with broad tapering blade struck with a King’s head mark (tip ground to a sharp point), iron hilt of rounded bars comprising vertically recurved quillons interrupted by filed lines, an additional short basal arm decorated en suite, later fluted pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads’, 86.5 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.