A GERMAN TWO-HAND SWORD with straight double-edged blade with long ricasso bordered by fullers and struck with a unicorn's head mark on each face, iron hilt comprising long straight slender quillons with multiple turned mouldings and buttons at the tips, and symmetrical oval side-rings framing plates with quatrefoil- and star-shaped piercings, pear-shaped pommel (perhaps later) with prominent turned button, and spirally fluted wooden grip bound with wire (incomplete), circa 1600 | Christie's

Lot 469

469

A GERMAN TWO-HAND SWORD with straight double-edged blade with long ricasso bordered by fullers and struck with a unicorn's head mark on each face, iron hilt comprising long straight slender quillons with multiple turned mouldings and buttons at the tips, and symmetrical oval side-rings framing plates with quatrefoil- and star-shaped piercings, pear-shaped pommel (perhaps later) with prominent turned button, and spirally fluted wooden grip bound with wire (incomplete), circa 1600

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A GERMAN TWO-HAND SWORD with straight double-edged blade with long ricasso bordered by fullers and struck with a unicorn's head mark on each face, iron hilt comprising long straight slender quillons with multiple turned mouldings and buttons at the tips, and symmetrical oval side-rings framing plates with quatrefoil- and star-shaped piercings, pear-shaped pommel (perhaps later) with prominent turned button, and spirally fluted wooden grip bound with wire (incomplete), circa 1600
44in. blade [E.1]

Lot Essay

The unicorn's head mark is found on late 16th and 17th Century blades signed by Clemens Horn of Solingen, a name perhaps belonging to as many as three members of the same family

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