Sales catalogue: Christies

Date:: 29th July 1919

Reference:: WA/HMM/CM/Sal/4/129

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Christies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Jy Japanese match-lock pistol,, the barrel encrusted with silver ; another, of smaller proportions ; a flint-lock pistol, with chiselled barrel and mounts, in the semi-Huropean taste; a short Arab snaphaunce pistol, mounted with oagaived bone ; and a snaphaunce pistol, the: stock over- laid with silver, European barrel : et A snaphaunce pistol, elaborately mounted with nielloed } Mites silver, with gold damascened barrel—TZwrkish, late 18th a / we yer Century ; another, somewhat similar, the stock overlaid jae with leather; and an Albanian knife, the mounts of silver, parcel-gilt, chased and nielloed aie scale-pattern se 39) A Turkish shamsher, with-horn grip and watered steel a blade ; an Albanian yataghan ; three Ghurka kukris; a horn “bows “a mace head} a pole axe head, inlaid with “silver; a lance ‘head, inlaid with brass; a powder flask ; and two other pieces Rg DIC 12 a Stems 3 : 35 Pen ) Du 3 OH3rH- _ The following are the Property of the removed from Bothwell Castle. ARMS. By 140 A stiletto, with brightened steel hilt, chiselled with rectan- — ee gular canopies at the ends of the quillons and pommel 141 A small bronze baton, inscribed “ G.R.”—early 18th Century Pe bia —this baton of the Constable of Dundee came to the . ay , family of Douglas, together with the Lordship of Dudhope; and the seal of the Officers of the Constable Sast A bayonet, chiselled with dragons, and engraved with scroll- scabbard, with BN aie steel mounts — early 18th Century 425] A back-edged bayonet, utes with the Growhed Rose ; two bayonets—stamped Dawezs, 1803; a pike head; a gradu- ating bullet mould ; a six- paiaiied percussion-cap pistol ; a small spear head, engraved and gilt, and inscribed “ BRUSSELS ” ; a single bullet mould; and a steel powder , primer

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