25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ A NORTH ITALIAN BROADSWORD, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY VENETIAN
with broad tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section (tip bent), stamped ‘II IO I IO I’ on each face within a slender fuller extending into the rectangular ricasso, the latter with two further grooves at the border, russet iron hilt comprising vertically recurved quillons with swollen trifurcated terminals, outer ring-guard swelling in the centre and joined at the top by a curved and an angular arm, faceted pear-shaped pommel, and grip with a later plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 91.0 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1028
A sword of related form is recorded in the Venetian Arsenal, see De Lucia 1908, p. 45, fig. 22, no. G945
Sold for £3,000
with broad tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section (tip bent), stamped ‘II IO I IO I’ on each face within a slender fuller extending into the rectangular ricasso, the latter with two further grooves at the border, russet iron hilt comprising vertically recurved quillons with swollen trifurcated terminals, outer ring-guard swelling in the centre and joined at the top by a curved and an angular arm, faceted pear-shaped pommel, and grip with a later plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 91.0 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1028
A sword of related form is recorded in the Venetian Arsenal, see De Lucia 1908, p. 45, fig. 22, no. G945
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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