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EARLY 17TH CENTURY
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AN ITALIAN TRANSITIONAL RAPIER
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With tapering double-edged blade of flattened oval section cut with a broad central fuller on each side at the forte, the fullers respectively bearing the dedication 'ME FECIT' and 'VALANCIA', iron hilt comprising double shell-guard pierced and chiselled in low relief with foliage, quillon-block and short horizontally recurved quillons each chiselled in low relief with foliage, and flattened globular pommel chiselled in low relief with foliage and portrait busts, and later wire-bound grip with Turk's heads
32¼in. (82cm.) blade
EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With tapering double-edged blade of flattened oval section cut with a broad central fuller on each side at the forte, the fullers respectively bearing the dedication 'ME FECIT' and 'VALANCIA', iron hilt comprising double shell-guard pierced and chiselled in low relief with foliage, quillon-block and short horizontally recurved quillons each chiselled in low relief with foliage, and flattened globular pommel chiselled in low relief with foliage and portrait busts, and later wire-bound grip with Turk's heads
32¼in. (82cm.) blade
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