with broad tapering double-edged blade, stamped 'ANIMIM' between decorative marks within a short fuller framed by incised lines on each face, tapering grooved ricasso struck with a crowned 'S' mark, perhaps for Wolfgang Stantler of Munich, on one face, iron hilt of flattened rounded bars comprising upper and lower ring-guards joined by a diagonal bar, the lower fitted with an additional up-turned bar, a pair of arms, vertically recurved quillons, écusson, trifurcated inner-guard, tall barrel-shaped pommel, and spherical button, decorated throughout in encrusted silver with diamond-shaped panels filled with bouquets on a punched gilt ground enriched with further bouquets and pellets on the principle elements, the arms, lower ring-guard and button enriched with pellets on a gilt ground, and wooden grip bound with plaited wire and copper ribband (loose), 88.2 cm blade

Provenance

The property of an American collector, sold Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 28th November 1960, lot 14.