CIRCA 1720-30

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AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD
Circa 1720-30
With tapering blade of hollow triangular section inlaid in brass on one face of the forte with an interlaced device, the hilt engraved with trophies of arms, each against a ground of punched circles, and struck on the knuckle-guard with a silversmith's mark (small hole in one shell), the wooden grip bound with twisted silver wire, in leather-covered scabbard, the reeded silver mounts comprising chape and two lockets each fitted with a suspension-ring, the mouth-locket also with frog-button
28¼in. (71.8cm.) blade

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Lot Essay

The silversmith's mark is probably a version of that registered by Daniel Shelmerdine (recorded 1681-1730), a member of the London Cutlers' Company, at Goldsmiths' Hall in June 1720. See Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords, p. 220

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