25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ A SWISS MILITARY SWORD, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY
with broad curved blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a shallow fuller along the back on both sides, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising down-curved quillon with pointed globular terminal, ring-guard fitted with a copper alloy plate embossed with foliage, frontal guard interrupted by a double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite and joined to the front by a diagonal bar, thumb-loop, cast and chased copper alloy lion-head pommel, and wooden grip retaining a pair of copper alloy ‘Turk’s heads’ (binding missing), 84.4 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S838
Sold for £700
with broad curved blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a shallow fuller along the back on both sides, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising down-curved quillon with pointed globular terminal, ring-guard fitted with a copper alloy plate embossed with foliage, frontal guard interrupted by a double globular moulding, knuckle-guard en suite and joined to the front by a diagonal bar, thumb-loop, cast and chased copper alloy lion-head pommel, and wooden grip retaining a pair of copper alloy ‘Turk’s heads’ (binding missing), 84.4 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S838
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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