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.

A Broadsword With Finely Chiselled Steel Hilt image 1
A Broadsword With Finely Chiselled Steel Hilt image 2
Lot 96*

A Broadsword With Finely Chiselled Steel Hilt
Circa 1640, Probably English

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £5,760 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 Broadsword With Finely Chiselled Steel Hilt
Circa 1640, Probably English

With straight tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section with two shallow fullers running over almost half its length on each side and each struck with an 'S' mark at the forte, the hilt comprising short forward-curved rear quillon with bud-shaped tip supported by volutes, rounded quillon-block decorated front and back with a grotesque mask in low relief on a punched ground, side-ring decorated with overlapping scales and interrupted at its centre by a pair of addorsed features matching the quillon-tip, knuckle-guard en suite, compressed spherical pommel decorated in low relief with scrollwork, masks and volutes and with prominent button, and wooden grip bound with twisted steel wire between steel Turk's heads
93 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Warwickshire Museum
Christie's King Street, The Brett Collection of Armour And Arms, 22 March 1895, lot 648

Literature:
Edwin J. Brett, A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origins and Development of Arms and Armour ..., 1894, pl. LXXVII, no. 6 (described as 'Dress Rapier, of the end of the reign of Charles I')

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

FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.

A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.

THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.