25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ A NORTH EUROPEAN SWORD RAPIER, LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ENGLISH OR GERMAN
with broad tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, struck with a series of decorative marks within a pair of short fullers framed by lines over the forte, rectangular ricasso struck with the bladesmith’s mark, ‘P’ crowned, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons with rounded terminals, lower ring-guard fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate, a pair of arms one joined to the outer-guard by an S-shaped bar, knuckle-guard en suite with the quillons, inner-guard formed of a plate (detached at the base), two slender bars and a thumb-ring, flattened plummet-shaped pommel with button, and grip bound with plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’ (hilt loose, light pitting), 97.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S956
Sold for £2,200
with broad tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section, struck with a series of decorative marks within a pair of short fullers framed by lines over the forte, rectangular ricasso struck with the bladesmith’s mark, ‘P’ crowned, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons with rounded terminals, lower ring-guard fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate, a pair of arms one joined to the outer-guard by an S-shaped bar, knuckle-guard en suite with the quillons, inner-guard formed of a plate (detached at the base), two slender bars and a thumb-ring, flattened plummet-shaped pommel with button, and grip bound with plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’ (hilt loose, light pitting), 97.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S956
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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