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Lot 181

An Unusual German Broadsword
Perhaps Early 16th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

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An Unusual German Broadsword
Perhaps Early 16th Century

With tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section with two shallow fullers on each side of the forte, and iron hilt comprising straight horizontally recurved boldly fluted quillons each swelling towards its tip and springing from the central medially fluted sleeve forming a scabbard cover with cusped mouth, vertically fluted fig-shaped pommel with integral button, and leather-covered bottle-shaped grip (2)
90.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance:
Baron C.A. de Cosson, Sotheby & Co., 14 May 1929, lot 87 (£20 to Martineau)
Sotheby & Co., 19 July 1946, lot 24 (£9 to Roth)
Aubrey C. Burton, Sotheby & Co., 17 May 1971, lot 163 (£660)

Offered with a copy of the 17 May 1971 auction catalogue

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