DATED 1647
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A RARE ENGLISH HANGER
DATED 1647
WITH BROAD STRAIGHT DOUBLE-EDGED BLADE FULLERED ON EACH FACE OF THE FORTE, THE FULLERS INSCRIBED 'IOHANNIS MEIGEN' TWICE ON EACH FACE, EACH SIDE WITH INCISED RUNNING WOLF MARK AND STRUCK THRICE WITH A MAKER'S MARK, A DRAGON IN AN OVAL, AND CRUCIFORM HILT OF COW-HORN WITH SHORT STRAIGHT QUILLONS AND STRAIGHT HANDLE OF FLATTENED OCTAGONAL SECTION WIDENING INTO A BEAKED POMMEL, INLAID THROUGHOUT WITH STAGHORN AND EBONY ROUNDELS, SILVER OR PEWTER STUDS, AND RED CIRCLES, INSCRIBED '1647 GERRARD SKRYMSHER'
25¼IN. (64.1CM.) BLADE
NO OTHER SWORD WITH A HILT OF THIS TYPE APPEARS TO BE RECORDED. THE OWNER WAS POSSIBLY THE GERARD SKRYMSHAWE (1605-65) OF AQUILATE HALL, FORTON, STAFFORDSHIRE (G.T. ARMYTAGE & W.H. RYLANDS (EDS.), STAFFORDSHIRE PEDIGREES, HARLEIAN SOCIETY, LONDON, 1912, P. 206)
DATED 1647
WITH BROAD STRAIGHT DOUBLE-EDGED BLADE FULLERED ON EACH FACE OF THE FORTE, THE FULLERS INSCRIBED 'IOHANNIS MEIGEN' TWICE ON EACH FACE, EACH SIDE WITH INCISED RUNNING WOLF MARK AND STRUCK THRICE WITH A MAKER'S MARK, A DRAGON IN AN OVAL, AND CRUCIFORM HILT OF COW-HORN WITH SHORT STRAIGHT QUILLONS AND STRAIGHT HANDLE OF FLATTENED OCTAGONAL SECTION WIDENING INTO A BEAKED POMMEL, INLAID THROUGHOUT WITH STAGHORN AND EBONY ROUNDELS, SILVER OR PEWTER STUDS, AND RED CIRCLES, INSCRIBED '1647 GERRARD SKRYMSHER'
25¼IN. (64.1CM.) BLADE
NO OTHER SWORD WITH A HILT OF THIS TYPE APPEARS TO BE RECORDED. THE OWNER WAS POSSIBLY THE GERARD SKRYMSHAWE (1605-65) OF AQUILATE HALL, FORTON, STAFFORDSHIRE (G.T. ARMYTAGE & W.H. RYLANDS (EDS.), STAFFORDSHIRE PEDIGREES, HARLEIAN SOCIETY, LONDON, 1912, P. 206)
Provenance
CLAUDE FALKINER
Literature
COUNTRY LIFE, 5 APRIL 1962, P. 757
Exhibited
WILLMER HOUSE MUSEUM, FARNHAM, 3-29 APRIL 1962, NO. 37
THE ART OF THE ARMOURER, VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, 19 APRIL-5 MAY 1963, NO. 92
THE ART OF THE ARMOURER, VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, 19 APRIL-5 MAY 1963, NO. 92