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A Riding (Reiter) SwordGerman Or Italian, Circa 1570-80
30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,875 inc. premium
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German Or Italian, Circa 1570-80
German Or Italian, Circa 1570-80
With associated straight single-edged blade (some surface pitting) double-edged at the point, cut with four narrow fullers on each face over almost its entire length, and with five fullers on each face of the ricasso, between two of them a small mark stamped on each face, plain iron hilt composed of bars of circular section and comprising horizontally recurved quillons widening at their tips, outer-guard of two rings each swelling at its entire, arms, inner-guard of three merging diagonal bars surmounted by a thumb-ring, heavy spherical pommel with integral button, and later wooden grip bound with twisted iron wire between Turk's heads
113.8 cm. blade
113.8 cm. blade
Footnotes
The hilt is similar to that of a number of riding swords at Schloss Ambras near Innsburck








