Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

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A BRASS HILTED OFFICER’S SWORD, LATE 17TH/EARLY
18TH CENTURY
with double edged blade retaining traces of a brief
inscription within a short fuller and stamped with the
running fox of Shotley Bridge on each side (pitted), brass
hilt comprising double shell-guard engraved with the
owner’s name ‘Sir H, Liddell Bt’, knuckle-guard, an
additional pair of scrolling bars joining the knuckle-guard to
the shell front and back, and spherical pommel (button
chipped, quillon removed), and wooden grip with later
copper wire binding, in an associated brass-mounted
leather scabbard, the locket inscribed ‘R.S.’ on the front
and with the maker’s name ‘J. Hunter, South Bridge,
Edinburgh’ (worn)
80cm; 31I in blade
Sir Henry Liddell (before1660-1723) gained the title of 3rd
Baronet Liddell and was M.P. for Durham City, 1688-98, and
for Newcastle 1701-5, and 1706-10.
£600-800
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170
170
A NORTH EUROPEAN TRANSITIONAL SMALL-SWORD
WITH GILT-BRASS HILT, CIRCA 1680
with slender 18th Century blade of flattened-hexagonal
section, gilt-brass hilt comprising slightly up-curved figureof-eight
shaped dish-guard pierced with a design of
scrolling foliage carrying a profile mask on each side,
swelling down-curved quillon, fluted quillon-block, knuckleguard
interrupted by a moulding, fluted ovoid pommel, a
pair of plain arms, and the grip bound with plaited wire
retained by a beaded collar top and bottom
82.5cm; 32I in blade
£1000-1500