4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
148
‡ A GERMAN RAPIER, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY BAVARIAN
with straight flat tapering blade tapering to a sharp point, grooved rectangular ricasso engraved with a pair of lines, struck on the front with a ‘W’ mark, iron hilt (slightly loose) comprising long curved quillon with bifurcated terminal, upper and lower ring-guards, the latter with pair of additional up-turned arms en suite with the quillon and knuckle-guard, trifurcated inner-guard, pierced ‘fishtail’ pommel, and spirally-moulded plaited wire grip between ‘Turk’s heads’, 91.8 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1341
A number of swords of this type are preserved in the Bavarian Army Museum, Ingoldstadt.
Sold for £1,900
with straight flat tapering blade tapering to a sharp point, grooved rectangular ricasso engraved with a pair of lines, struck on the front with a ‘W’ mark, iron hilt (slightly loose) comprising long curved quillon with bifurcated terminal, upper and lower ring-guards, the latter with pair of additional up-turned arms en suite with the quillon and knuckle-guard, trifurcated inner-guard, pierced ‘fishtail’ pommel, and spirally-moulded plaited wire grip between ‘Turk’s heads’, 91.8 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1341
A number of swords of this type are preserved in the Bavarian Army Museum, Ingoldstadt.
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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