25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
40
‡ A GERMAN SWORD RAPIER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
with broad blade of flattened-hexagonal section struck with three decorative marks within a slender fuller framed by lines on each face, grooved tapering ricasso, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons with rounded terminals (one bent), outer ring-guard with a scalloped lower plate joined at the top by a pair of short bars, a pair of arms, inner-guard formed of a basal blate joined at the top to a ring-guard, thumb-loop, barrel-shaped pommel, and leather-covered grip (binding missing), 91.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1385
Sold for £1,200
with broad blade of flattened-hexagonal section struck with three decorative marks within a slender fuller framed by lines on each face, grooved tapering ricasso, iron hilt of flattened bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons with rounded terminals (one bent), outer ring-guard with a scalloped lower plate joined at the top by a pair of short bars, a pair of arms, inner-guard formed of a basal blate joined at the top to a ring-guard, thumb-loop, barrel-shaped pommel, and leather-covered grip (binding missing), 91.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1385
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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