Épée à deux mains d'une longueur exceptionnelle,... - Lot 130 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Épée à deux mains d'une longueur exceptionnelle, de style allemand vers 1580. A German two-hand sword of exceptional length, in the style of circa 1580. The blade both slender and of exceptional length, of flattened diamond section over the upper stage, changing to flattened hexagonal section and cut with a long narrow central fuller, the ricasso heightened with linear-engraved borders and formed with a pair of small down-curved lugs each struck with spurious Nuremberg mark and a circular mark, a profile head, and both sides stamped "O + PETHER + WIRSBERG + O" within the fuller, plain blackened iron hilt of rounded bars, including long straight quillons swelling towards the ends, inner-and outer-rings each swelling in the middle, fluted écusson, stopper-shaped pommel, and original moulded twostage wooden grip with later tooled leather covering. L. overall: 197.5 cm - L. blade: 148 cm - W.: 39 cm.