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17TH CENTURY
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AN UNUSUAL AUSTRIAN PROCESSIONAL SWORD
17TH CENTURY
With short broad flat blade widening towards the middle, etched with the Imperial double eagle charged with the bindenschild and a large Imperial crown below the hilt on one side, iron slender scrolling quillons, small double ring-guard, original wooden three-stage grip of exaggerated length covered with fabric (heavily worn) and studded with domed brass nails, and large iron pommel formed of beaded openwork bars joined by a cap finial.
34in (86.3cm) blade
17TH CENTURY
With short broad flat blade widening towards the middle, etched with the Imperial double eagle charged with the bindenschild and a large Imperial crown below the hilt on one side, iron slender scrolling quillons, small double ring-guard, original wooden three-stage grip of exaggerated length covered with fabric (heavily worn) and studded with domed brass nails, and large iron pommel formed of beaded openwork bars joined by a cap finial.
34in (86.3cm) blade
Literature
Robert Coltman Clephan, The Defensive Armour and Weapons and Engines of War of medieval times and of the Renaissance, 1990
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium