4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
158
‡ A STYRIAN MILITARY SWORD, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY
with broad curved blade formed with a double-edged hatchet point and with two slender fullers along the back-edge on each face, struck with a double eye lash mark on the reverse and a cross mark on each side at the forte, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons with rounded terminals, curved frontal guard joined to the quillon by a scrolling bar, diagonal inner-guard with thumb-loop, spirally fluted mushroom-shaped pommel (perhaps an early association), and the grip with a later fishskin covering, 75.0 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S779
For another preserved in the Landeszeughaus Graz, see Pichler 1880, p. 77, Tafel XXIV, fig. 6
Sold for £1,600
with broad curved blade formed with a double-edged hatchet point and with two slender fullers along the back-edge on each face, struck with a double eye lash mark on the reverse and a cross mark on each side at the forte, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons with rounded terminals, curved frontal guard joined to the quillon by a scrolling bar, diagonal inner-guard with thumb-loop, spirally fluted mushroom-shaped pommel (perhaps an early association), and the grip with a later fishskin covering, 75.0 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S779
For another preserved in the Landeszeughaus Graz, see Pichler 1880, p. 77, Tafel XXIV, fig. 6
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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