PARTLY 17TH CENTURY
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A Cup-Hilt Rapier
Partly 17th Century
With long slender blade of stiff diamond section, deep cup (holed) with waved upper edge engraved with foliage framing trophies and framed busts of Dante and a bearded man, long straight writhen quillons, and one-piece turned gadrooned grip and compressed pommel
41in. (105.5cm.) blade
Partly 17th Century
With long slender blade of stiff diamond section, deep cup (holed) with waved upper edge engraved with foliage framing trophies and framed busts of Dante and a bearded man, long straight writhen quillons, and one-piece turned gadrooned grip and compressed pommel
41in. (105.5cm.) blade