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Lot 127
Six Continental Sword Blades, Three Dagger Blades, And An Excavated Spear HeadMostly 18th Century
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £600 inc. premium
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Mostly 18th Century
Mostly 18th Century
The first double-edged towards the point and decorated with bright-cut chequering over half its length towards the point on each side, the remaining surfaces etched and gilt with foliage, a bird, a trophy of arms, the figure of Justice and an armed warrior, all against a blued ground (blueing worn) decorated with designs of hollowed ovals; the second fullered and single-edged, in its tooled black leather scabbard (worn, chape missing) with silver locket (suspension clip missing); the third (shortened and pitted) retaining faint traces of etching; the fourth of hollow triangular section; the fifth (shortened) chiselled with the figure of a Saint against a gilt stippled ground on each side; the sixth curved, fullered and double-edge towards the clipped-back point, the forte with etched and gilt decoration; the seventh with pierced deeply fullered forte; the eighth and ninth each adapted from a sword-blade (one pitted, one damaged); and the last with slender tapering point, and integral socket of tapering circular section (10)
37.4 cm. to 114.5 cm.
37.4 cm. to 114.5 cm.








