4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
169
‡ A SWEDISH MILITARY SWORD, CIRCA 1630-40
with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section etched with mottoes, a falchion, and an exotic bird (worn), iron hilt of flattened bars comprising a pair of quillons with vertically recurved pointed terminals, slightly curved small pear-shaped frontal guard fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate and rising to a single bar interrupted by a moulding, flattened pear-shaped pommel, small inner-guard with thumb-loop, engraved throughout with scrollwork, and later grip of plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’, 85.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S691
Sold for £950
with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section etched with mottoes, a falchion, and an exotic bird (worn), iron hilt of flattened bars comprising a pair of quillons with vertically recurved pointed terminals, slightly curved small pear-shaped frontal guard fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate and rising to a single bar interrupted by a moulding, flattened pear-shaped pommel, small inner-guard with thumb-loop, engraved throughout with scrollwork, and later grip of plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’, 85.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S691
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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