4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
116
A FRENCH ‘MODEL 1679’ SWORD
with broad double-edged blade with running wolf mark, and stamped 'Sahagum' between a series of decorative marks within a short fuller on each face, struck with a bladesmith’s mark (partly concealed by the hilt) and with Amsterdam town mark at the forte, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising scrolling quillon, symmetrical inner and outer guard each fitted with a sprung-in plate pierced with minute stars and circles, knuckle-guard, thumb-loop, globular pommel, and the grip with a later plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 90.5 cm blade
Provenance
Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers (1819-83), Eastnor Castle, thence by descent
See Aries VII, 1968.
Sold for £800
with broad double-edged blade with running wolf mark, and stamped 'Sahagum' between a series of decorative marks within a short fuller on each face, struck with a bladesmith’s mark (partly concealed by the hilt) and with Amsterdam town mark at the forte, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising scrolling quillon, symmetrical inner and outer guard each fitted with a sprung-in plate pierced with minute stars and circles, knuckle-guard, thumb-loop, globular pommel, and the grip with a later plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 90.5 cm blade
Provenance
Charles Somers-Cocks, 3rd Earl Somers (1819-83), Eastnor Castle, thence by descent
See Aries VII, 1968.
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024, 4th Dec, 2024
Auction Location: London, UK
Including:
THE BILL TERRY COLLECTION, PART II: NON WESTERN ARCHERY
THE ROY ELVIS COLLECTION OF INDIAN ARMS & ARMOUR, PART V
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES SOMERS COCKS, 3RD EARL SOMERS (1819-83), EASTNOR CASTLE, THENCE BY DESCENT
AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
THE ROBERT E. BROOKER JR. COLLECTION OF RARE ANTIQUE ARMS AND ARMOUR, PART ONE: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
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