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Lot 137*
An English HangerMid-17th Century
25 July 2012, 10:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,500 inc. premium
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Mid-17th Century
Mid-17th Century
With curved fullered blade double-edged and widening towards the point, cut with a series of notches along the back and incised with waved lines between dots along the back edge on both sides, long ricasso struck twice on each side with a maker's mark, a crowned recumbent stag (?), hilt comprising lobed rear quillon with small button terminal, side-guard with central double swelling divided by a slender oval and enclosing a pair of short scrolls, knuckle-guard with central feature en suite and secured by a screw to the pommel, the latter with a beaked heart-shaped top and button finial, and natural buckhorn grip with central and basal moulded iron ferrules
58 cm. blade
58 cm. blade
Footnotes
The bladesmith's mark appears to be that of Jaspar Bongen. For what appears to be the same mark on a sword-blade in the Dresden Museum (inv. no. 638), see Albert Weyersberg, Solinger Schwertschmiede Des 16. Und 17. Jahrhunderts Und Ihre Erzeugnisse..., 1962, pp. 13-14, no. 16








