LATE 16TH CENTURY
細節
A Fine Swept-Hilt Rapier
Late 16th Century
With slender blade of flattened hexagonal section with ricasso and fuller on each face of the forte stamped with a partly legible inscription ending 'In Toledo', the iron hilt with guard of slender reeded bars comprising long vertically recurved quillons, arms, the tips linked on the outside by a side-ring, diagonal S-shaped outer bar linked to the centre of the knuckle-guard, and inner trifurcated guard, globular pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, the pommel, the tips of the quillons and knuckle-guard and the centre of the outer bars pierced and chiselled as openwork knots, and decorated throughout with rows of encrusted silver dots (some rust damage to blade and hilt)
37in. (94.7cm.) blade
Late 16th Century
With slender blade of flattened hexagonal section with ricasso and fuller on each face of the forte stamped with a partly legible inscription ending 'In Toledo', the iron hilt with guard of slender reeded bars comprising long vertically recurved quillons, arms, the tips linked on the outside by a side-ring, diagonal S-shaped outer bar linked to the centre of the knuckle-guard, and inner trifurcated guard, globular pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, the pommel, the tips of the quillons and knuckle-guard and the centre of the outer bars pierced and chiselled as openwork knots, and decorated throughout with rows of encrusted silver dots (some rust damage to blade and hilt)
37in. (94.7cm.) blade