Firearms and Edged Weapons

An 18th century cannon-barrel flintlock pistol by Mortimer, London, with turn-off brass barrel, barrel length 7cm, brass lock and flash pan with engraved decorative motifs, steel hammer and trigger guard and walnut grip with silver wire inlaid decoration.

An unusual 19th century double-barrelled percussion pistol with over-and-under barrels, barrel length 14.5cm, simple box lock, pin-form triggers and part-carved mahogany grip with ring and stud fitting to the butt (action defective, overall repairs, alterations and losses), together with another early 19th century pocket pistol (overall poor condition).

Two early 19th century percussion pocket pistols with turn-off barrels, barrel lengths 4.5cm and 6cm, with foliate-engraved locks, spring-loaded and guarded triggers and simple wooden grips.

A late 18th/early 19th century cannon-barrel percussion pocket pistol with part-octagonal and part-round brass barrel, barrel length 9cm, steel hammer and trigger guard and round-form walnut grip (active rust to steelwork).

An early 19th century flintlock sea service pistol with round barrel, barrel length 25.5cm, and shaped lock with East India Company crest, full-stocked with brass furniture, together with a 19th century Middle Eastern matchlock pistol with round barrel, barrel length 15.5cm, with engraved decoration, full-stocked with simple lever action.

An early 20th century Somali billao arm-dagger with shaped leaf-form blade, blade length 20.5cm, and rhinoceros horn handle with steel pommel, with leather sheath/scabbard, together with an Ethiopian Afar jile dagger/shortsword with shaped blade, blade length 29cm, and carved shaped wooden grip with brass pommel, with skin-covered leather and wooden-boarded sheath, and two similar Somali billao shortswords with horn handles and leather scabbards (overall active rust, losses and environmental damage). Note: as this lot incorporates rhinoceros horn, it would be very unlikely that a re-export certificate would be granted beyond the UK. Customers outside the UK are requested NOT to bid on this item.

A 19th century Indian battle axe, Chota Nagpur region, with convex-curved steel blade with engraved decoration, blade length 23cm, supported on an ebonized wooden shaft with bone pommel pieces, overall length 86cm.

A 19th century Indian katar or push-dagger with triangular-section armour-piercing blade, blade length 22cm, typical M-shaped hilt and double-bar cross grips, with leather-covered sheath with embossed decoration.

An early 19th century Brown Bess percussion musket with long steel barrel, barrel length 99cm, and line border-engraved lock and hammer, full-stocked with brass furniture and pull-out steel ramrod (old restoration and cleaning).

An early 19th century percussion sporting gun with sighted round barrel, barrel length 77cm, foliate-engraved lock and hammer, brass trigger guard and pull-out steel ramrod (old restoration, cleaning, later repairs).