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Lot 96*
A Broadsword With Finely Chiselled Steel HiltCirca 1640, Probably English
29 April 2010, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £5,760 inc. premium
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Circa 1640, Probably English
Circa 1640, Probably English
With straight tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section with two shallow fullers running over almost half its length on each side and each struck with an 'S' mark at the forte, the hilt comprising short forward-curved rear quillon with bud-shaped tip supported by volutes, rounded quillon-block decorated front and back with a grotesque mask in low relief on a punched ground, side-ring decorated with overlapping scales and interrupted at its centre by a pair of addorsed features matching the quillon-tip, knuckle-guard en suite, compressed spherical pommel decorated in low relief with scrollwork, masks and volutes and with prominent button, and wooden grip bound with twisted steel wire between steel Turk's heads
93 cm. blade
93 cm. blade
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Warwickshire Museum
Christie's King Street, The Brett Collection of Armour And Arms, 22 March 1895, lot 648
Literature:
Edwin J. Brett, A Pictorial and Descriptive Record of the Origins and Development of Arms and Armour ..., 1894, pl. LXXVII, no. 6 (described as 'Dress Rapier, of the end of the reign of Charles I')








