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Nation : British
Local Price : £3,650.00

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 : British
Local Price : £3,650.00

British Naval Officers Silver Hilted Sword c 1790. British Naval Officers Silver Hilted Sword c 1790 pre Trafalgar. The hilt hallmarked silver gilt maker marked F.T _ Francis Thurkle c 1795 the silver date stamp letter is not clear, mother of pearl grips one of which engraved with crown over anchor. The cross piece, guard and pommel are marked with a lion silver mark and the folding guard engraved with floral designs. The blue and gilt triangluar blade is maker marked I W M of Soligen with matching floral decoration to the hilt, trophies of arms and a figure possibly depicting Amphitrite – Queen – Goddess of the sea. Complete with black leather scabbard with gilt brass mounts, overall length 92cm the blade 76cm

Nation : Indian
Local Price : £3,650.00

James Hills-Johnes VC GCB Royal Artillery Sword. Lieutenant General Sir James Hills-Johnes VC GCB Royal Artillery Sword. Regulation pattern with 3 bar steel hilt and stepped pommel, the fisk skin grip show wear. The blade again regulation, engraved with regimental devises to both sides, owners initials J H J and crest. Maker marked Pillin London and proof plug, complete with steel scabbard with 2 loose rings. Although we can not confirm this was the actual sword used in the action for which he received the Victoria Cross along with Henry Tombs during the Indian mutiny at the Siege of Delhi it has been field sharpen and shows signs of action. Notes: Hills had been on picket duty with two guns near the camp when enemy cavalry attacked. In order to give the guns time, Hills rode straight at the enemy, cutting down two of them before he was knocked from his horse. Getting up he was attacked by the enemy. Hills shot one, avoided the lance of another and cut him with his sword before finishing the first attacker. A third grappled with Hills and took his sword from him but Tombs, who had come up to check the guns, arrived in time and shot the man. On the way back to the position, they encountered another of the enemy. Hills and Tombs parried the first attacks but Hills then took a blow to the head and went down Tombs put his sword through the man saving Hills for the second time

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £3650

Click and use the code >24940 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb Spanish Cup Hilt Rapier Circa 1660. Double Shell Asymmetrical Hilt Guard With Long Crossguard, Octohedral Double Conical Pommel & Large Pas Dans

Nation : Dutch
Local Price : £3650

Click and use the code >26012 to search for this item on the dealer website Rare and Absolutely Spectacular, J. & W. Richards, All-Brass Flintlock Blunderbuss With Sprung Top Mounted Bayonet. Finest ´Juglans Regia´ Walnut Stock. Circa 1800. Much Favoured by Ship´s Captains

Nation : Persian
Local Price : £3650

Click and use the code >25684 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Exquisite Original Bronze Age Short Sword Used From The Trojan Wars To The Greco-Persian Wars Era. The Trojan War Was Waged Against the City of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) After Paris of Troy Took Helen From Her Husband Menelaus, King of Sparta

Nation : British
Local Price : £3600

English Mortuary Sword of Early Form dating to the second quarter of the 17th century. A fine English “Mortuary” hilted sword dating to the second quarter of the of the 17th century and the English Civil War period. The spacious hilt is of boatshell type uniquely and boldly chiselled and engraved with monsters and busts in the English manner. The hilt has a wristguard, a knucklebow to the front and guard bars on each side. The secondary scrolled guard bars present on later Mortuary hilts had not yet evolved at the time this sword was made indicating that it is of early type probably dating to the time just after Mortuary swords evolved from the “Proto” Mortuary types. It is mounted with a robust double edged blade. The hilt is of typical form consisting of a broad boat-shaped guard plate from which the three main curved flattened guard bars taper upwards ending with flattened angled terminals screwed into the pommel. The base of each side guard bar is strengthened with a fishtail terminal which joins the bars to the dish. The downwardly curled wrist guard strengthens the rear edge of the plate. The sword is notable because of its robust build, fine condition and the higher than average quality and depth of the chiselled decoration. The convex surface of the guard plate is chiselled with three finely executed busts of men with wigs and mustaches which may represent King Charles I. Each bust is surrounded by two scaly sea monsters within floral bordered panels. The heavy solid pommel is of slightly flattened globular shape with an integral button on top and a flared neck beneath. It is chiselled in the same style as the hilt with busts on each side surrounded by monsters which demonstrates the homogeneity of the parts. The grip is an impressive piece of work. It consists of a fluted wooden core horizontally wrapped with twisted brass wire depressed into the six flutes. Vertical lengths of twisted wire are applied to the flutes and Turks Heads are present at the top and bottom of the grip. The base of the grip 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 below the hilt. The double-edged blade is of flattened hexagonal section and tapers gently to its tip. It has a stylised orb and cross armourers mark on both sides with crosses and geometric shapes below. The blade was probably made in Solingen in Germany from where huge numbers of blades were imported into Britain during the Civil War period to fulfil demand for swords on both Royalist and Parliamentarian sides. The blade is 32 inches long (81.25 cm) and overall the sword measures 38.5 inches (98 cm) long. Stuart C Mowbray in “British Military Swords”, Mowbray Publishing, 2013, dedicates a section to Mortuary Swords in pages 178 to 225, as does Cyril Mazansky, in “British Basket Hilted Swords”, Boydell Press 2005, Chapter 11, pages 233 to 280.

Nation : British
Local Price : £3550

English Officers’ Finely Embossed Dish Hilt Rapier circa 1620 to 1650. An English Officers’ Rapier dating to circa 1620 to 1650. The style of hilt and blade type show that the weapon was made for generalist or military use by a member of the officer class or gentry rather than for duelling. The hilt is intricately chiselled and bossed with floral and circular features in typically English 17th century style. The prominent dish guard is forged in one piece from beaten iron with an upturned rim. It is finely chiselled on the outside, and bossed from the inside, with foliate sprays which are accentuated with dots. The rectangular section quillon block is of bold form and decorated with chiselled lines. Front and back horizontally formed quillons emanate from the block and terminate in swollen engraved knops. Two flattened side guard rings emanate from each side of the quillons forged in contour with the dish edge beneath. The middles of the side rings are formed with double conjoined roundels chiselled in similar style to the exterior of the dish. From the front a slender knuckle bow emanates from the quillon top and rises upwards in a “D” shape to terminate in a flattened angle which is pierced and secured to the pommel front by a screw. The bow is is markedly swollen half way along with a knop similar to those which form the quillon terminals. Two scrolled side guard bars emanate from the knuckle bow just below the knop and are attached to the side rings at the front to strengthen the structure. The bars are decorated with parallel incised lines in the English manner along the narrower lengths. The solid pear shaped pommel has an integral waisted neck beneath and raised button on top. It is decorated with chiselled designs similar to those present underneath the dish guard and on the side guard ring roundels. The grip is of baluster shape and spirally bound with roped wire. Iron ferrules are present top and bottom. The stiff blade is of tapering flattened lenticular section and 34 inches (86.5 cm) long. It has a short ricasso from which a deep fuller is cut extending for 6.5 inches (16.5 cm) along each side flanked with incised lines. Both fullers are stamped on the inside with the inscription “INRI MARIA” the words flanked and interspersed with dots and crosses. The blade was probably made in Toledo or Milan. The blade is an import into England which did not have an established blademaking industry in the second quarter of the 17th century when the rapier was forged. Many blades were also imported from German blade making centres of which Solingen was the most important. The rapier retains an even blackened dense russet patination all over. The hilt retains its pleasing original profile. The overall length of the rapier is just over 41.25 inches (just under 105 cm). English rapiers of this date exhibit a common form and style, however, there are many variations under this umbrella. For different styles of English rapiers see Stuart C Mowbray, “British Military Swords”, 2013, Andrew Mowbray Publishers, Volume One, 1600 to 1660, pages 254 to 281.