A CARRIER, STRAP AND BELT FOR A RAPIER

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A CARRIER, STRAP AND BELT FOR A RAPIER
Of leather covered with black silk (worn) embroidered with flowers and running scrollwork in yellow thread, the mounts of gilt iron
The carrier 10½in. (26.6cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

Cf. two sword carriers of similar form in the Bashford Dean Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see Stephen V. Grancsay, The Bashford Dean Collection of Arms & Armor, 1933, nos. 170-171, pp. 219-220, plate LIV). Other examples were sold by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in these Rooms, 23 November 1960, lots 278-280

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