with associated stout blade formed with a pronounced medial ridge along its length on each face, iron hilt of faceted rounded bars, comprising slightly down-curved quillon swelling towards the terminal, quillon-block engraved with pairs of lines and chiselled with scrolls, upper and lower ring-guard, the former joined to the knuckle-guard by an additional bar, knuckle-guard en suite with the quillon, trifurcated inner-guard, barrel-shaped pommel, and spirally fluted grip with an early plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s Heads’, 110.5 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.