4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
155
‡ A GERMAN MILITARY SWORD, CIRCA 1580, PROBABLY STYRIAN
with broad straight blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a long shallow fuller over the greater part of its surface and with a further slender groove along the back-edge on each face, struck with a double eye-lash mark (rubbed), iron hilt comprising a pair of quillons of flattened-diamond section swelling towards the bud-shaped terminals and engraved with foliage on the tips at the front, shallow convex guard pierced with a pair of heart-shaped apertures, knuckle-guard with moulded terminal, diagonal inner guard with thumb-loop, low pyramidal pommel, and early leather-coved grip (the iron parts with areas of pitting), 90.3 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1267
Sold for £1,300
with broad straight blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a long shallow fuller over the greater part of its surface and with a further slender groove along the back-edge on each face, struck with a double eye-lash mark (rubbed), iron hilt comprising a pair of quillons of flattened-diamond section swelling towards the bud-shaped terminals and engraved with foliage on the tips at the front, shallow convex guard pierced with a pair of heart-shaped apertures, knuckle-guard with moulded terminal, diagonal inner guard with thumb-loop, low pyramidal pommel, and early leather-coved grip (the iron parts with areas of pitting), 90.3 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1267
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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