A PERCUSSION REVOLVING RIFLE, INDISTINCTLY SIGNED
19th century
With heavy octagonal barrel, plain iron frame, scroll-engraved hammer and guard, large six-shot cylinder, double trigger, and chequered walnut half-stock with steel buttplate. Signed…
Condition: Firing mechanism in good working order. makers name rubbed. No obvious defects
Hammer price:
£1,600
Estimate: £500 - £700
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A FINE ENGLISH PERCUSSION SPORTING PISTOL BY THOMAS LEE, LONDON
Mid-19th century
An octagonal browned barrel signed Thomas Lee, London, finely engraved lock and tang, scroll-engraved hammer and mounts, chequered walnut half-stock with horn fore-end cap, brass…
Hammer price:
£300
Estimate: £300 - £500
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A MID-19TH CENTURY PERCUSSION CAVALRY PISTOL
Mid-19th century
A full walnut stock, brass mounts including butt cap and trigger guard, iron ramrod, and regulation steel lockplate engraved with a lion passant, overall length 40cm
Hammer price:
£480
Estimate: £200 - £300
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN CROSSBOW
19th century
With makers name Johnson Manchester, of composite construction, with dark-stained hardwood tiller inlaid with engraved white-metal plaques and fitted with a folding rear sight and iron…
Estimate: £300 - £500
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A PERSIAN EMBROIDERED QUIVER WITH NINETEEN ARROWS
19th century
Of tapering form, richly worked in silver and gilt embroidery over a textile-covered frame, with decorative suspension strap bearing jingling pendants and engraved brass mount. Retaining…
Hammer price:
£1,000
Estimate: £600 - £900
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A JAPANESE SHIN-GUNTO MILITARY SWORD WITH FIELD COVER
Circa 1930s–40s
A World War II period shin-gunto katana with traditional tsuba, brass military mounts, and ray-skin grip bound with brown silk. The tang shows two holes, with signs of earlier blade…
Signature analysis (mei):The tang bears a two-hole mounting (niju mekugi-ana) suggesting the blade may be older than its WWII-era shin-gunto mounts. The mei appears to be a partially obscured kanji…
Hammer price:
£450
Estimate: £300 - £500
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A JAPANESE TYPE 98 OFFICER’S SHIN-GUNTO KATANA
Mid 20th century
With regulation leather-covered scabbard, pierced brass tsuba bearing Imperial chrysanthemum motifs, traditional wrapped tsuka over samegawa ray skin, and gilt menuki, the tang…
Hammer price:
£650
Estimate: £400 - £600
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A JAPANESE WAKIZASHI WITH DECORATIVE LACQUERED SAYA AND IRON TSUBA
Early 20th century
The curved single-edged blade with plain copper habaki and deeply patinated iron tsuba of lobed form, the hilt unusually wrapped in thick wool cord over original fittings, the…
Hammer price:
£190
Estimate: £100 - £200
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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AN INDO-PERSIAN CARVED WOODEN MUSKET REST
19th century
With forked pivoting rest carved in the form of serpent or dragon heads, the shaft decorated with geometric and scale-like motifs, and fitted with transverse handle and iron bracing bar…
Estimate: £200 - £300
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A VICTORIAN OFFICER’S FORAGE CAP OF THE 22ND (CHESHIRE) REGIMENT
Circa 1880–1900
With dark blue cloth body and polished black peak, the front applied with gilt and silvered regimental badge featuring the Prince of Wales’s feathers above a coronet and scrolls…
Hammer price:
£300
Estimate: £200 - £300
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A GROUP OF BRITISH MILITARY UNIFORM AND CAVALRY ACCOUTREMENTS
Late 19th - early 20th century
Comprising a pair of black leather cavalry ankle boots with fixed steel spurs, a crimson officer’s waist sash with bullion fringe, two crimson and silver shoulder cords…
Hammer price:
£120
Estimate: £200 - £300
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A GROUP OF BRITISH MILITARY OFFICER’S SWORD BELTS AND ACCOUTREMENTS
Early 20th century
Including several dress belts with ornate silver and gilt buckles, examples to the Second Royal Cheshire and other regiments, some with lion or Prince of Wales’s plume insignia,…
Hammer price:
£140
Estimate: £150 - £250
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A LARGE GROUP OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LEATHER BELTS AND SLINGS
20th century
Comprising over 20 various items including leather and webbing belts, bandoliers, and rifle slings, many with brass or steel fittings, military-issue styles visible among others, with…
Hammer price:
£90
Estimate: £100 - £150
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A WWII PERIOD BRITISH MILITARY RANGEFINDER NO. 1436 BY SHORT & MASON
Circa 1940s
A British Army issue handheld optical rangefinder, marked “SHORT & MASON LTD LONDON No.1436” with War Department broad arrow. Matte black cylindrical body with brass belt loop,…
Estimate: £120 - £180
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A CANADIAN ROSS RIFLE BAYONET AND SCABBARD
Circa 1910–1916, the single-edged spear-point blade with two-piece wooden grips, straight crossguard with muzzle ring, and release catch to the pommel, in its leather scabbard with integral frog,…
Hammer price:
£70
Estimate: £60 - £80
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A GROUP OF EIGHT MILITARY AND CIVILIAN LEATHER HOLSTERS (8)
20th century
Comprising: a leather stock-holster for the Mauser C96 ‘Broomhandle’ pistol; a wartime brown leather Luger P08 holster with spare magazine pouch; a British Webley service revolver…
Hammer price:
£220
Estimate: £100 - £150
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A GROUP OF SCABBARDS AND A LEATHER HOLSTER
19th–20th century
Including six assorted scabbards of various styles and materials, such as wood, leather, and textile-bound examples—some likely Indo-Persian or African in origin—together with a…
Hammer price:
£35
Estimate: £100 - £150
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A WWI FRENCH MODEL 1874 “GRAS” BAYONET
Dated 1880
A fullered single-edged blade, steel crossguard stamped with issue number “FG 99654” and inspection markings, the spine of the blade marked “Mre d’Armes de St Etienne 1880”, with ribbed…
Hammer price:
£20
Estimate: £80 - £120
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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TWO ENGRAVED BAYONETS
19th century
Comprising a long yataghan-bladed bayonet with ribbed composition grip, and a narrower example with figured grip and metal scabbard, both with engraved blades, longest: 72cm
Estimate: £120 - £180
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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TWO BAYONETS, ONE DATED 1879
Late 19th century
The longer with engraved date 1879 and curved quillon, both with fullered blades, metal scabbards and composite grips, length: the longer 67cm
Hammer price:
£70
Estimate: £80 - £120
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A CONTINENTAL BRONZE-HILTED PRACTICE OR FENCING SWORD
19th century and later, With slender blade of flattened diamond section etched with scrollwork at the forte, cast bronze crossguard with trefoil terminals, matching trefoil pommel, and wire-bound…
Estimate: £200 - £300
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A SPANISH CUP HILT RAPIER
Late 17th century, with earlier tapering double edge blade and central fuller, decoratively pierced with crosses and circles and with a Latin inscription. The chiseled iron hilt decorated with…
Hammer price:
£800
Estimate: £500 - £800
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A CONTINENTAL BRONZE-HILTED PRACTICE OR FENCING SWORD
Late 18th / early 19th century and later
The plain cast brass crossguard with trefoil terminals, globular pommel, wire-bound grip and a slender blade etched at the forte (pitted), pointed tip.…
Hammer price:
£100
Estimate: £100 - £200
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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A 17TH CENTURY STYLE SWEPT HILT RAPIER
19th century, with tapering double edged blade, steel hilt, globular pommel and wire bound steel grip
Hammer price:
£300
Estimate: £260 - £450
10 September 2025
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10 September 2025
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