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An English Hunting Hanger
Circa 1640

Antique Arms & Armour
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An English Hunting Hanger
Circa 1640

With broad slightly curved saw-back blade double-edged and widening at the point, fullered along the back, incised 'Iohannes' on one side, and 'Keinntd' on the other, short ricasso, the tang struck with a maker's mark (defaced), iron hilt comprising asymmetrical double shell-guard, each shell chiselled as a stylised spray of foliage and bent respectively towards the blade and hand, recurved quillons of diamond section with swelling tips, pommel-cap with scrolled beak and faceted button pierced for a tommy-bar, and natural buckhorn grip with iron basal ferrule (some wear and pitting overall)
57.8 cm. blade

Footnotes

Unscrewable tang-buttons of the form found on this hanger appear to be unique to English swords of the 17th century, and are commonly found on swords with blades made in the Hounslow factory founded in 1626 with Solingen craftsmen. The name 'Johannes Kindt', in a variety of spellings, is one of the most commonly found on blades that also bear the name of the factory so there can be little doubt that this blade also came from Hounslow. It may not have been made there, however, since the blade of a hanger in the Victoria & Albert Museum, dated 1634 and bearing both Kindt's name and that of the factory has the mark of Clemens Horn of Solingen struck on the tang. The Kindt family came from Solingen, but no independent record of Johannes in England has ever been found

See J.T. White, 'Hounslow blades and their makers', Arms Fair Spring '79, London, 1979, pp. 46-50; A.R.E. North, M.D. Coe & others, Swords and Hilt Weapons, London, 1989, p. 78; and Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords, 2001, pp. 231-2

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