4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
115
A FRENCH ‘MODEL 1679’ SWORD
with broad double-edged blade with running wolf mark, and stamped 'Me Fecit Salingen' between a series of decorative marks within a short fuller on each face, struck with a bladesmith’s mark, the letter 'P' crowned and with Amsterdam town mark at the forte, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising scrolling quillon struck with a mark on the reverse, 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 an early plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 92.2 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 'Me Fecit Salingen' between a series of decorative marks within a short fuller on each face, struck with a bladesmith’s mark, the letter 'P' crowned and with Amsterdam town mark at the forte, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising scrolling quillon struck with a mark on the reverse, 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 an early plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 92.2 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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