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Lot 192

A Fine German Sword-Rapier With Gilt Silver-Encrusted Hilt
Probably Early 17th Century

30 April 2014, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£10,000 - £15,000

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A Fine German Sword-Rapier With Gilt Silver-Encrusted Hilt
Probably Early 17th Century

With broad tapering double-edged blade with border engraved central tapering fuller on both sides of the forte stamped 'ANMIM' between decorative marks, tapering rectangular ricasso stamped with a bladesmith's mark within the recess on both sides, gilt iron hilt of flattened bars composed of an outer ring linked by a diagonally curved bar to a small side-ring beneath, the space opposite filled by an upcurved bar, curved arms, vertically recurved quillons, inner-guard of three slender bars of circular section swept-up into one and merging with the forward quillon, and flattened barrel-shaped pommel with prominent button, the outer surfaces, except for the inner-guard, decorated with encrusted silver foliage within punched diamond-shaped panels and corresponding borders, and enriched with small silver pellets and florets, wooden grip bound with copper ribbon and twisted iron wire between brass Turk's heads (binding loose), and retaining much of its gilding
88.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

The bladesmith's mark is similar to that of Wolfgang Stantler of Munich

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