25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
42
‡ A GERMAN RAPIER, CIRCA 1620
with broad tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section stamped with ‘Yesus’ within a slender fuller on each face (rubbed), grooved tapering ricasso with engraved line border, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising écusson with filed mouldings, curled quillon with rounded terminal, lower ring-guard, upper ring-guard rooted on the arms and bifurcated at the top to a further bar joining the knuckle-guard, the latter en suite with the quillon, trifurcated inner ring-guard, ovoid pommel, and writhen grip with an elaborate binding of plaited wire between ‘Turk’s Heads’ (areas of pitting and cleaned), 97.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S819
Sold for £2,000
with broad tapering blade of flattened-hexagonal section stamped with ‘Yesus’ within a slender fuller on each face (rubbed), grooved tapering ricasso with engraved line border, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising écusson with filed mouldings, curled quillon with rounded terminal, lower ring-guard, upper ring-guard rooted on the arms and bifurcated at the top to a further bar joining the knuckle-guard, the latter en suite with the quillon, trifurcated inner ring-guard, ovoid pommel, and writhen grip with an elaborate binding of plaited wire between ‘Turk’s Heads’ (areas of pitting and cleaned), 97.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S819
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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