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Lot 89

A Rare English Riding Sword
Early 17th Century

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare English Riding Sword
Early 17th Century

With broad tapering double-edged blade (pitted overall) with rectangular ricasso and central double fuller along each side of the forte incised respectively 'Andria' and 'Farara' between double 'X' marks, iron hilt of flattened bars and comprising straight quillons with rounded spatulate tips, large loop-guard swept-up to meet the knuckle-guard (adapted at the top), large globular pommel with flattened button finial, and later wooden grip, the surfaces encrusted throughout with silver foliated scrollwork (worn, some losses)
87.3 cm. blade

Footnotes

For English hilts of this related type see A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword, 1980, pp. 97-8, 244, 361; Claude Blair 'An English Sword with an Ottoman Blade in the Swiss National Museum' in K. Stüber & H. Welter (eds.), Blankwaffen, Zurich, 1982, pp. 57-68; and A.D. Darling, 'A Rare Sword from Plymouth Colony', The Canadian Journal, Arms Collecting, 20 (2), May 1982, pp. 42-56

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