25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ A GERMAN MILITARY SWORD, LATE 16TH CENTURY
with broad curved single-edged blade formed with a hatchet point, incised with a series of lines, double eyelash marks and star-shaped marks on one face at the forte, blackened iron hilt of faceted rounded bars, comprising a pair of horizontally recurved quillons with chiselled bud-shaped finials decorated with a woven design, a scalloped plate forming the frontal guard, knuckle-guard joined to the latter by a scrolling bar and each with a central moulding en suite with the quillons, diagonal inner-guard with thumb-loop, rhomboid pommel cut with a chequered design, and early leather-covered wooden grip (hilt loose and old pitting), 83.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection
Sold for £1,800
with broad curved single-edged blade formed with a hatchet point, incised with a series of lines, double eyelash marks and star-shaped marks on one face at the forte, blackened iron hilt of faceted rounded bars, comprising a pair of horizontally recurved quillons with chiselled bud-shaped finials decorated with a woven design, a scalloped plate forming the frontal guard, knuckle-guard joined to the latter by a scrolling bar and each with a central moulding en suite with the quillons, diagonal inner-guard with thumb-loop, rhomboid pommel cut with a chequered design, and early leather-covered wooden grip (hilt loose and old pitting), 83.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection
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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