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SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY
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A COMPOSITE GERMAN (SAXON) MILITARY RAPIER
SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY
With tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section cut with twin fullers and struck with a maker's mark on each face, each fuller engraved with two orb and cross marks, a running wolf mark and signed 'WEILM TESCHE', grooved oblong ricasso incised with border-lines, iron guard comprising straight spatulate quillons each with ball finial, flattened outer side-ring linked to the rounded arms by two flattened bars, the outer elements all with shallow medial ridge, inner-guard formed of slender rounded bars with thumb-ring, later good quality spirally-fluted steel-wire-bound grip with brass wire Turk's heads, amd faceted plummet-shaped pommel wit prominent tang-button
43¾in. (111cm.) blade
SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY
With tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section cut with twin fullers and struck with a maker's mark on each face, each fuller engraved with two orb and cross marks, a running wolf mark and signed 'WEILM TESCHE', grooved oblong ricasso incised with border-lines, iron guard comprising straight spatulate quillons each with ball finial, flattened outer side-ring linked to the rounded arms by two flattened bars, the outer elements all with shallow medial ridge, inner-guard formed of slender rounded bars with thumb-ring, later good quality spirally-fluted steel-wire-bound grip with brass wire Turk's heads, amd faceted plummet-shaped pommel wit prominent tang-button
43¾in. (111cm.) blade
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