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Lot 103*

A Fine North European Dish-Hilt Duelling Rapier
Circa 1640-50

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Fine North European Dish-Hilt Duelling Rapier
Circa 1640-50

With slender tapering blade of hexagonal section and unusual length terminating in a blunt swelling point of flattened diamond section, long ricasso of rectangular section, symmetrical steel hilt chiselled in low relief and comprising shallow circular guard decorated on the outside with pierced foliated scrollwork enclosing four medallions of profile busts of Classical helmeted warriors on a punched ground and surmounted by short bifurcated quillons each with triple-bud finials and springing from the chiselled rectangular quillon-block, tall ovoidal pommel decorated with scrolls on a punched ground, and spirally fluted grip bound with twisted steel wire between Turk's heads
136 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sotheby's Zürich, Feine Möbel und Skulpturen, Waffen und Rüstungen, 1 June 1994, lot 42

For a dish-hilt rapier with a similar quillon arrangement see Heribert Seitz, Blank-Waffen II, 1967, pp. 92-93, and 97, pl. 99

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