AN AUSTRIAN HUNTING SWORD FOR AN IMPERIAL FORESTRY OFFICIAL, SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY with tapering blade cut with a broad long fuller, etched on each face with scenes from the hunt including a figure in contemporary dress, trophies-of-arms, woodland landscapes filled with grazing deer and hounds in pursuit of foxes, the forte signed 'Weyersberg & Stamm, Solingen', brass hilt comprising down-turned shell-guard charged with the crowned Imperial arms enclosed by laurel fronds, quillon with deer hoof terminal (bent), knuckle-guard and brass-bound grip fitted with a pair of shaped bone grip-scales (cracked and chipped, retaining rivets incomplete), 63 cm; 24 3/4 in blade Provenance Angelo Peyron Florence, sold Savoy Art and Auction Galleries, New York, 5 November 1954, part of lot 515 JWHA Inv. No. 3500
AN AUSTRIAN HUNTING SWORD FOR AN IMPERIAL FORESTRY OFFICIAL, SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY with tapering blade cut with a broad long fuller, etched on each face with scenes from the hunt including a figure in contemporary dress, trophies-of-arms, woodland landscapes filled with grazing deer and hounds in pursuit of foxes, the forte signed 'Weyersberg & Stamm, Solingen', brass hilt comprising down-turned shell-guard charged with the crowned Imperial arms enclosed by laurel fronds, quillon with deer hoof terminal (bent), knuckle-guard and brass-bound grip fitted with a pair of shaped bone grip-scales (cracked and chipped, retaining rivets incomplete), 63 cm; 24 3/4 in blade Provenance Angelo Peyron Florence, sold Savoy Art and Auction Galleries, New York, 5 November 1954, part of lot 515 JWHA Inv. No. 3500
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