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Lot 102*

A Very Unusual Rapier
Second Quarter Of The 17th Century, Probably German

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Unusual Rapier
Second Quarter Of The 17th Century, Probably German

With long slender tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section with central full length fuller along each side, blackened steel hilt of fluted bars of stiff diamond section comprising downcurved rear quillon terminating in an openwork knotted finial, openwork quillon-block, side-loop swept-up to join the knuckle-guard, the side-loop and knuckle-guard each interrupted by a pair of openwork knots matching the quillon-tip, openwork pommel of similar design with large button, and wooden grip bound with twisted steel wire between steel Turk's heads
104 cm. blade

Footnotes

Cf. a sword with similar hilt in the Livrustkammaren, Stockholm illustrated by Heribert Seitz, Blankwaffen II, 1967, p. 41, pl. 37

A portrait of Johan Blanck dated 1654 in the Hälsinglands Museum, Hudiksvall, Sweden shows a hilt with similar openwork features (Blankwaffen II, pl. 36)

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