December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
This is an impressive horseman’s sword from the collection of the late William Guthman, with pierced or open guard of brass featuring eight radiating spokes with intertwined semi-circles and a diamond-shaped quillon--a distinctly New England form that has become known to American collectors as the “full wagon wheel hilt” form. The prominent pommel is ovoid with capstan rivet and the one-piece maple grip is of tapering oval section with brass ferrules. It measures 37.5 inches in length and the slightly-curved and unfullered blade is 31 5/8 inches long by 1.5 inches wide at ricasso. LITERATURE AND PROVENANCE: This sword is discussed and illustrated as lot 113 on p. 62 of “The William H. Guthman Collection, Part I: Arms and Militaria” catalog of the Bonhams & Butterfield 12 OCT 2006 sale and in “Colonial Swords of New England/Part III: True Wagon Wheels, Quasi Wagon Wheels and Heart Motif Hilts” by Guthman, published in Man At Arms Magazine (SEP/OCT 1989), pp. 26-27.