Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar

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A RARE HAND-AND-A-HALF SWORD, SECOND QUARTER
OF THE 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SWISS
with slightly curved blade double-edged for its last third,
cut with an almost full length fuller on each side and
stamped with a small cross mark on the reverse, steel halfbasket
hilt of faceted scrolling bars, including horizontally
recurved quillons with writhen knop-shaped terminals, the
rear quillon slightly canted upwards, trefoil-shaped outer
ring-guard joined to the inner-guard by a scrolling bar, an
additional projecting bar beneath with a finial en suite with
the quillons, knuckle-guard formed of a pair of bars joined
by an additional S-shaped bar, bifurcated inner-guard, the
principle bars interrupted by faceted mouldings and pairs
of incised chevrons, writhen plummet-shaped pommel (one
small chip at the base), and retaining an early two-stage
wooden grip with much of its leather covering
97.2cm; 38Gin blade
Provenance
Galerie Fischer 7/8th May 1935, Zurich, lot. no. 5
A sword of with a similar blade and hilt is preserved in the
Deutsche Historisches Museum, Berlin. See H. Müller and
H. Kölling 1990, no. 93. For a discussion of this group see
E. A. Gessler 1912 pp. 303-313.
‡ £8000-10000
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