
Lot 85
An English Silver-Mounted Hunting HangerLondon Silver Hallmarks For 1733, Indistinct Maker's Mark
23 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £637.50 inc. premium
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An English Silver-Mounted Hunting Hanger
London Silver Hallmarks For 1733, Indistinct Maker's Mark
London Silver Hallmarks For 1733, Indistinct Maker's Mark
With earlier curved fullered blade double-edged towards the point and pierced towards the forte with a series of keyhole slots between groups of four circles, notched and waved along the back, and stamped on each side of the ricasso with a bladesmith's mark, a crowned recumbent stag(?), hilt comprising flat rounded side-guard, lobed rear quillon, knuckle-guard hooked into the domed pommel-cap, the latter with button, and natural buckhorn grip with basal collar
54 cm. blade
54 cm. blade
Footnotes
The bladesmith's mark appeasr to be that of Jaspar Bongen. For what appears to be the same mark on a sword-blade in the Dresden Museum (inv. no. 638), see Albert Weyersberg, Solinger Schwertschmiede Des 16. Und 17. Jahrhunderts Und Ihre Erzeugnisse..., 1962, pp. 13-14, no. 16