with colichemarde blade etched with a scrollwork panel at the forte (rubbed), finely pierced and chiselled steel hilt comprising double shell-guard filled with a cantering horse on a ground of scrolling leafy tendrils within a foliate frame on each face, quillon-block and pommel decorated en suite with the shell, pas d' ânes, quillon with globular terminal and knuckle-guard each chased with foliage on a finely punched ground, and the grip with an early binding of plaited wire and ribbands between 'Turk's Heads', 80.7 cm blade

Provenance

Ham House, sold Robinson & Foster Ltd., 14th March 1951, lot 194 (part), a copy of the original sale catalogue included.

Donald W. S. Donald

The horse is perhaps the owner's crest, which may for a member of a number of families including Amosley, Colt, Fust, Hambrough, Jackson, Lorimer, Maturin, O' Mallahan, O' Malley and Straker.