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A STEEL-HILTED SMALL-SWORD
LATE 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY DUTCH
with slender blade (rust patinated) of flattened diamond section with central fuller on each face of the forte, the blackened steel hilt chiselled in low relief with scrolling foliated tendrils framing Classical figures, all against a stippled ground, and with copper wire-bound wooden grip
31in. (78.7cm.)
LATE 17TH CENTURY, PROBABLY DUTCH
with slender blade (rust patinated) of flattened diamond section with central fuller on each face of the forte, the blackened steel hilt chiselled in low relief with scrolling foliated tendrils framing Classical figures, all against a stippled ground, and with copper wire-bound wooden grip
31in. (78.7cm.)