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A DISH-HILT RAPIER
GERMAN, CIRCA 1625
With long slender double-edged blade, iron guard of strongly fluted bars, shallow dish-guard pierced with numerous small lining points, the outer surface embossed and incised with a radiating scale pattern, later wire-bound grip with Turk's heads, and fluted droplet-shaped iron pommel
40 1/2 in. (102.8cm.) blade
The blade signed 'CASPAR MAINS HOFER' within the fuller on each side
GERMAN, CIRCA 1625
With long slender double-edged blade, iron guard of strongly fluted bars, shallow dish-guard pierced with numerous small lining points, the outer surface embossed and incised with a radiating scale pattern, later wire-bound grip with Turk's heads, and fluted droplet-shaped iron pommel
40 1/2 in. (102.8cm.) blade
The blade signed 'CASPAR MAINS HOFER' within the fuller on each side
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 15 December 2004, lot 74
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