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Lot 60

A Fine Small-Sword With Gold-Encrusted Hilt
Circa 1730, Probably French

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine Small-Sword With Gold-Encrusted Hilt
Circa 1730, Probably French

With slender tapering blade (some pitting) of hollow triangular section, the hilt thickly encrusted in gold with designs of flowering foliage inhabited by birds including storks and a cockerel and hen, the latter on one side of the globular pommel, squirrels and, on the underside of the double shell-guard, a monkey and a man in contemporary costume standing in what appears to be a theatre-box, quillon-block, arms, rear quillon (bent, minor loss of gold) and knuckle-guard all decorated en suite, and wooden grip bound with silver ribbon and twisted silver wire
74.3 cm. blade

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For a similar example see Christie's London, Antique Arms and Militaria, 16 December 2003, lot 99

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