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Nation : German
Local Price : $1995.00

German Knightly Dagger, ca. 1540. Featuring 10 5/8” (27 cm) blade of flattened diamond section, tapering to a sharp point. Vertically fluted quillon block and down-turned quillions with button finials, chiseled ensuite. Guard is fused to the blade by corrosion. Fluted stopper-shaped pommel with button (loose), retaining what appears to be remnants of its original grip inside the cavity. In excavated condition, lacking grip, with scattered moderate to heavy pitting and dark patina. Possibly a river find, as it is in generally better condition than most ground finds. Overall length 16 1/4” (41.3 cm). Provenance: Hermann Historica, Munich, Oct. 11, 2023, Lot 1145

Nation : French
Local Price : £1,995.00

French 1786 Hussar Officer´s Sabre. Ref X3413. A Scarce French 1786 Hussar Officer´s Sabre. 40&157; overall, 34 &194;&190;&157; broad curved&194;&160;&194;&160;blade with one narrow & one broad fuller, engraved on both sides with Hussars, Turks head and mythical symbols. Brass hilt with&194;&160;´D´ shaped chamfered knuckle bow, flat pommel, double bar langets, ribbed wooden grip. In its original brass scabbard with twin hanging rings & steel chape shoe. Rare sword in good condition. Circa 1780 -1810. &194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : $1995.00

Unusual Spanish Broadsword, 17th C. Iron hilt consisting of short, straight, undecorated quillons, knuckle bow with simple decoration at its finial, unusually large pas d’ane, small integrally forged pierced and faceted guard with painted inventory number; bun-shaped pommel with turned baluster base and large button. Original wood grip, having long ago lost its wrap. Broad 33 1/2” (85 cm) blade with mid-length central fuller marked with undecipherable maker’s mark; the ricasso notched later for a forefinger rest. We believe this was period modified from a cup-hilted broadsword, with cup removed, quillons shortened, and the original guardopolvo serving as the current guard. Probably a captured or battlefield pickup piece period altered for actual use, and possibly with piracy association. Overall length 38 1/4” (97.1 cm). Formerly in the War Museum Collection.

Nation : Russian
Local Price : £1995

Click and use the code >20830 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Good, Original, Napoleonic Wars Period, Imperial Russian Romanov Cavalry Sabre Engraved With The Russian Double Eagle Crest. French Invasion and Retreat From Moscow Period of 1812

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £1995

Click and use the code >22501 to search for this item on the dealer website Very Rare and Historical 1822 Presentation Sword to Ensign Alexander Samson of the Caribbean, 1st West India Regt. In 1855, From Col. Lockyer Freestun &#acute;Great Officer&#acute; of the Knights Hospitallers of Jerusalem. Two Men Of The Regt. Were V.C.

Nation : British
Local Price : $3800.00 CAD

NORTHERN EUROPEAN BROADSWORD. NORTHERN EUROPEAN BROADSWORD: Circa 1630-1640. 33 ½ inch blade by 1 ½ inch wide. The cross-guard is engraved on the right side, faint on the outer ring. Note the thumb ring on the left side. The grip wrapping looks to be an early Victorian restoration. VG $3800.00

Nation : Italian
Local Price : £1980

Italian Schiavona dating to circa 1740. A Venetian Schiavona dating to the early 18th century. The hilt is a typical representation of the distinctive design of the Schiavona guard, consisting of a complex trellis of delicately formed flattened bars swollen in the middle with rounded and well finished edges. This style of basket hilted sword is unique to northern Italy and particularly the territories held by the Venetian Republic throughout the early modern period which was also a powerful naval force in the eastern Mediterranean. The angled rear quillon terminates in a globular finial. The brass pommel is fashioned in the typical cat's head shape with integral button and waisted collar beneath and is finished with a grotesque mask on each side. The knuckle bow terminates at the top with a knopped loop secured to the forward pommel ear. The wooden grip is covered with an attractive brass wire binding and mounted with brass ferrules top and bottom. Typically, the hilt is asymmetrical and is made for a right-handed user indicated by the position of the thumb loop inside the basket guard. The guard is most complex and decorative on the outside where it protects the upper hand of the user, whereas the inner face, less visible and less important for defence, consists of fewer bars which creates a lightweight but strong structure for the hilt. The single edged blade has a single broad fuller extending from the end of a short ricasso near the hilt to the tip. The blade is just over 31.25 inches (79.5 cm) long and in total the sword is just under 37 inches (94 cm) long. The sword is in good russet condition covered with an attractive and consistent brown patina with minor patches of light pitting on some parts of the hilt.

Nation : British
Local Price : £1975

English Silver Hilted Small Sword by John Radborn of London Hallmarked for 1767 / 1768. An English silver hilted small sword by John Radborn of London with hallmarks for 1767 / 1768. The hilt is mounted with a dish guard which is exquisitely pierced and chased with rococo foliate scrolls between curling tendrils on both sides of filigree delicacy. The design is the common theme on the other major silver components of the hilt which attests to the homogeneity of the parts. The sword is well-balanced in hand and the silver hilt is, unusually, in excellent condition having experienced almost no wear, and has maintained its shape without damage or repair. The sword is mounted with a tapering hollow ground triangular section blade. The hilt is an example of the high standards of design and execution required of the 18th century London silver hilt maker, as well as an example of one of the most effective weapons of the 17th and 18th centuries, which at this time was at the pinnacle of its evolution. Silver hilted small swords were fashionable attire for gentlemen. Mostly worn for effect, someone wearing such a sword was also announcing to the world that he was able to use it. Despite the stylish and often delicate appearance of these swords they were formidable dueling weapons. The sword hilt is in excellent crisp condition without losses or repairs and has maintained its original pleasing profile. The shallow dish guard has a strengthened rim shaped as four crescents on the outside which supports the chased foliate designs within. The ricasso, pas d' ane rings, knuckle bow, quillon and pommel are pierced and chased in the same decorative style as the dish guard. The stamped maker's mark of “I R” is present on one side of the knucklebow near the pommel in raised relief inside a depressed rectangle, accompanied by the crowned leopard's head assay mark, the royal lion passant purity and date marks. The baluster shaped rounded rectangular section grip is covered with spirally wrapped bevelled silver strip, separated by wrapped silver twisted wire, flanked by thinner ropes on either side. Silver cap terminals are present top and bottom of the grip engraved with scallops on each side. The tapering, hollow ground, stiff, triangular section blade is in good mottled condition and retains evidence of its original engraved foliate panels near the hilt. John Radborn was one of the most gifted silver hilt makers and sword cutlers of his time. He worked in the New Street precinct of the City of London for all of his professional life. He is first recorded when he was indentured to the cutler Nathaniel Young in 1737. On the death of Young in 1742 he was turned over to John Smith for the remainder of his term and was sworn free of the Cutlers' Company by servitude in 1745 when he probably entered his first mark at Goldsmiths Hall which is now lost. His first surviving mark was entered in 1762. On moving address in 1769 Radborn entered another mark which was very similar to the last to confirm the move. He was admitted as a pensioner of the Cutlers' Company in 1776 and died in 1780. For further information on John Radborn see Leslie Southwick “London Silver-Hilted Swords”, their makers, suppliers and allied traders, with directory, 2001, Royal Armouries, and particularly page 206 for the biography and examples of his work in plates 46, 66, 72-3, 74 and colour plate 3. The blade is just under 33.25 inches (just over 84.5 cm) long and the overall length of the sword is just under 40 inches (101.5 cm).