Lot 32
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AN IMPRESSIVE CASED SET OF WEAPONS PRESENTED TO CAPTAIN COUNT ENRICO MILLO (1865-1935) IN 1912
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AN IMPRESSIVE CASED SET OF WEAPONS PRESENTED TO CAPTAIN COUNT ENRICO MILLO (1865-1935) IN 1912

THE WEAPONS 18TH 19TH CENTURY

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AN IMPRESSIVE CASED SET OF WEAPONS PRESENTED TO CAPTAIN COUNT ENRICO MILLO (1865-1935) IN 1912
The weapons 18th 19th Century
Comprising: a Balkan all-metal flintlock holster pistol with three-stage barrel engraved with scrolls on top of the breech and with spurious proof marks, signed rounded lock, gilt full stock cast and chased in relief with ribbons, flower-heads, foliage, and martial trophies and heightened with niello, muzzle band en suite, pierced trigger, spirally fluted pommel, and false ramrod, with its accessories; a Russian kindjal with double-edged fullered blade, the hilt and scabbard entirely covered with gilt nielloed white-metal chased with formal ornament; a Turkish cartridge box of gilt white-metal chased with nielloed designs involving mosques, axes, and stars and crescents; and an Indo-Persian horseman's axe (Tabarzin) with heavy iron head decorated with gold-damascened designs of running flowers and foliage, the blade partly chiselled in low relief with gilt arabesques, the haft encased in silvered copper, spirally fluted and chased with bands of acanthus foliage: in brass-bound fitted case lined in red velvet with gilt galloon, the lid with a large bronze plaque inscribed 'Al Commandante Di Vascello Enrico Millo Gli Ufficiali Del Gruppo Siluranti Dardanelli 18 Luglio 1912'
31½in. (80cm.) wide
Special notice
Please note that no condition report is stated in this description. Also note that this lot will be removed to the warehouse of Cadogan Tate Ltd. if not cleared by 1.00 p.m. on 21 November 2002. Please refer to "Storage and Collection" on page 174 of the printed catalogue.

Lot Essay

Count Enrico Millo was born in Chiavari and died in Rome. His distinguished conduct in charge of a torpedo boat expedition in the Italo-Turkish War in June 1912 in the Dardanelles earned him the Italian Gold Medal for Bravery, and it was presumably for that engagement that his fellow officers presented him with this cased set. He was subsequently promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, and was appointed Senator and minsitro della Marina. He saw action again in World War I, and in 1922 moved into public administration as Commissioner of the Port of Naples

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