4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
184
‡ A VENETIAN SCHIAVONA, MID-17TH CENTURY
with broad double-edged blade formed with a short fuller on each face, retaining its leather scabbard cover at the forte, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, forward-curved quillon with globular terminal, thumb loop, shield-shaped pommel formed with a central hemispherical moulding on each side and joined to the guard by a later wire ring, early leather-covered banded grip, and the hilt struck twice with a mark (indistinct, probably a series of concentric circles, areas of pitting), 89.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S933
Sold for £1,700
with broad double-edged blade formed with a short fuller on each face, retaining its leather scabbard cover at the forte, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, forward-curved quillon with globular terminal, thumb loop, shield-shaped pommel formed with a central hemispherical moulding on each side and joined to the guard by a later wire ring, early leather-covered banded grip, and the hilt struck twice with a mark (indistinct, probably a series of concentric circles, areas of pitting), 89.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S933
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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