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Lot 149*
A North German Basket-Hilted BroadswordLate 16th Century
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,520 inc. premium
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Late 16th Century
Late 16th Century
With broad tapering double-edged blade of slightly hollowed flattened diamond section, hilt comprising hemispherical basket-guard formed of slender rounded bars forming a trellis, on the outside above a further bar linked to the front quillon, forming a circle below the guard and extending to join the rear quillon, downbent tapering triangular quillons each incised with scrolling foliage and with small button terminal, inner thumb-loop, later compressed globular pommel with punched and line decoration, and spirally-grooved grip bound with twisted wire
84.5 cm. blade
84.5 cm. blade
Footnotes
Hilts of this general type are particularly associated with Scandinavia, and are clearly North European, probably German, as has been pointed out by Norman, though Seitz calls them South European or Italian. See H. Seitz, Blankwaffen, I, pp. 321-25, 329, and figs. 221, 238 and 241; A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword, 1460-1820, p. 149, hilt 76








