Up for consideration is a Thomas Del Mar in association with Sotheby’s Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria auction catalog (no. 7) from December 10, 2008…397 lots on 187 pages… catalog in very good condition...some featured lots include (prices in GBPs):

·         A Fine Indian Silver-Hilted Shamshir made for Safdar Jang Bahadur by Muhammad Baqir Mashhadi, London Silver Hallmarks for 1800 (3,000-5,000)

·         A Very Rare Military Estoc, last quarter of the 16^th century, probably Styrian (4,000-6,000)

·         A Rare German Boar-Sword (Schwein-Degen), last quarter of the 16^th century (7,000-9,000)

·         A Fine German Executioner’s Sword, dated 1684 (8,000-10,000)

·         A German Mace, mid-16^th century (1,500-2,000)

·         A Rare Lugged Spear, 7^th/10^th century (2,000-3,000)

·         An Extremely Rare Austrian Gothic Ahlspiess, second half of the 15^th century (8,000-10,000)

·         A Rare German Gothic Pol-Axe, second half of the 15^th century (10,000-12,000)

·         An Etched Halberd mounted on a finely carved ivory haft decorated with a portrait of Peter I, Emperor of all Russia, Dieppe, 19^th century (10,000-15,000)

·         An Italian Etched Half Armour, circa 1560 (25,000-35,000)

·         A Fine and Rare German Etched, Blued and Gilt Comb Morion of the Trabantenleibgarde of the Prince Electors of Saxony, Nuremberg, circa 1580 (15,000-20,000)

·         A Finely Decorated German Sporting Crossbow, 16^th century and later (5,000-7,000)

·         A Rare Dog-Lock Musketoon by James Paul Freeman, circa 1720 (4,000-6,000)

Catalog securely shipped in a rigid cardboard mailer.