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An English Silver-Hilted Hunting SwordLondon Silver Hallmarks For 1741, Indistinct Maker's Mark
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,680 inc. premium
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London Silver Hallmarks For 1741, Indistinct Maker's Mark
London Silver Hallmarks For 1741, Indistinct Maker's Mark
With fullered tapering blade double-edged towards the point and cut with a narrow fuller along the back for most of its length on each side, hilt cast and chased in relief with shells and foliage against finely punched grounds, centred on a bearded 'Green Man's' mask on the downbent shell-guard and on the back of the pommel, the latter with button and extending down the back of the grip, lobed rear quillon, quillon-block with a lion-mask on each side, knuckle-guard, and vertically fluted tapering dark horn grip, in its black leather scabbard with silver locket and chape, the former decorated en suite with the hilt and with small frog-hook
58.4 cm. blade
58.4 cm. blade
Footnotes
A similar example is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Howard L. Blackmore, Hunting Weapons, 1971, pl. 26
Cf. another very similar example sold Bonhams Oxford, Antique Arms and Militaria, 7 August 2007, lot 177








