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Lot 105
An English Riding SwordEarly 17th Century
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,125 inc. premium
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Early 17th Century
Early 17th Century
With tapering double-edged blade (point slightly reduced) with central fuller over its entire length on both sides stamped with indistinct letters at the forte, rectangular ricasso struck on one face with a bladesmith's mark, a bear, iron hilt (worn and pitted) comprising vertically recurved quillons with flattened lobed tips, side-ring linked to the knuckle-guard by an upswept bar on the outside, small hooped ring on the inside, and large globular pommel with button, the surfaces overall nearly all encrusted with silver flowering tendrils within borders and involving winged cherub's heads (rubbed and incomplete)
86.4 cm. blade
86.4 cm. blade
Footnotes
Provenance
Christie's South Kensington, Antique Arms and Armour, 23 May 1990, lot 52
For English swords of this and related types see A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword, 1980, pp. 97-98, 244 and 361








