A NORTH GERMAN BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD (TESSAK) with broad straight blade, the forte single-edged and with central fuller, struck on one face with sickle and twigg marks and maker's mark, a device in a shield, the iron hilt with hemispherical basket of slender curved bars supported on a double-shell pierced with trefoils, thumb-ring, slender vertically recurved quillons with globular terminals decorated with raised dots, en suite with a band encircling the mushroom-shaped pommel, and original leather-covered wooden grip, second half of the 16th Century | Christie's

拍品 86

A NORTH GERMAN BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD (TESSAK) with broad straight blade, the forte single-edged and with central fuller, struck on one face with sickle and twigg marks and maker's mark, a device in a shield, the iron hilt with hemispherical basket of slender curved bars supported on a double-shell pierced with trefoils, thumb-ring, slender vertically recurved quillons with globular terminals decorated with raised dots, en suite with a band encircling the mushroom-shaped pommel, and original leather-covered wooden grip, second half of the 16th Century

细节

A NORTH GERMAN BASKET-HILTED BACKSWORD (TESSAK) with broad straight blade, the forte single-edged and with central fuller, struck on one face with sickle and twigg marks and maker's mark, a device in a shield, the iron hilt with hemispherical basket of slender curved bars supported on a double-shell pierced with trefoils, thumb-ring, slender vertically recurved quillons with globular terminals decorated with raised dots, en suite with a band encircling the mushroom-shaped pommel, and original leather-covered wooden grip, second half of the 16th Century
39¼in. blade

拍品专文

This belongs to the group of swords, of which many examples are found in Norway, and to which the name 'Sinclair sabre' is sometimes applied