AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SPADROON with tapering double-edged blade of asymmetrical flattened diamond section, single-edged at the fullered forte, plain small-sword hilt, and wooden grip bound with ribbon and twisted silver wire, in later leather scabbard with silver locket and chape (slight damage), the former carrying a gadrooned frog-button and pounced with the signature 'Bland St. James.s', the hilt with silversmith's mark IF, circa 1720, the scabbard circa 1780 31½in. blade | Christie's

Lot 88

AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SPADROON with tapering double-edged blade of asymmetrical flattened diamond section, single-edged at the fullered forte, plain small-sword hilt, and wooden grip bound with ribbon and twisted silver wire, in later leather scabbard with silver locket and chape (slight damage), the former carrying a gadrooned frog-button and pounced with the signature 'Bland St. James.s', the hilt with silversmith's mark IF, circa 1720, the scabbard circa 1780 31½in. blade

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AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SPADROON with tapering double-edged blade of asymmetrical flattened diamond section, single-edged at the fullered forte, plain small-sword hilt, and wooden grip bound with ribbon and twisted silver wire, in later leather scabbard with silver locket and chape (slight damage), the former carrying a gadrooned frog-button and pounced with the signature 'Bland St. James.s', the hilt with silversmith's mark IF, circa 1720, the scabbard circa 1780 31½in. blade

Lot Essay

Converted from a small-sword into a spadroon during its working life. John Bland is recorded in St. James's St. from 1768 to 1787

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