4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
174
‡ A FRENCH ‘MODEL 1679’ SWORD
with broad double-edged blade with running wolf mark, stamped ‘SAHAGUM’ within a short fuller on each face, struck with a bladesmith’s mark (indistinct) and with Amsterdam town mark on the respective faces at the forte, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising scrolling quillon struck with a mark on the reverse, symmetrical inner and outer guard each fitted with a sprung-in plate pierced with minute stars and circles, knuckle-guard, thumb-loop, globular pommel, and the grip with a later wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, in its leather scabbard (losses) with iron mounts comprising chape, middle-band and locket, the latter two each with a pierced mount, and the middle-band retain a ring for suspension ring, 89.7 cm
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S965
See Aries VII, 1968.
Sold for £1,700
with broad double-edged blade with running wolf mark, stamped ‘SAHAGUM’ within a short fuller on each face, struck with a bladesmith’s mark (indistinct) and with Amsterdam town mark on the respective faces at the forte, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising scrolling quillon struck with a mark on the reverse, symmetrical inner and outer guard each fitted with a sprung-in plate pierced with minute stars and circles, knuckle-guard, thumb-loop, globular pommel, and the grip with a later wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, in its leather scabbard (losses) with iron mounts comprising chape, middle-band and locket, the latter two each with a pierced mount, and the middle-band retain a ring for suspension ring, 89.7 cm
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S965
See Aries VII, 1968.
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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