Expo number 201

 

Hilt

Of cast brass and comprising: domed pommel-cap with flattened button, quillon-block with down-turned, lobe-shaped rear quillon with a tiny bead, knuckleguard slightly swelling in the centre and hooked underneath the rim of the pommel-cap, and, on the obverse, a large, down-turned domed shell with lobed border, forming part of a washer underneath the quillon-block, all moulded with alternating reeds and flutes: on the cap radiating from the button, oblique in the centre of the knuckleguard, vertical on the quillon-block and, on the shell, in alternating widths and radiating from the washer; grip of almost circular section covered in polished ray-skin.

 

Blade

Straight and tapering towards the central ogival point, single-edged with flat back and with false edge towards the point, long flat shoulder and a wide shallow groove until the point, and with another groove à la Montmorency, the shoulder covered on each face with an etched panel bearing the sword-cutler's description in script: Anthony / van de / Puttelaar / Mr / Zwaardveger / tot / Amsterdam ( Puttellaar' on the reverse), etched at the forte with a leaping boar on the obverse, and a leaping stag on the reverse; an arrow is etched on the back. No scabbard preserved.

 

Remarks

(MAKER) The Boek van de nieuwe Baase Anno 1727 (`The book of the New Tradesmen') in the Amsterdam municipal archives (cf. Lenk) mentions an Antonie van de Puttelaar Junior van Amsterdam' doing his master's proof on 2 April 1735, cf. Hartmans.

 

Literature

-Van der Sloot (1978) No. 218

-Lenk (1934) p. 239-341

-Hartmans (1965) p. 33.

 

Exhibited at

Stedelijk Museum `De Lakenhal', Leiden, July-Sept. 1978