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Nation : British
Local Price : £4375

Click and use the code >20427 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Special Offer Sword of W.C. Cuninghame, Distinguished Hero of the 79th Foot in the Crimean War & Subsequently Elevated, Due to His Gallantry, to a Position WIthin the Queen&#acute;s Bodyguard of H.M Queen Victoria

Nation : American
Local Price : £4350

Click and use the code >23420 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb Original 11th Century Medieval Knightly Dagger, Made From a Re-Formed Knightly Sword,

Nation : British
Local Price : £4350

English Civil War Period Mortuary Sword Circa 1640-1660. An English “Mortuary” hilted sword dating to the middle part of the 17th century and the English Civil War and Protectorate periods. The hilt is of typical form consisting of a broad saucer-shaped guard plate from which three main curved guard bars extend upwards ending with flattened angled terminals screwed into the pommel. Two downward facing bars emanate from each side of the knuckle bow towards its middle and join the base of each side guard bar to add strength to the structure. On the opposite side of the side bars to the rear another curved bar emanates and joins the dish near its curled ribbed wrist guard which is fashioned from the rear of the plate. The guard plate is covered with chiselled decoration to the outside consisting of four panels one on either side of the blade, one above and one below. The panels contain the bust of a robed man wearing a long wig. Panels between these busts contain mythical sea creatures, or dragons, the meaning of which is unknown. The panels are enhanced by the depth of the chiselling and a lined border around the dish. The guard bars and pommel are decorated with chiselled lines in a fern-like manner. The pommel is globular in shape and has an integral button and a pronounced flared neck. The designs on the hilt are almost identical to those on a sword illustrated in Stuart C Mowbray’s “British Military Swords”, Mowbray Publishing, 2013, in the York Castle Museum Collection, on pages 222-223, in the section dedicated to Mortuary Swords pages 178 to 225. The similarities between the engraved patterns on the hilts of these swords indicates that sub-groups of common design existed within the overall broad “Mortuary” category which were the signature designs of individual makers and workshops, now unknown. The wooden grip is spirally wrapped with copper strip and twists of copper and has “Turk’s Heads” mounted top and bottom. It sits on an iron flanged plug mounted onto the inside of the guard plate from which two langets extend through the tang aperture to flank the blade either side for a short distance from the hilt. The single-edged blade has a pronounced fullered ricasso. A shallow fuller runs from the hilt underneath the spine of the blade almost to the tip. A second shallow fuller runs underneath this nearer the middle of the blade and terminates after 7 inches (18 cm). Blade Maker’s marks are applied each side of the blade in the form of convex facing crescents flanked by small stamps consisting of a crown above an inverted “V” shape which also appears once each side nearer to the hilt. The blade was probably made in Solingen in Germany. Huge numbers of blades were imported into Britain during the Civil War period to fulfill demand for swords on both Royalist and Parliamentarian sides. The blade is 33.75 inches long (85.5 cm) and overall the sword measures 39.5 inches (100.5 cm) long. For a further discussion on Mortuary swords see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket Hilted Swords, Boydell Press 2005, Chapter 11, pages 233 to 280.

Nation : British
Local Price : £4300

Scottish Ribbon Hilted Broad Sword Dating to the Mid 17th Century. A Scottish West Highland Ribbon Hilt, sometimes called “Beaked Neb”, Basket Hilted Sword, dating to the middle to late periods of the 17th century. These swords are often associated with Scottish Highlanders in the Civil War, Covenanting and early Jacobite Rebellion periods in Scotland. The sword has a characteristic “Ribbon” hilt formed from wide flat iron bars forged together into the typical rounded profile. The front of the cross guard provides the focus for the convergence of the frontal guard bars into a pronounced beak which is a distinctive feature of this sword type and from whence it gets one of its titles. The upper terminals of the guard arms are forged into a crescent of iron which fits into a groove cut for most of the way around the slightly flattened globular pommel just below its middle. The pommel has an integrally raised button on top. The hilt retains its shape and although worn, russet and possessing a blackened aged patination, is whole, without breaks, repairs or losses. The sparse simple linear decoration usually found on ribbon hilts which delineates the panels, and adds interest to the bars, is visible in most parts. The hardwood grip is baluster shaped, of oblong cross section and spirally grooved now without any binding. The high quality double-edged blade is of gently tapering form and of flattened lenticular section. The blade is thickened into a pronounced ricasso at the hilt which has a wide fuller alongside each blunt edge for the length of the ricasso (1.75 inches or 4.5 cm). The shoulders of the ricasso are accommodated and secured in a groove chiselled into the underside of the cross guard in the Scottish manner. A broad fuller runs from the end of the ricasso on each side for 7 inches (19 cm). Inside the fuller on one side is the feint mark in capital letters: “ANDREA FERARA” interspersed by dot patterns. The fuller on the other side shows evidence of the same device which is now illegible. Just beyond the end of the fuller on each side a clear running wolf bladesmiths’ mark is inscribed. This style of blade seems to be a relatively common type encountered on ribbon hilts, which are recognised for the high quality of the blades they are mounted with. The steel blade is in fine condition having stood the tests of time more robustly than the iron bars of the hilt. This is not an unusual feature with ribbon hilts. A contract dating to 1578 shows the bladesmiths Zanandrea and Zandona of Ferrara, working in Belunno, Italy, sixty miles north of Venice, secured a lucrative supply arrangement to manufacture thousands of blades for London based merchants John Brown and Lancelot Rowlandson, over a period of years before the turn of the 17th century. It seems the blades were of superior quality, hence the variations of the name stamped onto blades intended for import into Britain for over a century and a half to come by German blademakers as a spurious “copy-cat” mark of quality. This particular mark became especially popular with Scots and is often encountered on Scottish basket hilted swords of the 17th and 18th centuries. It may have had talismanic significance with some Highlanders even though most were illiterate. The blade was most likely made in Solingen. The only so far known portrait depicting a Ribbon Hilt sword is that of Lord Mungo Murray by John Michael Wright, circa 1670, and he is shown in full Highland dress armed with a contemporary dag, dirk and long gun. His sword hilt is handsomely gilded. For a further reference work on ribbon hilt evolution see “British Basket-Hilted Swords” by Cyril Mazansky (Boydell Press 2005) pages 69 to 73. The overall length of the sword is 41.5 inches (105.5 cm) and the blade is 35.75 inches (91 cm).

Nation : British
Local Price : £4,250.00

Royal Horse Guards Officers Basket Hilt Back Sword. SN 9134. A Very Rare Royal Horse Guards Officers Basket Hilt Back Sword. 49&157; overall 42&157; blade with one long fuller. Stamped with ´H´ for Harvey at the forte. The basket hilt of bars with incised lines & plates pierced with circles & shields, Loop for reins. Mushroom pommel with incised lines and large pommel button. Fish skin grip with wire binding and silver wire Turks head, Circa 1750-80 A very large sword in good condition, blade polished.&194;&160; See British Military Pistols and Associated Edged weapons by R. Brooker page 96 and Swords and Sword Makers of England and Scotland by Richard Bezdek page 285. &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 : British
Local Price : £4,250.00

Land Service Flintlock Heavy Dragoon Pistol, Pattern 1756/81. SN 9098. A Fine & Rare Pattern 1756/81 Land Service Flintlock Heavy Dragoon Pistol. 19 1/2" overall, 12" round steel carbine bore barrel with Kings proof & inspector´s stamp central at the breech, rounded double line engraved lock plate with GR cypher and Government ownership stamp and Tower across the tail, rounded swan neck cock. Figured full stock with apron around the barrel tang & stamped with inspector’s marks including those in the ramrod channel, Ordnance Storekeeper’s mark dated 1786 to the top right of the escutcheon, regulation brass mounts, brass tipped ramrod. Circa 1786&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; In good condition cock screw replaced minor splits to fore end. See De Witt Bailey, Ph.D.,&194;&160;Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783, 1997, pp. 62-63 and 84-85, pl.90 Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : British
Local Price : £4,250.00

Naval Flintlock Flare Gun by North, Rare. SN X3061. A Rare Naval Flintlock Flare Gun by North. 23&157; overall, 7 1/2&157; round brass 1 &194;&188;&157; bore barrel, engraved ´Royal Exchange London´ with London Proofs & Foreigners mark. Brass rounded 1755 pattern lock plate with Crown GR & inspector´s mark, ´E. North 1763´ on tail, stamped internally with Crown over ´2´ &194;&160;inspector´s mark and ´VII´ on lock edge, main spring & sear. Swan neck cock & brass pan. Walnut full stock with hand rail butt, with ordnance pattern brass mounts comprising brass trigger guard, butt plate & wrist escutcheon. Brass tipped ramrod. Dated 1763&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; Very rare, never seen another, Ordnance Pattern brass locks are extremely rare. Edward North II apprenticed to his father 1754, & free of Gunmakers Co 1761,Lt in HAC, maker to Hudson Bay Company. Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : British
Local Price : £4250

Mid 18th Century British Dragoon Basket Hilted Sword with a “G R” Cypher on the blade by HARVEY. 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 and were manufactured in the Scottish manner. The type was first issued in the second quarter of the 18th century and used during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Britain's wars in Europe and the French Indian War in North America and the American Revolutionary War. The blade is of fine quality stamped “HARVEY” and incised with the royal Cypher of King George II or III. The sword is a rare survivor, well preserved and in undamaged condition, as is visible in the photographs. The fully formed basket is pierced with 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 with a shagreen cover, and retains its twisted brass wire binding. The hilt retains its leather buff coloured liner. The imposing fine quality tapering blade is just under 36 inches long (just over 91 cm) and made by HARVEY of Birmingham, a noted contractor to the British Board of Ordnance at the time, and typical of this heavy blade type. The blade is intended mainly for striking downwards at opposing infantry soldiers and cavalry with great force and reach. The blade has a thick spine and is double edged for the last 13 inches (33 cm) towards the point after the fuller terminates and the back edge has been sharpened to the tip. It has a short ricasso from which three conjoined broad fullers extend along the blade for an inch from the hilt (2.5 cm). A broad fuller commences 5 inches (13 cm) from the blade and tapers to the tip. From the same place a narrower deeper fuller runs underneath the spine on both sides until the blade becomes double edged. The space between the two sets of fullers is engraved on both sides with the “G R” Cypher with crown above, and “HARVEY” beneath. Although many swords of this type survive with blades of shorter length, the majority of these have been shortened during their working lives. This blade retains its original length. Overall the sword is in fine 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.