25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ TWO GERMAN COMBINED POWDER-FLASKS, WHEEL-LOCK SPANNERS AND TURNSCREWS, 17TH CENTURY
AND A GERMAN COMBINED POWDER MEASURE AND WHEEL-LOCK SPANNER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
each formed entirely of steel, with tapering faceted body, fitted at one end with nozzle with sprung tap, and at the other end with a wheel-lock spanner and turnscrew, slender belt hook, and a single fixed ring for suspension; the second similar (tap spring missing), the head incorporating three short branches forming spanner heads; the third with octagonal tubular body, fitted with internal ratchet bar graduated from 1-21, secured by replaced spring lever, and angular head incorporating the spanner, the first: 17.8 cm (3)
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. 796 (the first)
Sold for £700
AND A GERMAN COMBINED POWDER MEASURE AND WHEEL-LOCK SPANNER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
each formed entirely of steel, with tapering faceted body, fitted at one end with nozzle with sprung tap, and at the other end with a wheel-lock spanner and turnscrew, slender belt hook, and a single fixed ring for suspension; the second similar (tap spring missing), the head incorporating three short branches forming spanner heads; the third with octagonal tubular body, fitted with internal ratchet bar graduated from 1-21, secured by replaced spring lever, and angular head incorporating the spanner, the first: 17.8 cm (3)
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. 796 (the first)
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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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