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Lot 158

A Continental 'Transitional' Small-Sword
Possibly Mid-Late 17th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Continental 'Transitional' Small-Sword
Possibly Mid-Late 17th Century

With slender sharply tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section stamped 'Elviecho' within the fuller on one side of the forte and 'Sachavn' within the other, iron hilt of spirally-twist bars comprising side-loop with central grotesque mask and enclosing a plate pierced with foliage, quillon-block with a satyr's mask on both sides, downbent rear quillon with monster-head terminal in the round, knuckle-guard and fig-shaped pommel en suite with the side-loop, and shaped grip bound with twisted iron wire between Turk's heads
79.5 cm. blade

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