3rd Dec, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST
Militaria & Ethnographica
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A Rare 17th Century Hounslow Broad Sword by Johann Kinndt, circa 1640-50, the 85cm double edge steel blade with triple fullers to each side for the first 23cm running down from the hilt, engraved with tendrils and signed within the fullers, the Irish style basket hilt with wire bound leather grip and compressed globular pommel, 98cm
This sword was inspected by Philip Lankester of the Royal Armouries, Tower of London and John Tofts White, who was a renowned expert of Hounslow sword manufacturing in the 17th century. His research resulted in a record of more than one hundred surviving Hounslow swords around the world. His opinion was that this sword blade was jointed (welded) into the hilt tang to provide a soft more flexible hilt on a hard blade. Sword and plug bayonet blades of this period were often made in this way. The alternative is that it is an old repair to a favoured blade. Hounslow broadswords by Kindt (also anglicized to John Kennett) are rare. Two further examples are known to exist and are in the V&A.
Sold for £1,400
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,000
The blade has parrying marks to the edge, it has been jointed at the ricasso and there is a chip to the tip.
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Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 3rd Dec, 2021
Militaria and Ethnographica Sales encompass items across diverse areas of collecting, from European and Eastern armour to 18th and 19th century firearms, military uniforms and documents, edged weapons, World War I and World War II ephemera, masonic regalia and medals.
Also included are a vast range of objects created in the early 20th century or earlier by indigenous cultures around the world, from early American civilisations to African tribes and Polynesian island cultures, incorporating religious idols, domestic and ritual objects, figurative sculpture, jewellery and weapons of all descriptions.
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