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An 1821 pattern heavy cavalry officer's undress sword of the 5th.Dragoon Guards, the curved 86cm blade by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, number 14572 for 1866, etched with crowned VR cypher panels of foliage and within a cartouche the owners initials ' FFB ' regulation scroll guard chequered pommel, fish-skin covered grip bound with silver wire, complete with its steel scabbard, blade a little stained, mounts patinated overall £280-300
Hammer Price: £580
An unusual custom built solid-patent tang cavalry officer's fighting sword by Reeves, the heavy curved 90cm blade struck on the back edge 'Reeves patent' single wide fuller, back-edged and spear-pointed, undecorated but for a retailers name within a cartouche 'Milan & Mann, George St. Edinburgh’, steel bowl guard pierced through with a maltese cross, simple linear decoration following the shape of the cross and bordering the edge of the guard, two slots to the back, ribbed polished horn or vu...
Hammer Price: £550
An unusual 1821 pattern light cavalry officer's undress sword, the curved 86cm flat-solid section blade by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, un-numbered, grooved for half its length and back-edged, etched overall with foliate scrolls laurel leaves etc but no royal cypher, makers name in cartouche but no proof mark, regulation three bar guard, stepped pommel, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its steel scabbard with two hanging rings, good condition overall £300-350
Hammer Price: £330
The Cavalry Officer’s Sword carried by Lieutenant-Colonel A. H. C. Kearsey, D.S.O., O.B.E., late 10th Hussars, who was uncle of the famous Mitford sisters An 1821 Pattern light cavalry officer’s Sword, by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, No 40399 for 1905, the 86cm blade etched with crowned EVII cypher, foliate scrolls etc., and regimental device of the X Hussars, regulation steel guard, fish-skin covered grip bound with silver wire, complete with its field service scabbard and frog, so...
Hammer Price: £220
An 1882 pattern cavalry trooper’s sword, the 87cm blade with various issue marks, regulation steel guards pierced with maltese cross, complete with its steel scabbard, some areas of pitting to scabbard, otherwise good condition £100-150
Hammer Price: £170
A 1908 pattern cavalry trooper’s sword, the straight plated 89cm blade, with various issue marks, regulation plated bowl guard, chequered wood grip, complete with plated scabbard, interior of guard now painted red £100-120
Hammer Price: £120
A Royal Artillery officer’s sword, by Hobson & Sons, Little Windmill Street, London, the 83cm blade etched with winged lightning device, flaming grenade etc., regulation three bar steel guard, fish-skin covered grip lacking wire binding, complete with its steel scabbard, good condition £100-150
An 1827 pattern rifle regiment officer’s sword, the 83 cm blade etched with crowned VR cypher, strung bugle etc., regulation steel hilt incorporating strung bugle, complete with brown leather steel mounted scabbard, pitted overall £80-100
Hammer Price: £95
An 1827 pattern rifle regiment officer’s sword, the 83cm blade retaining almost all original finish, etched with crowned VR cypher, strung bugle and ‘Rifle Volunteers’, regulation steel hilt incorporating strung bugle, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its steel scabbard, hilt and scabbard patinated £100-150
Hammer Price: £210
An 1821 pattern infantry officer’s sword, the 84cm blade No 22528 for 1878, Wilkinson proof mark but blade undecorated, regulation brass gothic hilt incorporating VR cypher, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper-wire, complete with its steel scabbard, guard a little dented £100-120
An 1821 pattern infantry officer’s sword, the 85cm blade of light weight by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, No 11060 for 1861, etched with crowned VR cypher, foliate scrolls etc, regulation gothic hilt incorporating VR cypher, retaining original frayed gold bullion sword knot, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its steel scabbard, the sword is silver-plated overall ,good condition £200-250
Hammer Price: £200
An 1821 pattern infantry officer’s sword, the 83cm dumbell section blade by WK & Co, etched with crowned VR cypher foliate scrolls etc., regulation brass gothic hilt, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its leather scabbard with steel locket and chape, good condition £100-150
Hammer Price: £150
A scarce regimental pattern sword for an officer of the Northumberland Fusiliers, 1897 pattern infantry officer’s sword, the 89cm dumbell section blade by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, No 55883 for 1918, etched with crowned GVR cypher, foliate scrolls, regimental device of St George & Dragon, flaming grenade and battle honours to South Africa 1899-1902, regulation plated steel guard incorporating GVR cypher and with affiixed regimental badge, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wir...
Hammer Price: £250
An interesting 1897 pattern infantry officers sword owned by a RFC officer awarded the MC & Bar, the 84cm dumbell-section blade etched with crowned GVR cypher, royal arms, foliate scrolls etc., and within a cartouche the owners name ‘2nd. Lt. Cecil Alfred Stevens Esq MC and Bar Oct. 1917’, blade retaining almost all original finish, regulation plated steel guard incorporating GVR cypher, retaining its field service sword knot, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its f...
Hammer Price: £320
An 1897 pattern infantry officer’s sword, the 82cm dumbell-section blade retaining all original finish, etched with crowned GVR cypher, foliate scrolls etc., and engraved within a cartouche ‘Donald F Kelly, 22nd London Regt ‘The Queen’s’, regulation plated guard incorporating GVR cypher, fish-skin covered grip bound with copper wire, complete with its brown leather field service scabbard, in excellent condition throughout £100-150
An 1897 pattern infantry officer’s sword, the straight 82cm dumbell section blade by Church Lads Brigade, Aldwych House, London, WC, etched with GVR cypher etc., regulation steel guard incorporating GVR cypher fish-skin covered grip bound with silver wire, contained in an associated steel scabbard, good condition £50-60
Hammer Price: £80
An 1897 pattern infantry officer’s sword by Henry Wilkinson, Pall Mall, London, No. 56190 for 1918, the 82cm straight dumbell section blade etched with crowned GVR cypher etc., retaining almost all original finish regulation steel guard incorporating GVR cypher, fish-skin covered grip bound with silver wire, complete with its field service scabbard, good condition overall £80-100
An 1897 pattern infantry officer’s sword, the straight 82cm dumbell section blade etched with GVR cypher etc., complete with its field service scabbard, some service wear overall £60-80
Hammer Price: £70
A scarce 1905 pattern staff sergeants sword, Mark1, the 83cm cut-down 1899 pattern cavalry blade by Mole, Birmingham, struck with various issue marks including date '11 and opposed broad arrows, 1897 pattern infantry guard incorporating crowned GVR cypher, fish-skin covered grip secured to the solid tang with two rivets, flat oval fluted pommel, complete with its steel scabbard with issue marks 6.1912 and CAPC, good condition overall £350-400
Hammer Price: £350
An interesting display of early German cross-bow bolts, fixed into a modern display board, with a modern label inscribed ‘ Cross-bow bolt points Circa 1400-1550, found near Ulm, Germany’ ten bolts in all, in excavated condition (10) £80-100
Hammer Price: £60
An American Navy officer’s sword, the 71cm blade etched with USN device etc., regulation brass-gilt guard simulated shark-skin covered grip, retaining its gold sword knot, contained in its black leather scabbard with three regulation mounts, good condition overall £80-100
Hammer Price: £110
An American Army officer’s sword, the 80cm blade etched with American eagle etc., plated regulation hilt, contained in its plated scabbard, good condition £60-80
Hammer Price: £85
A Mauser S98 parade bayonet, plated pipe back blade and mounts, steel scabbard, complete with frog, another Mauser S98 bayonet steel mounts, black leather scabbard steel mounts the top mount marked 3.6.R.9.251, and a French Lebel bayonet complete with its steel scabbard, good condition (3) £80-100
A Japanese naval officer’s dagger, the flat 23cm blade with single groove, regulation gilt-plated alloy mounts, white fish-skin covered grip bound with gilt wire, complete with its black patent leather scabbard with two gilt mounts, blade with some rust marking £120-150
A Third Reich naval officer’s dagger, the 25cm blade by Eickhorn, Solingen, etched with anchor etc., regulation gilt hilt composition grip bound with copper wire, complete with gold bullion knot, contained in its regulation scabbard, some servive wear overall £150-200
Hammer Price: £290
A late war Japanese Arisaka bayonet, straight cross-guard, the steel scabbard engraved ‘Taken from a Japanese armed party by a Royal Marine detachment of HMS Indomitable’ together with a pennant printed with the badge and HMS Indomitable, good condition (2) £30-40
Hammer Price: £35
British Infantry Shako 1812-16 Pattern, a very rare example in napped felt, plain unbound horizontal front peak, bound with narrow leather strip around the base, the lower front panel bound with black herringbone cloth, the upper ‘false front’ section broken off and missing, to the upper left side a black cloth ‘lace’ cockade, this with applied pewter bugle horn, internally are remains of the paper and fine yellow cotton linings, the period shako plate of standard rococo pattern is an officer...
Hammer Price: £1,000
2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), a very fine officer’s 1871 pattern full dress helmet for the period 1901-10, formerly worn by Major William Horsley Persse, complete with frontal plate, silver diamond cut star with overlays in gilt silver and red and blue enamels being the fretted Garter Proper with blue backing and central red ground with silver EVIIR monogram, chin chain and rose side ornaments, quadrant and plume holder, internally some of the original lining present now partially replac...
Hammer Price: £1,500
3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards, a fine quality officer’s full dress helmet 1871 pattern, complete with frontal plate, silver diamond cut star with overlays in gilt silver and enamels, being the fretted Garter Proper with blue backing and a central Prince of Wales’s crest and motto on red ground, chin chain and rose side ornaments (these are modern poor quality replacements), quadrant and plume holder, internally lining and sweat band sound, falling horse hair plume black over red, gil...
3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards, an officer’s fine quality 1871 pattern helmet gilt brass skull, with similar spike chin chain and rose side ornaments, the plate being a silver hob-nail cut elongated star mounted with a gilt pierced Garter Proper in gilt, this with a ground of blue enamel, centrally the Prince of Wales’s crest and motto on a red enamel ground, internally the period quilted silk sweat band and other lining present, front peak lined with green, skiver missing on the rear...
Hammer Price: £1,400
12th (Prince of Wales’s) Royal Lancers, an extremely fine and rare officer’s 1846 pattern lance cap, the skull of black patent leather with similar turned up back peak, this and the skull complete with all gold lace embellishments, the broad waist with gold and crimson silk band, the trencher top 21.5cm and covered with crimson cloth and gold orris cord cross bands, the large gold bullion rosette with a crimson velvet face bearing a gold bullion ‘VR’ cypher, correct provision for the plume t...
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A scarce OR’s shapska of the South Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry, black patent leather skull, brass plate similar to that of the 12th. Lancers, red cloth sides and mortarboard, with yellow crossing orris cord, yellow and blue headband, plume boss of regimental pattern fitted with officers pattern button of the regiment, lion-head cockades, brass link chinscales,the inner cotton lining with makers details ‘Thos. Freestone Kirby, fashionable military & naval tailor, 30, Aldersgate St, London‘ some sli...
12th (Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers, a scarce officer’s scarlet cloth, stiffened, round forage cap c1870-1900, the sides with broad gold lace band, and the crown with gold purl knop and narrow gold cord crossing the crown at right angles, tan leather sweatband and most of the quilted silk lining present, small section only of the narrow leather chin strap, one small moth hole and small surface moth patches to crown, otherwise good condition £200-250
Hammer Price: £370
1st Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, a good officer’s 1878 pattern blue cloth helmet, complete with all plated fittings and bearing the QVC Royal Arms pattern plate ‘First’ on the top scroll, and ‘Lancashire Artillery Volunteers’ on the bottom, lining and sweat band all intact, some slight surface mothing, plate not original to the helmet bottom retaining nut on the metal spine missing, otherwise good condition £300-350
Hammer Price: £270
The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own), a scarce Field officer’s navy blue peaked forage cap, the peak embellished with gold lace, the cap badge of cast silver plate, correct pattern gilt and silver chin strap buttons, complete with tan leather sweatband and lining, retailed by Messrs Hawkes & co., peak lace dull otherwise good condition £30-50
Hammer Price: £50
An Victorian OR’s helmet of the Yorkshire Dragoons, white metal skull, large three-piece plate with legend within garter ‘ Yorkshire Dragoons’ cockades in the form of a rose, white metal chin-chain, falling red horse-hair plume, some denting to skull, minor damage to plate and plume spike lacking part of central mount £250-300
Hammer Price: £420
A scarce officer's torin cap of the 6th. Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers [Watson's Horse], of dark blue melton cloth, narrow gold bullion piping, silver badge of crossed lances and numeral 6 regimental title within scroll, stiched in trade label of Walters & Co, Oxford, the owners name inked in JCE Bowen, good condition £100-120
£100–£120
Military Tropical Helmets, both cloth covered one khaki one whitened the former bearing a good QVC post 1881 glengarry badge of the KRRC both with canvas knops; a modern coppered brass bugle by Potters; a black haired sporran with chromium civilian cantle; an English Deputy Lieutenant’s full dress waist belt the plated clasp with rose and oak sprays; a modern tan leather pouch and belt the pouch with a QEC cap badge of the The Perth Regiment (Canada); a black patent-leather pouch with brass...
Hammer Price: £180
Royal Fusiliers, an other ranks full dress sealskin fur cap bearing a gilding metal KC grenade badge complete with leather lining; an unissued khaki tropical helmet bearing the QVC helmet plate of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry brass ball and leaf pattern knop the chin strap and leather lining in mint state; a whitened tropical helmet this without a badge the top mount and spike in silver plate the chin chain chromed and leather lined, the fur cap with four bald patches (3) £60-80
Fusilier Fur Cap, a good quality other ranks pattern dated 1910, no badge short grey feather plume lining all present sweat band part detached no chin strap, two small moth holes to rear (one poorly repaired) £100-150
Hammer Price: £90
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