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An English 'Mortuary' Hilted BackswordMid-17th Century
24 November 2021, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge£3,000 - £3,500
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An English 'Mortuary' Hilted Backsword
Mid-17th Century
Mid-17th Century
With broad blade double-edged towards the point and cut with a shallow fuller along the back for most of its length on each side, the fuller on each side of the forte incised with an orb and cross mark and struck with a crowned bladesmith's mark, iron hilt comprising solid guard chiselled with three pairs of moustachioed human faces within scrollwork, all against punched grounds and between foliage, those beneath the side-bars either side of a portrait bust almost certainly representing Charles I, knuckle-guard connected to two bifurcated bars (small repair) on each side chiselled with foliage and screwed to the pommel (screws replaced), scrolled wrist-guard, globular pommel chiselled with foliage and scrollwork with monster-head terminals, flattened button, and later cord-bound leather-covered grip (some light pitting overall)
86 cm. blade
86 cm. blade
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Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, Antique Arms & Armour..., 25 November 2015, lot 97








