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Lot 133

An English Officer's Sword
Circa 1680

6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £744 inc. premium

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An English Officer's Sword
Circa 1680

With tapering double-edged blade (some pitting overall) incised with running wolf mark on each side, the forte stamped 'Shotle[y]' on one side and 'Bridg[e]' on the other, brass hilt comprising double shell-guard cast in relief on each side against stippled grounds with horsemen, foliage between, and linked to the knuckle-guard by a slender scrolled bar on each side, rear quillon, globular pommel en suite with the guard, and later turned wooden grip (binding missing, worn overall), in later tooled leather scabbard with steel locket and chape, the former with frog-hook
80.7 cm. blade

Footnotes

In 1687-8, a consortium of English merchants established a sword-blade manufactory, staffed by a group of immigrant Solingen bladesmiths, at Shotley Bridge, County Durham. It declined during the 18th century but survived until the second quarter of the 19th century. See David Richardson, The Swordmakers of Shotley Bridge, Northern History Booklet No. 37, 1973

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