25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
58
‡ A NORTH EUROPEAN MILITARY SWORD, CIRCA 1640-60
with broad straight double-edged blade formed with a near central uneven slender fuller on each face and stamped with a double eyelash mark on one side, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of quillons with pronounced mushroom-shaped terminals, asymmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard fitted with two pierced sprung-in plates, frontal guard interrupted by a double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite and joined to the front by a diagonal bar, thumb-loop, mushroom-shaped pommel chiselled with foliage, and writhen wooden grip (cracked) bound with twisted wire (loose), 91.8 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S913
Sold for £900
with broad straight double-edged blade formed with a near central uneven slender fuller on each face and stamped with a double eyelash mark on one side, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of quillons with pronounced mushroom-shaped terminals, asymmetrical figure-of-eight shaped guard fitted with two pierced sprung-in plates, frontal guard interrupted by a double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite and joined to the front by a diagonal bar, thumb-loop, mushroom-shaped pommel chiselled with foliage, and writhen wooden grip (cracked) bound with twisted wire (loose), 91.8 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S913
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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