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LAST QUARTER OF THE 16TH CENTURY
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A SAXON MILITARY ESTOC
Last quarter of the 16th Century
With robust slender tapering double-edged blade formed with a strongly pronounced medial ridge running over its entire length on both sides, the outer face with two saltire marks inlaid in latten at the forte and the base encased by an iron elliptical sleeve fitting over the mouth of the scabbard, the sleeve with roped lip and pricked and engraved with panels of foliage on the outside, iron hilt of characteristic pattern (previously blackened), the quillon terminals, the ring-guards and the inner diagonal bar each flattened, retaining its original shagreen-covered grip with cusped ferrules and four longitudinal reinforcing bars, and octagonal pommel retaining its original octagonal cushion-shaped button.
42½in (108cm) blade
Last quarter of the 16
With robust slender tapering double-edged blade formed with a strongly pronounced medial ridge running over its entire length on both sides, the outer face with two saltire marks inlaid in latten at the forte and the base encased by an iron elliptical sleeve fitting over the mouth of the scabbard, the sleeve with roped lip and pricked and engraved with panels of foliage on the outside, iron hilt of characteristic pattern (previously blackened), the quillon terminals, the ring-guards and the inner diagonal bar each flattened, retaining its original shagreen-covered grip with cusped ferrules and four longitudinal reinforcing bars, and octagonal pommel retaining its original octagonal cushion-shaped button.
42½
Provenance
The Saxon Electoral Armouries, Dresden. An estoc of identical pattern was included in the dispersal sale of the Saxon Royal Collections conducted by Rudolph Lepke Kunst-auctions, Berlin, October 7-8, 1919, lot 553 (illus). Another, also identical, is now in the von Kienbusch collection, catalogue no. 351.
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