A Sardinian bronze statuette of a worshipping warrior Nuraghian period, circa 9th-6th century BC; 9,8 cm (3,85 in) high; Standing figure of a worshipping warrior in a hieratic pose with the U-shaped support for the votive attachment and the feet cast, the right forearm projecting forward with elbow bent, wearing curving forward horns helmet with visor incised on his forehead and short tunic covering his body except the nude legs, the head with prominent nose and eyes, carrying a sword over the shoulder with a suspending shield boss attached above his back. Rare. Green patina with slight encrustations REFERENCES: G. Lilliu, Sculture della Sardegna nuragica, Nuoro 2008, pp. 150-151, 162, 228-229-230, 284; im. 82-83-84-85-86-87-88-89. PROVENANCE: Ex Farid Ziade collection. Jdeidet Ghazir, Lebanon.
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An extensive First World War Royal Field Artillery Gunner's uniform and effects group, that of 141871 Gnr Robert Kirkwood, comprising a Service Dress tunic and cap, British War medal and fibre identity discs, anti-gas helmet haversack, spurs etc, together with a small group of Imperial German booty comprising a M 1915 Saxon helmet plate, Prussian buckle and shoulder strap, and a Home Guard haversack
A World War II No. 38 Mark II wireless set and headphones, water flask, solid fuel cooker, various satchels, FAP helmet, Civil Defence Corps armbands, etc, khaki cap, wrought iron framed oil lamp, two small suitcases, box of various posters and military photographs and a small quantity of military uniform CONDITION REPORTS Buttons on the blue military jacket are inscribed "Royal Corps of Signals" and the badges to the collar are inscribed "Certa Cito". All items with wear, scuffs and dirt, and items with various damage, losses, rusting, etc. Please see photos for examples.
A pair of early flintlock holster pistols by Wilson of the Minories, London. They have rounded lock plates, trophy of arm side plates, carved shell design at rear of barrel tang, a spurred pommel and an acorn finial on the end of their trigger guards. The brass thumb plate bears the helmet of a Knight. Its embedded design features generally indicate it was made sometime before 1775 and 1780. The breech of the barrels bear raised London proof marks and the barrel maker mark of RW. The address of the Minories together with the makers mark identify the maker as Richard Wilson I who was working between 1725 and his death in 1766. The brass spurred pommels have been tastefully engraved with typical motifs of the Crescent moon and stars associated with the former Ottoman Turkish empire. Both pistols are in excellent condition however one of the ramrods is clearly a replacement and there is extremely minor damage to the stocks. They are offered in an unrelated pistol case which lacks internal fitting and beige lining
BBC TV Series New Tricks (2003-2013), a Coventry Eagle bicycle used by Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong) along with the helmet, basket & cycle clips. Brian Lane used this bicycle for 10 series while he played a detective in the crime drama set in London.Provenance: The bicycle was kept by Alun Armstrong in his home until recently. He is selling the bicycle to raise money for MS Hampshire, Lymington Branch. The bicycle is sold with a hand signed letter of provenance from Alun Armstrong. Please see news article for further information. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/new-tricks-alun-armstrong-auctions-5296249
AN EAST EUROPEAN MAMELUKE-HILTED OFFICER'S SWORD, LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY POLISH with curved blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a reinforced back-edge, etched in imitation of Damascus pattern, decorated with a crescent, trophies-of-arms, a pseudo Turkish inscription and a gilt crescent on each face, gilt-brass hilt decorated with scale pattern on the quillons and with a central lion mask on each side, figured hardwood grip inlaid with silver chevrons arranged in groups of three (small losses), silver back-strap, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with brass mounts cast and chased in high relief with foliage and laurel medallions each filled with an heraldic profile close helmet, and two rings for suspension 82 cm; 32 ¼ in blade
**A GERMAN CLOSE HELMET OF SO-CALLED 'TODENKOPF' FASHION, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded two-piece skull joined along the crest of a low medial comb, peak and bevor attached to it by common dome-headed pivots, the short obtusely-pointed peak formed at its centre with a V-shaped indentation and fitted within its brow with a later U-shaped face-defence pierced with semi-circular eye-openings flanged outwards at their straight lower edges and encircled by countersunk holes, a small sub-rectangular mouth-opening flanged outwards at its slightly curved upper edge, and small circular ventilation-holes arranged in rosette-formation over each cheek, the face-defence and bevor each secured at their right sides by flat-headed studs and swivel-hooks, and a single obtusely-pointed gorget-plate front and rear, its lower edge in each case formed with a plain inward turn accompanied by a recessed border, the centre of which is in each case indented, and the face-defence decorated with slender raised lines, the whole retaining a black-from-the hammer finish, later refreshed with black paint and decorated around its edges with gold paint
A FINELY ETCHED NORTH ITALIAN CLOSE HELMET FOR THE FOOT TOURNEY, MILANESE, CIRCA 1590 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial comb, and visor, prow-shaped upper bevor and bevor (the first two restored) attached to it by dome-headed common pivots (replaced), the visor formed with a stepped and centrally-divided vision-slit and fitted at its right side with a projecting lifting-peg, the bevor pierced at the right of the chin with a large hole to receive a locking-screw that projected from the original upper bevor, the skull and bevor fastened to one another at the right of the neck by a pierced hasp and turning-pin, and formed at their lower edges with internally hollowed rims intended to lock over and rotate on the upper edge of a collar, the armour finely etched overall with alternating bands of strapwork and trophies in each case set on a stippled ground respectively gilt and blackened (the gilding only preserved as traces), and separated by plain narrow triple bands 26.5 cm; 10¼ in Provenance Dr. Bashford Dean, Riverdale, New York, sold American Art Association, New York, 23rd November 1928 John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester Massachusetts Inv. No. 890, sold in these rooms 20th March 2013, lot 291 Exhibited 'Faerie Tale Festival of Trees', Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 19 November-31 December 2005 The decoration of the helmet is of a style employed by the distinguished late 16th century armourer Pompeo della Chiesa (recorded 1571-93) who had his workshop in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan (Norman 1986, p. 31).His signature occurs on similarly decorated armours in the collections of the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton House, Wiltshire, the Museo Stibbert, Florence, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Armoury of the Knights of St John at Malta, the helmet of which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The design was also employed by several of Pompeo's Milanese contemporaries, including one who signed himself with the initials IFP on an armour in the Art Institute, Chicago, one who signed himself with a triple-towered castle on pieces in the same collection and an armour formerly in the collection of the Earl of Harrington, one who signed himself with a double-towered castle on an armour in the Museo Civico L. Marzoli, and several detached pieces in the Wallace Collection, London. (For a fuller discussion of these armours, supported by published references, see Thomas Del Mar Ltd in association with Sotheby's, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, London 26 June 2007, lot 263).
A FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET, CIRCA 1550-60, ADAPTED TO FUNERARY USE IN ENGLAND, PROBABLY IN THE 17TH CENTURY, AND FITTED WITH AN ITALIAN BARRED FACE-DEFENCE FOR USE IN THE GIOCO DEL PONTE, PISA, 18TH CENTURY with one-piece skull rising to a high boldly-roped medial comb (patched at its apex where a spike for the attachment of an heraldic funerary crest was at one time situated, and additionally patched at the left of the neck), and fitted at the front with a barred face-defence and a bevor attached by common pivots, the face-defence formed of a brow-band and a further U-shaped band that follows the margin of the face-opening, the two bands riveted to one another at their outer ends and fitted with eleven sturdy vertical bars of circular section, the bevor strongly shaped to the point of the chin and fitted at each side with a swivel-hook to engage corresponding pierced studs riveted to the lower edge of the face-defence, and the lower edge of the skull and bevor each flanged outwards to receive a single associated gorget-plate formed in two halve (the right half and part of the left missing, and the helmet heavily oxidised overall and painted black) 36.5 cm; 14⅞ in The Gioco del Ponte was a mock battle fought by two teams of contestants armed with clubs and shields who endeavoured to occupy the old bridge at Pisa now known as the Ponte di Mezzo. It was last fought in 1776 and 1807 (W. J .Karcheski & D. J. LaRocca 2007, pp. 107-18)
A SOUTH GERMAN CLOSE HELMET OF CUIRASSIER'S TYPE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with rounded skull formed in two halves joined by a turn along the crest of a moderately high medial comb, fitted at its rear with a tapering plume-holder decorated with simple incised ornament (replaced) and at its front with a peak and bevor attached by gilt common pivots (replaced), the obtusely pointed peak fitted on its underside within a U-shaped face-defence cut with eight vertical slots separating bars formed with roped medial ribs, the bevor pieced at its left and right sides respectively with seventeen and eighteen small holes in rosette-formation, and in front of them with two further holes possibly for the attachment of a falling buffe, the face-defence and bevor each secured at their right sides by a swivel-hook and stud, and the skull and bevor each flanged outwards at their lower edges to receive one or more missing gorget-plates (lightly patinated overall) 31.0 cm; 12¼ in
A FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET OF CUIRASSIER'S TYPE, EARLY 17TH CENTURY with egg-shaped skull formed in two halves joined medially by rivets and embossed with a pattern of sixteen V-shaped flutes radiating from a transversely-pierced finial riveted through a star-shaped washer at its apex, the flutes separated by single incised lines and emphasised at their crests by pairs of incised lines, the skull fitted at its rear with a slender tapering plume-holder and at its front with a narrow obtusely-pointed peak, an upright U-shaped face-defence and a bevor attached to it by common pivots, the face-defence cut at its upper edge with a broad rectangular notch forming the inward-turned file-roped lower edge of a vision-slit, pierced over the mouth with a small lozenge-shaped ventilation-hole, above it with four smaller circular holes in lozenge-formation and at each side with nine similar holes in rosette-formation overlaying a pattern of eight radiating incised lines, the bevor and skull each flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a single gorget-plate of which the front one is more acutely-pointed than the rear, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns accompanied in the case of the peak and gorget-plates by recessed borders, and decorated elsewhere with single incised lines (patinated overall and showing a few small dents, chips and cracks) 30.5 cm; 12 in
**AN ENGLISH OR FLEMISH CLOSE HELMET FOR HEAVY FIELD USE, CIRCA 1560-70 with one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb pierced at its rear with a later transverse hole, visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to the skull by common pivots with small radially-fluted domed heads, the forward-sloping visor stepped in front of its broad undivided vision-slit and fitted at the right with a slender lifting-peg (replaced), the prow-shaped upper bevor secured at the right of the chin by a spring-catch (its push-button release replaced) to the lower bevor which is in turn secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a swivel-hook and pierced stud, and two gorget-plates front and rear (the lowest front one and both rear ones restored), the main edges of the helmet decorated with file-roped inward turns accompanied, except around the face-opening of the lower bevor, by a recessed border, and the surface of the helmet with a black finish overall (the left of the skull with a small riveted patch at the left ear and the upper bevor with small chip towards the rear of its upper edge) 29.7 cm; 11½ in
**A COMPOSITE NORTH ITALIAN CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR WITH ETCHED DECORATION, LATE 16TH CENTURY comprising earlier close helmet of circa 1555-60 with rounded one-piece skull rising to a high roped medial comb (dented and slightly perforated at its crest), and visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it by common pivots (replaced), the visor sloping forward to a centrally-divided vision-slit (the dividing-bar restored) and fitted at its right with a moulded lifting-peg (replaced), the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced at its right with eleven cross-shaped ventilation-holes and secured to the lower bevor at the same side by a pierced stud and swivel-hook (the latter replaced), and two gorget-plates (replaced) front and rear; composite collar formed of two plates front and rear (the lowest in each case of deep form from a pikeman's armour); breastplate formed of a main plate of deep 'peascod' fashion fitted at its arm-openings with moveable gussets, at its right with a rigid lance-rest having its base pierced with four slots to fit over staples but now attached instead by two screws, and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of one lame (restored) fitted at each side with a pair of straps supporting a pendent tasset of five lames (restored); one-piece backplate formed at its lower edge with a short biliobate flange; two pauldrons (not a pair) of asymmetrical design, each formed of seven lames (the lowest four of the right associated, its third and seventh patched, and the lowest five of the left restored); vambraces of fully articulated tubular design (the upper cannon of the left patched), each fitted at its upper end with a turner of three lames (those of the left restored and the second of the right patched) and at its elbow with a bracelet couter of three lames (the first and third of the right patched, the second perforated at the point off the elbow); pair of gauntlets each formed of a flared and pointed tubular cuff closed at the inside of the wrist by an overlapped join, five metacarpal-plates (the first two of the right restored and the last three associated), a knuckle-plate embossed with a roped transverse rib, and a hinged thumb-defence (that of the right restored); fully articulated legharness each formed of a cuisse (the right restored) with a short gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its upper edge with two extension-plates and at its lower edge with a poleyn of five lames of which the third is formed at its outside with a large medially-puckered oval side-wing; and a pair of integral tubular greaves (restored) each terminating in a broad-toed integral sabaton of nine lames; the main edges of the armour formed with file-roped inward turns, and its surfaces decorated with etched bands and borders of ornament consisting on the helmet of running foliate scrolls involving flower-heads and fabulous beasts and birds, and on all other parts of trophies of arms involving similar devices, all executed on a blackened and stippled ground and enclosed between narrower bands of guilloche See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Clarence H. Mackay, Harbor Hill, Long Island, New York (sold from his estate by Jaques Seligman & Co, New York, 18 July 1939) JWHA Inv. No. 2525 Exhibited Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan, 17 March - 6 July 1948 Worcester Centennial Exposition, Massachusetts, 23 July - 2 August 1948 Hospital Trust Company, Rhode Island, 8 - 31 May 1967 Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1976 - 2013 The helmet resembles both in form and decoration, one forming part of an armour in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (formerly the C. O. von Kienbusch collection), made for William Herbert, First Earl of Pembroke, and described in the inventory taken of his armoury at Wilton House, Wiltshire, in 1558, as 'a millayne dimilance graven and gilt wth the furniture' (J. F. Hayward, 'The Armoury of the first Earl of Pembroke', The Connoisseur, April 1960, pp. 226, 228, fig. 7)
**A COMPOSITE CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR IN THE SO-CALLED 'MAXIMILIAN' FASHION, SOUTH GERMAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY AND 19TH CENTURY comprising close helmet with broad rounded one-piece skull (patched at its lower edge) fitted at its rear with a rounded neck-guard of two lames (restored) and at its front with a 'sparrow's beak' visor (restored) and bevor (associated and trimmed to fit) attached by common domed pivots (replaced), the visor stepped below its centrally-divided vision-slit, pierced on the upper surface of its 'beak' with eight small circular ventilation-holes, on the lower surface with ten horizontal ventilation-slots and fitted at its right with a short lifting-peg, and the bevor flanged outwards at its lower edge to form a short integral front gorget-plate and secured to the skull at the right of the neck by a spring-catch with push-button release (replaced); collar of four lames front and rear (the front ones restored and the uppermost rear one associated); breastplate (restored) formed of a rounded main plate with a straight upper edge, fitted at each of its arm-openings with a moveable gusset, at the right of its chest with a folding lance-rest attached by two screws and within its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a fauld of two lames, the lowest of which is cut with a shallow arch separating a pair of tassets of square form, each of four lames (all of the right and the upper two of the left restored) and suspended from a pair of straps; backplate (restored) en suite with breastplate, formed of a main plate fitted within its lower edge with a waist-lame flanged outwards to receive a culet of one lames; large symmetrical pauldrons (restored) formed in each case of six lames, the lowest four of which protect only the outside of the arm and are connected by a turner to fully articulated vambrace (restored) formed in each case of a tubular upper and lower cannon linked to one another by an intervening winged couter of three lames open at the inside of the elbow; mitten-gauntlets (the right restored) formed of a short flaring obtusely-pointed cuff closed at the inside of the wrist by an overlapped and riveted join and extending downwards over the metacarpals to two shorter metacarpal-plates and three finger-plates (one of the left patched at its upper end) alternating with three knuckle-plates decorated in each case with boldly roped transverse ribs; and a laterally-hinged thumb-defence formed of a lozenge-shaped main plate having attached to its truncated distal end a small fragment of later Eastern mail; cuisses (restored) each formed of a gutter-shaped main plate fitted at its convex upper edge with a crescentic extension-plate and at its lower edge with a poleyn of four lames, the second of which is shaped to the point of the knee and formed at its outside with a large wing ; and full-length tubular greaves (restored) each fitted within the arched lower edge of its front plate with a broad-toed sabaton of eight lames; the main edges of the armour formed with inward turns of prominent and angled form in the case of those of the neck and arm-openings of the breastplate, and boldly roped in the case of those of the tassets, gauntlets and legharnesss, its surfaces decorated overall, except on the visor, bevor, waist-lames, gauntlets and greaves, with bands and panels of flutes emphasised by pairs of incised lines See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance Clarence H. Mackay, Harbor Hill, Long Island, New York (sold from his estate by Jaques Seligman & Co, New York, 9 November 1939) JWHA Inv. No. 2605
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