Ⓦ AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON, 1770, MARKED WF, PERHAPS FOR WILLIAM FEARN
Ⓦ AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON, 1770, MARKED WF, PERHAPS FOR WILLIAM FEARN
with colichemarde blade etched with bold scrolling foliage at the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising oval shell-guard decorated a radiating design of scrolls enclosing numerous pellets all within a foliate frame, a pair of quillons, marked knuckle-guard, small hollow ovoid pommel pierced en suite with the shell and the grip bound with plaited wire and silver ribband between silver collars, in its leather scabbard with silver locket decorated en suite with the guard (chape missing)
80.2 cm; 31 5/8 in blade
Property from the David Jeffcoat Collection (1945-2020)
Part proceeds to benefit The Wallace Collection
See Southwick 2001, p. 106
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Ⓦ AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON, 1770, MARKED WF, PERHAPS FOR WILLIAM FEARN
with colichemarde blade etched with bold scrolling foliage at the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising oval shell-guard decorated a radiating design of scrolls enclosing numerous pellets all within a foliate frame, a pair of quillons, marked knuckle-guard, small hollow ovoid pommel pierced en suite with the shell and the grip bound with plaited wire and silver ribband between silver collars, in its leather scabbard with silver locket decorated en suite with the guard (chape missing)
80.2 cm; 31 5/8 in blade
Property from the David Jeffcoat Collection (1945-2020)
Part proceeds to benefit The Wallace Collection
See Southwick 2001, p. 106
