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Nation : British
Local Price : £2650

Click and use the code >22179 to search for this item on the dealer website Most Rare British Army Officer´s 1801, Egyptian Campaign, Snake Goddess´ Head Light Infantry Officer&#acute;s Sword. Used Throughout The Entire Napoleonic Wars Up To The Battle of Waterloo. Likely By An Officer of &#acute;The Glosters&#acute;

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Local Price : £2,650.00

Seaforth Highlander Duke of Sutherland Sword. Seaforth Highlanders 5th Battalion officers sword belonging to 5th Duke of Sutherland who was a captain between 1910 and 1912 becoming Honorary Colonel in 1914. Regulation basket hilted sword in good condition complete with liner and fringe. The blade is super condition and well etched with G R V and crown to one side the reverse with regimental details as follows Seaforth Highlanders 5th The Sutherland and Caithness Highland Battalion plus the single letter S Retailers details Davies and Sons London and complete with matching scabbard which does show age wear between the ring mounts sold with research

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Local Price : £2650.00

Scarce Percussion Officers Pistol.. A Scarce Percussion Officers Pistol with Shoulder Stock. With browned sighted barrel, decorated with scrolling foliage at the breech, foliate engraved tang fitted with standing rear sight, signed foliate engraved lock, decorated with scrolling foliage, full-stocked in walnut, cut with chequering at the butt and fitting for shoulder stock, the skeleton shoulder stock with simple attachment. A scarce example. J R & G LUKE, Exeter Dimensions: Bore: 18 Bore Barrel Length: 12 Inches (30.48 cm) Overall Length: 17 Inches (43.18 cm) Overall Length: with shoulder stock: 28.5 Inches (72.39 cm)

Nation : German
Local Price : 3,400.00 USD

FINE GERMAN RAPIER C.1660. A fine example of a type which evolved about 1645 in response to changing social customs and swordsmanship and remained popular for about a generation. Known to collectors, as pillow swords in recent years, they were more likely known to their owners as scarf swords. Norman discusses this and the method in which they were worn in The Rapier and Smallsword 1460-1820, page 186. Its contemporaries in Northern Europe were the transitional rapiers and occasional dish hilted rapier. Somewhat smaller than either, it was able to be worn in social settings where the larger weapons were prohibited. Size, and thus weight, which in motion equates to inertia was always balanced against agility. In this weapon, the choice is for the latter. It has a fine blade of hollow diamond section etched each side with a figure of Mars, the God of War beneath his name and a sun or perhaps his namesake planet. The hilt is heavily encrusted in high relief silver foliage and classical portrait heads. The grip is wrapped in silver wire. The result is a lovely weapon, which in hands schooled to it, was the match of any on the street.

Nation : British
Local Price : £2600

Late 17th Century English Brass Mounted Plug Bayonet for an Officer – the blade by John Hathaway. A very fine English Plug Bayonet made for an Army Officer and dating to circa 1690 to 1700. Plug bayonets were used by the British military after the middle years of the 17th century until they were replaced with the socket bayonet in the early 18th century. The bright, slightly curved, single edged blade becomes double-edged for over a third of its length towards the point. On one side near the hilt it is inlaid in brass with three inset comets. These are the mark of John Hathaway who was granted the use of this symbol by the Worshipful Company of Cutlers of London on 26th September 1689. He is a well known maker of blades of exceptional quality for plug bayonets and several other examples of his work have been recorded. The figured hardwood grip is of circular section tapering towards the pommel and has the characteristic swelling at the base with a thin turned collar below and brass ferrule mounted between the collar and the cross guard. The cross has a thick oval block with faceted edge with horizontal quillons vertically counter curved at their tips and mounted with the heads of monsters. The tapering brass pommel sleeve is surmounted with a cast helmeted warrior’s head. The particular feature of helmeted heads forming pommel caps and / or quillon tips was noted by Harold Peterson as an “English pattern that seems to have been very popular during the very late 17th century, and possibly the opening years of the next century” which “boasted pommels and quillon terminals in the form of helmeted heads”. A survey of plug bayonets by R.D.C Evans devotes a section to English plug bayonets and notes that those with helmeted heads are English and illustrates several bayonets of this type. Evans records only two other examples of a Hathaway blade bearing the triple comet mark and proposes that it was an indication of a high quality which is borne out by inspection of the bayonet discussed here. Army officers wore plug bayonets. A portrait of Captain Francis Hawley of the 1st Foot Guards in 1685 shows the Captain wearing a plug bayonet which has a plain wooden hardwood hilt mounted with brass. Acknowledgements: Peter Finer Ltd, 2003 Catalogue, item 30 “A Fine English Plug Bayonet for an Army Officer circa 1690”. The bayonet is in fine condition overall. The blade is exceptionally well preserved with clear marks and is still razor sharp. A small amount of flaking has occurred to the thinly turned rim of the grip underneath the pommel sleeve. The grip exhibits a rich dark patina. The blade length is just over 11.25 inches (just under 29 cm) and overall the bayonet is 18 inches long (just over 46 cm).

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £2595

Click and use the code >24304 to search for this item on the dealer website Archaic Chinese Warrior´s Bronze Sword, Around 2,300 to 2,800 Years Old, From the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, Including the Period of the Great Military Doctrine ´The Art of War´ by General Sun-Tzu

Nation : British
Local Price : £2575

Rare Scottish 1798 Pattern Officers’ Basket Hilted sword with Paktong / Nickel Hilt. A rare example of the distinctive basket hilted sword introduced for Scottish Infantry officers in Highland Regiments in 1798. It was replaced by the regulation steel basket hilt 1828 pattern three decades later. The sword type was used throughout the Napoleonic War period. The hilts of these swords were most usually made of gilt copper, bronze or brass. This sword is a rare example in that the hilt is made from a lighter coloured nickel-based alloy. The use of nickel alloy in the production of weapons and tableware was increasing in the early 19th century as a substitute for silver, variously called Tutenag, Paktong, German Silver etc, but is rare in the production of sword hilts at this time, although some made from imported Chinese Paktong are known (for an example see an English Georgian Slot Hilt Hanger of the late 18th century mounted with a Paktong hilt sold by C&T Auctioneers and Valuers Ltd, Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK, lot 119, 1st November, 2017). A further nickel-based hilt of Scottish 1798 pattern that we are aware of is detailed in note 1 below. The basket guard is made of rounded bars and flattened plates in the usual manner with forward loop guards and a swollen wrist guard terminal to the rear quillon. The upper terminals of the guard arms are fixed onto a ring inside which the stem of the mushroom shaped pommel is fitted. The pommel is dome-shaped on top with a protruding integral waisted pommel button. The double-edged gently tapering blade is 32.5 inches (just over 82 cm) long. It is of lenticular section with a short ricasso. A central fuller commences a short distance from the hilt on each side and is 9.5 inches (24 cm) long. The blade is unmarked and probably a German import which is a common occurrence on swords of this type and most usually of Solingen manufacture. The grip is of spirally grooved wood covered with shagreen held in place with thin strands of twisted copper wire now coloured with age. It is mounted with an alloy ferrule at the base of similar colour to the hilt and retains a red woollen fringe at the top plus its leather liner stitched with red cloth on the outside and bound with blue silk ribbon at the hem. The materials used for 1798 pattern hilts were less robust than iron and as a result were susceptible to damage. Many surviving and published examples have bars missing, are out of shape and often with repairs. This sword is a good example. The blade has just small patches of blackened age-related staining in places and the hilt has kept its shape without damage or repairs. Note 1: For other examples of the 1798 type see: Harvey J S Withers, “The Scottish Sword 1600-1945”, Paladin Press, 2009, particularly page 144 for a 1798 Pattern described as: “An unusual piece. The basket appears to be manufactured from a combination of white metal and brass (mixed together)”. The pommel, blade ricasso, grip shape and binding, plus the basal ferrule, liner and fringe, are more than coincidentally similar to our sword, indicating that both may have been made in the same batch by the same maker.

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £2575

Click and use the code >24355 to search for this item on the dealer website Ancient Chinese Warrior´s Bronze Sword, Around 2,300 to 2,800 Years Old, From the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, Including the Period of the Great Military Doctrine ´The Art of War´ by General Sun-Tzu