Antique Guns and Equipment
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C1840 English Rodgers Sheffield ‘Protector’ 120 Bore Percussion Knife Pistol With Polished Horn Scales German Silver Octagonal Barrel & Fittings Bullet Mould & Tweezers. Sn 23707 - 23707 This is a very good original Rodgers of Sheffield knife pistol made C1840. Overall the pistol when closed is 6 ½” overall length. The tapered 3 ½” octagonal barrel, frame & bolsters are German Silver. The barrel has a small bead foresight. The left of the barrel is crisply marked with two English proof marks. It has a steel hammer and folding trigger. It's cocking & firing actions are nice & strong. There are two folding knife blades, one large, one small. The large spear point blade is 3 ½” long and is very faintly etched on one side ‘Protector’. The small single edged blade is 2 ¼” length. Both blades are marked Rodgers Sheffield and other indistinct letters, possibly ‘James’ (all illustrated). The base of the butt has a trap with hinged lid for moulded bullets/ balls, caps and wadding. It has excellent undamaged polished horn grips. Both sides of the grips have inserts which contain on one side a German Silver scissor action bullet mould and the other a pair of steel tweezers. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique percussion pistol, no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 23707 (drawers office) £895.00 |
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**ORIGINAL**VINTAGE**1884 Patent Ideal Manufacturing Company New Haven CT USA No.4 Steel .44-40 Calibre Bullet Mould / Re-Loading Tool For Winchester & Marlin Lever Action .44-40 Calibre Rifles. Sn 23705 - 23705 John Barlow managed reloading tools for the Winchester Repeating Arms Co, which famously packed basic tong tools with their rifles. Barlow left Winchester to join the Ideal Tool Co. where production of innovative combination tools and bullet moulds began around 1885. The No. 4 Ideal Reloading Tool was the Classic, tool produced by Ideal. It was offered from about 1884 until about 1936. The tools cast a bullet and reloaded a Cartridge. These are very popular tools, it is complete in itself, no extra pieces to get lost or carry, it performs all the operations required, as constructed, it moulds the bullet a trifle above the standard size, which after they are lubricated can be forced through the sizing die which packs the grease firmly in the grooves, removes the surplus and makes the bullet perfectly round and of the correct diameter. The value of this is appreciated by those who make their own ammunition. This example is in very good fully functioning condition. The tool is signed by the manufacturer and has calibre & 1884 patent detail (although not numbered this is no doubt The ideal No.4 model. Illustrated in image 3 is an image from a period Ideal catalogue featuring the Ideal No. 4 tool). The price includes UK delivery. Sn 23705 (mags/tools draw office) £275.00 |
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**ORIGINAL**Victorian Era Zulu Warrior’s Knobkerrie / Knobkerry Tropical Hard Wood Fighting War Club. Sn 23524 - 23523 An original Zulu knobkerrie War club. Also spelt knobkerrie, knopkierie or knobkerry, they are clubs used mainly in Southern and Eastern Africa. Typically they have a large knob at one end and can be used for throwing at animals in hunting or for clubbing an enemy's head in battle. A period photograph of a Zulu warrior armed with a knobkerrie & Assegai stabbing spear is illustrated in image 1. This knobkerrie war club is made from Tropical hard wood. This club measures 30 ¾” overall length and the club ball is 70” circumference. The club head has a few old small dents and a few small old stable surface cracks consistent with battle use. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 23523 (storeroom shelves near bells) £275.00 |
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**ORIGINAL**Victorian Era Zulu Warrior’s Assegai Short Stabbing Spear. Sn 23526 - 23526 The Assegai is a short handled stabbing spear invented by the legendary Zulu king Shaka in the early 1800s. The weapon revolutionized tribal warfare in South Africa. Chieftains would also use their Assegai to direct the attack of Zulu warrior Impi battle formations. A period photograph of a Zulu Chieftain armed with an Assegai in fighting pose is illustrated in image 1. This Assegai measures 36” overall length. It has a 14 ¼” long iron leaf shaped blade. The blade is just over 1 ¼” wide at its broadest. Its tang is attached to its hand crafted wood shaft by a shrunken leather hide sheath. The leather has a small old stable split at the spear head tang consistent with age and use but the leather and spear head are secure. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 23526 (storeroom shelves near bells) £345.00 |
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C1865 Belgium Lefaucheux Patent 7mm Pin Fire Obsolete Calibre 6 Shot Double Action Revolver With Ornate Tooled Decoration, Folding Trigger & Polished Bone Grips. Sn 17902 - 17902 A Belgian 6 shot 7mm Lefaucheux double action pinfire revolver made C1865, number 228357. It has a round barrel with octagonal breech 70mm (2¾”), the breech is marked “E. LEFAUCHEUX IN BREVETE”. The breech, cylinder and frame engraved with scrolls, strapwork and dogs. It has a captive ejector rod, folding trigger, and plain un-damaged polished bone grips. The pistol’s bore has light staining consistent with age & crisp rifling. It has a triangular post fore sight and the rear sight consists of a grooved hammer. The price includes UK delivery NB As an obsolete calibre, antique, pin fire weapon no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 17902 (drawers office) £595.00 |
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Victorian Era British Thomas Turner, Birmingham .577 Snider Obsolete Calibre Sporting Shot Gun. Sn 23702 - 23702 This antique shotgun has all original Walnut woodwork throughout with chequered panels at the wrist & fore stock. Its steel action plate is signed by the retailer Thomas Turner, Fisher Street, Birmingham. It has a chequered horn butt plate, brass trigger guard & polished horn fore end block. The breech cover with locking catch is stamped ‘Snider’s patent’. The gun chambers the obsolete calibre .577 Snider round. The shotgun measures 49 ¾” overall with a 30 ¾” barrel. The smooth bore is clean. The barrel is stamped with inspection mark & ‘25’ and has a brass bead fore sight. The hinged breech cover is numbered ‘C 591’. Its cocking and firing action work crisply. This is an antique, obsolete calibre gun and no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 23702 £695.00 |
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**QUALITY**C1870 Robert Hughes Universal Firearms Works Birmingham Side By Side Double Damascus Barrelled Muzzle Loading Percussion Rifle/ Shotgun Combination Big Game Gun (14 Smooth Bore/ .577 Calibre Rifled Bore), Irish Reg Mark ‘F173U’ (Fermanagh). - 23701 Robert Hughes was a gun and pistol maker at 22 Moland Street, Birmingham until 1872 and at 100 Moland Street from 1873. He adopted the style 'Universal Firearms Works' in 1868. His guns were well known and he was favoured in the London gun market, known for his high quality Sporting Rifles, typically sold to men traveling to Asia or Africa for big game hunting. This attractive C1870 double hammer percussion Rifle and Shotgun combination gun is the type used for hunting large game. It has 30 ½” round Damascus steel barrels and is 46 ½” overall. The rifled barrel is .577 Calibre and has a good clean bore with sharp rifling. The shotgun barrel is smooth 14 Bore which is also clean. The barrel is faintly signed ‘Robert Hughes Universal Firearms Works Birmingham. One barrel is stamped with Irish registration mark ‘F173U’ indicating that this gun was in Ireland at some point of its Victorian life (the Registration of Firearms (Ireland) Act of 22nd August 1843, provided for the granting of licences to the owners of firearms and required the arms to be marked by the Superintendent of the County Inspector of the Constabulary Force. F U mark was the designation for Fermanagh Ulster). The barrel rib is mounted with a fixed ‘v’ notch plate rear sight graduated to 100 yards and 3 leaf sights with silver aiming lines graduated, 200, 300 & 400 yards. The post from the foresight plate is absent. The action, Dolphin hammers, action tang, trigger guard with extended tang and stock mounts have quality tooled foliate decoration. The gun has double triggers. The cocking and firing actions are strong. The Walnut stock with chequered fore stock panels and steel butt plate is undamaged with just light bumps and bruises to be expected. The underside of the stock has a void inlaid silver disc and it has sling swivel lugs. The weapon has its original wood ram rod with polished horn end cap and brass tip with steel worm. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique muzzle loading percussion weapon no licence is required to own this item in the UK. Sn 23701 £1,495.00 |
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**QUALITY MAKER**Late 1700’s – Early 1800’s English Ezekial Baker (London) Single Barrel 25 Bore Muzzle Loading Flintlock Sporting Shotgun. Sn 23700 - 23700 Ezekiel Baker (1758-1836) was apprentice to the famous English Gun Smith Henry Nock of Wilkinson Sword fame before establishing himself as a quality gunmaker in his own right with various premises in London. Between 1823-1854 Baker is recorded operating as E.Baker & Son at Size Yard, Whitechapel Road , 49 Tenter Street & 7 Union Street, London (his son Ezekiel John Baker died in 1841). Baker was the inventor of the ‘Baker Rifle’ which was adopted by the British Army in 1800 and made quality firearms for Royalty (see page 139 of the book British Gunmakers Volume 1 London by Nigel Brown).This is a very good, English form Flintlock sporting shotgun made sometime in the late 18th century or early 19th century by Ezekial Baker (we can find no other E. Baker working in the flintlock era). It has a 36” Damascus steel barrel (51 ½” overall). The barrel has a small German silver blade foresight and grooved action rear sight. The barrel’s smooth bore is clean. It has a walnut stock with chequered wrist & brass fittings. The wood work has just the bumps and bruises to be expected with age. The wood is inlaid with a void silver roundel. The lock plate is signed ‘E. Baker’. The action and parts of the barrel have quality tooled foliate decoration. The fore stock has a polished horn end cap. The brass butt plate tang has engraved game birds in the field and the trigger guard with extended tang has engraved decoration and Pineapple finial. The piece is complete with ebonised wood ramrod which has a brass end cap and brass tip which unscrews to reveal a worm. The price includes UK delivery. NB As an antique flintlock firearm no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of collection or display. Sn 23700 £975.00 |
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**MINT** Remington USA 1873-74 Patent Argentine Contract Rolling Block .43 Spanish Obsolete Centre Fire Calibre Infantry Rifle. Sn 20915 - 20915 A near mint, Remington Argentine military contract 'Rolling Block' infantry rifle in .43 Spanish Obsolete Centre Fire Calibre. The Remington Rolling Block rifle was a breech-loading rifle produced from the mid-1860s into the early 20th century by E. Remington and Sons (later Remington Arms Company). The action was extremely strong, and could easily withstand the increased pressure of the new smokeless powders coming into use by the late 1880s. This example was made as part of one of Remington’s Argentine National Army contracts. It has a 36” barrel (51” overall). The barrel's rifled bore is near mint, clean & bright with well defined rifling. The rifle has an external hammer, bayonet bar, block and blade fore sight and folding ladder rear sight. The woodwork and metal work are both excellent. The woodwork has only very minor bumps and bruises from normal use which is to be expected of a weapon of this age and the metal has superb blue finish. The action tang has Remington’s patents (illustrated). It is complete with sling swivels and steel cleaning rod. It's loading and firing actions work crisply. The price includes UK delivery. As an antique obsolete calibre rifle no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 20915 £1,345.00 |
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British Naval Officer’s Private Purchase R. Watkins (London C1710-1740) Long Sea Service Pattern .577” Regulation Calibre, Flintlock Pistol With Belt Bar & Brass Fittings Including Cudgel Butt. Sn 21393:15 - 21393:15 During the 18th century the British Royal Navy began standardising their Naval small arms. One such weapon was the Sea Service flintlock pistol. These weapons were used by the British Royal Navy throughout the Wars with neighbouring France 1750- 1815 and saw service at the famous Naval Battle of Trafalgar 21st October 1805. This original British Naval Officer’s Private Purchase Long Sea Service Pistol is in excellent condition. It is 20 ¼” long with a 12 ¾” smooth bore barrel which is Regulation .577" calibre. The barrel’s bore has staining & residue consistent with age & use. The barrel is crisply stamped with black powder proof marks. The lock plate is signed ‘R. Watkins’ (recorded as working in London C1710-1740, a maker of flintlock pistols and muskets, see page 104 of English, Irish & Scottish Firearms Makers by Carey). The all original full wood stock has just light bumps and bruises to be expected with age. It has regulation type brass furniture including cudgel butt. The pistol has its original wood ram rod with brass end cap. The lock functions crisply. NB As an antique flintlock pistol no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a display or collection. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 21393:15 £2,145.00 |
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