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A Fine and Rare French Swept-Hilt Rapier image 1
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Lot 108*

A Fine and Rare French Swept-Hilt Rapier
Circa 1600

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£8,000 - £12,000

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A Fine and Rare French Swept-Hilt Rapier
Circa 1600

With long tapering blade (some rust patination) of slightly hollowed flattened diamond section, rectangular ricasso slightly hollowed on each side, iron hilt of flattened ovoidal bars comprising vertically recurved quillons swelling towards the tips, diagonal side-guard on the outside joining the knuckle-guard, lower smaller side-guard linking the tips of the arms, and inner trifurcated guard linked to the knuckle-guard above, and fluted barrel-shaped pommel with flattened button, the surfaces decorated overall with unusually delicate silver-damascened patterns of scrolling foliage, flower-heads and pellets (slight wear), the wooden grip bound with brass ribbon and twisted brass wire
114.7 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance:
Ex Corbin Collection, France, and believed to have been exhibited in Berlin in 1936
Christie's London, Antique Arms and Armour, 10 July 1985, lot 56

The silver-damascening may be compared to that on French armours of the first half of the 16th Century

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