Lot Essay
See Howard L. Blackmore, Hunting Weapons, 1971, pp.41-2, fig.14, pl.34
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A GERMAN HUNTING-SWORD
CIRCA 1790
With broad curved blade double-edged towards the point, the forte etched with a series of cabalistic numerals and devices differing on respective sides and involving the figure of an Hungarian nobleman on the reverse side, iron-mounted moulded ebony hilt, the lower mounts pierced and chiselled with flowers, and in its original scabbard, the locket, chape and middle-band chiselled en suite with the hilt
24¾in (62.9cm) blade
CIRCA 1790
With broad curved blade double-edged towards the point, the forte etched with a series of cabalistic numerals and devices differing on respective sides and involving the figure of an Hungarian nobleman on the reverse side, iron-mounted moulded ebony hilt, the lower mounts pierced and chiselled with flowers, and in its original scabbard, the locket, chape and middle-band chiselled en suite with the hilt
24¾in (62.9cm) blade
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