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Lot 93*
A German RapierProbably Early 17th Century
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £4,080 inc. premium
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Probably Early 17th Century
Probably Early 17th Century
With long tapering blade of slightly hollowed flattened hexagonal section inlaid in copper on one face towards the forte with a cross in a circle, rectangular ricasso with incised line borders, iron hilt of flattened bars comprising vertically recurved quillons, kidney-shaped upper and lower side-rings each with recessed central moulding, the smaller lower one linking the tips of the arms and framing a solid plate, inner up-turned scallop shell guard, and flattened ovoidal pommel with button, decorated on the outer surfaces and shell-guard with flattened diagonal bands, the alternate ones punched with dotted circles against a scumbled ground (decoration probably later) and now with contemporary spirally-grooved wooden grip bound with twisted iron wire
102.5 cm. blade
102.5 cm. blade
Footnotes
Provenance:
Dr. B. Giesker of Zurich
Acquired from the above in 1938 by the Prince of Liechtenstein
Christie's London, Antique Arms and Armour Including items removed from Schloss Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 22 July 1992, lot 79
Literature:
Per Terje Norheim, Våpen I Norge ..., 2000, p. 77
For a similar rapier in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zürich, see Heribert Seitz, Blank-Waffen II, 1967, p. 37, pl. 24








