Lot Essay
Similar rapiers made for officers of the Electoral Guard remain in the armoury of the Electors of Saxony (now Historiches Museum), Dresden
.jpg?w=1)
CIRCA 1570-80
Details
Another Saxon rapier
circa 1570-80
With sharply tapering blade of flattened slightly hollow-diamond section with recessed ricasso struck on one face with a crowned bladesmith's mark, and on each with letters, the hilt of iron retaining traces of original silvering, comprising guard of slender fluted bars with doagonal recurved quillons with bulbous tips, quillon-block struck on one face with the letter 'B', arms, the tips linked on the outside by an oval side-ring, and with a diagonal S-shaped bar joining the rear one to the centre of the knuckle-guard, trifurcated inner guard, mushroom-shaped pommel, and wooden grip bound with twisted copper wire
38½in. (97.8cm.) blade
circa 1570-80
With sharply tapering blade of flattened slightly hollow-diamond section with recessed ricasso struck on one face with a crowned bladesmith's mark, and on each with letters, the hilt of iron retaining traces of original silvering, comprising guard of slender fluted bars with doagonal recurved quillons with bulbous tips, quillon-block struck on one face with the letter 'B', arms, the tips linked on the outside by an oval side-ring, and with a diagonal S-shaped bar joining the rear one to the centre of the knuckle-guard, trifurcated inner guard, mushroom-shaped pommel, and wooden grip bound with twisted copper wire
38½in. (97.8cm.) blade
Provenance
Claude Falkiner Collection
Exhibited
Wilmer House Museum, Farnham, 3-29 April 1962, No. 32