3rd Dec, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria. December 2025
150
◉ AN OFFICER'S HELMET OF DRAGOON PATTERN, CIRCA 1818
with silvered skull, the peaks with gilt edging, the back mounted with gilt bay leaf sprays, the rayed gilt front plate mounted with a device struck with the Royal Arms below WATERLOO and PENINSULA, a white-metal crest edged with strips of wavy-edged gilt metal and bearing a black bearskin upper crest, four-pointed chinscales lined with black velvet and with lion's-mask bosses (unlined, otherwise in good condition)
Provenance
Property of a Lady
Sold for £2,600
with silvered skull, the peaks with gilt edging, the back mounted with gilt bay leaf sprays, the rayed gilt front plate mounted with a device struck with the Royal Arms below WATERLOO and PENINSULA, a white-metal crest edged with strips of wavy-edged gilt metal and bearing a black bearskin upper crest, four-pointed chinscales lined with black velvet and with lion's-mask bosses (unlined, otherwise in good condition)
Provenance
Property of a Lady
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria. December 2025, 3rd Dec, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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The Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria department run by Thomas Del Mar is now a recognised world leader in this field.
The sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.
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