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Lot 180

A Hunting Sword In German Early 16th Century Style
19th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Hunting Sword In German Early 16th Century Style
19th Century

With tapering blade double-edged towards the point, iron hilt comprising fluted side-ring widening towards a cusped central feature, straight fluted quillons each widening towards a 'fish-tail' tip, and tapering grip beaked at the top on each side beneath an interrupted circular piercing and inlaid along both sides with four rectangular panels of light and dark horn between a border engraved central flute (pitting overall)
94 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance:
Galerie Fischer, Luzern, Waffenauktion ..., 22 November 1962, lot 232, pl. XVII (a copy of the auction catalogue is offered with the lot)

Literature:
Holger Jacobsen, Hirsch Fængere: dansk privateje, 1983, pp. 12-13, fig. 1

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