with slender blade of flattened-hexagonal section, struck with a brief inscription within a deep fuller framed by slender lines on each face (worn), tapering recessed ricasso struck with a mark, iron hilt of rounded bars (slightly loose, small areas of pitting), including a pair of straight quillons swelling slightly towards the terminals, upper and lower ring-guard, a pair of arms, knuckle-guard with recurved finial and joined at the base to the upper ring by an additional bar, trifurcated inner-guard, slightly tapering barrel-shaped pommel, and wooden grip with an early binding of plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’ (loose), 106.5 cm blade

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.