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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
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An English Rapier
Circa 1630

Antique Arms & Armour
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An English Rapier
Circa 1630

With tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section with ricasso and shallow central fuller on each side of the forte, the latter incised 'Clemens Hornn', 'Me Fecit Solingen' between flowerheads on one side, and 'Fide + Sed Cvi + Vide', 'Pro + Aris Et + Focis' on the other, an orb and cross mark beyond, each orb containing three S's, iron hilt of slender rounded bars comprising symmetrical guard of two upturned concentric side-rings, each with central swelling and filled with a pierced convex shell (one damaged), linked to the forward quillon by a curved bar on each side, arms, curved side-rings each with central swelling and swept-up to join the knuckle-guard en suite, recurved quillons with bulbous tips, large compressed globular pommel, and wooden grip (wormed, some pitting overall)
86.2 cm. blade

Footnotes

Clemens Horn was one of the most distinguished of the Solingen sword-cutlers, famous as the maker of some of the most richly decorated swords of his day with blades etched with Latin aphorisms, often accompanied by heraldry, and portraits of contemporary noble personages. English swords fitted with such blades include the well-known sword of Henry, Prince of Wales in the Wallace Collection (cat. no. A511) and swords allegedly belonging originally to King James I and Prince Charles, later King Charles I, in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle (cat. nos. 62 and 57). His mark, the head of a unicorn (in German Einhorn), was no doubt adopted because it forms a partial rebus of his surname. For a list of comparable blades see Albert Weyersberg, Solingen Schwertschmiede des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Solingen, 1926, pp. 21-25; James Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues. European Arms and Armour, II, 1962, pp. 263-4, and A.V.B. Norman, Supplement, 1968, pp. 121-22

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.