4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
199
‡ A RARE GERMAN EMBOSSED STEEL CARTRIDGE BOX (PATRON), CIRCA 1580, PROBABLY BRUNSWICK
with wooden body of plano-convex section, the interior with provision for five cartridges and fitted with a pierced brass top-plate, the outside entirely encased in steel embossed with star-shaped patterns of beadwork, outwardly flanged at the base and decorated en suite, fitted with matching hinged sprung lid with button closure, and four suspension loops on the back, 14.0 cm high
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection
A patron of related design is preserved in the Landeszeughaus, Graz (inv. no. PK72) and two further related patrons were included in the sale of Works of Art from the Royal House of Hanover, Sotheby's 2005, lots 339 and 340. The treatment of these pieces is similar to the stocks of contemporary Brunswick firearms. In 1589 Andreas Krebs, a Carinthian leather-worker, delivered '200 Braunschweig boxes with wooden cartridges at 28 kreuzer each to the Landeszeughaus Graz. See Krenn 1990, p. 22.
Sold for £1,100
with wooden body of plano-convex section, the interior with provision for five cartridges and fitted with a pierced brass top-plate, the outside entirely encased in steel embossed with star-shaped patterns of beadwork, outwardly flanged at the base and decorated en suite, fitted with matching hinged sprung lid with button closure, and four suspension loops on the back, 14.0 cm high
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection
A patron of related design is preserved in the Landeszeughaus, Graz (inv. no. PK72) and two further related patrons were included in the sale of Works of Art from the Royal House of Hanover, Sotheby's 2005, lots 339 and 340. The treatment of these pieces is similar to the stocks of contemporary Brunswick firearms. In 1589 Andreas Krebs, a Carinthian leather-worker, delivered '200 Braunschweig boxes with wooden cartridges at 28 kreuzer each to the Landeszeughaus Graz. See Krenn 1990, p. 22.
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024, 4th Dec, 2024
Auction Location: London, UK
Including:
THE BILL TERRY COLLECTION, PART II: NON WESTERN ARCHERY
THE ROY ELVIS COLLECTION OF INDIAN ARMS & ARMOUR, PART V
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES SOMERS COCKS, 3RD EARL SOMERS (1819-83), EASTNOR CASTLE, THENCE BY DESCENT
AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
THE ROBERT E. BROOKER JR. COLLECTION OF RARE ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR, PART ONE: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
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