antique arms, armour & militaria - Thomas Del Mar Ltd

376
A FINELY CONSTRUCTED LARGE SHAFFRON AND
CRINET IN GERMAN LATE 15TH CENTURY STYLE
comprising main plate formed with a medial ridge and
flaring out over the muzzle, fitted with a large cheek-plate
on each side, poll-plate, a pair of pierced domed eyedefences,
shield-shaped escutcheon, and a pair of ear
defences, the main plates embossed with tapering flutes,
with recessed borders, plain turns, and studded
throughout with brass rivets; and a crinet of five lames,
formed en suite with the shaffron
(2)
£2000-3000
MISCELLANEA
377
DEAN, BASHFORD.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue of European
Court Swords and Hunting Swords: including the Ellis, De
Dino, Riggs and Reubell Collections. New York, 1929,
cloth bound boards
£200-250
378
DEAN, BASHFORD.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue of European
Daggers: including the Ellis, De Dino, Riggs and Reubell
Collections. New York, 1929, cloth binding and boards
(small tears)
£200-250
164
376
379
ARMS AND ARMOUR SOCIETY VOLUME 1; The Art of the
Armourer (1963); CIMARELLI, ALDO: Arms & Armour
(1973); CREPIN & LEBLOND: Les Couteaux de Jet (1978);
GRUND: Encyclopedie des Armes (1993); HELD, R. A
Review of 162 Antique Arms and Pertinent Objects (1976);
HELD, ROBERT: Arms and Armor Annual; HUBER
(PUBLISHER): Hand und Faust-feuer-waffen,
Schweizerische Ordonnanz 1817-1975 (1971); KOSAR,
FRANZ: A Pocket History of Artillery Light Fieldguns
(1974); NICKEL, HELMUT (INTRODUCTION): The Art of
Chivalry; OGAWA, MORIHIRO: Japanese Master
Swordsmiths: The Gassan Tradition (1989); PAYNE-
GALLWEY, SIR RALPH: The Crossbow (1986); PITOUS, J.-
P. & CREPIN-LEBLOND: Le tir aux armes anciennes (1979);
SARGEAUNT,B.E: Weapons (1908); THE SCOTTISH ART
REVIEW: Scottish Weapons (1963); VENNER, DOMINIQUE:
Les Armes de Cavalerie (1977)
£100-150
380
A PAINTED MILITARY CHEST, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH
CENTURY
of wood bound with steel, fitted with a pair of doors
opening at the front, with a steel lifting handle at each
end, the interior with provision for shelves and drawers,
the exterior painted with a portrait of Lieutenant General
Sir John French, Lieutenant General Lord Methuen on the
doors and on the top with the owner’s name, Colonel J.
McNeil, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Lord Baden
Powell, the piper Corporal McKay, inscribed with the
Battle Honour ‘Kimberley’, a field gun and the owner’s
title (areas of wear, small losses)
104cm; 41Din x 50.8cm; 20in x 55.8cm;22in
£800-1200
381
A PRESSURE GAUGE HYDROMETER FOR A GERMAN U-
BOAT, CIRCA 1914-18
reputedly taken from U-9 when decommissioning in
Scapa Flow in 1919
£100-150