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Lot 160

A North European Small-Sword
The Hilt Late 17th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £1,800

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A North European Small-Sword
The Hilt Late 17th Century

With 18th century double-edged (some wear and rust patination) of tapering flattened hexagonal section, the forte with central fuller and etched with symmetrical designs of foliage on each side, iron hilt comprising double shell-guard pierced and chiselled with foliage centred on a satyr's mask on each shell beneath, plain arms, quillons each chiselled in the round as a grotesque head, the quillon-block with a bearded grotesque mask on each side, knuckle-guard with central grotesque mask on both sides, compressed pommel en suite with the quillon-block and with button finial, and swelling grip bound with twisted iron wire of varying thicknesses between Turk's heads
94.1 cm. blade

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