Description
AN ENGLISH 18TH CENTURY HUNTING SWORD, having a sterling silver hilt date marked London, 1743-4, with antler/bone shaped handle. The steel blade, 23 1/4 in. long, engraved with hunting dogs chasing stag & boar and the Latin phrase, "Amora Vincula Casta" (literally) "cast off the bonds of love". Provenance: from...