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Lot 163

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

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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

With broad tapering double-edged blade cut with three fullers over each side of the forte and with latten-inlaid running wolf mark beyond, iron hilt comprising solid guard roughly chiselled with two cavalrymen, one armed with what appears to be a pistol, male portrait busts and scrollwork, tapering knuckle-guard connected to two bifurcated side-bars by diagonal bars and each joined to the pommel by ring-headed screws, the diagonal bars each with central disc incised with a human mask, globular pommel chiselled with scrolling foliage, and original grip bound with twisted copper and plain brass wire (pitted overall)
81 cm. blade

Footnotes

For a related sword in the British Museum (inv. no. 1961:2/2-12), see Cyril Mazansky, British Basket-Hilted Swords, 2005, p. 255, IIC (illustrated)

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