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Militaria & Fine Swords — Vickers & Hoad Auctioneers

Auction House:Vickers & Hoad AuctioneersNumber of lots recorded:359
Sale Title:Militaria & Fine SwordsLots with images:234
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:281
Date:14-Mar-2015
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Four good volumes, Marlin Firearms, The 336. A Collectors Reference on Model 336 Marlin, Marlin and Ballard Firearms and History and Marlin Repeating Rifles
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Three Volumes, The Black Rifle. M16 Retrospective, US Rifle M14. From John Garrard to the M21 and The AR- 15/M16. A Practical Guide
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Good lot of seven books, Revolvers of the British Service 1854-1954, The Brown Bess, British Rifles, Red Coat and Brown Bess, The Smider- Enfield Rifle, The Lee Enfield No1 Rifles British Service Rifles and Carbines 1888-1900
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Three volumes, Guns of American West, Shooting Lever Guns of the Old West and Guns of the Wild West
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Lot of two important books, Daggers and Fighting Knives of the Western World, The American Sword 1775-1945
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Lot of three books, The British Cavalry Sword 1788-1912, some New Perspectives, British Basket Hilted Swords, The British Cavalry Sword from 1600
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Lot of 2 volumes, The Colt Rifle 1884-1902, and Colt Revolvers
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Four volumes, English Civil War, Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars, The English Civil War, The English Civil War 1642-1651
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Seven volumes, Artillery of World War II, 25 Pounder Gun, Small Arms and Cannons, The 25 Pounder Field Gun 1939-72, An Intro to British Artillary in North America, Know yous Antitark Rifles, Artillery in Color 1920- 1963
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The Great Warbow. From Hastings to The Mary Rose by Strickland and Hardy. The Standard reference
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Four volumes, German Automatic Weapons of World War II, Hilters Garands. German self- Loading Rifles of World War II, The German Assault Rifle 1935- 1945, German Submachines Guns and Assault Rifles
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Six volumes, The New Encyclopedia of Handguns, Illustrated Encyclopedia of pistols and Revolvers, Military Small Arms of the 20th century, Military Small Arms, World War II Small Arms, Rifles and Pistols
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Lot of four books, The Archaeology of Boats and Ships, To Build a Ship, The Voc Replica ship 'Dunzfhen' The Archaeology of Weapons, Battle Archaeology
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Lot of three books, Swords and Sword Makers of England and Scotland, British Military Swords from 1,800 to the Present Day, Naval Sword British and American Naval Edged Weapons 1660-1815
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Seven volumes, The Luger Book, German Pistols and Revolvers 1871-1945, Luger Tips, The Luger Pistol, Know Your Broomhandle Mausers, 7.65 mm Walther PP and PPK. The P.08 Parabellum Luger and Automatic Pistol
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Lot of two books, Cut and Thrust Weapons, Weapon. A visual History of Arms and Armour
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Lot of three books, Like Hungary Wolves. Culloden Moor, Culloden and the '45, Scottish Firearms
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Four Volumes, Modern Military Bullpup Rifles, The Fighting Rifle, Specail Forces Foreign Weapons Handbook, Gun Digest Book of Assault Weapons
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Two Important volumes, Small Arms of the World and Handguns of the World
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Two Volumes - Australian World War II Unit Histories, 6th Div. Sketches. Airtape to Wewak. Australians in New Guinea and Six Years in Support. Official History of 2/Ist Australian Field Regiment
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Three volumes, Sniper Variations of German K98k rifle, 1934-1945, The K98k rifle
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Three volumes, Swords of the Viking Age, The Vikings. Voyagers of Discovery and Plunder, Celtic Warriors 400BCAD 1600
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Three good volumes, Mauser Military Rifles of the World, Mauser Bolt Rifles and Crown Jewels. Sweden
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Eleven volumes, Australian Military History
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Lot of ten good quality books dealing with naval warfare in the age of Nelson, including Nelson's Navy, The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships, Nelson's Navy and Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail
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Two cartons of arms and armour catalogues
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Sixteen volumes of dealing with Firearms
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Eight volumes of World War I
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Lot of sixteen Australian War Memorial Books 'Stand Easy' and similar along with thirty four issues 'Wartime' official magazine of The Australian War Memorial approx 50
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Eleven books dealing with warfare etc
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Lot of eight good books dealing with the Peninsula Wars, including The Glorious First of June, Britain Against Napoleon, The Fall of Napoleon, Waterloo New Perspectives
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Seven good Volumes of World War I
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Twenty three various publications dealing with sailing ships, Americas Cup, knots etc
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Lot of fifteen good military books dealing with military aviation, including, Spit Fire A complete Fighting History, Spit Fire The History of Britain's Most Famous World War II Fighter, Dogfight, British Warplanes of World War I, Spit Fire in Combat
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Seven very good Volumes of World War I
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Lot of nine books dealing with the RN, battleships etc
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Lot of eleven volumes 'Australians at War' along with twenty four various military magazines, approx 35
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Lot of 8 Osprey 'men at arms'booklets, and 12 other volumes on various subjects, some military.
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Eleven volumes, Australian Military History, mostly World War II
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Eleven books dealing with World War II
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Lot of fourteen various firearms guides and digests along with four various Lyle Arms and Armour reviews, approx 18
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An important lot of fourteen museum catalogues etc dealing with arms and armour, including Wallace Collection (four different volumes) Treasures of the London Tower ( 2 volumes), Littlecote
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Twelve volumes, Australian Military History, World War II
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Two Volumes, The Ross Rifle Story, Sir Charles Ross and his Rifle
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The shape of sword blades, by John Latham 1862. (very scarce)
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Two Books, German Swords and Sword Makers by R.H Bezdeh, Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship
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The Winchester model 94. The first 100 years. The standard reference.
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Swords for Sea Service study by May and Annis, an Important Study of British Naval edged weapons
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Australian War Photographs A Pictorial Record from November, 1917 to the end of the War 1919
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From The Australian Front 1917 15-25
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Colt. An American Legend, by R L Wilson. One of the standard references.
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The Winchester Book. 1 of 1000. by G Nadis. Signed by the author. A standard reference
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Seven good Volumes of World War I 20-40
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Lot of two books, British Military Sword Volume I 1600-1660, British Cut and Murst Weapons
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Lot of three books, Swords and Hilt Weapons, Rapiers, World Swords 1,400-1945 An Illustrated Price Guide for Collectors
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A good lot of 2 important references. The Lee-Enfield. The Lee-Enfield a century of Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield rifles and carbines. A presentation copy from the author, and The target rifle in Australia 1860-1900.
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A good lot of 3 volumes by Shennerton.SLR Australias F>N F>A L. And 200 years of Australian military rifles and bayonets, and An armourers perspective: 303 No 4 (5) Sniper rifle.
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Lot of two books, Confederate Edged Weapons and Civil War Guns
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Lot of three books, Swords and Swordsmen by Mile Loades, The Rapier and Small Sword 1460-1820 by A.V.B Norman, European Swords
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