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EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Details
A GERMAN HUNTING HANGER WITH SILVER-ENCRUSTED DECORATION
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With single-edged blade with faint traces of etched decoration at the forte, iron hilt with outer shell-guard and decorated throughout with encrusted silver flowering foliage inhabited by a recumbent stag and a large boar, and staghorn grip-scales retained by four rivets each with silver-encrusted flower-head
24 in. (61 cm.) blade
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With single-edged blade with faint traces of etched decoration at the forte, iron hilt with outer shell-guard and decorated throughout with encrusted silver flowering foliage inhabited by a recumbent stag and a large boar, and staghorn grip-scales retained by four rivets each with silver-encrusted flower-head
24 in. (61 cm.) blade
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1988, Lot 109
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