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Lot 115
A Composite Italian RapierLate 16th Century
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,625 inc. premium
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Late 16th Century
Late 16th Century
With sharply tapering double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section, the forte cut with two fullers along nearly its entire length on both sides, the forte decoratively pierced with dots and circles, tapering rectangular ricasso struck with a moon-shaped bladesmith's mark on one side, iron border engraved hilt of flattened bars comprising horizontally recurved quillons with scrolled tips chiselled with foliage against a punched ground, large side-ring chiselled centrally with a human mask centred on foliage against a punched ground, smaller side-ring en suite below and linking the tips of the arms on the outside, and inner bifurcated guard, fig-shaped pommel cut with flutes and chiselled with foliage en suite, compressed button, and velvet-covered grip with longitudinal reinforcing strips between ferrules
109.5 cm. blade
109.5 cm. blade
Footnotes
For swords with related hilts see Lionello G. Boccia and Edouardo T. Coelho, Armi Bianche Italiano, 1975, pp. 376-377, nos. 424-430 (illustrated)








