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Nazi German Bronze Tank Battle Badge (Hollow Back). N 174. - N 174
This badge was instituted for the crews of armoured vehicles other than tanks, which comprised self-propelled gunners and the like, the Panzergrenadier personnel and the support units including medical personnel who were engaged in helping the battlefield wounded. It was in all respects the same as the silver award, and was introduced on 1st June 1940. See page 167 of Combat Medals of the third Reich by Christopher Ailsby for reference. This example is in good order *clasp absent*. The price includes UK delivery. N 174.
£195.00

Nazi German General Assault Badge. N 175. - N 175
The General Assault Badge (German: Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen) was a military decoration awarded during World War II to personnel of the German Army, Waffen-SS and Ordnungspolizei (order police) who supported an infantry attack but were not part of specific infantry units and therefore did not qualify for the Infantry Assault Badge. It was instituted by General Walther von Brauchitsch on 1 June 1940. The decoration, designed by the Berlin-based firm of Wilhelm Ernst Peekhaus, was an oval disk that measured 5.3 cm (2.1 “) by 4.2 cm (1.7 “), with a depth of .6 cm (0.2 “). A wreath of five oak leaves runs around the circumference on each side of the medal with a pair of acorns at the base. Inside the wreath is a large Wehrmacht-style eagle with folded wings grasping a swastika which itself surmounts a crossed bayonet and stick grenade. The medal was held in place on the uniform with a pin and catch, and was worn on the left chest pocket. A heavy solid piece in very good condition with pin and clasp in good order. See page 169 of Christopher Ailsby Combat medals of the third Reich for reference. The price includes UK delivery. N 175.
£225.00

SOLD SOLD (21/03) **QUALITY**C1840 J&E Peacock Bradford 54 Bore Percussion Overcoat Pistol With Brass Action & Screw Off Octagonal Steel Barrel. Sn 21393:55 - 21393:55
This is a good quality percussion overcoat pistol by J&E Peacock Bradford (we cannot find this gunmaker or retailer in our research books). It has a just under 3 ¼” turn off octagonal steel barrel. The barrel's smooth bore is clean. The overall length is 7 ½”. The underside of the brass action and barrel have black powder proof marks. It has a Dolphin hammer, concealed folding trigger and safety bolt. The action has foliate tooled decoration & the action tang is crisply signed ‘J&E Peacock Bradford’. It has an excellent undamaged walnut grip with finely chequered panels. The butt has a white metal patch box with hinged lid. The patch box has tooled foliate decoration. The cocking & firing actions work crisply. The price for this quality pistol worthy of further research includes UK delivery. NB As an antique percussion pistol no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 21393:55
£0.00

Original Nazi German Bronze Tank Battle Badge (Solid Back) with a Signed and Stamped ‘Panzerkampfabzeichen’ Certificate. N 176. - N 176
This badge was instituted for the crews of armoured vehicles other than tanks, which comprised self-propelled gunners and the like, the Panzergrenadier personnel and the support units including medical personnel who were engaged in helping the battlefield wounded. It was in all respects the same as the silver award, and was introduced on 1st June 1940. This example is accompanied with its original official stamped and dated 11th January 1941 presentation certificate panzerkampfabzeichen (tank combat badge) to a Robert Wagner, SS. Sturmmann (Within the Waffen-SS, an SS-Sturmmann was senior to an SS-Oberschütze. The rank of Sturmmann was junior, in both the SS and SA, to the rank of Rottenführer. It was considered the equivalent to the rank of Gefreiter in the German Army and a lance-corporal in the British Army. See page 167 of Combat Medals of the third Reich by Christopher Ailsby for reference. This heavy example is in good order, pin and clasp fully intact. The price includes UK delivery. N 176.
£345.00

**RARE**WW1 Era 1914-1919, Manchester Special Constable's Lignum Vitae Tropical Hardwood Polychrome Decorated Presentation Truncheon By J Tyzack & Son Sheffield With King’s Crown, Heraldic Arms & Associated Cased KC City Of Manchester SC's Pin Badge. - 21500
This is an excellent quality original WW1 wooden Police Presentation Truncheon to a Special Constable who saw service during WW1 and beyond until 1919. It is 15 ¼” length and made of the traditional heavy Lignum vitae tropical hard wood. It has a highly coloured polychrome decoration: Kings Crown Royal Cypher ‘GR’ (George Rex) & Manchester Heraldic arms above 'Special Constable 1914-1919' and indistinct Special Constable’s name. It has a deep grooved grip with rounded butt. The wood is undamaged with no dents. The top is impressed by the maker with what looks like ‘J Tyzack & Son Sheffield'. The grip is fitted with original leather wrist strap. The truncheon is accompanied by a rare to find, period City of Manchester Special’s enamelled lapel pin badge with which it was found. The colourful brass badge is 33mm diameter and features King’s Crown heraldic arms of Burnley & wording ‘City Of Manchester Special Constable’. The rear has a hinged pin fastener and stamped number ‘1559 most likely a collar number. The badge is contained in its period leather bound wood jewellery case with hinged lid and clasp fastener. The inside of the case has original padded white silk & blue felt lining. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 21500
£375.00

Original German WWII D.R.L. Sports Silver with Gold Badge maker marked “Wernstein, Jena” and Multi-Stamped Deutsche Reichssportabzeichen Certificate to a Uffz. Karl Muller Dated 1944. N 177. - N 177
The creation of a sports badge had already begun in the German Empire . It was Carl Diem who took the initiative to organize “a public award” that was intended as part of “general physical education”. During the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, sports official Diem followed the successful performance of the Swedish and American nations. In doing so, he gained valuable experience that was to be incorporated into his sports badge initiative. On September 29, 1912, Carl Diem submitted a proposal for the “introduction of a German sports badge” to the general meeting of the German Reich Committee for the Olympic Games (DRAFOS) in the Palast Hotel in Berlin . [2] The planned award should be based on the existing models from the USA ( Athletic Badge from 1904) and from Sweden ( Idrotts-Märket from 1907). For this purpose, Diem presented the Swedish material from the Idrotts-Märket to “the representatives of the German gymnastics and sports associations”. This silver award is in excellent condition with pin and clasp in good order and is maker marked “Wernstein, Jena” “DRGM 35269”. The accompanying Reichssportabzeichen certificate to Uffz. Karl Muller on 15th June 1944 is hand signed and officially stamped and verified for competing in the; 20km Cycling race, finishing in a time of 41 minutes and 48 seconds. 300m swim in 8 minutes. Jumping 1m 35cm in the high Jump. Finishing the 100m sprint in 15.3 seconds. And projecting a 7 ½ kg ball push/throw a distance of 8 metres. The price for this rare pair includes UK delivery. N 177.
£345.00

**QUALITY MAKERS**C1950 Two Large Display Cased Sets Of John Nowill & Sons Sheffield Cutlers Factory Shop Window Knives & Assorted Cutlery. Sn 21501 - 21501
The earliest record of the business is in the books of the ‘Cutlers Company on 27TH April 1700. This family company was first based in Meadow Street Sheffield, but later moved to Scotland Street around 1840. It was in 1842 that the first of John Nowill sons, William, joined the business after finishing his apprenticeship. His maker’s marks of ‘D*’ and ‘CROSSKEYS’ remain the marks of the company to this day (see Tweedale’s The Sheffield Knife Book page 242). These are 2 original C1950 Display Cased Sets Of John Nowill & Sons Sheffield Cutlers Factory Shop Window Knives & other assorted cutlery. Most of the knife blades contained in both displays are signed ‘J.Nowill & Sons-Sheffield above ‘D’ and Crosskeys’ apart from 4 of the white ivorine or bone handled knives in one of the displays (right hand display in 1st image), which are signed ‘Frank Mills & Co Ltd Wearwell Stainles Steel’, a cutler connected to Nowills ( Frank Mills (1860-1932) was a clothes dealer and table knife blade grinder. The first directory listing of Frank Mills was in 1893 in Charlotte Street, as a table knife manufacturer. In 1903, it became Frank Mills & Co Ltd. Frank Mills, died on Christmas Day in 1932, afterwards, the firm’s address was 135 Scotland Street (the same as Nowill, which had acquired Mills’ assets and marks including ‘Wearwell’, see Tweedale's Directory of Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturers 1740-2013 [2nd edition]). All of the cutlery in both displays are securely wire bound to their felt backboards which both have J. Nowill & Sons & trademark labelling. The 2 piece glazed wood frames are screwed together at the rear (to avoid damage we have not attempted to remove the tools and blades from their mounts). All of the knives and other cutlery are clean and fully functional. Each case measures 36”x18”x 3 ½”. The price is for both cased displays and includes UK delivery (due to size and risk of glass damage International delivery is not available). Sn 21501 (office in front of storeroom door)
£395.00

Nazi German WWII Infantry Assault Badge by Manufacturer R.S.S. ‘Richard Simm and Sohne’ Signed and Stamped Certificates of Ownership and Christian Remembrance Card for a Josef Maier Dated 1942. N 178. - N 178
The badge was designed by C.E.Juncker of Berlin under the direction of the OKH and was instituted in the silver form on 20th December 1939 by Generaloberst von Brauchitsch. The criteria for the award were; to have taken part in 3 or more infantry assaults, to have taken part in 3 or more infantry counter attacks or combinations of 1&2, to have taken part in 3 or more reconnaissance operations, to have been engaged in hand to hand combat in an assault position and to have participated on 3 separate days in the restitution of combat positions. The clasp and pin is in very good order and the rear is stamped by manufacturer R.S.S. ‘Richard Simm and Sohne’. See pages 160-161 of ‘Combat Medals of the Third Reich’ by Christopher Ailsby. The accompanying named and dated certificates of ownership and Christian remembrance card dated 25th May 1945 make this set very desirable. The price includes UK delivery. N 178.
£345.00

**MINT BORE**Victorian British R B Rodda Gunmakers To His Excellency The Viceroy London & Calcutta Snider Action .577 2 ½” Black Powder Express Obsolete Calibre Tiger / Lion Hunting Short Rifle / Carbine. Sn 21520 - 21520
R.B. Rodda claimed to have been established in 1830 although in reality it traces its roots much further back than that, to around 1805, originally trading as Brown and Cooper. This was the company that Richard Burrows Rodda joined in 1830, and although the history is a bit sketchy the company name probably became Brown, Cooper and Rodda at that time. In 1846 Brown left the company and it became Cooper and Rodda, and the following year in 1847 Cooper also departed leaving R.B. Rodda as the sole proprietor. Rodda renamed the company R.B. Rodda & Co. based at 36, Piccadilly, London. About three years after this R.B. Rodda & Co. opened another shop, this time in the Indian city of Calcutta at 5 ½ Tank Square, a place that would be renamed Dalhousie Square in 1872, with the result that the address of the company would become 7 & 8 Dalhousie Square. Prior to that however, around the time of the Indian Mutiny in 1857 Richard Burrows Rodda left India and migrated to the United States with most of his extended family. Sadly Rodda passed away that year and so the company was taken over by William Henry Taylor, who was the brother of Rodda’s brother in law. R.B. Rodda & Company became primarily exporters/importers of guns and rifles based out of their Calcutta premises throughout the period up until Indian Independence in 1947, at which point the business was sold to Indian industrialists who diversified it away from the gun trade and into marine and other engineering work. During the period in which they were trading R.B. Rodda & Co. became well respected for the quality of the guns and rifles they sold, and their guns came to be used not only in India but throughout the European colonies such as the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), Malaya (Malaysia), and French Indo China (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), and Burma (Myanmar). This Snider action .577 2 ½” Black Powder Express rifle made by R B Rodda, prominent London and Calcutta gunmakers of dangerous game rifles is in excellent condition. At only 39” overall and with a 21” barrel, this rifle weighs in at a mere 6 1/3 lbs. The top of the barrel is marked "R B Rodda & Co. Gunmakers to His Excellency The Viceroy. London and Calcutta". The barrel and action have proofs. The neat "bar-in-wood" style lock plate is border engraved and displays the signature "R B Rodda & Co". This rifle is clearly intended to be agile for sudden use in dense undergrowth or forest, where a Tiger would only become visible at close range, although it is fitted with triple leaf sights out to 300 yards. The bore of this Express Rifle is mint, and the rifling shallow - probably to reduce the torque effect at the wrist that more aggressive rifling would cause in a sporter of this weight, compromising aim. In any case, a rifle this light firing an express load would kick like a mule! From around 1870 the .577 BPE cartridge was considered the best load for dangerous game. The famous big game hunter John "Pondoro" Taylor, in his book "African Rifles and Cartridges", described the .577 BPE as the most popular cartridge for shooting Tiger in India and that professional Lion hunters in Africa generally preferred it to anything else. This particular rifle is a sturdy and unpretentious practical hunting weapon, having been purpose built as an express rifle to accommodate the 2 ½” BPE cartridge, rather than the standard 2” round which the many converted military Sniders used. This is an antique obsolete calibre rifle and no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 21520
£1,375.00

**RARE**NAPOLEONIC WARS ERA**Imperial Prussian Model 1723 / 40 Potsdam Dragonergewehr (Dragoon / Mounted Infantry) .73 Calibre Muzzle Loading Flintlock Musket With Later Pre 1846 TY (County Tyrone) Irish Registration Marks. Sn 21521 - 21521
These days a 1723/1740 Potsdam Infantry Musket is a rare find, but the much less produced 1726 dragoon version ('Dragonergewehr") is exceptionally rare. The Dragoon musket is distinguished by the diamond shaped carvings on the stock instead of the rounded equivalent found on the Infantry model. When Frederick the Great came to the throne in 1740 he standardised the bore of the barrels of all service muskets at .73 and the length at 35". Existing .67 bore 41" barrels were either shortened or replaced, as seems perhaps to be the case with this .73 example. Also, here the "FR" Royal cypher on the brass thumb plate is an early impression and distinct from the later more common version. In addition, the forend has been shortened and the heavy iron ramrod discarded in favour of a wooden one. In 1726, when the Dragonergewehr was conceived, dragoons were purely mounted infantry and armed with what were essentially infantry muskets. However, by the 19th century dragoons had predominantly become cheap cavalry, and were armed with carbines or short muskets, rendering the original Dragonergewehr cumbersome and obsolete - with no lighter replacement available in the case of the Prussian army. This would account for the stock and ramrod modifications in an attempt to make the musket more fit for purpose. As the Royal Armouries at Leeds points out..."What happened in Prussia during Napoleon's invasion resulted in some wierd and wonderful things being cobbled together. Standardisation went out of the window and the Prussians turned up at Waterloo with many things, some standard issue, others not". In the campaign culminating with Waterloo in 1815, the Prussians mobilised everything they could - fielding some 115,000 troops and every available weapon. So it is highly likely that this particular musket would have been involved in the battles of Ligny and /or Waterloo. The musket's subsequent history is unknown, except that the barrel and butt plate display an Irish compulsory registration number for County Tyrone, indicating that for some reason it had made its way to Ireland before 1846 (illustrated in the images). Our example of the Dragonergewehr is in excellent condition. It has all original wood and brass fittings throughout. It has a heavy military cock, brass pan & the lock plate has the Potsdam arsenal mark. It has a small post fore sight and shallow groove action tang rear sight. The rifle’s wood ram rod has a brass cap and tip. The rifle’s cocking and firing actions work crisply. The smoothbore is clean. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique muzzle loading flintlock musket no licence is required to own this item if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 21521
£1,795.00

1939 Nazi 2nd Class War Merit Cross Ribbon and Certificate to a SS-Uscha Sebastian Meier . N 178. - N 178
The War Merit Cross (German: Kriegsverdienstkreuz) was a state decoration of Nazi Germany during World War II. This award was created by Adolf Hitler in October 1939 as a successor to the non-combatant Iron Cross which was used in earlier wars (similar medal but with a different ribbon). The award was graded in the same manner as the Iron Cross: War Merit Cross Second Class, War Merit Cross First Class, and Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross. The award had two variants: with swords given to soldiers for exceptional service "not in direct connection with combat", and without swords given to civilians for meritorious service in "furtherance of the war effort". The officially stamped certificate states; kriegsverdienstkreuz Klasse Mit Schwertern (War Merit Cross Class with Swords) with SS- Uscha Sebastian Meier Feldwerkstatt (Field workshop), Abt. See pages 79 & 80 of Combat Medals of the 3rd Reich by C. Ailsby for reference. In excellent order. UK delivery is included in the price. N 178.
£225.00

1939 Nazi 2nd Class War Merit Cross Ribbon and Certificate to a SS-Uscha Sebastian Meier . N 178. - N 178
The War Merit Cross (German: Kriegsverdienstkreuz) was a state decoration of Nazi Germany during World War II. This award was created by Adolf Hitler in October 1939 as a successor to the non-combatant Iron Cross which was used in earlier wars (similar medal but with a different ribbon). The award was graded in the same manner as the Iron Cross: War Merit Cross Second Class, War Merit Cross First Class, and Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross. The award had two variants: with swords given to soldiers for exceptional service "not in direct connection with combat", and without swords given to civilians for meritorious service in "furtherance of the war effort". The officially stamped certificate states; kriegsverdienstkreuz Klasse Mit Schwertern (War Merit Cross Class with Swords) with SS- Uscha Sebastian Meier Feldwerkstatt (Field workshop), Abt. See pages 79 & 80 of Combat Medals of the 3rd Reich by C. Ailsby for reference. In excellent order. UK delivery is included in the price. N 178.
£225.00
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