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Lot 162

An English 'Mortuary' Hilted Backsword
Mid-17th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,000 inc. premium

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An English 'Mortuary' Hilted Backsword
Mid-17th Century

With tapering blade cut with two fullers along the back over its entire length to the double-edged point, the fullers on both sides of the forte stamped 'Me Fecit' and 'Solingen' between punch marks, iron hilt comprising solid guard with fluted scrolled wrist-guard and chiselled with a symmetrical design of scrolling foliage involving a standing male figure in contemporary costume, a horseman armed with a sword, and profile busts, tapering knuckle-guard connected to two slender curved bars above two side-bars and screwed to the pommel, the side-bars each chiselled with a grotesque mask, globular pommel chiselled with foliage, and original wooden grip bound with twisted copper wire and ribbon (loose, some wear and pitting overall)
83 cm. blade

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