26th Jun, 2024 11:00

Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria

 
Lot 181
 

181

A RARE ZISCHÄGGE OF SIEGE WEIGHT, MID-17TH CENTURY, SOUTH GERMAN OR EAST EUROPEAN

with one-piece hemispherical crown fitted at its apex with a ring finial on a large star-shaped washer (one point of the latter chipped), struck at the left back with a proof-mark of a bullet, fitted with an obtusely-pointed peak with a later sliding nasal-bar secured by a locking-screw, neck-guard of five upward-overlapping lames (lacking two rivets), the lowest drawn-out to an obtuse point, a pair of large pendent scutiform cheek-pieces, formed throughout with plain inward-turned edges accompanied by pairs of incised lines, studded with domed lining-rivets and further rivets in a rosette-formation on the cheek-pieces and the tail, retaining an early black finish and small portions of an early lining (one cheek-piece releathered), 30.5 cm high

Sold for £1,700


 

with one-piece hemispherical crown fitted at its apex with a ring finial on a large star-shaped washer (one point of the latter chipped), struck at the left back with a proof-mark of a bullet, fitted with an obtusely-pointed peak with a later sliding nasal-bar secured by a locking-screw, neck-guard of five upward-overlapping lames (lacking two rivets), the lowest drawn-out to an obtuse point, a pair of large pendent scutiform cheek-pieces, formed throughout with plain inward-turned edges accompanied by pairs of incised lines, studded with domed lining-rivets and further rivets in a rosette-formation on the cheek-pieces and the tail, retaining an early black finish and small portions of an early lining (one cheek-piece releathered), 30.5 cm high

Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 26th Jun, 2024

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Sunday 23rd June: 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Monday 24th June: 10:00am to 7.00pm
Tuesday 25th June: 10.00am to 5.00pm
AUCTION DAY: 26TH JUNE 2024, AT 11:00am

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