4th Dec, 2024 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria Dec 2024
188
‡ A VENETIAN SCHIAVONA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
with broad flat double-edged blade formed with a short fuller and with a latten-inlaid running wolf mark (small losses) on each face, retaining its leather scabbard cover the forte, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, cut with a brief inscription on one bar at the front, rear-canted quillon with moulded terminal, copper alloy shield-shaped pommel (perhaps associated) drawn-out in the centre on each face, early banded grip, in associated leather-covered wooden scabbard with iron mounts enclosing the sides of the lower half, 100.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S827
Sold for £2,200
with broad flat double-edged blade formed with a short fuller and with a latten-inlaid running wolf mark (small losses) on each face, retaining its leather scabbard cover the forte, iron basket-hilt of characteristic trellised flattened bars, cut with a brief inscription on one bar at the front, rear-canted quillon with moulded terminal, copper alloy shield-shaped pommel (perhaps associated) drawn-out in the centre on each face, early banded grip, in associated leather-covered wooden scabbard with iron mounts enclosing the sides of the lower half, 100.7 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S827
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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