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Lot 269
An English Officer's SwordCirca 1680
27 July 2006, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £540 inc. premium
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Circa 1680
Circa 1680
With tapering double-edged blade (pitted) incised with running wolf mark on each side of the forte, brass hilt comprising double shell-guard finely cast in relief on each side with a male profile head between foliated monsters, and linked to the knuckle-guard by a slender scrolled bar on each side, the former with central double leaf-calyx, short rear quillon en suite, and globular pommel with a figure of St. George on horseback slaying the dragon, and original wooden grip (wormed, binding missing)
81.2 cm. blade
81.2 cm. blade








