Highly Ornate North Italian Short Sword

[Jack Loomes]

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Dating: XVI Sec.

Straight blade with two wires fluted centerline, losangata to the tip, with heel rectangular laying three grooves and two punches on both sides; elegant hilt partially gilded and silvered hilt with "S" dots decorated in gold and silver on the bottom end with a lion's head; pelta shell divided into six segments, laying at the edge of warriors in combat within oval cartouches. Pomo with warriors within an oval surmounted by a mask, the two sides of a dragon's head in the round. Wooden grip covered with braid and with meringue kisses in silver thread.

Source: Friedrich Rudolph von Berdhold, Dresden. Sale Heberle (H. Lempertz Söhne), Cologne, 26 May 1898, lot no. 322.

Dimensions: Length 68.3 cm.

Estimate: 16000.00 € | € 22,000.00 August 2014

Source: www.czernys.com/auctions_lot.php?oggetto=52780&asta=47