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A Rare German Small-Sword For A Child, From The Armoury Of Their Serene Highnesses The Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck
Mid-18th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare German Small-Sword For A Child, From The Armoury Of Their Serene Highnesses The Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck
Mid-18th Century

With slender sharply tapering blade of hollow triangular section etched and gilt on both sides at the forte with foliated strapwork and foliage, partly against hatched grounds, hilt comprising lobed rear quillon, broad side-loop cast, pierced and chased with ribbons and flowers, slender knuckle-guard, flattened globular pommel with button, and swelling grip, all cast, chased and partly gilt with rococo ornament and foliage, in original white shagreen-covered scabbard with parcel-gilt silver locket, chape and suspension mount en suite with the hilt, and with two silver rings for suspension (one reattached)
61.1 cm. blade

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Armoury of Their Serene Highnesses the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (Part 1), Christie's London, 15 April 1992, lot 185

Literature:
Max von Ehrenthal, Die Waffensammlung des Fürsten Salm-Reifferscheidt zu Schloss Dyck, 1906, p. 14, no. 23

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