4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
149
‡ A NORTH GERMAN ‘PAPPENHEIMER’ RAPIER, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
with polished double-edged blade of hollow-diamond section, rectangular ricasso struck with a crowned ‘B’ mark on one face, symmetrical blackened iron hilt of slender faceted bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons upper and lower ring-guards joined by a short moulded bar, the latter fitted with a large sprung-in plate pierced with a diamond-shaped panel filled with quatrefoils, knuckle-guard with an additional diagonal bar joined to the ring guard, faceted plummet-shaped pommel, and the grip with a later binding of plaited wire (‘Turk’s heads’ missing), with oval brass inventory tag ‘121’, 93.5 cm blade
Provenance
Schloss Blankenburg
The Brunswick Ducal Collections, Schloss Blankenburg, inv. no 121
The Royal House of Hanover, sold Sotheby's 5th October 2005, lot 241
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1016
Literature
Robert Bohlman, Die Braunschweiger Waffen aus Schloss Blankenburg, in, Zeitschrift fur Waffen-und Kostumkunde, 1915, p. 21, abb. 48
Sold for £2,200
with polished double-edged blade of hollow-diamond section, rectangular ricasso struck with a crowned ‘B’ mark on one face, symmetrical blackened iron hilt of slender faceted bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons upper and lower ring-guards joined by a short moulded bar, the latter fitted with a large sprung-in plate pierced with a diamond-shaped panel filled with quatrefoils, knuckle-guard with an additional diagonal bar joined to the ring guard, faceted plummet-shaped pommel, and the grip with a later binding of plaited wire (‘Turk’s heads’ missing), with oval brass inventory tag ‘121’, 93.5 cm blade
Provenance
Schloss Blankenburg
The Brunswick Ducal Collections, Schloss Blankenburg, inv. no 121
The Royal House of Hanover, sold Sotheby's 5th October 2005, lot 241
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1016
Literature
Robert Bohlman, Die Braunschweiger Waffen aus Schloss Blankenburg, in, Zeitschrift fur Waffen-und Kostumkunde, 1915, p. 21, abb. 48
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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