25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ A NORTH EUROPEAN RAPIER, CIRCA 1620, PROBABLY GERMAN
with slender tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, border engraved rectangular ricasso hollowed on each face and struck with a crown-shaped mark, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of short quillons swelling towards the terminals, engraved écusson with ogee terminals, arms, upper and lower ring-guards, a further ring-guard joined to the arms at the base and an additional outer bar at the top, knuckle-guard joined to the latter and with a delicately filed recurved finial involving a C-scroll, bifurcated inner-guard, tapering barrel-shaped pommel with beadwork bands top and bottom, and grip with later twisted wire binding between (light pitting), 99.2 cm
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1157
Sold for £1,300
with slender tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, border engraved rectangular ricasso hollowed on each face and struck with a crown-shaped mark, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of short quillons swelling towards the terminals, engraved écusson with ogee terminals, arms, upper and lower ring-guards, a further ring-guard joined to the arms at the base and an additional outer bar at the top, knuckle-guard joined to the latter and with a delicately filed recurved finial involving a C-scroll, bifurcated inner-guard, tapering barrel-shaped pommel with beadwork bands top and bottom, and grip with later twisted wire binding between (light pitting), 99.2 cm
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1157
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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