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Lot 91*

A Rare Continental Hanger For A Rapier
Early 17th Century

29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Continental Hanger For A Rapier
Early 17th Century

Of two triangular pieces of buff leather looped at the bottom and each with a brass buckle for adjustment, each buckle cast with a waved design, faced in green velvet (worn, faded and damaged) with galloon borders woven with a chevron pattern, heart-shaped gilt-brass hook-mount at the top cast and chased with a symmetrical design of scrolling foliage within a waved border, and with a further galloon strap (backing missing) with brass hook en suite
25 cm. high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Barons Nathaniel and Albert von Rothschild Collection (no. 17793), Christie's South Kensington, Fine Needlework, Costume and Textiles, 3 July 2001, lot 39

An old Rothschild Collection label attached gives handwritten details of the hanger in German

For other examples see Heribert Seitz, Blank-Waffen II, 1967, pls. 116-117

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