24th Sep, 2025 12:00
The Professor David S. Weaver Collection of Fine Antique Firearms
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‡ AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED HUNTING SWORD, CIRCA 1745, INDISTINCT SILVER HALLMARKS AND MAKER’S MARK
with tapering fullered blade (scattered minor rust patination) double-edged towards the point, hilt cast and chased in relief with scallop shells and foliage against finely punched grounds, centred on a ‘Green Man’s’ mask on the downbent shell-guard and on the back of the pommel, the latter with button and fluted extension down the back of the grip, lobed rear quillon with foliage, quillon-block with a lion-mask on each side, knuckle-guard with central scallop shell between foliage, and vertically fluted tapering dark horn grip, 63.9 cm blade
Provenance
Olympia Auctions, London, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 8 December 2021, lot 168
For a similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Blackmore 1971, pl. 26.
Sold for £1,200
with tapering fullered blade (scattered minor rust patination) double-edged towards the point, hilt cast and chased in relief with scallop shells and foliage against finely punched grounds, centred on a ‘Green Man’s’ mask on the downbent shell-guard and on the back of the pommel, the latter with button and fluted extension down the back of the grip, lobed rear quillon with foliage, quillon-block with a lion-mask on each side, knuckle-guard with central scallop shell between foliage, and vertically fluted tapering dark horn grip, 63.9 cm blade
Provenance
Olympia Auctions, London, Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria, 8 December 2021, lot 168
For a similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Blackmore 1971, pl. 26.
Auction: The Professor David S. Weaver Collection of Fine Antique Firearms, 24th Sep, 2025
Olympia Auctions is honoured to present one of the most important collections of early English firearms to appear on the market in decades. The collection was the lifetime passion of the late Canadian-born Professor David S. Weaver (1939 - 2023, pictured left), esteemed academic and world-renowned connoisseur of historical arms.
Regarded as the most significant offering of its kind, the Weaver Collection represents more than 60 years of dedication to the study of 17th and 18th-century firearms. Many of the pieces, unseen for generations, are among the rarest and finest examples outside of important museum collections.
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Tuesday 23rd September: 10am to 5pm
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Sunday 21st September:12pm to 4pm
Monday 22nd September: 10am to 7pm
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