Bazza Posted June 22, 2012 Report Posted June 22, 2012 ALL - for your interest. Items include Nihonto, a katana kake, kabuto, an armour, abumi, and a couple of non-Japanese matchlocks. Regards, BaZZa. Auction Catalog from Thomas Del Mar Ltd (in association with Sotheby's): Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria London, United Kingdom - June 27, 2012, 12:00 PM GMT http://www.artfact.com/catalog/searchLo ... W7EZPSBEFZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ A RARE TIBETAN MATCHLOCK MUSKET (ME MDA'), 18TH/19TH CENTURY with tapering three-stage barrel, decorated over the breech and muzzle with fine linear patterns in copper, brass and silver, the former with standing back-sight and pan, wooden full stock, the fore-end applied with shaped steel plaques over leather and pierced for a forked rest, the butt encased in leather, the forward portion applied with embossed brass and copper plaques decorated with traditional patterns, the right of the butt with a long leather cord case studded with silver nails, the left with a further long steel plaque set with red stones in raised settings, two steel sling swivels and an early leather sling 96.5cm; 38in barrel For a discussion of this type and another example previously in the collection of George Cameron Stone see D. Larocca 2006, pp. 198-209. Estimated Price: £800 - £1,200 -------------------------------------------------------------------- A RARE 60 BORE CHINESE MATCHLOCK GUN, 19TH CENTURY with very long tapering two-stage barrel retained by two slender brass bands, octagonal breech incorporating a shaped pan with no provision for a cover, rudimentary steel serpentine with bifurcated tip for match and angular trigger, highly figured hardwood half-stock, the butt fitted with a short tapering extension, inset with a shaped bone plaque about the serpentine, the trigger and over the fore-end (chipped), and with no provision for a ramrod 160.3cm; 63 1/8in barrel An identical gun is illustrated in G. C. Stone 1934, fig. 330, no. 5. Estimated Price: £600 - £1,000 Quote
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