A GERMAN MILITARY HAND-AND-A-HALF BROADSWORD

CIRCA 1560-90

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A GERMAN MILITARY HAND-AND-A-HALF BROADSWORD
CIRCA 1560-90
With long double-edged spear-point blade of flattened hexagonal section struck on each side with a series of marks and letters within a narrow fuller, the fullers each decorated with punched and incised borders and struck with further marks on each side of the ricasso, iron hilt of flattened triangular bars comprising a pair of long straight quillons widening towards the tips and each with button finial, a pair of arms joined to the ring-guard by a pair of bars forming an inverted 'V', thumb-ring joined by slender bars to both the rear quillon and rear arm, faceted plummet-shaped pommel, and grip retaining its original leather covering
42¾ in (108.6cm) blade

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Lot Essay

The hilt would appear to have been deliberately altered by the removal of the original half-basket guard, almost certainly within its working life

An example with a very similar blade bearing an identical series of marks is illustrated in Ewart Oakeshott, 'Bastard Swords', The Catalogue of The Seventh Park Lane Arm Fair, February 1990, No.6, pp. 15-16

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