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Nation : British
Local Price : £2,450.00

15th Hussars Officer&#acute;s Mameluke. 15th Hussars Officer&#acute;s Mameluke very nice condition regimental hilt and bone grip. The slightly curved blade with faint etching but William 4th cypher and I V visible Hilt and blade tight and complete with steel scabbard with gilt brass mounts. Reference: Swords of The British Army by Robson plate 84 – 85 Blade Length: 32.25 inch Overall Length: 38.0 Inch

Nation : Dutch
Local Price : £2450

Fine Dutch Walloon Sword of the Amsterdam Town Guard dating to circa 1650. An elegant sword of the distinctive “Walloon” type made for the Amsterdam Town Guard in the mid-17th century. The sword is in fine condition with the hilt retaining much of its original browned finish. The hilt is typically formed from a bold quillon block with a scrolled wrist guard to the rear, and knucklebow to the front, swollen in diamond form at the middle, and fixed to the pommel with a screw through its flattened angled terminal. The flattened terminal of the curled wrist guard has a florette punched into the centre of one side. To the sides the hilt is mounted with asymmetrical side rings of crescent section each filled with a plate pierced with a pattern of eight-pointed stars and more numerous smaller circles. The quality hilt type, of well made rounded bars, represents the fruition of European “Infantry” hilt design with plated side rings that started in more rudimentary and munitions grade forms in the late 16th century. The grip is of wood, slightly baluster in profile, attractively bound with alternating lengths of braided iron wire and with “Turks Heads” top and bottom. The bottom of the grip typically sits on top of a raised base forged from the block. To the inside, a thumb ring is attached to the upper outer edge of the smaller guard plate and loops over the inside of the plate to attach to the raised base of the block. The pommel is of slightly flattened ovoid form with integral button on top and flared neck beneath. The blade is of usual form, long, double-edged, of lenticular section, tapering and with a stretched oval shaped fuller on each side, commencing a short distance from the hilt, extending for 7.5 inches (19 cm) after which a running wolf mark, most likely the mark of a Solingen based smith, is incised on both sides. Inside the fuller, various spaced capital letters bordered with quatrefoils of dots, form the word “S A H A G V M”, which had numerous manifestations. On one side, between the hilt and the start of the fuller, the stamp of Amsterdam, a crown with a triple “X” mark below is present. The blade is just over 36 inches (92 cm) long and overall the sword is 42.5 inches (108 cm) long. These swords were made for the Amsterdam Town Guard. At the time, Amsterdam was a great trading centre for the widest variety of commodities and manufactured goods, including arms. The arms dealers in Amsterdam provided the demand for onward shipment at home and abroad, and presumably England in the Civil War period, particularly for the Royalist side. Feasibly many of these swords were also made for export. The swords may have been made in Amsterdam by smiths who migrated from Solingen during the 30 Years War period. Dutch Walloons may have influenced the development of the English style of Walloon sword at the time. The French captured a large number of these swords in 1672-73 in the Netherlands, and as a result introduced the “Epee Wallone” in the French army and thereafter supplied them to some of their own soldiers. This sword is a particularly good example. Often the sprung plates are damaged or even missing on surviving swords. This example is in fine undamaged condition.

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,450.00

English Brass Hilted Broadsword c.1740. Brass Hilted English Broadsword c.1740 3/4 basket-hilt consisting of four longitudinal knuckle-guards extending from the bun shaped pommel complete with extended tang button. The spaces between the guards are filled by large S shaped. The grip is covered in fish-skin showing age wear. Straight double edged blade with triple small fullers the centre one carries makers name Andrea Ferrara and running wolf. For other examples please see The Royal Armouries (IX 233) which is featured in Cyril Mazansky Book British Basket Hilted Swords page 216 overall length 99cm the blade 83cm

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £2,450.00

**EXTREMELY RARE**ORIGINAL**16th Century Circa 1550-1580 German Heinrich Koel Spanish Export Rapier Sword Blade Signed ‘ENRIQUE COEL EN ALEMANIA’ With C1650 Transitional Form Hilt. Sn 22060:3 -. Rapier is a loose term for a type of slender, sharply pointed sword. With such design features, the rapier is optimized to be a thrusting weapon, but cutting or slashing attacks were also recorded in some historical treatises. These weapons were mainly used in Early Modern Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. The rapiers of the 16th & 17th centuries had long heavy blades and elaborate guards made up of all sorts of combinations of cups, shells and loops (examples of period rapiers are illustrated on page 525 of the book ‘A Glossary Of The Construction, Decoration & Use Of Arms & Armour’ by Stone). By a long period of slow evolution rapier blades became lighter and guards incorporated fuller guards to afford better protection. Our Rapier’s blade was made circa 1550 - 1580 by a German smith named Heinrich Koel for the Spanish market (hence he’s written his name as Enrique Coel and En Alamania which is clever branding). The rapier is 42 ½” overall length. It has a 36 ¾” double edged Rapier blade with fullers. Both sides of the blade have crisp markings, one side ‘+E+N+R+I+Q+U+E+ C+O+E+L+’ the reverse ‘+E+N+A+L+E+M+A+N+I+A+’, (illustrated). The blade is undamaged and has light staining consistent with age. The bar hilt guard hilt with urn type pommel has a partial bowl guard indicating transitional hilt replacement circa 1650 and has a turn down quillon and finger ring guard. The wood grip has just knocks bumps and bruises expected (hilt replacement was a relatively common occurrence when one had a blade in the family). During duals these swords were often paired with a dagger carried in the left hand, referred to as a ‘Main Guache’ (French-left hand) not only for defensive parrying but also for attack, see page 431 of Stone’s book (a Victorian or earlier Main Gauche dagger is available separately on our website stock number Sn 22060:4). As is usual with European swords of this age it is without its scabbard. The price for this ancient Rapier in excellent condition includes UK delivery. Sn 22060:3

Nation : British
Local Price : £2450.00

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword. With tapering fullered blade, basket hilt composed of flattened bars united by ovoid and rectangular pierced junction plates, bun shaped pommel, wire bound wooden grip. Dimensions: Blade Length: Overall Length:

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,450.00

18th Hussars Officer’s Mameluke. Victorian period regimental mameluke by Hawkes and Co to the 18th hussars, pattern hilt with XVIII and motto to center of gilt cross guard. The curved blade is engraved with VR Crown to one side and motto plus XVIII to reverse with two battle honors, Peninsula and Waterloo surrounded by floral decoration. Complete with correct decorative scabbard with age wear but no damage and full dress knot, note one grip stud cover missing

Nation : British
Local Price : £2450

Click and use the code >24953 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful, Highest Ranking British Officer´s Sword, For the Navy or Army, A 1790´s Admiral of the Fleet or Field Marshal´s Sword

Nation : ?
Local Price : £2450.00

Very Crisp Flintlock Queen Anne Pistol. A Very Crisp Flintlock Queen Anne Pistol by W. Turvey, London. With round three-stage turn-off barrel, border engraved action, stamped to the side with London proofs and Turvey own mark, foliate engraved tang, cock engraved en suite, swelling walnut butt with raised mouldings around the tang and lock, with silver mounts comprising pierced side-plate, vacant escutcheon, grotesque mask butt-plate. W. Turvey William Apprentice to Edward, 1703; free of Gunmakers Co., 1711. Elected Assistant, 1727; Master, 1733. Gunmaker , next to Furnivall's Inn, Holborn. Contractor to Ordnance, 1719; East India Co., 1741. Died 1744. Widow, Sara, continued business. Howard L. Blackmore (1986) Gunmakers Of London 1350-1850, George Shumway Publishing, York, Pennsylvania, USA. Dimensions: Bore: 20 Bore Barrel Length: 5.5 Inches (14 cm) Overall Length: 12 Inches (30.50 cm)