4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
150
‡ A RARE NORTH EUROPEAN BASKET-HILTED BACK-SWORD, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, DUTCH OR ENGLISH
with long single-edged blade formed with three slender near full-length fullers on each face and with two marks, an eye lash and a copper alloy lined star, on one face, iron hilt comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons with moulded knop-shaped terminals, basket-guard formed of a series of bars joined by saltires carrying rondels and short scrolling bars, two-stage brioche-shaped pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire with a single ‘Turk’s head’ at the base (the upper missing, pitted throughout), 103.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S704
The hilt is very close to one found in the river Maas, near Mook. The distinctive pommel is similar to that on a sword shown in the portrait of Sir Thomas Tresham at Boughton House. See Blair 1982, pp. 215-219.
Sold for £5,500
with long single-edged blade formed with three slender near full-length fullers on each face and with two marks, an eye lash and a copper alloy lined star, on one face, iron hilt comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons with moulded knop-shaped terminals, basket-guard formed of a series of bars joined by saltires carrying rondels and short scrolling bars, two-stage brioche-shaped pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire with a single ‘Turk’s head’ at the base (the upper missing, pitted throughout), 103.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S704
The hilt is very close to one found in the river Maas, near Mook. The distinctive pommel is similar to that on a sword shown in the portrait of Sir Thomas Tresham at Boughton House. See Blair 1982, pp. 215-219.
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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