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A Very Fine Flemish Swept-Hilt Rapier With Silver-Covered HiltCirca 1630
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £13,800 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA Very Fine Flemish Swept-Hilt Rapier With Silver-Covered Hilt
Circa 1630
Circa 1630
With long slender blade of stiff diamond section with blunt flattened tip and narrow fuller running almost full length on each side and stamped 'Fransisco Ruiz in Toledo', rectangular ricasso struck on each side with a crowned 'R' and a crowned 'F', iron hilt of slender bars with diagonally recurved quillons, two oval guards filled with plates pierced with interlaced strapwork and each surmounted by two bars swelling at the centre, the upper one joined to the knuckle-guard by a curved bar, and vertically fluted quillon-block and tall oviform pommel, the latter with button of octagonal section, the knuckle-guard screwed to the pommel, the original grip bound with twisted silver wire, the hilt retaining most of its original finish throughout
113 cm. blade
113 cm. blade
Footnotes
Provenance:
Christie's King Street, Arms and Armour, 5 June 1974, lot 35 (1,100 gns)
Literature:
A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820, 1980, pp. 138-9
Leslie Southwick, The Price Guide to Antique Edged Weapons, 1982, p. 42, no. 81
Norman describes this sword as 'An exceptionally fine example'








