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Lot 198

A German Executioner's Sword
Late 17th Century

6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A German Executioner's Sword
Late 17th Century

With broad flat double-edged rebated blade with short central fuller on each face of the forte incised 'Iohannes Wundes' between deeply struck King's head marks on one side, a latten-filled running wolf mark beyond, and 'Vim Vire Pellere Lecit' on the other, a latten-filled orb and cross mark (latten partly missing) and King's head mark beyond, iron hilt comprising straight swelling quillons of octagonal section, octagonal fig-shaped pommel, and wooden grip bound with twisted steel wire
82.2 cm. blade

Footnotes

Literature:
Frederick Wilkinson, Edged Weapons, 1970, p. 17, Fig. 14 and p. 25, Fig. 21

The inscription reads in translation: 'It is lawful to meet force with force'

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