Lot Essay
For similar swords see L.G. Boccia and E.T. Coelho, Armi Bianche Italiane, 1975, plates 546-8. The double shell is an unusual variation
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CIRCA 1600, PROBABLY VENETIAN
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AN ITALIAN FALCHION
Circa 1600, probably Venetian
With curved flattened single-edged blade double-edged towards the clipped point, each face with shallow single fuller stamped 'Maria' repeated thrice on the front and twice on the back, and with ricasso stamped 'IHS', the back-edge bordered on each face by a line of zig-zags, iron hilt comprising cusped flattened vertically recurved quillons, the front one forming the knuckle-guard, two oval shells, one turned up, and the other down, cusped flattened beaked pommel, and original wire-bound wooden grip
28½in. (72.4cm.) blade
Circa 1600, probably Venetian
With curved flattened single-edged blade double-edged towards the clipped point, each face with shallow single fuller stamped 'Maria' repeated thrice on the front and twice on the back, and with ricasso stamped 'IHS', the back-edge bordered on each face by a line of zig-zags, iron hilt comprising cusped flattened vertically recurved quillons, the front one forming the knuckle-guard, two oval shells, one turned up, and the other down, cusped flattened beaked pommel, and original wire-bound wooden grip
28½in. (72.4cm.) blade
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