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PARTLY 16TH CENTURY
Details
A COMPOSITE GERMAN HAND-AND-A-HALF SWORD
Partly 16th Century
With tapering single-edged blade cut with a full length fuller below its back edge and stamped with a mark on the inner-face at the forte, iron hilt incorporating moulded down-turned quillons with spirally fluted knopped terminals, a pair of arms, the forward arm connected by a diagonal to the upper-ring, the rear arm extending to form a prong set at ninety degrees to the blade, the entire guard decorated at intervals with chiselled leaf-shaped mouldings, spirally fluted globular pommel en suite, and moulded two-stage leather-bound grip.
38 1/8" (97cm) blade
Partly 16
With tapering single-edged blade cut with a full length fuller below its back edge and stamped with a mark on the inner-face at the forte, iron hilt incorporating moulded down-turned quillons with spirally fluted knopped terminals, a pair of arms, the forward arm connected by a diagonal to the upper-ring, the rear arm extending to form a prong set at ninety degrees to the blade, the entire guard decorated at intervals with chiselled leaf-shaped mouldings, spirally fluted globular pommel en suite, and moulded two-stage leather-bound grip.
38 1/8" (97cm) blade
Provenance
Col. Ambrose Monell Collection, New York, 1930
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium