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MID-17TH CENTURY
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AN ITALIAN CUP-HILT RAPIER
MID-17TH CENTURY
With very long slender blade with delicately pierced fuller at the forte, iron guard of slender bars cut with a notched pattern, pierced cup-guard formed as a flower-head with eight petals, original grip covered with green-stained fish-skin and retained by four bars, and pommel chiselled and pierced en suite with the cup-guard
44 ½ in. (113 cm.) blade
The blade marked 'Caino' on each side
MID-17TH CENTURY
With very long slender blade with delicately pierced fuller at the forte, iron guard of slender bars cut with a notched pattern, pierced cup-guard formed as a flower-head with eight petals, original grip covered with green-stained fish-skin and retained by four bars, and pommel chiselled and pierced en suite with the cup-guard
44 ½ in. (113 cm.) blade
The blade marked 'Caino' on each side
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