Introduction: This sword typology is thought to be attributed to the cavalry of Gottfried Heinrich Graf Pappenheim, the Imperial General of the Thirty Year War. A near-identical example appears in an engraving by Wenzel Hollar of General Pappenheim(see above).

Comparable: A similar sword hilt, finished with silver and retaining its velvet covering at the ricasso, formerly in the armory of the Princes Zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck at Schloss Dyck. A second example, from the de Cosson collection, is preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (inv. #M.56-1946), and a third is preserved in the Wallace Collection (inv. #A645). A fourth sold TDM on December 2, 2015, with a Hammer price of £ 6,600   (over $10,000 US). The close similarity between all five of these swords suggests that they may have formed part of a larger group commissioned for a specific guard.

Description: Under the Norman typology this is a Type 67. Constructed with a tapering blade of diamond-section to a tip, decorated on a recessed ricasso inside the hilt, symmetrical iron hilt of faceted bars, comprising a pair of recurved rectangular quillons with knuckle-guard with a central molding and with terminal en suite, quillon block with chevron design, quillon, outer guard joined to the knuckle-guard, upper ring-guards joined by a short molded bar, small lower ring guard, matching inner-guard, and an octagonal pear-shaped pommel, wooden grip with an early wire binding with Turks heads.

Approximate length: 48 inches.

Provenance: An old European collection.

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