4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
186
‡ A VENETIAN SCHIAVONA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
with broad blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a near full-length fuller and a pair of long fullers along the back-edge on each face, struck with a double eye-lash mark, rectangular ricasso with a further grooved struck on each face with three bladesmith’s marks, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, each interrupted by an engraved moulding, slightly curved quillon with globular terminal (one quillon fractured at the tip), inner-guard with thumb-loop, shield-shaped copper alloy pommel formed with a central flowerhead on each face, and early leather-covered banded grip (small losses),103.8 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1390
Sold for £1,600
with broad blade double-edged towards the point, formed with a near full-length fuller and a pair of long fullers along the back-edge on each face, struck with a double eye-lash mark, rectangular ricasso with a further grooved struck on each face with three bladesmith’s marks, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, each interrupted by an engraved moulding, slightly curved quillon with globular terminal (one quillon fractured at the tip), inner-guard with thumb-loop, shield-shaped copper alloy pommel formed with a central flowerhead on each face, and early leather-covered banded grip (small losses),103.8 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1390
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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