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A GERMAN PAPPENHEIM RAPIER
Circa 1630
With tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, cut with a fuller on each face at the forte, and struck with a small cross mark on both sides of the ricasso, iron hilt of rounded bars including long quillons with flattened recurved 'fishtail' terminals, inner-and outer-guards of characteristic form involving a pair of pierced sprung-in plates, earlier compressed globular segmented pommel with alternate segments chiselled as grotesque masks with silver-damascened scrollwork between, and the grips bound with later patterened wire and 'Turk's heads'.
39¼in (100cm) blade
Circa 1630
With tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, cut with a fuller on each face at the forte, and struck with a small cross mark on both sides of the ricasso, iron hilt of rounded bars including long quillons with flattened recurved 'fishtail' terminals, inner-and outer-guards of characteristic form involving a pair of pierced sprung-in plates, earlier compressed globular segmented pommel with alternate segments chiselled as grotesque masks with silver-damascened scrollwork between, and the grips bound with later patterened wire and 'Turk's heads'.
39¼
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