25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
25
‡ A HAND-AND-A-HALF SWORD, CIRCA 1600-20, PROBABLY AUSTRIAN
with broad tapering blade formed with a short shallow fuller on each face, border engraved recessed ricasso struck with a bladesmith’s mark on one face, perhaps for a member of the Stantler family, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of straight quillons with moulded bud-shaped terminals, outer ring-guard interrupted by a central moulding, diagonal inner-guard joined to the quillon-block by a short arm, ovoid pommel, and two-stage leather-covered grip painted with inventory number ‘LZ.215-B’, 94.3 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S728
Sold for £4,200
with broad tapering blade formed with a short shallow fuller on each face, border engraved recessed ricasso struck with a bladesmith’s mark on one face, perhaps for a member of the Stantler family, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of straight quillons with moulded bud-shaped terminals, outer ring-guard interrupted by a central moulding, diagonal inner-guard joined to the quillon-block by a short arm, ovoid pommel, and two-stage leather-covered grip painted with inventory number ‘LZ.215-B’, 94.3 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S728
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
The Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria department run by Thomas Del Mar is now a recognised world leader in this field.
The sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.
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