Lot Essay
For similar bandoliers see A. Diener-Schönberg, Die Waffen der Wartburg, cat. no. 739, p. 149, plate 68
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LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Details
A Fine And Rare Saxon Musketeer's Bandolier
Late 16th/early 17th Century
Comprising leather strap faced with green velvet bordered by silk and gilt-wire fringes, fitted with twelve gilt-brass bosses (one smaller than the others) each cast and chased in relief with a lion-mask, ten pendent conical chargers of velvet-covered tinned iron (slight losses to velvet), at the centre a priming flask and a bullet holder, and gilt-brass buckle and tongue each cast and chased in relief: in modern display case
49 7/8in. (126.7cm.) wide
Late 16th/early 17th Century
Comprising leather strap faced with green velvet bordered by silk and gilt-wire fringes, fitted with twelve gilt-brass bosses (one smaller than the others) each cast and chased in relief with a lion-mask, ten pendent conical chargers of velvet-covered tinned iron (slight losses to velvet), at the centre a priming flask and a bullet holder, and gilt-brass buckle and tongue each cast and chased in relief: in modern display case
49 7/8in. (126.7cm.) wide
Provenance
The Saxon Royal Armouries, Dresden
Joe Kindig, jr.
Raymond Petry
H.L. Visser, Sotheby & Co., London, 3 July 1970, lot 5
Joe Kindig, jr.
Raymond Petry
H.L. Visser, Sotheby & Co., London, 3 July 1970, lot 5
Literature
John S. DuMont, 'Joe Kindig, Jr., Master of Antiquities', Antique Arms Annual, Texas Gun Collectors' Association, 1971, p. 152
Special notice
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