New stock
All stock listed here has been added to the site over the last 28 days
| Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next | Page 2 of 9 |
.jpg)  |
WW1 1916 Imperial German Mannschaften (other ranks) Field Artillery Sword By Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie (WKC) Solingen & Scabbard. Sn 22954 - 22954 All Mannschaften (other ranks) of the Imperial German Field Artillery carried these sabres (see page 199 of World Swords by Withers where similar swords are illustrated). The sabres were carried in a sword belt when dismounted or hung from a saddle when mounted. This WW1 dated other ranks Field Artillery sabre is in good condition. It has a nickel plated curved 29 ¾” sabre blade with fullers and measures 35 ½” overall length. The spine of the blade has Imperial inspection mark and ‘16’ 1916 date. One side of the blade under a langet has partially visible manufacturer detail Weyersberg Kirschbaum & Cie Solingen. The blade has no damage but has lost some of its original nickel plate finish in areas. It has the correct ribbed grip and flat curved knuckle bow guard. The sword has its original steel scabbard with 2 hanging rings. The scabbard has a small dent near to the shoe consistent with service carry. The hilt of the sword and scabbard have even aged patina. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 22954 £595.00 |
 |
 |
SOLD SOLD (09/10) Late Victorian Era Japanese Wakizashi Short Sword With Ornately Hand Carved Ox Bone Handle & Scabbard Both With Brass Fittings. ED 3014 - ED 3014 The Wakizashi is a traditional short sword carried as a companion to a Katana (see page 11 of Military Swords Of Japan by Fuller & Gregory). This is an excellent original late 19th Century Japanese Wakizashi Sword With Beautiful Carved Ox Bone Handle & Scabbard. The sword has a sharp 14" clean single edged blade with brass habaki (collar) at the hilt and measures 20 ¼” overall length (23 ½” in its scabbard). Its handle and scabbard made of the bone from the shin of an Ox are ornately hand carved with attractive imagery of Japanese Samurai Warriors, Noblemen & Monk characters dressed in traditional Japanese Costume & Armour in a village setting. The hilt and scabbard have nice brass mounts all embossed with foliate devices. The brass pommel cap has some age and use related denting & a fine old stable split. 2 of the brass bands on the scabbard have hanging ring lugs (rings absent). The price for this hand crafted Japanese piece includes UK delivery. ED 3014 (Tanto box armoury) £0.00 |
|
.jpg) |
**WW1 BRING BACK**Improvised Turkish Trench Fighting Dagger & Scabbard Made From A Cut Down Turkish Model 1890 Mauser Rifle Bayonet & Scabbard. Sn 22961 - 22961 This is an unusual WW1 era Turkish Improvised Fighting Knife & Scabbard made from a Turkish Sword Bayonet & Scabbard for the M1890 Mauser Rifle. The knife has an 8 ¾” single edged fullered blade. The sharp blade has no damage but does have age and service use staining. The blade has Turkish script and inspection marks. It measures 13 ¾” overall. It has the bayonet’s original slab wood grips secured by rivets & its original bayonet steel cross guard with muzzle ring has been removed during conversion and replaced with a thick steel finger guard. The Bayonet’s steel pommel retains its original release button which functions as it should, mortise slot and Turkish inspection marks. The knife is complete with its improvised scabbard no doubt made from a cut down bayonet scabbard. The leather scabbard has rear seam which has become open with age, original bayonet scabbards steel mount with frog locket which has Turkish inspection marks and has an improvised pressed steel chape again applied during conversion. The scabbard is fitted with original leather bayonet frog with belt loop. The leather has some age and use related service wear. The price includes UK delivery Sn 22961 (German daggers and knives box) £275.00 |
|
.jpg) |
WW1 Era British Other Ranks Officer's Manchester Regiment Uniform Cap With Regiment Cap Badge. HE 860 - HE 860 The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. After distinguished service in both the First and the Second World Wars, the Manchester Regiment was amalgamated with the King's Regiment (Liverpool) in 1958, to form the King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool), which was, in 2006, amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form the present Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border). This is an original WW1 era British Other Ranks Officer's Manchester Regiment Uniform Cap With Regiment Cap Badge. It has the correct thin tan leather chin strap with buckles secured by 2 King’s Crown embossed King’s Crown heraldic arms brass buttons and vent holes at either side. The front of the cap has its original Manchester Regiment cap badge in excellent condition. The cap has the correct leather sweatband. The cap has just light staining in areas consistent with age but no damage or moth holes. The cap is approx UK size 6. The price includes UK delivery. HE 860 £295.00 |
|
 |
Victorian Christopher Johnson & Co Western Works Sheffield Spear Bowie Belt Dagger With Stag Antler Scales & Open Top Leather Scabbard. Sn 22965 - 22965 Christopher Johnson, who was born in Sheffield in about 1809, started his cutlery business in 1836 in Howard Street. The original partnership was apparently Christopher and Henry Johnson, which was listed in a directory (1837) as C. & H. Johnson, successor to Ward & Co, Howard Street (Broomhead & Ward). Later Marshall and Hibbert took over the business. In 1881, Marshall told the Census that the firm employed 167 workers (114 men, 14 boys, 30 women, and 9 girls). Hibbert’s calculation was ‘about 200’. In the late 19th century, the company operated at Western Works and Western Steel Works in Portobello, with a London agent in Victoria Street, London. In 1955, the company was bought by the famous Sheffield cutler Wostenholm. This is a nice late Victorian era English Spear Point Belt dagger by Christopher Johnson & Co Western Works Sheffield with Scabbard. It has undamaged Stag antler scales secured by steel pins. It has an oval brass cross guard. It has a clean 6 ¼” single edged, spear point steel blade with medial ridge and measures 10 ¼” overall. One side of the blade is signed ‘Christopher Johnson & Co Western Works Sheffield’ and the ricasso has ‘Johnnson Western Works Sheffield’ together with Flag ‘C.J’ on pole trademark. It's brown leather open top scabbard has an integral belt loop to the rear & stitched seam. All leather & stitching of the scabbard are clean & intact. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 22965 (Bowies box) £375.00 |
|
.jpg) |
WW2 U.S.M.C. Collins & Co Legitimus No.18 V-44 Combat / Survival Bowie Knife With Polished Horn Scales & Scabbard. Sn 22966 - 22966 An original WW2 United States V-44 Legitimus Combat and Survival Bowie knife by Collins & Co (see page 67 of Stephen’s book ‘Fighting Knives ‘ and plate 322 which illustrates a Collins & Co Legitimus No.18 mark the same as our example). Officially a survival knife the U.S. Marine Corps used them as a fighting knife against the Japanese. It is a large knife measuring 14 ¼” overall length and with polished horn scales secured by 5 steel rivets. It has a brass cross guard with rounded finials. The Bowie type blade is 9 ½” length with drop point and twin fullers. The blade has staining consistent with age & the cutting edge is very sharp. The blade is marked with manufacturer’s mark ‘Collins & Co, Crown & trademark, Legitimus Made In USA No.18’. It is accompanied by its open top brown leather scabbard with rear riveted belt loop. All leather and stitching of the scabbard are clean & intact. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 22966 (in American knives box) £475.00 |
|
.JPG) |
SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 11/10) **MINT BORE**. Victorian, British Volunteers .577 Calibre 2 Band Sergeants Short Rifle Enfield Antique Muzzle Loading Rifle by Wilkinson of London. Sn - 22975 Henry Wilkinson was a successful and famous gunmaker with premises on Pall Mall in London. The company was renown for making quality guns and swords. This is an original British .577 Enfield pattern 2 band sergeants short rifle made by Wilkinson of London made privately for the Volunteer regiments with a mint bore. This rifle has a 33” round steel 3 grove rifling barrel with a mint bore and crisp rifling. The rifle is fitted with the correct all steel furniture with sling swivels fitted to the butt and the top barrel band. The bayonet bar is stamped W S 70. The rifle is fitted with the correct ramp and ladder sight sighted to 1100 yards. The double lined lock plate is engraved WILKINSON, LONDON. and has a crisp action. The rifle has its original woodwork and is stamped on the left hand side of the butt with the name C.Sherpe. The rifle is fitted with the bayonet bar, cleaning rod, nipple protector with brass link chain, fixed foresight and adjustable 1,100 yard rear ladder sight. The rifles metalwork has a patina finish and the woodwork has some bumps and bruises due to its service life. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique, muzzle loading rifle, no licence is required to own this weapon in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 22975 £0.00 |
|
 |
Italian Colt Model 1873 Army Peacemaker Buntline Special .44 Calibre Single Action Six Shot Revolver With Blue & Colour Case Hardened Finish**UK 2004 DEACTIVATION CERTIFICATED**Sn 22923 - 22923 The Colt M1873 Single Action Army/ Peacemaker was a single action revolver designed for the U.S. Government by Colt. The revolvers were adopted as the U.S. Army standard military service revolver until 1892 and were favoured by Early Law Enforcement Officers. The Colt Buntline Special was a long-barreled variant of the Colt Single Action Army revolver, which Stuart N. Lake described in his best-selling but largely fictionalized 1931 biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal. According to Lake, the dime novelist Ned Buntline commissioned the production of five Buntline Specials. Lake described them as extra-long Colt Single Action Army revolvers. The Colt design lives on today in the form of quality live firing pistols true to the original Colt pistols, made in a variety of calibres from Italian manufacturers such as Pedersoli, Uberti, Pietta and Euroarms. This large frame Buntline .44 calibre revolver is side gate loading and has a captive ejector rod. The pistol retains all of its original blue & colour case hardened factory finish. It has undamaged wood grips. It has a 7 ½” barrel with blade foresight and the rear sight is a groove on top of the cylinder frame. The pistol measures 13” overall. The barrel is marked ‘Black Powder Only Cal .44 Made In Italy’. The pistol has proofs and 1871 -1872 patent detail as found on original Colt revolvers. The pistols serial number is E60746 which is stamped on the underside of the frame. Deactivated to UK specification in 2004 the pistol’s blued cylinder is cut and ringed and the barrel blocked, its sprung captive ejector rod moves and the side gate opens. The pistol cocks and dry fires correctly in single action. The price for this attractive large frame piece includes UK delivery and deactivation certificate. Sn 22923 £450.00 |
|
 |
C1830 English Jabez Bloxham Welch Banbury Nipple & Drum Percussion Converted from Flintlock Coaching Blunderbuss With Integral Folding Bayonet & Ram Rod. Sn 22697:1 - 22697:1 Jabez Bloxham Welch was an English gunmaker recorded as working in the market town, Banbury on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire between 1829 & 1852 (see page 105 of English Gunmakers by Bailey & Nie). We can find no other gunmakers named Welch working in the flintlock / percussion era in Banbury. This is an excellent Blunderbuss no doubt by Jabez Bloxham Welch and is of the type favoured by Coach drivers for self protection against Highwaymen. It is 28 ½” overall (bayonet closed) with a 12 ½” round steel barrel which is a large 1 ¼” width at the muzzle opening. The smooth bore has just light staining consistent with age & use. The underside of the barrel beneath the wood has initials ‘E.B’ most likely Welch’s barrel maker. The top of the barrel has English black powder proofs and is signed ‘Banbury’. The blunderbuss, originally a flintlock was period nipple & drum converted to percussion. It has a Dolphin hammer & steel lock plate which has foliate engraved decoration and is signed by the maker ‘Welch’. The action also has part of a sliding safety bolt probably from when it was a flintlock. The safety slides but does not lock the percussion hammer to safety. It has all original Walnut full stock with chequered wrist panels and steel mounts. The top of the wrist is inlaid with void brass shield escutcheon. The wood has just light age and handling related bumps and bruises. The trigger guard with extended tang and finial & butt plate tang have light foliate engraved decoration. a sliding safety bolt that works as it should. It has an ebonised wood ramrod with brass end cap and tip which unscrews to reveal a steel worm. The blunderbuss has its original integral folding bayonet mounted on top of the barrel which is retained by a spring clip at the muzzle end & sliding catch at the breech. The spring clips works correctly and the 9 ½” fullered triangular shaped blade tapers to a pin sharp point. The weapon cocks and dry fires crisply. The price for this quality Blunderbuss includes UK delivery. NB As an antique percussion weapon no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a private collection or display. Sn 22697:1 £1,950.00 |
|
 |
**MINT BORE**MATCHING NUMBERS**Hopkins & Allen Manufacturing Company USA 1871 Patent ‘BLUE JACKET No 2’ .32 Rim Fire Obsolete Calibre 5 Shot Single Action Revolver. Sn 22927 - 22927 Hopkins & Allen Arms Company were a U.S firearms manufacturing company based in Norwich, Connecticut that was founded in 1868 by Charles W. Allen, Charles A. Converse, Horace Briggs, Samuel S. Hopkins and Charles W. Hopkins. The Hopkins brothers ran the day-to-day operations of the company until it went bankrupt in 1916 and was subsequently bought by Marlin-Rockwell. Known as the ‘Blue Jacket No2 ’ Model, this revolver is one of many revolvers based on S&W and Colt Patents produced in the 1860’s through to the late 1870s with dynamic or quirky names to attract sales. This is an excellent original example of the ‘BLUE JACKET No 2’. It retains its original blue finish which has even aged fading. It has a 2 ¾” steel barrel (7” overall). The barrel’s bore is near mint clean & bright with crisp rifling. The steel cylinder spigot can be removed for speed loading by depression of a steel lever on the frame. The underside of the barrel is numbered ‘3848c’. Matching ‘384’ is repeated on the cylinder. The top of the frame is crisply marked 'Hopkins & Allen Mfg Co BLUE JACKET No2 Pat March 28 1871'. It has a sheathed trigger and original undamaged Walnut grips. The pistol has a blade fore sight and notched frame rear sight. The action is correctly single action only and it cocks and dry fires crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre rim fire revolver no licence is required to own this pistol in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 22927 (drawers office) £475.00 |
|
.jpg) |
**WORLD’S SMALLEST* 1927-1935, German, Venus Waffenfabrik Tell II .177 Calibre Break Action Tin Plate Air Pistol. Sn 22957 - 22957 Venus Waffenfabrik of Mehlis Germany produced the Tell II Air pistol between 1927 & 1935. It is made of tin plate and measured 5 ½” overall length. It was advertised as 'The World's smallest spring piston Air Pistol' (see pages 157 & 158 of The Collectors Guide To Air Pistols by Hiller). Its unique concentric design made it the Father of several full size Air Pistols. Before cocking the pistol, a lever is swung out from the rear of the grip to afford mechanical advantage while cocking is performed. The Pistols were only made in No 1 Bore/ .177 calibre. This Tell II .177 Air pistol is in very good condition, fully functioning with original blue finish which has small areas of rubbing consistent with age and use. Its original flat chequered wood grips are intact and secured by a screw bolt. The top of the compression cylinder is correctly stamped by the manufacturer 'D.R.G.M Tell II D.R.P' including the Venus Waffenfabrik factory combined 'V & W ' trade mark. The price for this air pistol which led the way for modern Air Pistols includes UK delivery. Sn 22957 £245.00 |
|
 |
ZULU WARS, 1874 (1st Year of Production) British Martini Henry MK I Converted To MK II Rifle .577x .450 Obsolete Calibre Service Rifle, Bayonet & Frog. Sn 22974 - 22974 The Martini Henry mark 1 rifle was approved for service on the 17th July 1874. This is an original British service .577x .450 Martini Henry mark I rifle made in 1876 and was the later in its service life converted to mark II standard. The rifle has a long cocking indicator block and blade fore sight, flip up ladder rear sight, steel butt plate, sling swivels, grooved trigger, original mark 2 cleaning rod & bayonet lug. This is a nice Martini Henry rifle which retains most of its original blued finish. The rifle has a 33 ¼ “ steel barrel and measures 49 ½” overall. The metal work retains much of its original blued finish including the breech block and has many WD ordnance inspection marks (illustrated). The action is stamped on the right side ENFIELD 1874 (manufacture date) an inspection stamp Mark I to Mark II conversion designation where the first I is central over the inspection mark with the second I stamped to the right after the conversion of the rifle from a mark I to a mark II and 2. Most of the parts of the rifle are stamped with Enfield inspection stamps including the action trigger, trigger guard, operating lever, butt plate and barrel bands. The butt carries a feint Enfield class 1 roundel. The rifle has a nice bright bore and the cocking and firing action works crisply. The wood furniture has minor bumps and bruises to be expected with age and service use. The action works crisply. The Nepalese government were unable to re arm quickly so quantities of surplus British Martini Henry rifles were sent to arm the Gurkhas in 1894 including further batches sent between 1906 and 1909. This rifle is one of those guns. The rifle is neatly stamped to the left hand side of the rear sight NS NEP Native Scouts, Nepal. The right hand side of the butt is faintly stamped ALLAHABAD ARSENAL. The right hand side of the action is also stamped 2 under the markings which was stamped on all weapons sent abroad. The rifle is fitted with the correct pattern 1876 spike bayonet complete with its leather and brass scabbard and white Slade Wallace leather frog. The socket of the bayonet retains most of its original blued finish. The ricasso is stamped E over 73 a crowfoot over WD (War Department) R. The frog stud on the scabbard is stamped with the number 1967. See section D, Martini arms, RB 93 - 96 on page 18 and 19 of the Catalogue of the Enfield Pattern Room, British Rifles, published by Her Majesty’s Stationary Office and chapters 2 to 4 together with the plate on page 49 in The Martini-Henry for Queen and Empire by Neil Aspinshaw and Guns of the Gurkhas, (The lost arsenal: pistols, rifles and machine guns of the Royal Nepalese Army, 1816 – 1945) by John Walter. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique obsolete calibre rifle and no licence is required to own this rifle in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 22974 £2,200.00 |
|
| Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next | Page 2 of 9 |
(Page updated regularly)