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Lot 66*

A Rare And Unusual Sawasa-Hilted Small-Sword
Japanese For The European Market, Mid-18th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare And Unusual Sawasa-Hilted Small-Sword
Japanese For The European Market, Mid-18th Century

With tapering blade of flattened oval section cut with two deep fullers on each side of the forte pierced with a series of small linked rectangles and circles, characteristic blackened hilt comprising boat-shell guard, quillons with recurved tips, arms, knuckle-guard screwed to the globular pommel, the latter with button finial, and swelling grip, all decorated with gilt rocailles and foliage in low relief against a finely punched ground (some surface wear to gilding)
78.2 cm. blade

Footnotes

See footnote to following lot, especially, for small-swords with boat-shell guards, pp. 50-51, cat. nos. A.9.1-A.9.3

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