with tapering blade stamped with the sacred trigram ‘IHS’ at the forte on each face, recessed grooved rectangular ricasso, iron hilt comprising English style guard formed of a flowerhead of six petals each filled with a pierced sprung-in plate, a pair of quillons with tightly scrolling terminals, tall ovoid pommel finely chiselled with a frieze of military figures and later grip bound with plaited wire, 95.5 cm blade

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.