Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:
19 August 1924
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/437
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    we By aod Curious old combined wheel-lock and matchlock gun with Sftef- Of ‘ a long barrel; this form was used by the early pioneer “¢4/<¢: Lb as Colonists, and they are now very rare 4 232 An old breastplate of the 16th Century ~ / Bo [233 | A “feather stave’; an arquebus rest, enclosing a long S//6/ Pm ——s spear blade ; English 16th Century, late Ci. Cds OML (wheAe & 234) ie Ae Linstock,”’ used in he days to hold slow match to nega’ ee five off cannon 3\ S O™~ _. 235 An early steel powder flas a a powder measure ( Zz) i> 4236 A 7-barrelled carbine, Haile by Nock ; all barrels discharge i es Res together ; made jor the Navy, used when boarding to sto? Jd tan ~~ rushes » sag LK, (= (. ) ID , 237 } * Long French gun, breech-loading, with revolving chambers S . Soe ma Se of very unusual construction, an Arabic gold inscrip- 5 tion, and a presentation gun to an Indian Rajah ; OY 2 | | formerly in the collection of the Countess of Craven, Combe Abbey 238 Spanish flint gun with curious lock, and another 239 Three old guns 240 An elaborately decorated flint gun, from the Hova of >}. i) Madagascar i) . (240) . A Sakalava wood figure, representing a deformed man, | IETS from Madagascar, rare SU! . a. / | 63) | Large Madagascar war drum ipeyie) = (BSS 243) , A Chinese steelyard with brass pan, an ge inlaid a = Pe) beam with carved ball SUS TF GEES foaa\ , Tibetan steelyard with wood pan, weight of stone en- —— closed in leather, and, a massive pearofan of another, from the Malay States SL.& 245 Another Tibetan steelyard ah hide pan and stone weight, and an early excise officer’s slide rule 246 A pocket case of guinea scales and a ditto of sovereign scales, both by Stephen Houghton, Ormskirk, and another pair 247 Pocket case of dram scales and weights in shagreen case, ~ made by Elizabeth Moffett, 126, Minories, and another A. Pe ee early pair of scales in wood case with weights f S\ | %) on 248) « Very early pair of guinea scales in brass case, and an See tl ony American trader’s beam for trading with the Indians, tolah and olah and ounces SyoS3arte