with short tapering blade of hollow-triangular section etched and gilt on both sides of the forte with maker’s signature ‘Peter Munich Me Fecit Sol’ enclosing a profile bust of the Pope, a further oval and foliage (losses, perhaps an early association), iron hilt of flattened moulded bars, comprising a pair of drooping quillons with scrolling terminals, an additional pair of basal lugs en suite, a pair of outer ring-guards decorated with grooves and a central panel of cross-hatched ornament and with a scalloped plate between, ovoid pommel, and grip with a later twisted wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 69.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S845
A number of swords of this type are preserved in the Armoury of the Doges Palace, Venice, see Franzoi 1990, p. 91, cat. nos. 179.
Sold for £1,100
with short tapering blade of hollow-triangular section etched and gilt on both sides of the forte with maker’s signature ‘Peter Munich Me Fecit Sol’ enclosing a profile bust of the Pope, a further oval and foliage (losses, perhaps an early association), iron hilt of flattened moulded bars, comprising a pair of drooping quillons with scrolling terminals, an additional pair of basal lugs en suite, a pair of outer ring-guards decorated with grooves and a central panel of cross-hatched ornament and with a scalloped plate between, ovoid pommel, and grip with a later twisted wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 69.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S845
A number of swords of this type are preserved in the Armoury of the Doges Palace, Venice, see Franzoi 1990, p. 91, cat. nos. 179.
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
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