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A German Falchion
Late 16th Century

Antique Arms and Armour
23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A German Falchion
Late 16th Century

With broad flattened blade double-edged towards the tip, each face with broad shallow almost full-length fullers and narrow shorter fullers along the back edge, one face struck with two marks, one probably that of the Stantler family of Munich, iron guard of slender bars comprising vertically recurved quillons each with spirally-fluted globular tip, knuckle-guard interrupted by a knop of hexagonal section and linked on the inner side by a curved bifurcated bar to the thumb-ring, one on the outer side to a large upturned shell formed as a scallop and rising to a small scroll at its apex, fluted mushroom-shaped pommel, and wooden grip with later copper and brass binding (minor surface pitting overall)
70.5 cm. blade

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Provenance
Christie's London, The Harold L. Peterson Collection of Arms and Armour, 5 July 1978, lot 69
The Estate of John M. Kauffmann, Maine, U.S.A.

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.