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Lot 106

An English Dish-Hilt Rapier
Mid-17th Century

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An English Dish-Hilt Rapier
Mid-17th Century

With associated tapering blade (some pitting overall) of hollow-diamond section, iron hilt comprising shallow dish-guard pierced and chiselled on both sides with lattice-work within borders of acanthus, quillon-block chiselled en suite, curved rear quillon and slender faceted knuckle-guard springing from chiselled scrolls on either side of the quillon-black, the former with latticed bud-shaped terminal, the latter with central feature en suite, screwed to the pommel and with scrolled terminal at the base, associated globular pommel chiselled with foliage and with stepped button, and grip bound with twisted russet iron wire forming a diamond pattern between Turk's heads
94.2 cm. blade

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