.

Nation : ?
Local Price : £6950.00

Rare Double Barrel Gun by Boutet. A RARE 20 BORE FLINTLOCK DOUBLE BARREL SPORTING GUN BY NICOLAS-NOEL BOUTET CIRCA 1800 It has become difficult to find original flintlock examples of sporting guns by Boutet as many of his more ‘restrained' works were converted to percussion. This 20 bore double barrel original flintlock has smooth bore 33.5" rust blued barrels with central concave rib engraved ‘Boutet Directeur Artiste Manufacture a Versailles'. Marks of ‘Manu' and ‘V lles' engraved under the breech, muzzle with notch under for ramrod retention, blade fore sight within typical Boutet circle/dot engraving. Makers poincon stamps to breech, replicated on each barrel, "LC” for barrel-maker Jean Nicolas Le Clerc (Neue Støckel 3741), Boutet in rectangular poincon (Neue Støckel 96 used 1805-1814?) and indistinct NB mark. Further matching engraved lines of circles to breech. Platinum touch holes. Ramrod made from Baleen, probably original, with captive worm which unscrews and then screws back onto ramrod in capture position. Single barrel wedge. All iron mounts comprising buttplate, scrolled triggerguard and ramrod pipes Including multi faceted front pipe - all with superb engraving including screw heads - see photos. Bevel edged, border line engraved locks curved at tail (a lovely sign of quality) both with internal oval mark of DB within a wreath/fronds - the mark of Daniel Bouyssavy, Director of Manufacture (Inspector) at Versailles between 1795 and 1808 (Boutet was the Technical Director). Bouyssavy was detached from Versailles to Liege between 1805-1807 returning to Versailles in 1807 and leaving again in 1808 to take up a similar post at Mauberge. Left hand lock marked BOUTET DIRECTEUR ARTISTE, right hand lock marked MANUFACTURE A VERSAILLES. Both locks with fine quality engraving to lockplate, flintcocks and matching frizzens. Excellent strong actions. Figured Walnut stock with shaped chequered panels, horn fore end. Lock inletting is a work of art In itself with even a tapered part carved from solid following the line of the lock spring. Leather cheekpiece to shoulder of stock mounted with silver retaining band. Wood to metal fit is excellent with minimal shrinkage. There is no visible serial number on this gun which is not unusual as not all Boutets were numbered. Estimate of circa 1800 based upon dating evidence of other examples of known date but range could be 1798-1809 and BOUTET poincon combined with DB inspectors mark could point to a date of manufacture between 1807-08. See below. Overall length 49.75” Iron mounts remain in the white and are unpolished. Some wear to lock pans. All engraving is crisp. Top jaw screw to left hand lock shows signs of repair and top jaws are plain, otherwise all looks very original and matching. Front sling swivel absent. Stock is original and has wear marks but remains solid. Barrels have been re-blued with correct rust blue, minor imperfections. No gold remains on the barrel - there may have been gold leaf within makers marks and applied around dotted/circles at breech and foresight. Sometimes these more restrained examples have extensive blocks of gold leaf applied for first few inches of breech as well. This could be re-instated by an expert. Barrel bores are clean but show signs of use commensurate with wear on pans. This gun has been well used - not just a status symbol. Overall superb quality yet restrained. Nicolas Noël Boutet (1761-1833) is without question the premier French gun-maker of all time. Throughout the French Revolution and Napoleonic period Boutet was the principal innovator and artist. His work is greatly undervalued when compared to other forms of art. Nicholas Noël Boutet was named Directeur-Artiste of the newly formed Versailles Arms Manufactory in 1792. The luxurious firearms started being produced soon after, around 1794, from his Versailles manufactory and were commissioned for presentation to Marshals of France as well as Royalty elsewhere in Europe and beyond. His presentation firearms and swords can be see in many of the most famous institutions worldwide today such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Wallace Collection, Royal Armouries as well as Royal gunrooms and Palaces. As a database of serial numbers and years of manufacture does not appear to exist for Boutet, the dating of this particular Boutet is approximated to circa 1800 but could be from 1798-1809. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a Boutet Rifle which they date circa.1800 which has number 55 on its side (Accession Number:1970.179.1a

Nation : British
Local Price : 8,900.00 USD

FINE AND RARE ENGLISH BROADSWORD C.1640. Of the so-called mortuary sword type. Iron hilt with semi-bowl guard. The forward edge rolled, with bars connecting to the pommel at the other three-quarter points, further enclosed by pairs of scrolling bars. The guard chiseled with characterful portraits of Charles at the three-quarter points alternating with portraits of Henrietta flanked by angel wings. A further matching portrait on the knuckle bow. The pommel was chiseled in a radial motif over a slightly depressed medial, stopped by a band at the transition and likely fire gilt in the depressions originally. The right side with a chiseled running fox or wolf mark about identical to that illustrated as 9c, European Swords and Daggers in the Tower of London, which is found on a “Claymore, early 17th century." The mark here was originally inlaid in latten which it retains in one of the strokes. Original black leather over wood scabbard in fragile but substantially complete condition. An excellent example of one of the most desirable forms of 17th-century swords.

Nation : North European
Local Price : £6850

Fine North European Military Sword “Tessak” Dating To Circa 1600. A fine North European military sword dating to circa 1600. The hilt type conforms to the general group also known as “Sinclair Sables”, with which the ill-fated Scottish mercenary expedition to Norway was equipped in 1612. Surviving swords are mounted mainly with curved, and more infrequently with straight blades, as is this piece. This is a good example, in original condition, well balanced and practical whilst aesthetically pleasing to the eye. A sword with an identical hilt is illustrated in “The Price Guide To Antique Edged Weapons”, Leslie Southwick, Antique Collectors Club, 1982, page 139, fig 374. The imposing gently tapering blade is just over 37 inches (94 cm) long and is single edged for half of its length after which it becomes double edged to its tip. The blade is of thick stiff construction capable of being used both for cutting, thrusting through mail and teasing through the joints in plate armour. On one side the worn mark of a cross in raised relief inside a panel is stamped and corresponds with the mark of Wundes Theis a German maker recorded as working in Solingen in the 16th century. The well executed and complex hilt has a broad quillon span of 9.5 inches (24 cm). The quillons are well formed of octagonal section swelling towards the ends and terminating in delicate waisted bands and large globular terminals with the surfaces filed into a complex trellis in raised relief terminating in small knops. The quillons are vertically counter-curved with the front quillon turned upwards and the rear quillon faced downwards to form a wristguard. Guard plates are attached to the quillon block either side. A thumb loop is applied to one side and the knuckle bow turns upwards from the top of the front quillon to form a scrolled terminal at the pommel. The solid pommel is mushroom shaped with a flared waisted neck below. It is skilfully incised with a seven sided floret on top and surrounded with similar raised trellis patterns in raised relief to those seen on the quillon terminals. The wooden grip retains its original shagreen cover now blackened with age. This is an interesting and rare sword which holds a place in the evolution of complex hilt design in the late 16th century. Overall length 43.25 inches (110 cm).

Nation : North European
Local Price : £6750

North European Sabre of “Sinclair Sable” Type Circa 1600. An imposing and robust North European sabre dating to circa 1600. The hilt type conforms to the general group known as “Sinclair Sables”, with which the ill-fated Scottish mercenary expedition to Norway was equipped in 1612. This is a well balanced and practical example. The sabre is featured in a paper by Hagen Seehase in DWJ (Deutschland Waffen-Journal), April 2021, pages 84 & 85. The imposing, heavy, stiff, curved blade is single edged, becoming double edged for the last quarter of its length, with a broad shallow fuller running underneath the spine from hilt to tip. Near the hilt on one side a rubbed armourers mark is present inside an oblong panel, now indistinct. The hilt is constructed from a solid block from which two vertically counter curved quillons of rounded oval section extend to terminate in swollen spoon shaped terminals. A knuckle bow extends from the front quillon upper surface, the terminal of which is secured in an aperture in the lower part of the pommel front. The outside of the hilt is formed with a strong scallop shell shaped guard joined to the pommel in a similar manner to the knuckle bow, by a single bar emerging from its top. Cut ridges radiate from the base of the shell guard where it joins the quillon block to accentuate the scallop appearance. An “S” shape bar of rounded section strengthens the structure by joining the shell with the knuckle bow. The inside of the guard is formed with an inner ring guard and thumb loop joined with the knuckle bow by two further scrolling round section bars above. The original leather covered grip swells to its top where it meets with the underside of the pommel and is mounted with a copper ferrule at its base. The oblong shaped pommel radiates filed lines of “scallop” form similar to the clam guard from its truncated pyramid shaped pommel button. The pommel is cut with double decorative lines around its edge. Beneath, the pommel base narrows to accommodate the oval shaped grip top. This is an interesting and rare sword which holds a place in the evolution of complex hilt design in the late 16th century. Blade 30.5 inches (80 cm) long and overall 37 inches (94 cm). Provenance: Sotheby’s New York, 23rd November 1988, lot 501