4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
160
‡ A GERMAN MILITARY SWORD, LATE 16TH CENTURY
with broad curved single-edged blade engraved with a flower, a classical warrior, and a falchion clasped in a hand issuant from a cloud, on each face at the forte, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons with chequered bud-shaped terminals, a curved triangular plate charged with an engraved coat-of-arms framed by a pair of incised lines, knuckle-guard incorporating an additional loop each interrupted by a moulding en suite with the quillons, inner-guard of a diagonal bar joined by two bars to a further arm joining the knuckle-guard, thumb-loop, and chequered mushroom-shaped pommel, and the later leather-covered grip bound with twisted wire, 82.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S21
Sold for £2,000
with broad curved single-edged blade engraved with a flower, a classical warrior, and a falchion clasped in a hand issuant from a cloud, on each face at the forte, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons with chequered bud-shaped terminals, a curved triangular plate charged with an engraved coat-of-arms framed by a pair of incised lines, knuckle-guard incorporating an additional loop each interrupted by a moulding en suite with the quillons, inner-guard of a diagonal bar joined by two bars to a further arm joining the knuckle-guard, thumb-loop, and chequered mushroom-shaped pommel, and the later leather-covered grip bound with twisted wire, 82.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S21
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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