4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
177
‡ A SWISS SWORD, LATE 17TH CENTURY
with broad blade cut with a running wolf mark and struck with the numbers ‘1441’ between a series of decorative marks within a short fuller on each face at the forte (the tip with a small chip), iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising down-curved quillon with globular terminal, asymmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate front and back, frontal guard interrupted by a double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite and joined to the front by a diagonal bar, thumb-loop, pear-shaped pommel, and the grip with an early plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 88.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1126
Sold for £800
with broad blade cut with a running wolf mark and struck with the numbers ‘1441’ between a series of decorative marks within a short fuller on each face at the forte (the tip with a small chip), iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising down-curved quillon with globular terminal, asymmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate front and back, frontal guard interrupted by a double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite and joined to the front by a diagonal bar, thumb-loop, pear-shaped pommel, and the grip with an early plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 88.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1126
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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