RICHARD RICE ESTATE MILITARIA
Tuesday, 30 April - Monday, 13 May 2024
Militaria View all 100 lots
A 17thC Indian mail shirt and head covering with plume.
Estimate: $3,000 - $6,000
A good Indian mail and lamellar shirt, 17thC, probably Bijapur, Karnataka state, India,
Estimate: $2,200 - $3,200
A 19thC Persian kulah khud helmet, with nasal bar,
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
A rare pair of decorated mail trousers from Persia/Caucasus.
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
A good, 19thC heavy double barrel muzzle loading percussion cape gun, 39 x 15 bore, by Pryse & Redman, London, (see footnote 1). In brass bound mahogany case.
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
A 19thC under lever double barrel .450 express rifle by Joseph Lang & Son, London, circa 1891. In associated leather case
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
A rare 16thC Indian Moghul chain mail coat with integral iron plates front and rear,
Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000
A good set of Indian body armour char-aina (chahār-āyneh),
Estimate: $1,800 - $3,800
An Indian chain mail shirt of micro links so called ‘Silk Mail’,
Estimate: $1,600 - $3,000
A pair of rare Indian papier mâché dhàl (shields) each with four central silver bosses, with label of provenance to the Governor of Bombay (see footnote 1) and 1998 Christies auction tag (see footnote 2),
Estimate: $1,600 - $3,000
A 6 bore Indian matchlock gun, 19thC., with heavy sighted barrel encrusted with silver scrolls, flowers, foliage and chevrons (losses), retained by a pair of engraved brass bands,
Estimate: $1,600 - $3,000
A fine muzzle loading percussion double barrel rifle/shotgun, cased, with two sets of barrels, by Franz Leutheuser, Graz, Austria, c.1860.
Estimate: $1,600 - $2,200
A mid-19thC .50 cal smoothbore muzzle loading percussion rifle with spare 20 bore shotgun barrel, by Clayton of Lymington. In baize lined fitted oak case with accessories.
Estimate: $1,600 - $3,000
A late 18th/early 19thC Indo Persian chain mail armour shirt,
Estimate: $1,400 - $2,200
A fine set of Persian Char-aina plate body armour,
Estimate: $1,300 - $1,800
A 17thC East European or Russian mail and lamellar shirt,
Estimate: $1,200 - $2,000
A 16th/17thC Ottoman-Turk or Persian mail, plate and lamellar cuisse or knee and thigh armour defenses, as worn by fully armoured cavalrymen,
Estimate: $1,200 - $1,800
A .450 cal Whitworth percussion muzzle loading rifle, circa 1862-63,
Estimate: $1,200 - $2,400
A Holland & Holland Patent hammerless rook rifle, cal 297-260, with extra 410 barrel, in leather case,
Estimate: $1,200 - $2,400
A pair of 18th/19thC Persian bazu-band (forearm armour), iron, with hinged cuff plates, heavily chiseled with foliate tendrils with traces of gilt remaining,
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
