CONTENTS

1 A French Model Armour for Man and Horse, in late 16 th Century Style, by E. Granger, Paris c. 1850

2 A Complete Defence for the Right Arm, for an Armour made for the German Joust, or Stechzeug c. 1530 – 35

3 A Zischägge and Matching Pauldrons from an Officer’s Blued and Gilt Light Cavalry Armour c. 1630 – 40

4 An Exceptional Etched Cabasset c. 1612 – 19

5 A Close Helmet for a Louis XIII Cuirassier Armour c. 1620 – 30

6 A Two-Hand Sword c. 1560

7 A Close Helmet of Heavy Cavalry Type c. 1570 – 80

8 An Early Fluted ‘Maximilian’

Three-Quarter Length Field Armour c. 1505 – 15

9 A Pair of Spanish Bronze Cannon Barrels c. 1600

10 An Exceptional Italian Renaissance Hand-and-a-Half Sword c. 1490 – 1500

11 An Important Augsburg Armour attributed to Desiderius Helmschmid and Jörg Sorg the Elder

Dated 1545 on the helmet

12 A Burgonet Helmet for a Foot or Light Cavalry Armour c. 1540 – 50

13 An Extremely Rare Elbow Gauntlet for Tournament

First quarter of the 17th century

14 An Embossed Parade Burgonet (Borgonotta tonda ) c. 1540 – 60

15 A Rare Light Rapier Chiselled with the Insignia of a Knight of Chivalric Ordre de Saint-Michel c. 1635 – 45

16 An Exceptionally Rare Rifled Small-bore Cannon of Twist Steel

Damascened in Gold and Silver dated 1729

17 Two Etched State Halberd carried by the Trabantenleibgarde of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau dated 1589 and 1611

18 A Nuremberg Wheellock Sporting Carbine c. 1570 – 80

19 An Exceptional Wheel-Lock Sporting Carbine c. 1590 – 1600

20 A Deluxe-Quality Hunting-Sword c. 1742 – 80

21 A French Silver-Mounted Flintlock

Fowling-Piece by Jean Joseph Charrière

Paris silver marks for 1742

22 A Pair of Presentation Quality

Silver-mounted Flintlock Holster Pistols by Wilson

London Silver Hallmarks for 1782

23 A Russian Silver-Mounted Sabre

Granted by the Empress Catherine II to the Don Cossack Ivan dated 1774

24 A Superb Historic Cased Pair of Flintlock Pistols, armes de luxe, by Boutet, Directeur Artiste, Manufacture à Versailles c. 1805 – 1810

A French Miniature Model Armour for Man and Horse, in late 16th Century Style, by E. Granger, Paris

c. 1850

France, Paris. Steel, brass, bronze, gold, wood, horsehair, and leather.

24.5 in / 62 cm × 16.5 in / 42 cm

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Europe

Private collection, USA

This exquisite miniature armour was as intricately fabricated as any full-scale. It’s maker, E. Granger, of 70 Rue de Bondy (today Rue René Boulanger) Paris, exhibited comparable small models of armour as early as 1844 in the Exposition des Produits de

L’Industrie Française, Paris, and would later show his work, as part of the firm of Granger-Leblanc, at the London International Exhibition on Art and Industry held in the gardens of the Royal Horticultural Society, London.