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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    On WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1919, AT ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY. The followung are Sold by Order of the Trustees of the Will of COL. WILLIAM WETHERLY, deceased, late of 31 Egerton Gardens, S.W. f | =. EUROPEAN ARMS AND ARMOUR, A. 196) A whip, the haft of walnut-wood, carved with omnaménts, ” ag ‘ y and inlaid with bone and mother-o’-pearl; workéd into — Jf. the thong are rings of brass—probably..H1 agauroan , late * La) 17th Century; and a st qd pe ed llion, i th cH, ee ee a an a” “Billie and Charlie ” ee : aren oneal i er ra ~ 197 A pair of small pistols, ain ee Cambridge, Te 5 abc : se fg Waa aJ _ stocks inlaid with silver; barrels fluted; the locks on the i } ‘ p> ; percussion cap principle ae f 198, A seven-barrelled pistol, the breech inscribed “ Lipgrry, ra ene LO, » Muar U INDEPENDENCE”; and two flint lock tinderboxes 199] A dagger, with baluster pommel and straight quillons; the 2 blade, 10 im. long, of cruciform section, grooved and we —1Tth Ceniury; and a stiletto, with spirally- twisted grip, and chased oviform quillons and pommel ; the blade, 54 an. long, of triangular section 200 A pair of pistols, with walnut-wood stocks and silver mask- shaped pommels; the barrels and locks, the latter on the flint and steel principle, inscribed with the name of the maker, H. Delaney, London—middle 18th Century 201 A pair of small pistols, with walnut-wood stocks, the barrels and locks, the latter on the flint and steel principle, in one, inscribed “ EK. Press ’—mnuddle 18th Century 202 A pistol, with snake-wood stock, carved with scroll ornaments, and elaborately mounted with scroll in applied steel; the barrel, 134 wm. long, chiselled with ornament, and inscribed “Suaw, Lonpon’”’; the lock on the flint and steel _~ principle—early 18th Centwry; and a pistol, with walnut- wood stock, and partly octagonal barrel, 10 am. long; the lock, on the flint and steel principle, chiselled with figures —18th Century
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