**A NORTH EUROPEAN TWO-HANDED SWORD, POSSIBLY BRUNSWICK LATE 16TH CENTURY with wavy flat blade, rectangular ricasso incorporating a pair of up-turned lugs, retaining traces of engraving including a Maltese cross on each face (worn, slightly bent in profile), iron hilt comprising a pair of strongly arched ribbon-like quillons each interrupted by a chiselled and engraved fish-shaped moulding, curled forward and back at the respective terminals, a pair of small flat lugs at the base, inner and outer ring-guards, each filled with a plain plate (perhaps later), pierced thick crutch-shaped pommel, and later grip 130.2 cm; 51 1/4 in blade This sword is related to a North German group (distinct from that discussed under lot 85) that included a number formerly preserved in Schloss Blankenburg that almost certainly originated the Brunswick Ducal zeughaus in Wolfenbüttel. Another example is preserved in the Bomann Museum, Celle, and another, formerly in the Hanoverian Royal Collection was sold Sotheby's, October 2005, lot 230. A large number of related swords are preserved from other North European arsenals including that at Emden.