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A Italian Or Spanish Cup-Hilt RapierSecond Half Of The 17th Century
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,400 inc. premium
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Second Half Of The 17th Century
Second Half Of The 17th Century
With slender tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section stamped 'Johannes Stamm' within the fuller on each side of the forte, steel hilt comprising long chiselled straight quillons spirally fluted and swelling towards the tips, the finials formed as flower-heads, knuckle-guard en suite, compressed pommel with spiral chiselled foliate decoration and with button, and wooden grip bound with fine twisted steel wire between diagonally fluted steel collars and reinforced by vertical steel straps, the cup divided into four arcs at the top and finely pierced and chiselled with four panels separated by cornucopia and decorated with scrollwork enclosing flower-heads, fruit, a butterfly, a bird and a salamander, the guardapolvo pierced with chiselled scrolls and flower-heads en suite, preserved in fine condition throughout
106.5 cm. blade
106.5 cm. blade
Footnotes
Johannes Stamm is recorded in Solingen around 1600 and, according to Heribert Seitz (Blankwaffen II, p. 260) used only his name without bladesmith's mark
For cups of this type see the Odescalchi Collection, Rome, inv. nos. 1288 and 1306








