dating: 1820-30 provenance: Sardinian Kingdom, Very high skull covered with black felt, the upper part and visor made of leather, the visor finely decorated with a band featuring three rows of hearts at the centre and checkered at the border. With a threaded band for officers' ranks under the peak, a black velvet stripe on the lower border. The front side with a large brass Savoy eagle decoration keeping most of the original gilding under crown and above two crossed cannons. With a grenade above a light blue, silk cockade above the badge. With lions' heads and hooks holding the chain on the lower side and on the rear part. Leather scabbard, a label 'PIETRO BORRA MASTRO CALZOLAJO DEL REGGIMENTO DE' DRAGONI....IN TORINO' under the peak. height 26 cm.
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WORLD WAR I – DIARIES & LETTERSGroup of diaries and letters, comprising: i) Manuscript journal compiled by the father of Lieutenant Frank Leonard Stevens of Mexborough, serving with the Yorks and Lancs Regiment, entitled 'Diary by his Dad', comprising a narrative of his son's progress through the war, including Passchendaele, the German offensive of March 1918 and the 'Great Push' ('...all leave cancelled...'), with extracts from Leonard's letters home ('...It was Hell!... I pray hard for courage... I discovered a tank...lying in gory glory, like a decrepit toad... a monument to British skill & British tenacity... every second is pregnant with certain disquieting possibilities... shell, trench mortar, rifle, grenade, bomb, mine, Bosche, bullet, gas or mud...'), his Christian faith, and the war at home ('...the presence of a Zeppelin... the sound and the spectacle was certainly startling to civilians...'), interspersed with photographs, documents, illustrations (including two of his dug out in the trenches), menus, press cuttings etc., c.100 leaves, black cloth, 4to (230 x 172mm.), [1916 to 1918]ii) Collection relating to Private Albert Willis of 15th Sherwood Foresters serving on the Western Front in 1918 and his brother Corporal Frederick Willis of 1/6th Essex Regiment serving with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, comprising 15 letters from Alfred to his parents and brother, and two letters to him from his mother ('...Albert killed in action, France, Don't worry all well at home...'); with c.130 photographic portrait postcards, original family photographs, various Christmas and birthday cards and other documents; an original Red Cross linen bag with ties, printed with the red cross in red and 'With Best wishes from the British Red Cross', held in three custom-made albums, modern cloth, each 300 x 225mm., March to December 1918iii) Manuscript reminiscences of Captain Wilfred Oates Rushton of the 18th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, beginning 28 January 1916 on Salisbury Plain, going on to describe life on the front line ('...a Melton Mowbray pie... saved the situation...'), marching to the Somme ('...The road was strewn with dead horses in varying stages of decomposition... a long line of dead men, blank of face... killed the moment they had got out of the trench to attack...There was a particularly repulsive Boche lying dead within about 2 yards of the place we congregated for our food...'), and much other detail, 106 pages, written in a lined exercise book, black cloth, 4to (223 x 175mm.), [1916 onwards]Footnotes:All the young men represented here survived the war, and their writings and photographs reveal a sometimes harrowing picture of life as an ordinary soldier on the Western Front and the concerns of parents left behind. Journalist Frank Stevens married Winifred Bruce in Edinburgh on 9 April 1925. He was the third generation of his family to go into the profession, his father having been on the staff of the Mexborough and Swinton Times. The family of Albert Willis had been informed that he had been killed in action – '...It makes it far worse for us that he went under so near the finish...' his mother writes, but his brother later received news that he was in fact a Prisoner of War. Albert here describes his capture and return home - '...they had been mourning me as dead for about four weeks! They even said how I had been killed instantaneously...'. Wilfred Oates Rushton was the son of Oates Rushton (1849-1929) who had set up a successful grocery and drapery business in Wigan. After the war he became a partner in a Liverpool law firm. His great nephew was comedian and writer, Willie Rushton.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A WWI commemorative Arcadian crested china sentry box, Attleborough; others similar, WH Goss British Tank, Rochdale; Carlton China Tommies Bungalow, Maesteg; hand grenade, Rickmansworth; Ambulance, Bordon; Cenotaph, Wembley; Drum, Nottingham; Air Field Gun, Cardinal Wolsey; Armistice Gun, Westcliff on Sea; Peace 1914 - 1919 teacup, saucer and tea plate; qty
Dragon - DiD - Others - A large loose arsenal of various WW2 weapons, ammunition and related accessories, plus various styles and forms of badges and insignia suitable for 1:6 scale action figures attributed to the likes of Dragon, DiD and similar. Lot includes German grenade carry cases (some with grenades); jerry cans, Browning machine gun; magazine clips for MP40, STG44; BAR and similar. Insignia is mainly Allied forces including US Stripes, Airborne insignia, General stars and similar. Items appear Fair Plus - mainly Good - Excellent and some may show some signs of display, or have broken / missing parts. All items are unchecked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee)
Dragon - DiD - A loose collection of WW2 mainly Axis 1:6 scale action accessories attributed to the likes of Dragon, DiD and similar, with some 3-D printed tools. Lot includes tunics, trousers; German water canteens; various styles of boots, bags,machetes (some just sheaths only), German grenade canisters, land mines, grenades and similar. Items appear Very Good - Mint and some may show some signs of display or have some damage / broken parts. - some appearing to have been weathered. All items are unchecked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee)
Dragon - DiD - A loose collection of WW2 weapons attributed to Dragon / DiD or similar suitable for 1:6 scale action figures. Lot includes bazookas, Bangalore torpedoes; grenade cases, a flamethrower, land mines, rockets, Panzerfausts and similar. Whilst items appear to be in Excellent - Mint condition, some may show some signs of display. All items are unchecked for completeness. (This does not constitute a guarantee)
A WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German General Assault badge for 25 engagements. The badge with oak leaf border and a central eagle with folded wings grasping a Swastika that surmounts a crossed bayonet and stick grenade. The number 25 to the base. Boxed.Note; from a large private collection of militaria. Due to the nature of the items, buyers are reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to condition / originality / authenticity prior to bidding. All lots remains sold strictly 'as is' irrespective of any description.
Two original WWII Second World War British Army issue mills bomb hand grenade. One a complete example with with pin, lever, zinc central tube and original screw-in cap to base. Base marked No 36 MK1 and a '40' date for 1943. The other a demonstration / educational example with visible cross section.
A WWII Second World War Third Reich Nazi German General Assault badge. The badge being a solid back example with oak leaf border and a central eagle with folded wings grasping a Swastika that surmounts a crossed bayonet and stick grenade. The reverse marked 20.Note; from a large private collection of militaria. Due to the nature of the items, buyers are reminded for the need to satisfy themselves as to condition / originality / authenticity prior to bidding. All lots remains sold strictly 'as is' irrespective of any description.
A Victorian Officer's Waist Belt Clasp to the Honorable Artillery Company, of two piece gilt brass locket form, the seeded centre applied with a flaming grenade in silver set with a brass Queen's crown over monogram, with silver faced circlet HONORABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY, flanked by foliate cast side bars, one part numbered 1 x
A U.S. M3 - Utica Fighting Knife, the 16.5cm draw-back steel blade stamped with maker's mark, with steel crossguard and stacked leather washers grip, the steel pommel plate stamped with a flaming grenade, in a later stitched leather scabbard with brass rivets and steel wire belt clip, 39cmMinor bruising to grip.
A Hardens fire grenade, the cobalt blue glass bottle of ribbed bulbous form, sealed with original contents, 17cm high, along with a Swift fire grenade in a amber glass bottle, 16cm high and a small blue glass example 9cm high (3)Condition reportHardens cobalt blue grenade has evidence of seepage around the neck with a crack and minor chips.Amber grenade is lacking a rim with a 'rough' edge to the neck.
Militaria, 1917 Remington Sword Bayonet for the Model 1917 30-06 Rifle. Complete in leather scabbard. Ricasso marked ‘1917 Remington’ on one side and U.S, Flaming Grenade with eagles head and inspection marked 25 on the other. Steel Pommel with oil hole, rounded slab walnut grips held by slot head bolts and slotted round nuts (vg). Sold together with a scrap album outlining a visit to Ypres in the 1980s. There is a typed sheet outlining a connection with the album and the bayonet possibly linking the bayonet to a Thomas Morris who served in the Royal Marines
H. SCHEIRING (FERLACH) AN 8X75RS SINGLE-TRIGGER JAEGER PATENT SIDELOCK EJECTOR DOUBLE RIFLE, serial no. 356, for 1998, 23 3/4in. nitro chopperlump barrels with finely scroll engraved two-stage sight rib, folding open-sight, ramp-mounted blade foresight, flush rib engraved 'H. SCHEIRING - FERLACH', the breech end mounted with a Zeiss Diavari-ZA 1,5 - 6x42 T* telescopic sight, serial number 1807664, in engraved quickly-detachable mounts, Jaeger patent 'verticalblockverschluss' action with sprung breech face, carved fences, manual safety, gold-inlaid cocking-indicators, non-selective single trigger (ejectors and left firing mechanism at fault), the action, lockplates and furniture engraved with fine acanthus scrollwork with floral bouquets, bright finish, 14 1/4in. highly-figured burr walnut pistolgrip stock with cheekpiece, slight hogsback comb, steel pistolgrip-cap engraved with a crest of a tower with demi-lion rampant holding a bomb or grenade, with the motto 'A DEO ET REGE', the stock inset with a gold letter 'P' surmounted by a coronet, with 5/8in. leather covered recoil pad, the fore-end engraved en suite with Deeley & Edge patent release and ejector selector switch (at fault, retaining spring broken and locking lug broken), weight 8lb., in an alloy flight case. S1 - Sold as a Section 1 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act
The Second War Mentioned in Despatches Certificate awarded to Captain the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, attached No. 2 Commando, Special Service Brigade, who was killed in action leading his men during a fierce action at Salerno on 16 September 1943; the great-great-grandson of the First Duke, he is the only holder of that illustrious title to lay down his life in action Mentioned in Despatches Certificate ‘Lieutenant (T/Captain) The Duke of Wellington, The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (W. Riding)’, dated 28 September 1944, mounted in a glazed display frame, good condition £2,000-£2,400 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2013. M.I.D. London Gazette 28 September 1944: ‘In recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy.’ Henry Valarian George Wellesley, 6th Duke of Wellington, was born on 14 July 1912, the only son of the 5th Duke of Wellington, and the great-great-grandson of the 1st Duke of Wellington. He was educated at Stowe School and on 13 November 1935, as Lord Mornington, was gazetted a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, joining them in early 1937 in Malta. He served with them there and in England until February 1939 when he was seconded to the King’s African Rifles. He went out to join them in East Africa and saw service with them in the Defence of Kenya against the Italians and in the successful Abyssinian Campaign. Having succeeded his father as 6th Duke of Wellington in 1941, he returned to England in 1942 following a severe attack of malaria. Whilst at home on sick and compassionate leave, following the death of his father, he took his seat and made his maiden speech in the House of Lords. His adventurous spirit then prompted him to apply for Commando training, which he won through with flying colours. Appointed to No. 2 Commando, Special Service Brigade, commanded by the charismatic, Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Churchill, M.C., he took part in the invasion of Sicily and in the landings at Salerno on 9 September 1943. Commanding No. 2 Troop, was killed in action by a hand grenade in the bitter fighting at Piegolette on 16 September 1943. Recommended for the award of the D.S.O., he was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches. He is buried in Salerno War Cemetery, Italy. He was succeeded to the title by his uncle, the 7th Duke of Wellington. A Memorial Service was held at Stratfield Saye Parish Church, at the family seat, on 9 October 1943, conducted by the Bishop of Winchester. In his address, Canon J. B. Barker said: ‘A century and a quarter ago England’s Sovereign conferred a Dukedom on England’s greatest soldier. Today we mourn the sixth holder of that honoured title - the first to lay down his life in action - whom all men knew as ‘Morny’. What kind of man was he? We will ask it first of his fellow-officers and men, and they will tell you of his bravery - his utter fearlessness in the face of danger.’ Sold with a representative group of medals to the Duke of Wellington, comprising 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; and representative unit insignia; a copy of the book ‘Wellington’, by Jane Wellesley; and copied research.
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[GANDHI MAHATMA]: (1869-1948) Indian political and spiritual leader during the Indian independence movement. An historic D.S., B. L. Taneja, by Doctor B. L. Taneja, Director of Pathology, one page, 4to, New Delhi, 22nd January [1948]. The partially printed document, completed in typescript, is an official medical form issued by the Pathological Laboratory of Irwin Hospital, New Delhi, and is a Report on Blood II prepared for Mahatma Gandhi just eight days prior to his assassination (and only two days after having survived an attempted assassination), the report indicating that Gandhi was in fine health for a man of 78 years of age with normal levels of uric acid, cholesterol (150 mgs per 100 c.c. of blood against a normal level of 100 to 200) and plasma protein, a slightly high although average level of sugar (120 mgs per 100 c.c. of blood against a normal level of 80 to 120) and a marginally higher level of calcium (12 mgs per 100 c.c. of serum against a normal level of 9 to 11.5). Signed by Taneja at the foot above his official ink stamp. A rare and incredibly poignant document. Two file holes to the left edge and a couple of small staple holes to the upper left corner, none of which affect the text. VGThe present document once accompanied Gandhi's Report on Blood I document which was prepared a day earlier, on 21st January 1948, also by Dr. B. L. Taneja at the Irwin Hospital in New Delhi. The first report is known to have indicated a Haemoglobin level of 82%, a white blood cell (Leucocyte) count of 7,400, and a red blood cell (Erythrocyte) count of 4,790,000.In January 1948 Gandhi was living (in two unpretentious rooms) at Birla House in New Delhi from where he was conducting prayer meetings in the gardens. The first attempt by Nathuram Godse and his colleagues to assassinate Gandhi took place on 20th January 1948 when a grenade was thrown at the crowd listening to Gandhi speak in a park, leaving him alone on the speakers' platform. Godse's accomplices then lost their nerve and instead of hurling another grenade at the isolated Gandhi they instead fled amongst the crowd who had created a chaotic stampede. On 30th January 1948 Gandhi, accompanied by his great niece and another young lady, made his way on foot to a prayer meeting when he was confronted at close range by Nathuram Godse who fired three bullets into Gandhi's chest. Gandhi was immediately carried to Birla House and, having lost a lot of blood, was pronounced dead approximately thirty minutes later.
DALI SALVADOR: (1904-1989) Spanish surrealist artist. A remarkable illustrated autograph Manuscript Signed, Salvador Dali, five pages (separate leaves), large folio (16 x 17”, 40 x 42.5 cm), n.p., 1953, in a singular language based on French interspersed with Hispanisms and other words phonetically reproducing the Catalan accent. Dali’s manuscript is entitled Mes secrets sinematographiques (‘My Cinematic Secrets’) and was originally published in the review La Parisienne in February 1954 in an adaptation by Michel Deon who normalized Dali’s deviant spelling and syntax. The manuscript in its original form, with important variations, therefore reveals the delirious orality of the Dalian text, the artist first affirming the conviction of his genius in cinematographic art by recalling the importance of his first two films, Un chien andalou and L’Age d’or, and by demeaning the role of the filmmaker Luis Bunuel in their realisation, further unveiling his film project La Brouette de flesh and describing the delirious visions and hallucinations he intends to put into images, in part, ‘Il i ha peu près une semaine que ge viens de découbrir que dans ma vie ge suis en tout en retard environ de 12 ans, cinéma i compris, il i a 11 ans que ge progète de faire un film intégrallement totalitairement cent pour cent hiper Dali, donc cela veut dire que vraisenbleblement ce film se tournera infin, l'ané prochaine - Ge suis le contraire du verger et du lu de La Fontaine comme que dans ma vie, et déjà dans mon adolescence ge réalisse tan de chosses sensationelles ….À 27 ans j'arrivai à Paris et ge créé avec Buñuel 2 films qui resteron historiques le Chien andalou et L'Âge d'or. Dernièrement Buñuel a faid tout seul d'autres films me rendan ainsi l'inmense service de que tout le monde puisse enfin savoir à qui apartené le côté génial et le côté primaire dans Le Chien andalu et L'Âge d'or…….Por qu'un film soit prodigieux la première des chosses c'et que l'on puisse croire au prodige que l'on vous montre, pour cela avant tout autre chosse il faut en finir avec le répugnant ritme cinématographique, cete conventionelle et anuyuesse [ennuyeuse] rétorique du mouvement de la caméra - même dans lé plus cumun mélodrame coment croire à l'asasin, si la caméra le suis en travelin partout même dans lé lavabo où il va laver le sang de ses mains?.........Mon prochain film sera exactement le contraire d'un film expérimental de vangarde et surtout de ce que l'on apelle aujurd'hui “créatif” sinonime de l'imitation servile de tous les lieux comuns du triste art moderne. Mon film sera une vrai istoire d'une feme paranoyaque amureusse d'une bruète qui succesivement se revêt de tous les atributs de la persone aimé, le cadabre de la quelle avais servi pour moayen de transport ; jusqu'à s'incarné à nouveau en elle, la bruètte devien de chair et c'et pour cela que mon film s'apellera La Bruètte de chair. Tout espectateur rafiné ou hutre moayen sera forcé de participer au délire de ma fétichiste, car il s'agit d'un cas rigureussement vrai, et cera raconté, come aucune documentaire n'est capable de le réalissé….. Ainssi ge peut déjà asurer à mes lecteurs que dans mon film il verron avec toute la minutie des mouvements lents se dévelopent dans la plus rigureusse euritmie arcangélique, l'un après l'autre 5 cignes blancs explosan. Les signes seron trufés de pomes grenades elles aussi munis d'une charge explosive adécuate, de façont que quand on aura pu observé avec minuci les derniers entre-déchirements des entrailles des cignes, se produiront les explosions des pomes grenades, de sorte que probablement tel que nous avons déjà expérimenté les grains de la pome grenade progetés à la périférie du décartelage anatomique, parvenan à causse de leur petite taille par les intertices jusqu'aux plumes en suspension, orteron cellesci, tell que l'on peut rêvé et surtout rêvassé, doit se produire entre les corpuscules de lumière (graines de pome grenade et ondes lumineusses représentés por les blanchisimes arcangéliques plumes du signe). - De sorte que les corpuscules dans la dite expérience auron la corporaïté de Mantegne et les plumes le flue qui fit fameux le peintre Eugène Carrière. Aussi on pourra voir une escène, représentan la fontaine de Trevi à Rome, les fenêtres s'ouvran et 6 rinocéros tomben à l'eau, à chaque chute de rinocéros un paraplui noir s'oubre émerjan de l'eau de la fontaine…….Dans un'autre oportunité 100 ziganes españols tueron et dépèceron jusqu'à ne lessé que son esquelette pelé, un éléfant dans une rue de Madrid (transposan ainsi une fameuse scène africaine que g'é lu dans un libre). À un moment doné qu'oùs apéressent les côtes du paquiderme, deux ziganes (lesquels malgré leur frénési sauvage n'arrêten pas un instin de chanter du canté hondo pénétren à l'intérieur pour atraper les viscères meilleures, quer, rognongs ect….’ (Translation: ‘It’s been about a week since I’ve just discovered that in my life I’m about 12 years late in everything, including cinema, it’s been 11 years since I’ve been planning to make a film entirely totally one hundred percent hyper Dali, so that means that this film will probably end up being shot next year – I am the opposite of the orchard and the lu de la Fontaine as in my life, and already in my adolescence I did so many sensational things……At 27 I arrived in Paris and I created with Bunuel 2 films that will remain historic, Le chien andalou and L'Âge d'or. Lately Bunuel has made other films on his own, so that everyone can finally know to whom belonged the brilliant side and the primary side in Le chien andalou and L’Age d’or……For a film to be prodigious, the first thing is for people to be able to believe in the prodigy that is shown to you, for that, before anything else, it is necessary to put an end to the repugnant cinematographic rhythm, this conventional and boring retort of the movement of the camera – even in the most common melodrama how to believe in the assassin, if the camera follows him in travelling everywhere, even in the sink where he will wash the blood from his hands?.......My next film will be the exact opposite of an experimental vanguard film and above all of what we call today “creative” if not the servile imitation of all the commonplaces of sad modern art. My film will be a true story of a paranoid woman in love with a brute who successively takes on all the attributes of the loved one, the corpse of which had served as a means of transport; until it is embodied again in herm the bruètte becomes flesh and that is why my film will be called La Bruètte de flesh. Any refined viewer or Moayan oyster will be forced to participate in my fetishist’s delirium, for this is a strictly true case, and it will be told, as no documentary is capable of realising it……Thus I can already assure my readers that in my film he will see with all the meticulousness of the slow movements developing in the most rigorous archangelic euritimia, one after the other 5 white swans exploding. The signs will be riddled with pomegranates, also equipped with an adequate explosive charge, so that when we have been able to carefully observe the last tearings of the entrails of the swans, the explosions of the pomegranates will occur...) In the left margin of the third page Dali has drawn two illustrations of male figures, the first somewhat grotesque and the second in a Cubist style, seemingly with another man emerging from his torso. A wonderful, rare manuscript which is distinctly Dali in its composition. Some very light, minimal age wear, VG OWING TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED BY THE SALEROOM THE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THIS LOT CAN NOT BE DISPLAYED - PLEASE REFER TO IAA FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Ca. 800-1000 AD. A late Roman, early Byzantine glazed ceramic grenade, also referred to as "Greek Fire". This hollow ceramic vessel is globular in shape, a piriform body, with a short neck and a domed rim. The body is decorated with a centre band of cylidrical circles, with panels of linear lines between. Above this, a panel of motifs in the shapes of crosses, below a panel of diamonds with dots in between. "Greek Fire” was intended to be filled with explosive liquid and a wick and used as a hand grenade. Typically, it was used in naval battles as it could continue burning while floating on the water. This piece has been precisely dated by means of a Thermo Luminescence analysis carried out by Ralf Kotalla, an independent German Laboratory. The samples collected date the piece to the period reflected in its style, whilst also showing no modern trace elements. The TL certificate with its full report will accompany this lot. For similar grenades see: Arendt, W. I., Granaten des 13-14. Jahrhunderts, die an der Wolga gefunden sind, Zeitschrift fur Historische Waffen-und Kostumkunde, 11 (1926-8), p.42; Cf. Arendt, W., Die Spharisch-konischen Gefasse aus Gebranntem Ton, ibid; Ayalon, D., Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Kingdom, London, 1956, p.16.Size: L:240mm / W:125mm; 2.3kgProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old Oxford collection formed in the 1990s.
Ca. 900-1100 AD. A cream-coloured "Greek fire" hand grenade comprising a domed lid and a biconical body decorated with linear, circular, and rhomboid motifs, which tapers into a pointed base. It is believed that vessels such as this one contained an incendiary agent known as "Greek fire", which, since it was impervious to water, made these vessels invaluable weapons in naval battles. Unfortunately, the exact composition of the Greek fire is unknown. However, scholars posit that the mixture was composed of pine resin, naphtha, quicklime, and sulphur. To find out more about Greek fire grenades, see Crosby, A. (2002). Throwing fire: Projectile technology through history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This item comes with a custom-made display stand.Size: L:175mm / W:80mm ; 630gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s
Ca. 900-1200 AD. A "Greek Fire" hand grenade comprising a cream ceramic vessel with a spheroconical body, and a short, squat neck with a sloped rim. This hollow vessel is decorated with two registers of stamped dot-and-circle motif above and below a central register of incised diagonal lines. Globular vessels such as this example are frequently interpreted as an early type of hand grenade. It is believed that these jars could have contained an incendiary agent such as the infamous "Greek fire" which was impervious to water, making them invaluable weapons in naval battles. Unfortunately, the recipe for "Greek fire" was lost with the fall of the Byzantine empire, but it was likely a petroleum-based mixture. This item comes with a custom-made display stand.Size: L:130mm / W:80mm ; 535gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1990s
Ca. 800-1000 AD. A ceramic grenade, also referred to as 'Greek Fire'. This hollow ceramic vessel consists of a piriform body, with a short neck and a domed rim. The body is decorated with a central band of circles, and two registers of geometric stamped decoration. 'Greek Fire' was intended to be filled with explosive liquid and a wick and used as a hand grenade. Typically, it was used in naval battles as it could continue burning while floating on the water.Size: L:110mm / W:70mm ; 550gProvenance: Private UK collection; Formerly acquired on the European art market from pre-2000 collections.
A pair of Edwardian hobnail cut glass grenade scent bottles with embossed silver mounts (by James Dixon & Sons, Sheffield 1901), 15 cm high CONDITION REPORTS Both stoppers are a little loose and one has a small chip to the rim. Silver has some small knocks and surface scratching as well tarnishing in areas and remains of cleaning fluid. Glass itself has a slight yellowy colour and both have condensation to the interior. One has a knock / chip to the body. Otherwise some light surface scratching and minor fritting. Both with general wear and tear conducive with age and use. See images for further detail.
Irish Kilkenny Fusilier Militia post 1855 Victorian Officer fur cap grenade. Fine rare silvered flaming grenade, the ball mounted with circlet KILKENNY FUSILIERS; crowned Maid of Erin Harp to centre. Four loops. VGC Raised at Kilkenny 1793, saw active service during the 1798 Irish Rebellion. It fought at the Battles of New Ross and Vinegar Hill. The whole Regiment fought the French at Castlebar. Redesignated Kilkenny Fusilier Militia by 1855, Became 5th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment on Friday 1st July, 1881. Gordon Cummings Collection.
Victorian Portrait of an Officer of the 21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Attributed to Stephen Pearce This fine quality large oil on canvas portrait depicts a half length study of an Officer of the Grenadier Company of the 21st Fusiliers, Circa 1850. The Officer is depicted in scarlet coatee, with bullion shoulder wings these mounted with a flaming grenade device. The white leather baldric with a shoulder belt plate of regimental pattern. The painting is mounted into an ornate carved gilt frame. Approximate size of canvas 36.28 inches. Frame 44 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches. The attribution of the artist Stephen Pearce 1819 to 1904 is made by the vendor and not confirmed by Bosleys.Professionally Restored
Scottish Cavalry. Royal Scots Greys Bearskin. A good pre-war example similar to the design worn by Foot Guard regiments, to the left side is a polished flaming grenade regimental plume holder (1901-52), which supports a white feather hackle and to the back the White Horse of Hanover device. Complete with regimental pattern, leather backed straight brass chinchain. Minor age wear and fur loss to crown, not effecting overall appearance. Generally GC
WW2 Royal Artillery 1st Division Battledress Blouse Uniform and Beret. A good originally badged 1940 pattern blouse, to each arm Royal Artillery 1st Division cloth badges. Also tailored with brass RA collar badges and shoulder titles. The interior with name 19106391 Dyer 75 Bty. Issue label washed out and with WD issue stamp. GC Accompanied by a 1945 GS beret with Royal Artillery flaming grenade badge, mounted on RA backing cloth. GC (2 items) The 75th (Middlesex) LAA Battery Royal Artillery is confirmed as serving with the 1st Division.
Irish Royal Tyrone Fusiliers Militia Victorian Officer shako grenade. Fine rare die-stamped silvered three and a quarter inch high flaming grenade, the ball mounted with gilt circlet ROYAL TYRONE FUSILIERS; VR cypher to centre. Two screw posts. VGC with slight service wear. Unit had the distinction of being the first regiment to mount guard on Dublin Castle carrying the Union flag. Became 4th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1881. Gordon Cummings Collection.
German Third Reich WW2 Army / Waffen SS Close Combat Clasp. Fine die-cast unmarked example. Eagle and swastika over crossed grenade and bayonet set between oakleaf sprays. Hinged flat tapered pin with securing hook and complete with central backing plate. VGC. Introduced in November 1942 by Adolf Hitler.
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