4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
157
‡ A STYRIAN SWORD, LATE 16TH CENTURY
with broad curved blade formed with a hatchet point, a long central fuller and struck with a series of double eyelash marks at the forte on each face, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising asymmetrical vertically recurved quillons, one with moulded terminal the other flattened and incised with scrolls, outer guard fitted with a sprung-in plate, a pair of scrolling outer bars joining the knuckle-guard inner guard, perhaps fitted with a matching plate (now missing), low pyramidal pommel incised around the border with scroll, and leather-covered grip, probably the original areas of pitting), 70.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1423
Sold for £900
with broad curved blade formed with a hatchet point, a long central fuller and struck with a series of double eyelash marks at the forte on each face, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising asymmetrical vertically recurved quillons, one with moulded terminal the other flattened and incised with scrolls, outer guard fitted with a sprung-in plate, a pair of scrolling outer bars joining the knuckle-guard inner guard, perhaps fitted with a matching plate (now missing), low pyramidal pommel incised around the border with scroll, and leather-covered grip, probably the original areas of pitting), 70.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1423
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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