A GROUP OF FIVE EUROPEAN COURT SWORDS
19TH CENTURY
Comprising four English swords respectively by POOLE & CO., DAVIES & SON, C. WEBB & CO. and the last unsigned, each with etched blade and gilt metal hilts, three retaining bullion sword-knots, three with scabbards; the fifth almost certainly French, unsigned, with etched blued and gilt blade and gilt-brass hilt including a pommel in the form of Minerva, in snakeskin-covered scabbard with gilt-brass mounts en suite with hilt
The first 31 1/8 in. (79 cm.) blade (5)
A GROUP OF FIVE EUROPEAN COURT SWORDS
19TH CENTURY
Comprising four English swords respectively by POOLE & CO., DAVIES & SON, C. WEBB & CO. and the last unsigned, each with etched blade and gilt metal hilts, three retaining bullion sword-knots, three with scabbards; the fifth almost certainly French, unsigned, with etched blued and gilt blade and gilt-brass hilt including a pommel in the form of Minerva, in snakeskin-covered scabbard with gilt-brass mounts en suite with hilt
The first 31 1/8 in. (79 cm.) blade (5)
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