4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
145
‡ A GERMAN RAPIER, CIRCA 1620
with broad tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, stamped with a series of marks (indistinct) within a pair of short fullers on each face, tapering ricasso struck with a mark on one face (indistinct), iron hilt of flattened bevelled bars, comprising border-engraved écusson with delicately filed mouldings, curled quillon with rounded terminal, lower ring-guard, upper ring-guard rooted on the arms and bifurcated at the top to a further bar joining the knuckle-guard, the latter en suite with the quillon, small inner ring-guard, short ovoid pommel with a triangular moulding top and bottom at the front, and the grip with a later binding of plaited copper alloy wire between ‘Turk’s Heads’ (areas of pitting, cleaned), 89.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S781
Sold for £1,600
with broad tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, stamped with a series of marks (indistinct) within a pair of short fullers on each face, tapering ricasso struck with a mark on one face (indistinct), iron hilt of flattened bevelled bars, comprising border-engraved écusson with delicately filed mouldings, curled quillon with rounded terminal, lower ring-guard, upper ring-guard rooted on the arms and bifurcated at the top to a further bar joining the knuckle-guard, the latter en suite with the quillon, small inner ring-guard, short ovoid pommel with a triangular moulding top and bottom at the front, and the grip with a later binding of plaited copper alloy wire between ‘Turk’s Heads’ (areas of pitting, cleaned), 89.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S781
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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