**A NORTH GERMAN MILITARY SABRE, CIRCA 1580, PROBABLY BRUNSWICK with curved fullered blade formed with a hatchet point, stamped with the letter 'S' with a cross above and below on one face, the forte punched with a series of eye lash marks, iron hilt comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons with spirally fluted barrel-shaped terminals, knuckle-guard joined to a large scalloped frontal guard by an s-shaped bar, inner guard with thumb-loop and joined to the knuckle-guard by a bifurcated bar, large pyramidal pommel (areas of pitting throughout), and wooden grip with Turk's heads and a portion of its leather binding, and brass inventory tag numbered '86' 76.2 cm; 32 in blade Provenance Dr B. Giesker, Zurich His Serene Highness the Reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, sold Christie's, London 22nd July 1992, lot 71