4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
176
‡ AN AUSTRIAN INFANTRY SWORD, THE BLADE DATED 1623
with curved blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a long slender fuller along the back-edge, engraved with a shield charged with crowned cross swords and the date, a framed pious inscription and a bouquet of flowers on one face and with a further inscription and the crowned double eagle on the other, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising down-curved quillon with globular terminal, asymmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard, frontal guard interrupted by a double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite and joined to the front by a diagonal bar, thumb-loop, globular pommel, and the grip bound with plaited copper alloy wire between ‘Turk’s heads’, 79.2 cm
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1011
Sold for £750
with curved blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a long slender fuller along the back-edge, engraved with a shield charged with crowned cross swords and the date, a framed pious inscription and a bouquet of flowers on one face and with a further inscription and the crowned double eagle on the other, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising down-curved quillon with globular terminal, asymmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard, frontal guard interrupted by a double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite and joined to the front by a diagonal bar, thumb-loop, globular pommel, and the grip bound with plaited copper alloy wire between ‘Turk’s heads’, 79.2 cm
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1011
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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