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A SPANISH RAPIER
Late 17th Century
With very slender tapering blade of stiff-diamond section, stamped 'In Solingen' within the short fuller on both sides at the forte, rectangular ricasso struck with bladesmith's mark on the outer face, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising straight quillons and knuckle-guard each decorated with incised lines and mouldings at the median points and terminals, up-turned large double shell-guard chiselled and engraved with symmetrical arrangements of monsters and flowers enclosing the Sacred Monogram, 'IHS' on the outer shell, compressed pommel and moulded wire-bound grip.
40½in (102.8cm) blade
Late 17
With very slender tapering blade of stiff-diamond section, stamped 'In Solingen' within the short fuller on both sides at the forte, rectangular ricasso struck with bladesmith's mark on the outer face, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising straight quillons and knuckle-guard each decorated with incised lines and mouldings at the median points and terminals, up-turned large double shell-guard chiselled and engraved with symmetrical arrangements of monsters and flowers enclosing the Sacred Monogram, 'IHS' on the outer shell, compressed pommel and moulded wire-bound grip.
40½
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