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An English Rapier
Circa 1640

Antique Arms and Armour
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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An English Rapier
Circa 1640

With slender tapering double-edged blade (some pitting overall) of flattened ovoidal section with central fuller along each side of the forte incised 'Sahagom', iron hilt comprising shallow cup-guard chiselled with a repeated design of foliage against a punched ground and involving four groups of berries, outer side-rings above chiselled and punched en suite and each linked to the knuckle-guard by a scrolled bar, the knuckle-guard screwed to the pommel and with central bud-shaped feature, straight quillons with bud-shaped terminals, associated(?) globular pommel chiselled with foliage against a punched ground and with button on a cap-shaped feature, and spirally twist grip bound with twisted iron wire between Turk's heads
97.5 cm. blade

Footnotes

For similar examples see Leslie Southwick, The Price Guide to Antique Edged Weapons, 1982, p. 50, fig. 105; another formerly in the A.N. Kennard Collection, Christie's London, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 27 March 1996, lot 39; and another from the Redfern Collection and sold in these Rooms, Fine Antique Arms and Armour..., 24 November 2010, lot 80

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A Cased Pair Of Scottish 50-Bore Percussion Duelling Or Target Pistols By Alex.r Martin, Glasgow, Mid-19th Century
The medals and associate ephemera and uniforms of Arthur Watts, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons
A Pair Of Highland All-Metal Percussion Belt Pistols Signed Paton & Walsh Perth, Mid 19th century
A Silver-Mounted Left-Hand Dagger, probably German, Italian or English Late 16th Century Or Later
FOUR REPRODUCTION CARVED POWDER HORNS/FLASKS.late 20th century.
THREE CARVED COCONUT ITEMS.18th/19th century.
A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE AND REPRODUCTION POWDER FLASKS AND RELATED SPORTING ITEMS.
THREE VICTORIAN ARMS AND ARMOUR DECORATIVE ITEMS.