Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar

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A FINE GERMAN EXECUTIONER’S SWORD, DATED 1684
with broad heavy double-edged blade formed with a
characteristic rounded tip, etched at the forte with Christ
crucified, the inscription ‘Justicia’, three men suspended
from a gibbet, an execution scene and a pious inscription
on one side, and with Christ crucified, a wheel dividing
further pious inscriptions and an oval panel filled with verse
including the date on the other (the etching worn), brass
hilt comprising a pair of straight moulded quillons with
spirally-fluted globular terminals, incised with the date on
one side of the cross-piece and the initials ‘IH’ on the other,
and faceted plummet-shaped pommel en suite with the
quillons over the upper portion, and retaining its original
grip of plaited string (the cross-pieces loose), in its leathercovered
wooden scabbard with large brass mounts
83.1cm; 32Nin blade
Provenance
E. Oser Collection, Basel, sold Dr. Störi Kunstsalon, Zurich,
6th December 1929, lot 146
The inscriptions include:
‘Veracht nit mich und die mein....shaven dich
unddied....nie....chavandich und....mich vatheie nit wietumi
....h sicht wer was o.tuay ...ch frumb bist...a anno 1684’
‡ £8000-10000
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