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Lot 88

A Rare English Cruciform-Hilted Sword
Early 17th Century

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare English Cruciform-Hilted Sword
Early 17th Century

With tapering double-edged blade of flattened diamond section, fullered rectangular ricasso struck with a cross mark on each side, one side with faint traces of an incised inscription, iron hilt comprising short straight cross with large crown-shaped terminals, fig-shaped pommel (tang button later) and swelling baluster-shaped grip, all pierced with designs of slots and circles (pitted throughout)
76.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

This is a product of the revived fashion for wearing simple cross-hilted swords which started in England in the early 17th century, and lasted, apparently, until the 1620s. See Claude Blair, 'An English Sword with an Ottoman Blade in the Swiss National Museum- The Hilt and Scabbard', in K. Stüber and H. Welter (eds.), Blankwaffen, 1982, pp. 57-68

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