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Lot 151*

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

23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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

With tapering blade cut with two fullers along the back over nearly its entire length to the double-edged point, the fuller on both sides of the forte incised 'WEILM' and 'KLEIN' between orb and cross marks, iron hilt comprising solid guard chiselled with two human faces and two grotesque masks between scrolling foliage and against a punched ground, short scrolled wrist-guard, knuckle-guard flanked by two diagonal bars to bifurcated side-bars all chiselled with foliage, the top of the knuckle-guard and side-bars screwed to the globular pommel chiselled with foliage en suite, and wooden grip bound with twisted copper wire of varying thicknesses (loose and incomplete, some rust patination)
77 cm. blade

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Provenance
The Stanley Knight Collection, Meaford, Ontario, Canada

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