4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
147
‡ AN ITALIAN MULTI-RING RAPIER, CIRCA 1630-40
with long tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, struck with a running wolf mark and with traces of a bladesmith’s inscription on each face within a short fuller, rectangular ricasso, symmetrical iron hilt of slender faceted bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons, inner and outer ring-guards each of six bars, the uppermost joined to the knuckle-guard by an additional bar, fitted with a pierced fluted plate at the base, spherical pommel, and later grip bound with plaited wire between 'Turk's Heads' (pitted throughout), 119.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S987
Sold for £1,400
with long tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, struck with a running wolf mark and with traces of a bladesmith’s inscription on each face within a short fuller, rectangular ricasso, symmetrical iron hilt of slender faceted bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons, inner and outer ring-guards each of six bars, the uppermost joined to the knuckle-guard by an additional bar, fitted with a pierced fluted plate at the base, spherical pommel, and later grip bound with plaited wire between 'Turk's Heads' (pitted throughout), 119.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S987
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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