Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar
Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria - Thomas Del Mar
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145<br />
A FRENCH SILVER-HILTED OFFICER’S SWORD,<br />
STRASBOURG SILVER MARKS FOR 1764<br />
with two-stage blade of flattened-hexagonal section, etched<br />
and gilt with scrolls, strapwork and a bird of prey on a<br />
blued panel and a trophy-of-arms on a gilt panel on each<br />
side of the forte, silver hilt cast and chased with gadrooned<br />
border ornament, including boatshell guard, a pair of<br />
quillons with globular terminals, and flattened ovoid<br />
pommel, and retaining an early grip of plaited silver wire<br />
and ‘Turk’s heads’, in a contemporary leather-covered<br />
wooden scabbard with silver locket (the scabbard repaired)<br />
73cm; 28Nin blade<br />
Provenance<br />
E. Oser Collection, Basel, sold Dr.Störi Kunstsalon, Zurich,<br />
6th December 1929, lot 47<br />
‡ £400-500<br />
146<br />
A FRENCH OFFICER’S SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1860<br />
with hollow-triangular blade signed ‘Coulaux & Cie’ at the<br />
forte, gilt-brass hilt cast with empire ornament in low relief,<br />
including boatshell guard, and ovoid pommel decorated<br />
with a spray of laurel surmounted by an eagle displayed on<br />
each side, and original grip of twisted brass wire and a<br />
chased brass collar top and bottom, in its original leather<br />
scabbard with brass mounts en suite with the hilt<br />
84.5cm; 33Din blade<br />
Provenance<br />
E. Oser Collection, Basel, sold Dr.Störi Kunstsalon, Zurich,<br />
6th December 1929, lot 65<br />
‡ £250-350<br />
147<br />
A GERMAN SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1680<br />
with associated tapering hollow-ground blade stamped<br />
‘Virtute Fortuna’ and ‘Solingen Me Fecit’ between a series<br />
of decorative marks within a short slender fuller on the<br />
respective faces, gilt-brass hilt, comprising double shellguard<br />
with fluted borders interrupted by addorsed reclining<br />
figures, decorated with a pierced arrangement of scrolling<br />
tendrils carrying differing scenes on each side, globular<br />
quillon chiselled as a grotesque (repaired), fluted knuckleguard<br />
interrupted by a warrior vignette on each side,<br />
pierced ovoid pommel chiselled en suite with the shell, and<br />
the grip retaining some of its early wire binding and ‘Turk’s<br />
heads’<br />
84cm; 33in blade<br />
‡ £500-600<br />
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