Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 380

A German Hunting Sword

1 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £540 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Arms and Armour specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

A German Hunting Sword

With bright fullered blade double-edged at the spear point and etched along half its length on one side against a dull grey ground with foliage, a sporting trophy, hares and a huntsman sounding his horn in a landscape, and along the other with a differing sporting trophy, a stag and hind, and a sportsman in a landscape, brass-mounted hilt comprising downbent shell-guard cast and chased with a recumbant stag, recurved quillons each formed as a stag's hoof, fluted pommel-cap, and natural buckhorn grip set with three brass ovals on one side, in original black leather scabbard with linear engraved brass locket and chape, the former with side pocket for a by-knife and acorn-shaped frog-stud
49.5 cm. blade

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century

The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons

A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century

A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later