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AN EXTREMELY RARE DUTCH GOLD-HILTED SMALL-SWORD
'S GRAVENHAGE (THE HAGUE) ASSAY MARKS, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With sharply tapering blade of hollow triangular section, the broadest face with deep central fuller inlaid in brass at the forte with a design of serrated circles, hilt of characteristic form cast in relief with assymetrical figure-eight shaped shell, struck with the 's Gravenhage marks, slender knuckle-guard, arms, short lobe-shaped rear quillon, and globular pommel, the decoration comprising trailing olive branches on the knuckle-guard, arms, and quillon and bordering the shell, a trophy of arms on each side of the quillon block, and scenes of combat between horsemen in contemporary costume elswhere, and spirally fluted wooden grip encased in finely woven gold wire, itself bound with twisted gold wire with Turk's heads at the top and bottom, in original black shagreen-covered scabbard (split, point incomplete, frog-hook missing), the top bound with black braid (defective) with small jet 'jewels'
29in. (73.6cm.) blade
