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A Rare Venetian Broadsword
Second Half Of The 15th Century

Antique Arms, Armour & Modern Sporting Guns
23 May 2018, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£5,000 - £7,000

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A Rare Venetian Broadsword
Second Half Of The 15th Century

In excavated condition, with broad tapering double-edged blade with shallow central fuller over each side of the forte, guard of flat bars comprising recurved ring quillons and ovoidal side-ring, the former each with scrolled terminal, flat tapering tang, and large rectangular bronze pommel with raised rectangular panel on each side with clipped lower corners and cut with a grid pattern lightly incised with a cross patent at the centre, and retaining traces of original gilding
88 cm. blade, 105 cm. overall

Footnotes

This is an elaborate example of a type of sword of which many examples are found in the Doges' Armoury in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice. They are referred to in the early inventories as 'spada schiovonesca'. See Lionello G. Boccia and Eduardo T. Coelho, Armi Bianche Italiane, 1975, p. 345, nos. 165-167 (illustrated)

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A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
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