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Victorian, Tower Contract, Imperial German 16 Bore (17mm) Officers Pattern Percussion Pistol. Sn - 22899 This is an unusual Tower contract, Imperial German, officers percussion pistol with a Tower lock plate with tower inspection marks and the queens crown to the lock plate with a Birmingham proofed barrel. The pistol is in the classic form of the Imperial German cavalry pistol with the traditional nose cap, butt cap, side plate, trigger guard, stock form, ramrod and the lock plate with the raised section in front of the nipple bolster. The pistol has a 16 bore barrel which is Birmingham proofed. 16 bore measures to 17 mm which was the standard Imperial German bore for cavalry pistols. The double lined lock plate is stamped with the queens crown TOWER and the tower crowned inspection stamp above it. The hammer is the standard double lined tower pattern with a slight curl at the top. The pistol has a Germanic style brass butt cap, brass trigger guard and a iron nose cap which holds the mushroomed head ramrod. The pistol measures 17 inches in length and the 10 inch barrel which has a bright clean bore with very little staining. The tang is stamped HE 160 and the woodwork near the trigger guard is impressed G R . The price for this unusual Tower contract Imperial German pistol includes UK delivery. NB This is an antique percussion pistol no licence is required to own it in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. Sn 22899 £595.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (Lay-Away 10/10). 1898 Boer War South African Republic (ZAR) Westley Richards Boer Contract Martini Henry Rifle in 577 x 450 Obsolete Calibre. Sn - 22864 The Boer Republics of the Orange Free State (OVS or Oranje Vrij Staat) and the South African Republic (ZAR or Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek) had been at odds with the British Empire for decades. Events led to open hostilities and knowing War with the British Empire was imminent, the Boers rushed to purchase firearms to arm their citizen-soldier Commandos with rifles which were purchased by the ZAR and OVS States. Prior to the Boer War, the British gun makers Westley Richards & Co, sold a private contract shipment of their Martini Action 577 x 450 Calibre Rifles to the Boer, South African Republic (ZAR or Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek). The stopping Power of the large Martini 577x 450 round, simplicity of the Martini Action was favoured by the Dutch farmers. During the Boer War the weapons were used by South African Republic (ZAR) and Orange free State (OVS) forces against the British Army in most of the Major Battles. This is an excellent original example of a Westley Richards Martini Henry Rifle sold to the ZAR. The rifle has all original smooth metalwork with a nice even patina throughout. The woodwork is original and has the usual knocks, bumps and bruises from use. The rifle is complete with block and blade fore sight, flip up ladder rear sight with platinum lines, the cocking indicator on the breech block, both sling swivels the Westley Richards loading lever lock in the stock & bayonet lug. The right side of the receiver is stamped MADE ESPECIALLY FOR ZAR. The left side is crisply stamped WESTLEY RICHARDS & CO with the correct triangular trade mark. The top of the breech is also stamped with the Westley Richards triangle and 1898 date. The barrel is clearly stamped WESTLEY RICHARDS & CO also HENRY RIFLING. The bore of its 32 ½” barrel has good rifling with minor staining from use. . The barrel carries London proof marks and is stamped with the number 80 underneath. The loading and firing actions work crisply. The price for this rare historic Boer War era piece includes UK delivery. NB As an obsolete calibre firearm no licence is required to own this rifle in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 22864 £0.00 |
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**MINT** Hatsan 1000S Striker .25 Calibre Air Rifle with Wood Stock & Walther Konus 3 – 9 x 32 Telescopic Sight with Parallax Adjustment & Mount. Sn 22976 - 22976 The Hatsan 1000S Striker air rifle comes in .25 caliber and is fitted with an integral barrel sleeve and foresight. This is an Edgar Brothers Hatsan 1000S Striker .25 Calibre air rifle fitted with the optional wooden stock. This near mint air rifle is fitted with a clever ambidextrous stock with a cheek piece on each side and has a chequered for end and wrist and comes with a white lined rubber recoil pad. This air rifle is in mint condition and retains all of its original blued surface finish with the Hatsan etching. The top of the receiver is etched in silver HATSAN Edgar Brothers STRIKER. The left hand side of the barrel is etched 0813 04790 .25CAL (6.36MM). the 17.7 inch barrel is fitted with an integral barrel shroud with a red dot foresight mounted on the top. The total length of the air rifle is 43 inches. This air rifle has mounted a Walther Konus 3-9X 34 telescopic sight with parallax adjustment on the front optic. The price includes UK delivery. NB As a post 1939 Air Weapon the restrictions of the Crime Reduction Act apply to the sale and delivery of this item. Sn 22976 £195.00 |
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WW2 Nazi German Hitler Youth Photograph Album containing 50 Original Photographs. Sn - 22883 This is an original WW2 bound Nazi German photograph album. The black covered album contains 50 original black and white photographs mostly appertaining to the Hitler Youth. The black cover album measures 10 by 8 ½ inches when closed. The album contains 16 black mounting pages of which 8 are filled with double sided photographs. The photographs mostly appertain to the Hitler Youth Movement and many would appear to be of pre war in origin. The album and photographs are clean and in good condition. the price of this album includes U.K. delivery. Sn 22883 £275.00 |
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SOLD SOLD (LAY-AWAY 11/10) Model 1900 Browning Military / Police 7.65mm Calibre Semi Automatic Pistol. - D 6049 The FN Browning M1900 is a single action, semi-automatic pistol designed C 1896 by John Browning for Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN) and produced in Belgium at the turn of the century. It was the first production handgun to use a slide. United States President Theodore Roosevelt owned a M1900, which he regularly kept on his person and in his bedside drawer. Eugen Schauman used an M1900 (serial number unknown) in his 1904 assassination of the Russian Governor-General of Finland at the time, Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov. This is an excellent example of the Browning Model 1900 in 7.65mm calibre. The pistol has its original finish with nice patina throughout. The matching serial numbers 658931 are stamped on the frame, slide and rear sight block. The pistol has a blade foresight and bakelite grips with 'FN' roundels. The left side of the pistols slide and frame are marked with crisp manufacturer detail and inspection / proof marks (illustrated). The left side of the frame also has a thumb lever safety catch and the butt is fitted with a fixed Military/Police lanyard ring. The pistol is complete with its original 7 round magazine and strips cocks and dry fires as it should. Price includes deactivation certificate and UK delivery. D 6049 £0.00 |
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1950's -1983 West German Original Target Model 50 .177 Calibre Under Lever Action Air Rifle with Target Fore & Rear Sights. Sn - 22859 Original air rifles were made by the West German Company Diana from the mid-1950's to about 1983 and were amongst the most expensive to buy. This Original model 50 air rifle measures 44 ½ inches long with a 19 inch stepped barrel. The top of the cylinder is crisply stamped ORIGINAL and MOD 50 alongside. The left hand side of the cylinder is stamped MADE IN GERMANY. The air rifle has an undamaged wood stock with a chequered fore end and wrist together with an undamaged and ribbed plastic butt plate. It has a 19 ½” stepped rifled barrel (45 ½” overall). The weapon retains its original blue finish. The air rifle is fitted with its original rear sight together with the official dioptre slide on rear sight and the interchangeable disc clamp on foresight which is attached onto the muzzles two sight holder groves. There is no visible date mark normally found on the cylinder. The rifle cocks and fires crisply. The price includes UK delivery. NB As a post 1939 Air weapon the restrictions of the Crime Reduction Act regarding sale & delivery of this item apply. Sn 22859 £425.00 |
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VERY RARE, 1977 Manufacture Only, Weihrauch HW 35LS Lochschaft .22 Target Air Rifle with Interchangeable Blade Foresight. Sn - 22880 The Weihrauch name has been associated with solid build quality and reliability for many years. Weihrauch’s range of solid, accurate springers have been a popular choice for air gunners. The HW 35LS Lochschaft, (German for a thumb-hole stock) was only produced in 1977 and is seldom encountered. The rifle has a 19 ½ inch barrel with an overall length of 44 ½ inches. The air rifle is the exceedingly rare Lochschaft version fitted with the thumbhole stock. The wooden stock is in excellent condition and is not the plastic version. The air rifle is in .22 calibre and is fitted with the target interchangeable foresight. The rear sight is the standard Weirauch sight. The air rifles barrel block is stamped on the left hand side of the barrel HW35 Made in Germany Kal 5.5. the right hand side of the barrel is stamped Weirauch Mellrichstadt – Bay and carries the serial number 719244, The air rifles blueing is in excellent condition with only minor rubbing from use. The air rifle cocks loads and fires with a nice tight action. See pages 248-250 of Hillers Collectors Guide to Air Rifles. The price includes UK delivery. NB As a post 1939 Air weapon the restrictions of the Crime Reduction Act apply to the sale & delivery of this item. Sn 22880 £495.00 |
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INERT DEACTIVATED. British, RARE, KYNOCH made, 1930 Dated, 20 Round Packet of .276 Peterson (7x51) Ball Ammunition for the American .276 Pederson Trials Rifle. Sn - 22787:18 INERT DEACTIVATED. The Pedersen rifle was tested by the British military in the early 1930s, with Vickers-Armstrongs producing two models for the trials in .276-inch caliber. The rifles were found to be disappointing in initial tests, but after modifications, a second pair of rifles was deemed satisfactory for further evaluation alongside other competitors like the ZH29 and Bang rifles. Ultimately, the Pedersen rifle came in second in the final 1933 trials. No self-loading rifle was adopted in the trials by the British. The Pedersen Rifle, officially known in America in its final form as the T1E3 rifle and was a United States semi-automatic rifle designed by John Pedersen, made in small numbers for trials by the United States Army during the 1920s as part of a program to standardize and adopt a replacement for the M1903 Springfield bolt action rifle. The Pedersen rifle took 7mm rounds in a 10 round clip and was slightly less powerful than the 30-06 round then used by the Americans. The Peterson rifle was in completion to the M1 Garrand rifle which was subsequently adopted by the American Army. This is a rare Kynoch, British made packet of 20 rounds of .276 Pederson (7x51) made specifically for the British trials in the early 1930s. These rounds are contained in a 20 round segmented cardboard box. The buff coloured box is sealed with a pale orange label which is printed in black 20 KYNOCH 20 .276 PEDERSON CARTRIDGES 125 GRAIN BULLET together with the Kynoch Birmingham factory details. The rear of the box is stencilled in black 4/31 (packaging date) together with the KYNOCH trade mark. The box is stencilled in black with the batch number P 1/5. The rounds are brass cased with a copper jacketed ball projectile. A brass primer is fitted secured with a single ring crimp. The rounds are headstamped K30 .276. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess these inert rounds in the U.K. if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 22787:18 £275.00 |
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**QUALITY**MINT RIFLED BORES**C1780 Cased, Pair Of English John Twigg & John Bass London .577 Regulation Calibre Cavalry Officer’s Private Purchase Carbine Flintlock Pistols Retailed In France By Pirmet Paris & Period Converted To Percussion &accessories - 22967:2 John Bass was a London based gunsmith. He worked between 1761 & 1794 at his workshop located at 19 Green Park Row, Piccadilly, London and was in partnership for a while with the renowned English Gunsmith John Twigg. Bass partnered with his father-in-law John Twigg, himself considered one of the most talented gun makers of the era, to form Twigg & Bass in the 1780s and continued to work under his own name after Twigg's death circa 1790. Twigg & Bass are known to have produced high end flintlock pistols including pocket, coach, and duelling pistols. This is an excellent pair of percussion Carbine pistols by Twigg & Bass made C1780 retailed in France By Pirmet Paris (most likely François Pirmet recorded in Paris 1779–1818) and later period converted to percussion. These convertible Carbine pistols were popular private purchase weapons favoured by Cavalry Officers. They would originally have been issued with removable shoulder stocks so they could be used as either holster pistols or carbines carried in saddle buckets. Originally the pistols would have been supplied in a larger case to accommodate each pistols shoulder stock. These carbine pistols are without their shoulder stocks and are contained in a period fitted case, possibly when period converted to percussion and has all original accessories. The pistols have all original walnut full stocks with chequered grip panels and carved butts. The back of each grip is slotted for shoulder stock attachment. They have 9” sighted octagonal Damascus steel barrels (14 ½” overall). They have blued foliate decorated trigger guards with extended tangs and pineapple finials & Dolphin hammers. The action plates of each pistol are signed ‘Twigg & Bass’. The top of each barrel are signed ‘Twigg & Bass London’. One barrel flat of each pistol is signed ‘Carabine Par’ (Carbine By) and another of each pistol ‘Pirmet A Paris’. Each barrel has crisp English black powder proofs. Both pistols are complete with their original wood ram rods with steel tips and end caps. The rifled bores of each barrel are near mint clean & bright with well defined rifling. Their cocking & firing actions and safety bolts work crisply. The pistols are complete with their fitted wood case. The case with hinged lid has its original lock with key that locks the case correctly, folding brass carry handle and brass hook fasteners. The interior of the case is lined in felt and has compartments contoured to snugly fit the pistols and their accessories which include a copper and brass powder flask, a steel WD (War Dept) marked bullet mould, a wood cleaning rod with brass tip, a wood handled tool and Joyce & Co London labelled percussion cap tin which contains a quantity of percussion caps. The price for this quality pair of cased carbine pistols includes UK delivery. NB as antique percussion weapons no licence is required to own these pistols in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 22967:2 £4,750.00 |
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**RARE DOUBLE TRIGGER**MINT BORE** Cased British Victorian Tranter’s Patent 54 Bore 5 Shot Percussion Revolver With Spurless Hammer, Captive Loading Lever, Octagonal Barrel & Accessories. Sn 22699 - 22699 This is an original Tranter’s Patent 50 Bore 5 shot percussion revolver with spurless hammer and rare to find double triggers. Its double action firing mechanism works as it should. The pistol is fired in double action by using 2 fingers to pull both triggers at the same time or the long trigger spur can be pulled moving the hammer to firing position and rotating the magazine, then the small trigger is pulled to fire the pistol. It has a 6” octagonal barrel (11 ¾” overall). The barrel’s bore is near mint clean and bright with well defined rifling. It has a blade fore sight & ‘v’ notch frame rear sight. The frame and cylinder have matching numbers ‘No.12289 T’. The barrel and cylinder have English black powder proofs. Its dark coloured finely chequered walnut grip is in excellent undamaged condition. The pistol's metal work is undamaged & has some original blue finish. The weapon's lever loading arm & double action firing mechanism work crisply. The large trigger is stamped ‘Tranter’s Patent’ and the captive loading lever ‘Tranter’s Patent’. The pistol is contained in its associated wood case with hinged lid. The top of the lid is inlaid with a void central brass plate. The case has a brass lock (key absent). The case is lined with green felt and has compartments which contain accessories, consisting of: an empty W. Tranter’s labelled Lubricating Bullets tin, a Fred Joyce London labelled percussion cap tin, an empty Tranter’s labelled tin ‘Lubrication Composition’ (the tins are period, the labels look later), a Barlow Patent marked copper and brass powder flask with sprung nozzle & a brass double bullet mould with steel sprue cutter. The price for this nice Tranter pistol set includes UK delivery. NB As an antique percussion revolver no licence is required to own this item in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 22699 £1,375.00 |
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Victorian & WW1 Era British Robert Mole & Sons Birmingham 1895 / 97 Pattern Infantry Officer's Sword With Etched Blade, Leather Covered Scabbard, Frog & WW1 Era Sam Browne Equipment Belt Rig With Cross Belts. Sn 22832 - 22832 This is an excellent original, 1895 / 97 Pattern British Infantry Officer's Sword set (see page 179 of World Swords by Withers). The Sword has a 32 ½” single edged blade with fuller (39" overall). The blade is clean with etched and blued panels and Queen's Crown VR (Victoria Regina) to both sides. The ricasso is marked by the manufacturer 'Robt Mole & Sons Makers Birmingham’. The reverse has the ordnance acceptance star and inlaid proof roundel. The hilt is fitted with its original leather washer. It has an ornate voided bowl guard with stylised Victorian Royal Cypher ‘VR’ (Victoria Regina) and Queen’s Crown. It has an undamaged wire bound fish skin grip together with stepped steel pommel with ball top. It is complete with its brown leather covered wood scabbard which has a German Silver throat mount & chape. The scabbard is fitted with an original brown leather frog with straps, brass stud and buckles attached to a WW1 era Officer's Sam Browne equipment belt rig. The belt has all brass buckles and fittings including shoulder cross straps. The buckles, leather & stitching of all components of the rig are clean & intact. The belt is 49 12” length and 2 ¼” wide. It is adjustable from approx UK size 31" to 37" waist. There are no visible manufacturer, date or WD marks on the rig. The price for this Victorian and WW1 era Officer’s Sword with scabbard, frog and Sam Browne rig includes UK delivery. Sn 22832 £645.00 |
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*HIGH QUALITY*SPECIAL ORDER LONG BLADE*WW2 Japanese Officer's Type 98 Shin Gunto Sword Gendaito Blade Smith Signed Tang ‘MOSHU NOJU ISHI HARA KANE TADA SEI TAN KORE’ Scarce Silver Mon Family Badge, Scabbard With Leather Cover & Expert Assessment. Sn 22970 - 22970 An original WW2 Japanese Officer's Type 98 Sword with smith signed tang and rare to find family Mon badge. The sword has been assessed by UK Japanese sword expert Bill Tagg. A copy of his hand written notes and illustrations accompany the sword. In extracts from his notes he states “A Type 98 army shin gunto officer’s sword with possible gendito hand forged blade & scarce Mon Officer’s family flagstones badge of the Tsuchiya family? (see page 205 Hawley’s list ). A high quality shin gunto with best quality fittings. This was probably a special order sword with longer blade signed by its maker ‘MOSHU NOJU ISHI HARA KANE TADA SEI TAN KORE’ (see Markus Sesko book for info page 273 also Fuller & Gregory list 218 page 126 for oshigata of him. Born 1920 worked as army gunto smith real name ‘ISHIHARA KEIICHI’. This is a well forged & tempered hamon suguha (straight) with small midare No Ji Hada visible, just out of polish with lots of scratches, old finger rust. Would look superb with polish. Saya metal parade good condition lots of original green paint & finish to the metal mounts. Covered with leather foul weather cover which is split with age. Copper habaki blade collar. Tsuba good quality gunto pattern with several seppa either side all number 28 matching tsuba. Tsuka hilt in very good used condition. Binding intact as is Ray Skin. Complete with all fitting Fuchi and working locking catch. Kabuto Gane and original sarute knot loop & pair of Menuki. A nice clean example of a shin gunto with silver family badge & Gendaito hand forged blade would benefit from more research”. In his illustrations Bill translates the tang signature. He measures the cutting edge as just under 68.5 cms, total length 89.5 cms and describes other blade and tang measurements & characteristics which can be seen in image 2. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 22970 £1,850.00 |
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