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Lot 114
A Rare Bavarian Combined Hunting Sword And Flintlock PistolBy Blank A Nord, Early 18th Century
20 April 2011, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge£3,500 - £4,500
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Find your local specialistA Rare Bavarian Combined Hunting Sword And Flintlock Pistol
By Blank A Nord, Early 18th Century
By Blank A Nord, Early 18th Century
With straight tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section, flat disc guard of iron pierced and chiselled with foliage inhabited by a lion and a grotesque head, two-stage barrel signed along the top flat and turned at the girdle, the breech chiselled with a standing female figure against a punched ground, border engraved action, bevelled cock chiselled against a punched ground with foliage issuing from a grotesque head, back-strap chiselled against a punched ground with two birds and running foliate scrollwork involving grotesque heads, the slender knuckle-guard of circular section with central moulding, and moulded fruitwood grip carved with an animal-head pommel in the round
67.2 cm. blade
67.2 cm. blade
Footnotes
The maker is probably G. Friedrich Blanck of Nördlingen. For two other examples in the Saxon Royal collection, Dresden see Heinz-Werner Lewerken, Kombinations Waffen, 1989, p. 226, and a further example in the Visser Collection, Sotheby's London, Part I, 3 July 1990, lot 30








