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WW1 British Trench Club, wooden truncheon style club with metal boot stud fittings to the head and lead filled section to the top. With rope loop to the handle. Carved to the body “CPL R H MILLS A&S H2”. Some small cracks to the body but generally good condition. At the time of cataloguing we have been unable to find any service records for a Corporal R H Mills 2nd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
LOCAL INTEREST - A Victorian Shropshire Constabulary police truncheon, circa 1850, of long, slightly tapering form, painted with a crown above monogram and a red panel inscribed 'SHROPSHIRE CONSTABULARY', overall length 55cm (paint worn); together with another, with turned handle and leather wrist strap, further painted with crown above coat of arms and motto, overall length 45cm (2)
A William IV Police truncheon for the Dovor (sic) Constabulary, painted with crown above royal cipher, the location Dovor (sic) and the number 131, with black lacquered truncheon and turned oak handle, length 42cm. CONDITION REPORT There is quite a lot of paint flaking. The crown, working and numbers are all easily legible. There is paint flaking to the black and there looks to have been a small section possibly cut out of the oak handle.
A selection of small collectables to include railway and Hull City pin badges, worry dolls, costume jewellery, coins, medals, wooden truncheon, mirrors and compact, Meerschaum pipes, corkscrew, magnifying glass and a mahogany magneto box.Condition ReportMagneto box no inner workings, small items fairly good condition.
A QUANTITY OF TREEN AND WICKER ITEMS, to include three dcuk ducks with name tags, tallest 39cm, wooden letter racks, two asymmetric bowls marked TG, a French barometer, a book shelf length 31cm, a twentieth century Cambridge Ware biscuit barrel with plastic liner, a carved elephant and mouse, a truncheon (piece missing), jewellery boxes and other wooden boxes, various wicker shopping and storage baskets, etc (sd) (Qty)
A collection of four 19th century and later truncheons, comprising: A George IV ovoid-shape truncheon, bearing the Royal Coat of Arms, 48.5 cm, a Victorian long truncheon, in fruitwood with ribbed handle, 91.5 cm, a 19th century Tibetan monk's green painted ceremonial sceptre or mace, 60 cm (a similar example appears in Erland Fenn Clark, 'Truncheons, Their Romance and Reality', 1935, pp 192-3, and an Elizabeth II Canal Zoners truncheon, carved 'Monscar / Faied / Geneifa', 50 cm with leather martindale.Qty: 4
A collection of three 19th century Totnes (Devon) truncheons, comprising: William IV four-sided baluster-headed West Country tipstaff, with painted decoration and inverted baluster central section, 37 cm, a William IV four-sided baluster headed mace truncheon, painted decoration, 61.5 cm and a Victoria 'VR' truncheon, with ribbed handle and bearing the Arms of Totnes, remains of leather strap, 62 cm.Qty: 3
1829-1979 Commemorative Police Truncheon brass, tubular rod engraved "1829-1979 150th Anniversary Of The British Police Service". Brass crown top mount. Together with a fire axe. Single edged steel head with rear spike. Wooden shaft with brass, Japanese characters. Lower part of shaft with cord binding. 2 items Payment by BANK TRANSFER ONLY
A dated George III turned and painted wood long truncheon with crown terminal, circa third quarter 18th century, indistinctly dated 1769 (?) and with Royal Coat of Arms and inscribed Aston Abbotts and with initials J.E., 65.5cm in length Note: Aston Abbotts is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury vale district of Buckinghamshire. The suffix 'Abbotts' refers to the former abbey in the village, which - until the Dissolution if the Monasteries in the 16th century - was the country retreat of the abbots of St Albans in Hertfordshire. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves Part II.
A George III turned and painted wood truncheon for Osbaston, decorated with Royal Coat of Arms and OSBASTON reserved on a green ribbon, above a finely ribbed handle, 47cm in length Note: Osbaston is a small village and civil parish in Leicestershire. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Sbwermestun'. The village developed round the Norman manor, now represented by Osbaston Hall. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves Part II.
A Regency dated club-shaped short truncheon with inverted baluster handle, the cylindrical upper section painted and gilt with Royal Coat of Arms and bearing date 1812, reserved on a green green ground, verso decorated with Manchester associated Arms and initials JW Note: The bendlets are from the arms of Robert De Gresle, original lord of the manor of Manchester. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves Part II.
A George IV polychrome and ebonised wood truncheon, circa 1830, decorated with GR above a Crown and differenced Royal Coat of Arms, / TB / and the arms of Birmingham (Quarterly, the first and fourth quarters azure with gold lozenges joined bendwise, the second and third parted palewise indented gold and gules; over all a fess ermine charged with a gold mural crown), with a ribbed handle and leather martingale, 42cm longThe arms in the quarters in the shield are two distinct coats used by the family De Bermingham, who held the manor in the thirteenth century (and perhaps from the time of the conquest) until 1527, when Edward de Bermingham was deprived of his property by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, by means of a false charge of riot. The bendwise lozenges appear on the shield of an effigy in St Martin's Church, believed to be William de Bermingham, in the time of Edward I.Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves Part II.
A George IV painted wood truncheon, circa 1830, decorated with a Crown above GR and a cartouche for the HUND. / of / NANTWICH, and text for the Cheshire Constabulary verso, with a ribbed and line turned handle, 37cm long The Cheshire Constabulary was formed on 20 April 1857. The Hundreds of Cheshire, as with other Hundreds in England, were the geographic divisions of Cheshire for administrative, military and judicial purposes. They were introduced in Cheshire some time before the Norman Conquest. Over the years, a number of later hundreds emerged, including Nantwich, all of which were in use by 1260. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves Part II.
A William IV truncheon, decorated with a Crown and IV WR cyppher, NEWCASTLE / POLICE, with ribbed handle, inscribed K / POLICE, 44cm long, The term, 'new castle' seems to have been applied to the stronghold erected by Robert, William I's eldest son, on the site of which Henry II raised the castle which remains today. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves Part II.
A William IV/Victorian turned and painted truncheon for the City of London, decorated with the Arms of the City of London and inscribed BRIDGE, verso A.6, turned grip, 51.5cm in length Note: 'BRIDGE' refers to the Ward of Bridge Within. It is a small ward in the City of London, and it is named from its closeness to London Bridge. A separate ward, called 'Bridge Without', existed south of the Thames in Southwark. The existing ward north of the river became 'Bridge Within', while 'Bridge Without' fell beyond the gates on London Bridge, the full span of which was for many centuries lined with buildings - including many houses - forming part of the ward of 'Bridge Within'. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves, Part II Previously from the Erland Fenn Clark Collection, illustrated and described in Truncheons, Their Romance and Reality, E.F. Clark, 1935, pp 52-53 and E.R.H. Dicken Collection, illustrated and described in The History of Truncheons, E.R.H Dicken, 1952, p. 84, Plate 15.
A Victorian dockyard police truncheon, with crown above a red cartouche with fouled anchor, inscribed DOCK-YARD / POLICE on a smaller red cartouche, numbered '2' verso, with a ribbed handle, 42.5 cmlong A similar example is described and illustrated in The History of Truncheons, E.R.H. Dicken , 1952, p. 55 , Plate 12. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves, Part II
A Victorian painted and turned wood truncheon, decorated with Royal Crown above the Arms of Gravesend above a red ground cartouche with gilt 10 within gilt laurel wreath border, 37cm in length NB: The bull's head is from an old seal. The border of fleur-de-lis and buckles was granted in 1635 to commemorate the Duke of Lennox's connection with the town. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves, Part II
A Victorian truncheon, decorated with a Crown above VR cypher, and inscribed ARDLEIGH in a cartouche, the ribbed handle, stamped 'FIELD / 233 HOLBORN', 44cm long. Ardleigh is a village and civil parish in Essex, 4 miles from Colchester. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves, Part II
A late Victorian or Edwardian painted and turned hardwood truncheon, circa 1900, decorated with a Crown above a Royal Coat of Arms and inscribed / STAFFORDSHIRE / (Stafford Knot) / CONSTABRY in a cartouche, 39.5cm long A general emblem of the county of Staffordshire, as a civic emblem the Stafford knot was first used by the town of Stafford, and a facetious tradition has it that the place was so infested with rogues that it was necessary to devise a noose which would enable them to be hanged three at a time. Provenance: The 'Constable' Collection of Truncheons and Tipstaves, Part II

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