Lot 166
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A COMPOSITE GERMAN EXECUTIONER'S SWORD with broad flat double-edged rebated blade with short central fuller on each face of the forte stamped respectively 'Wan Ich Das Schwert Thue Auf Heben' and 'So Geb Got Dem Sunder Das Ewige Leben', and struck with a mark on one side, a king's head, iron cruciform hilt comprising short straight swelling quillons, pear-shaped pommel, and spirally grooved wire-bound leather-covered wooden grip, late 17th Century

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A COMPOSITE GERMAN EXECUTIONER'S SWORD with broad flat double-edged rebated blade with short central fuller on each face of the forte stamped respectively 'Wan Ich Das Schwert Thue Auf Heben' and 'So Geb Got Dem Sunder Das Ewige Leben', and struck with a mark on one side, a king's head, iron cruciform hilt comprising short straight swelling quillons, pear-shaped pommel, and spirally grooved wire-bound leather-covered wooden grip, late 17th Century
34in. blade

Lot Essay

The inscription reads in translation: 'When I lift the sword so God gives the sinner eternal life'

The mark is probably a version of that used by members of the Wundes family of Solingen

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