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Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
November 2, 2013 10:00 AMCalender

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  • Chinese Dagger

    Chinese Dagger

    Lot: 120
    Unsold  

    Chinese Dagger, c. 19th century, steel double-edged blade with engraved brass pommel and crossguard, wooden grip, wooden scabbard with brass fittings, blade lg. 11, overall lg. 17 1/2 in. more ...

  • Sri Lankan Piha Khetta Knife

    Sri Lankan Piha Khetta Knife

    Lot: 121
    Sold for: $660$550

    Sri Lankan Piha Khetta Knife, c. 19th/20th century, steel blade with a single fuller, carved horn grip inlaid with silver, carved two-piece wooden scabbard, blade lg. 7 3/8, overall lg. 13 3/8 in. more ...

  • Chinese Jian Sword

    Chinese Jian Sword

    Lot: 122
    Sold for: $185$150

    Chinese Jian Sword, c. 19th century, steel double-edge blade with brass pommel and crossguard, and wood grip, blade lg. 22 1/4, overall lg. 29 3/4 in. more ...

  • Persian Mace

    Persian Mace

    Lot: 123
    Sold for: $615$500

    Persian Mace, c. 19th century, iron handle with handguard and decorated pommel, inlaid designs on fins, lg. 33 in. more ...

  • Persian Axe

    Persian Axe

    Lot: 124
    Unsold  

    Persian Axe, c. 19th century, iron handle with pommel, spear point, and curved decorated blade, lg. 23 1/2 in. more ...

  • Persian Axe

    Persian Axe

    Lot: 125
    Sold for: $330$275

    Persian Axe, c. 19th century, iron handle with onion-shaped pommel, spear point, axe, and knife-shaped blade with small accession numbers painted, decorated with foliate designs, lg. 28 in. more ...

  • Persian Axe

    Persian Axe

    Lot: 126
    Sold for: $246$200

    Persian Axe, c. 19th century, iron handle with onion-shaped pommel, spear point, axe decorated with foliate designs, and a brass elephant behind the axe head, lg. 23 1/2 in. more ...

  • Persian Axe

    Persian Axe

    Lot: 127
    Sold for: $523$425

    Persian Axe, c. 19th century, wooden handle with brass inlaid designs and round pommel, iron spear point with perforated axe head with lions, an elephant, and other gold inlaid designs, lg. 25 1/2 more ...

  • Persian Engraved Axe

    Persian Engraved Axe

    Lot: 128
    Sold for: $246$200

    Persian Engraved Axe, c. 19th century, iron handle with onion-shaped pommel, spear point, engraved axe blade with brass elephant behind axe head, lg. 22 3/4 in. more ...

  • Sword and Scabbard

    Sword and Scabbard

    Lot: 129
    Unsold  

    Sword and Scabbard, c. 20th century, brass hilt with rope-shaped handguard and foliate designs, copper wire around grip, blade with maker's mark WIVRSHEKG, blade is marked GENZCEMHTN ZHYNLE, steel more ...

  • British Model 1908 Cavalry Sword

    British Model 1908 Cavalry Sword

    Lot: 130
    Sold for: $154$125

    British Model 1908 Cavalry Sword, c. early 20th century, checkered grip, sheet steel bowl-shaped handguard, and steel blade with proof marks on ricasso, overall lg. 43 in. more ...

  • Wilkinson Bicentennial Presentation Sword

    Wilkinson Bicentennial Presentation Sword

    Lot: 131
    Sold for: $600$500

    Wilkinson Bicentennial Presentation Sword, c. 1976, silver-hilt with thirteen small diamonds on pommel, and three sapphires on handguard, counter-guard has eagles on each side, and blade marked more ...

  • Engraved New York Map Horn

    Engraved New York Map Horn

    Lot: 132
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    Engraved New York Map Horn, c. 1760s, horn with Spanish brown painted pine plug, engraved image of New York City, ships, windmills, hunting scenes, the Hudson River, Albany, Halifax, and many other more ...

  • Thomas Fitch Signed Connecticut Officer's Commission

    Thomas Fitch Signed Connecticut Officer's Commission

    Lot: 133
    Sold for: $600$500

    Thomas Fitch Signed Connecticut Officer's Commission, c. 1757, framed commission for Daniel Munroe, Jr., to be Ensign of the 1st Company, or Training band in the Town of Woodbury, dated June 7th, more ...

  • Engraved Powder Horn

    Engraved Powder Horn

    Lot: 134
    Sold for: $154$125

    Engraved Powder Horn, c. 1758, small priming-size horn with trees, a fish, foliate designs, and what appears to be a hand, dated 1758 with a part of a name, and HIS next to it, flat pine plug with a more ...

  • Thomas Hutchinson Signed Officer's Commission

    Thomas Hutchinson Signed Officer's Commission

    Lot: 135
    Sold for: $390$325

    Thomas Hutchinson Signed Officer's Commission, c. 1772, framed commission for John Dagget to be Captain of the Second Military Company of Foot from Attleborough, Massachusetts, dated July 12th, more ...

  • General De Grandmaison Manual For Light Troops

    General De Grandmaison Manual For Light Troops

    Lot: 136
    Unsold  

    General De Grandmaison Manual For Light Troops, c. 1777, leather-bound book entitled GENERAL DE GRANDMAISON, ON THE MILITARY SERVICE OF LIGHT TROOPS, IN THE FIELD, AND IN FORTIFIED PLACES., printed more ...

  • Thomas Kitchin Map of Charlotte and Albany New York

    Thomas Kitchin Map of Charlotte and Albany New York

    Lot: 137
    Sold for: $308$250

    Thomas Kitchin Map of Charlotte and Albany New York, c. 1778, taken from the London Magazine 1778, and states: Part of the Counties of Charlotte and Albany in the Province of New York; being the more ...

  • Wood Rumlet Barrel

    Wood Rumlet Barrel

    Lot: 138
    Sold for: $300$250

    Wood Rumlet Barrel, c. late 18th/early 19th century, wooden staved barrel with lead or pewter set in hole, has a label thumb-tacked on one end which states Rumlet or Drinking Vessel, on the opposite more ...

  • Rope Tension Military Snare Drum

    Rope Tension Military Snare Drum

    Lot: 139
    Sold for: $923$750

    Rope Tension Military Snare Drum, c. 18th/early 19th century, wooden hoops with diagonal painted red and blue lines, blue painted shell with white triangle and sunburst designs, natural linen rope, more ...

  • American Militia Coatee

    American Militia Coatee

    Lot: 140
    Sold for: $4,200$3,500

    American Militia Coatee, c. 1800, scarlet common broadcloth body and wings with buff twill-woven facings, collar, cuffs and skirt turnbacks, worked false buttonholes on facings, gold metallic cord more ...

  • George Right Philadelphia Powder Horn

    George Right Philadelphia Powder Horn

    Lot: 141
    Sold for: $780$650

    George Right Philadelphia Powder Horn, c. late 18th/early 19th century, engraved memorial horn marked GEo RIGHT: 4th BTn MONTGOMERY: Ano 1778, also with A VIEW OF PHILADELPHIA, THE POTTS MANSION, more ...

  • Two Powder Horns

    Two Powder Horns

    Lot: 142
    Sold for: $360$300

    Two Powder Horns, c. late 18th/early 19th century, an engraved horn with Native American and shield, an eagle and shield, a deer, plug covered with leather and with a red leather cloverleaf design, more ...

  • Twenty-four-star American Flag

    Twenty-four-star American Flag

    Lot: 143
    Sold for: $4,200$3,500

    Twenty-four-star American Flag, c. 1822-36, hand-sewn wool bunting American flag with white cotton stars, twilled cotton drill hoist with hand-sewn eyelets, the name G.H. Gilbert, and 5 YD Ensign/H more ...

  • Engraved John Cook Powder Horn

    Engraved John Cook Powder Horn

    Lot: 144
    Sold for: $369$300

    Engraved John Cook Powder Horn, c. late 18th/early 19th century, horn embellished with circles, ducks or birds, and engraved John x Cook, slightly rounded pine plug also carved with circles, lg. 12 more ...

  • Militia Officer's Chapeau-bras and Plume with Original Pasteboard Box

    Militia Officer's Chapeau-bras and Plume with Original Pasteboard Box

    Lot: 145
    Sold for: $1,200$1,000

    Militia Officer's Chapeau-bras and Plume with Original Pasteboard Box, c. early 19th century, black beaver felt body with edges trimmed in silk ribbon with woven eagle pattern, silk cockade with more ...

  • American Officer's Sash

    American Officer's Sash

    Lot: 146
    Unsold  

    American Officer's Sash, c. early 19th century, crimson sash woven in a fishnet style, with macrame-style knot slides on each fringed end, fringe lg. 9 in., overall lg. 9 ft. Provenance: From more ...

  • Figure Study of a War of 1812 Infantryman

    Figure Study of a War of 1812 Infantryman

    Lot: 147
    Sold for: $3,075$2,500

    Figure Study of a War of 1812 Infantryman, c. 1814, framed watercolor study of an infantryman with an encampment containing tents, split rail fences, and guard mounts in the background, wearing more ...

  • Two Powder Horns

    Two Powder Horns

    Lot: 148
    Sold for: $123$100

    Two Powder Horns, c. early to mid-19th century, a horn with convex pine plug and no markings, and a smaller horn marked JAN 21. 1847 with faceted spout, lg. 8 3/4 to 10 in. more ...

  • Militia Sword Belt and Plate

    Militia Sword Belt and Plate

    Lot: 149
    Sold for: $780$650

    Militia Sword Belt and Plate, c. early 19th century, silver-plated eagle belt plate with panoply of arms, and E. PLURIBUS. UNUM in a banner above the eagle, attached to a leather belt with tooling more ...