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An Impressive Hungarian Dress Sabre With Gem-Set Enamelled Silver-Gilt Mounts
19th Century, Hungarian Silver Marks, Maker's Mark LP

Antique Arms & Armour
22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Impressive Hungarian Dress Sabre With Gem-Set Enamelled Silver-Gilt Mounts
19th Century, Hungarian Silver Marks, Maker's Mark LP

With earlier curved bright blade double-edged towards the point and cut with a wide fuller over most of its length along the back on each side, the forte etched along one side with the demi-figure of George II Rádóczi wearing armour and holding a sceptre above the inscription 'Georgivsd . G . Rakoci II . D.G. Princ: Par Rex . Hung . D.G. Et . Com: Sic.', between panels of foliage and above a sun-in-splendour amid stars, and on the other with a crowned coat-of-arms in an oval above the inscription 'Soli Deo Gloria' and 'Anno Dom 1631', above a man-in-the-moon amid stars, silver-gilt hilt comprising downscrolled quillons with pointed langets and curved grip of flattened oval section tapering up to the pommel, each engraved with scrolling foliage against a finely punched ground on the inside and decorated on the outside within roped borders with cloisonné enamel foliage in turquoise and black against a white ground set with numerous pieces of faceted red glass in imitation of rubies, in original wooden scabbard recovered in blue velvet with silver-gilt locket, chape and suspension mount en suite with the hilt, and with two silver-gilt rings for suspension
77.8 cm. blade

Footnotes

The blade commemorates the Transylvanian Hungarian ruler (Voivode) Prince György Rádkóczi II who was born on 30 January 1621. He was elected prince during his father's lifetime and ascended the throne in October 1648. In 1657, together with his ally Charles X Gustav, he led a force of 40,000 men against the Polish King John Casimir during the Second Northern War (1655-60), known as the Deluge. He captured Cracow and entred Warsaw. However, following the withdrawal of the Swedes he was defeated by the Poles at the battle at Czarny Ostrów in July 1657. Following a Turkish invasion of Transylvania Rákóczy died at Nagyvarad of wounds received during the battle of Gyalu in May 1660

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