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LATE 16TH CENTURY
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AN ITALIAN MILITARY SWEPT-HILT RAPIER
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section cut on each side with a broad central fuller extending through the tapering oblong ricasso and with a wolf mark on each side within the fuller each retaining traces of copper-alloy inlay, three-ring iron guard of flattened bars (one with riveted repair, the lower side-ring cut for a pierced plate now lacking) with short vertically recurved quillons and knuckle-guard, inner-guard of slender bars, grooved quillon-block, swelled wooden grip, and fig-shaped pommel
42¼in. (107cm.) blade
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section cut on each side with a broad central fuller extending through the tapering oblong ricasso and with a wolf mark on each side within the fuller each retaining traces of copper-alloy inlay, three-ring iron guard of flattened bars (one with riveted repair, the lower side-ring cut for a pierced plate now lacking) with short vertically recurved quillons and knuckle-guard, inner-guard of slender bars, grooved quillon-block, swelled wooden grip, and fig-shaped pommel
42¼in. (107cm.) blade
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, 27 April 1988, Lot 110
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