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Lot 46*

An English Silver-Mounted Hanger
Circa 1740, Silver Marker's Mark TB, The Blade Dated 1612

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An English Silver-Mounted Hanger
Circa 1740, Silver Marker's Mark TB, The Blade Dated 1612

With tapering double-edged blade (some areas of pitting), forte of slightly hollowed flattened hexagonal section finely etched and gilt over each side with scrollwork, comets, an orb and cross, a dragon, a lion, hearts, cross sceptres, stars and crescents and a cross, all between the inscription 'Virtus Funeri Superstes Nec Temere Nec Timide' on one side, and 'Veritatem Diligente Et Pugnate Pro Patria Anno 1612' on the other, hilt cast and chased with foliated grotesque masks and comprising downbent shell-guard, downcurved rear quillon, quillon-block, knuckle-guard with central swelling, domed pommel-cap with button, and mottled rounded cowhorn grip
57.2 cm. blade

Footnotes

The blade, although unsigned, is almost certainly by Clemens Horn of Solingen. For a very similar blade signed Clemens Horn Me Fecit Solingen Ao 1611, on an English cross-hilted sword with silver-encrusted decoration in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, see John F. Hayward, 'English Swords 1600-1650', Arms And Armour Annual, edited by Robert Held, Vol. I, 1973, p. 149, fig. 8

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