4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
175
‡ AN AUSTRIAN MILITARY SWORD, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
with straight blade of flattened-diamond section, engraved with foliage and a brief inscription on face at the forte (worn, areas of pitting), iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising down-curved quillon with globular terminal, asymmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard fitted with a finely pierced and chiselled sprung-in plate front and back, decorated respectively with a classical portrait profile of Leopold I within a wreath of laurel between the letters ‘L’ and ‘I’ for Leopold Imperator and elaborate ball flowers, frontal guard interrupted by a small double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite, thumb-loop, engraved globular pommel decorated with foliage, and the grip with a later copper alloy wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 92.0 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S798
Sold for £1,400
with straight blade of flattened-diamond section, engraved with foliage and a brief inscription on face at the forte (worn, areas of pitting), iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising down-curved quillon with globular terminal, asymmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard fitted with a finely pierced and chiselled sprung-in plate front and back, decorated respectively with a classical portrait profile of Leopold I within a wreath of laurel between the letters ‘L’ and ‘I’ for Leopold Imperator and elaborate ball flowers, frontal guard interrupted by a small double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite, thumb-loop, engraved globular pommel decorated with foliage, and the grip with a later copper alloy wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 92.0 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S798
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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