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Lot 400Y
A Very Rare Italian CinquedeaCirca 1500
28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,200 inc. premium
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Circa 1500
Circa 1500
In excavated condition, with tapering double-edged blade and single slender fuller on each side, the forte retaining traces of etched decoration on one side, the flattened downbent quillons retaining some of their pounced ornament, the flattened ivory grip swelling at its centre, rising to an integral lobated pommel, and inlaid with bronze circles and stellate panels, retaining the chape of the scabbard (losses from blade, hilt and chape)
57 cm. blade
57 cm. blade








