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LATE 16TH CENTURY
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A NORTH ITALIAN SWEPT-HILT RAPIER WITH SILVER-INLAID HILT
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With slender double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section tapering to a point of stiff diamond section, cut on each face with a deep central fuller bearing a signature 'LSAESAES'(?), tapering grooved oblong ricasso signed 'CAINO' and struck with a crowned 'S' mark on each side, iron guard of rounded bars comprising straight quillons each swelled at the tip, upper and lower side-rings, the former linked to the knuckle-guard by a diagonal bar, and arms all cut with a roped pattern heightened by silver-inlaid dots and waved lines and retaining traces of original gilding within the grooves of the roped pattern, inner-guard of plain slender rounded bars, later wire-bound grip with steel straps and narrow Turk's heads, and spherical pommel cut with lines forming raised segments each heightened with inlaid silver decoration en suite with the guard, and prominent turned tang-button
40¾in. (103.5cm.) blade
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With slender double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section tapering to a point of stiff diamond section, cut on each face with a deep central fuller bearing a signature 'LSAESAES'(?), tapering grooved oblong ricasso signed 'CAINO' and struck with a crowned 'S' mark on each side, iron guard of rounded bars comprising straight quillons each swelled at the tip, upper and lower side-rings, the former linked to the knuckle-guard by a diagonal bar, and arms all cut with a roped pattern heightened by silver-inlaid dots and waved lines and retaining traces of original gilding within the grooves of the roped pattern, inner-guard of plain slender rounded bars, later wire-bound grip with steel straps and narrow Turk's heads, and spherical pommel cut with lines forming raised segments each heightened with inlaid silver decoration en suite with the guard, and prominent turned tang-button
40¾in. (103.5cm.) blade
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