Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar

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A COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN VARIOUS SPEARS, 19TH
CENTURY AND LATER
some with leaf-shaped blades and conical sockets, each on
a wooden haft (the steel pitted throughout
(14)
£200-300
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Property formerly in the collection of Friedrich-Werner
Graf von der Schulenburg (1875-1944), see introduction to
lots 13 to 19 and lot 384
A RUSSIAN MODEL 1798 INFANTRY OFFICER'S SWORD
with earlier blade of regulation type stamped 'Vivat
Catharina' within a short gilt fuller surrounded by etched
and gilt foliage on a blued ground, stamped with a
commemorative inscription over the greater part of its
length including, in translation, ‘Grand Duke Alexander
Commander in Chief of the Semenovsky Regiment’ on one
side (surface rust), regulation brass hilt including up-turned
double shell-guard, short quillon chiselled with foliage,
knuckle-guard and faceted plummet-shaped pommel, and
the grip with its original wire binding
84.5cm; 33Din blade
£1000-1500
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A RUSSIAN OFFICER’S SWORD, CIRCA 1763-96
with curved blade double-edged towards the point, cut
with a long slender fuller along the back-edge and stamped
with the crowned Imperial cypher on each side, steel triplebar
hilt, and wooden grip retaining its original leather
covering (small losses)
84.7cm; 33Gin blade
£500-800
VARIOUS OWNERS
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A FRENCH MODEL AN XIII HEAVY CAVALRY TROOPER’S
SWORD, DATED 1811
the blade with traces of an arsenal inscription and the date
on the back-edge, stamped with inspector’s marks at the
forte, brass hilt, in its steel scabbard (heavily patinated
throughout)
96cm; 37Nin blade
£250-300
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