Items #207-213 were purchased from Christie’s, London, in the 1980’s for our own collection and are unconditionally guaranteed authentic.
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Items #207-213 were purchased from Christie’s, London, in the 1980’s for our own collection and are unconditionally guaranteed authentic. These seven examples are the last of the collection.
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Items #207-213 were purchased from Christie’s, London, in the 1980’s for our own collection and are unconditionally guaranteed authentic. These seven examples are the last of the collection
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Items #207-213 were purchased from Christie’s, London, in the 1980’s for our own collection and are unconditionally guaranteed authentic. These seven examples are the last of the collection.
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Items #207-213 were purchased from Christie’s, London, in the 1980’s for our own collection and are unconditionally guaranteed authentic. These seven examples are the last of the collection.
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Items #207-213 were purchased from Christie’s, London, in the 1980’s for our own collection and are unconditionally guaranteed authentic. These seven examples are the last of the collection.
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Items #207-213 were purchased from Christie’s, London, in the 1980’s for our own collection and are unconditionally guaranteed authentic. These seven examples are the last of the collection.
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Brass hilt with symmetrical shell guards, each with thickened edges decorated with high relief addorsed elongated diamonds.
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Briquet form with one piece brass ribbed grip hilt. 23 3/4” heavy curved wedge section blade maker marked Gebr. (Gebruder) Weyersberg at the forte (active C.1840’s-70’s) with additional crowned cipher.
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. Peterson #77. 30” curved s.e. plated blade well etched with US, stars & bars and eagle. Inset proof at the forte and reverse with B. Pasquale & Co. San Francisco retailer’s name.
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33” curved broad fullered s.e. blade with king’s head and W K & C maker’s marks, plated, virtually 100% intact.
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1897 pattern with pierced scrolling strap work to the large bowl shaped guard. Large impressed GR VI cipher. Diced back strap.
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After the Civil War, Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania, fought the mine owners who failed to provide safe or decent working conditions. Working through a secret society, the Ancient Order of Hybernians, founded in the 18th century, they resorted to..
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Type largely made for naval officers, but privately produced and purchased. This example with 10 1/4” curved s.e. blade decorated with foliage. Quite crisp with dark patina and spotty pits slightly obscuring the decoration which includes a central motif
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14th-15th century. Used in sieges. Lead cylinder about 5/8” length with the ends depressed to form a cutting edge.
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Late crusades period and type associated with Moldavia, the Eastern European frontier with Islam and home of many crusades battlefields.
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. Late Gothic period c.1400-50. Translating to “house defense” these were carried by peasants sheathed and suspended from the belt at the front left.
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Finely made example with 12 1/4” s.e. heavy wedge section blade. C1450.
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8 1/4” wedge section leaf shaped blade. Tapered tang and separate cusped hand guard riveted through. Excellent excavated condition
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Truly a late form of the scramseax with relatively thin 12 1/2” distinctly clipped point blade and broad tapered tang with separate.
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C.1770-90. Each have the detached bowl broken from the stem. Have three lots of five examples each.
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Steel with full relief Tudor crowned devise of the corp which distinguished itself during WWI in North Africa and elsewhere.
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Distinctive craft which descended from the linen industry essential to the mummification industry.
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200-40 AD. Fine example 6 1/2” x 3 1/2”. Stylized wave border with repeated conjoined floral edge panels of stylized plant motif, an allusion to the tree of life. Dark brown on brown. Sound with loss to one end only.
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A garment border end. 2 1/4” x 5 3/4”. Finer weave dating about 100 AD-200 AD. Stylized wave border with central motif of recurves.
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C.200-400 AD. Lathe turned cedar, about 4 1/4” diameter, now warped.
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XXII dynasty, 945-715 BC. Green faience, 3 1/2” height modeled as a mummified pharaoh with arms crossed.
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Old Kingdom, C.2649-2150 BC. 14 mm about 9/16” dia, completely hand polished carnelian.
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Hand polished carnelian. Old Kingdom, C.2649-2150 BC. 13 mm diameter, slightly over 1/2”. Good color.
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Hand polished carnelian. 14 mm dia. Surface slightly dulled from burial.
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