THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLEMAN
A GERMAN HUNTING HANGER with single-edged hollow-ground blade finely etched and gilt against a blued ground with foliage and hunting trophies over half its length on both sides, the gilt-brass hilt with downturned shell, short vertically recurved quillons, and beaked handle with dark horn grip-scales each held by three acorn-headed nails, the hilt cast and chased with a stag and hind, foliage and a hunting trophy, in a brass-mounted leather scabbard (by-knife missing), early 19th Century; another, with single-edged blade etched at the forte with a hunting scene and a German couplet, brass hilt with short quillons, side-shell and pommel-cap, and natural staghorn grip, in original brass-mounted leather-covered scabbard (broken, by-knife and fork missing); and another, with brass mounts, and reeded wooden grip (blade rusted in scabbard), both 18th Century
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A GERMAN HUNTING HANGER with single-edged hollow-ground blade finely etched and gilt against a blued ground with foliage and hunting trophies over half its length on both sides, the gilt-brass hilt with downturned shell, short vertically recurved quillons, and beaked handle with dark horn grip-scales each held by three acorn-headed nails, the hilt cast and chased with a stag and hind, foliage and a hunting trophy, in a brass-mounted leather scabbard (by-knife missing), early 19th Century; another, with single-edged blade etched at the forte with a hunting scene and a German couplet, brass hilt with short quillons, side-shell and pommel-cap, and natural staghorn grip, in original brass-mounted leather-covered scabbard (broken, by-knife and fork missing); and another, with brass mounts, and reeded wooden grip (blade rusted in scabbard), both 18th Century
The first 25in. blade (3)
The first 25in. blade (3)