Lot 147
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A GERMAN SWEPT-HILT SWORD in late 16th Century style, with broad double-edged blade (light pitting) with central double fuller at the forte pierced with slots and circles, recessed ricasso bordered by similarly pierced flutes, large iron hilt decorated with longitudinal bands of close-set waved lines, and comprising vertically recurved quillons, arms, two side-rings on the outside, and three slender diagonal bars merging to join the knuckle-guard on the inside, plummet-shaped pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, by Anton Konrad of Dresden

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A GERMAN SWEPT-HILT SWORD in late 16th Century style, with broad double-edged blade (light pitting) with central double fuller at the forte pierced with slots and circles, recessed ricasso bordered by similarly pierced flutes, large iron hilt decorated with longitudinal bands of close-set waved lines, and comprising vertically recurved quillons, arms, two side-rings on the outside, and three slender diagonal bars merging to join the knuckle-guard on the inside, plummet-shaped pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip, by Anton Konrad of Dresden
38½in. blade

Lot Essay

Copied from a type of rapier found in the Saxon Armouries at Dresden
This was a favourite Konrad model. See H. Schedelmann, 'Konrad Fecit', Connoisseur, Sept. & Dec., 1948; and K. & A. Fachbuch-Edition, Gefälschte Blankwaffen, 1980, p.76

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