25th Jun, 2025 11:00

Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025

 
  Lot 53
 

53

A SWEDISH MILITARY SWORD, CIRCA 1660

with broad straight blade incised ‘1414’ between two crosses within a short fuller and with a running wolf mark ahead on each face, iron hilt of flattened-rounded bars, comprising short down-curved quillon incised with a simple design at the terminal, symmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard fitted with a pair of pierced sprung-in plates, frontal guard interrupted by an incised moulding en suite with the quillons and joined to the knuckle-guard, matching inner-guard, thumb-loop, globular pommel chiselled with a flower-head on top, and writhen wooden grip (split, binding missing), 82.5 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S628

A number of swords with hilts of this type marked '1414' on the blades are recorded. In the absence of any other explanation, it has been suggested that this may be talismanic. For a discussion of this group see Royal Collection inv. no. 62964.

Sold for £950


 

with broad straight blade incised ‘1414’ between two crosses within a short fuller and with a running wolf mark ahead on each face, iron hilt of flattened-rounded bars, comprising short down-curved quillon incised with a simple design at the terminal, symmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard fitted with a pair of pierced sprung-in plates, frontal guard interrupted by an incised moulding en suite with the quillons and joined to the knuckle-guard, matching inner-guard, thumb-loop, globular pommel chiselled with a flower-head on top, and writhen wooden grip (split, binding missing), 82.5 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S628

A number of swords with hilts of this type marked '1414' on the blades are recorded. In the absence of any other explanation, it has been suggested that this may be talismanic. For a discussion of this group see Royal Collection inv. no. 62964.

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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