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Lot 117

A Rapier In The Saxon Style Of Circa 1590-1610

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rapier In The Saxon Style Of Circa 1590-1610

With tapering double-edged blade incised with a running wolf mark on both sides below the forte, the rectangular ricasso cut with three narrow fullers on each side running into the forte, the former with incised line borders and star marks on both sides, iron hilt (some rust patination) with guard of flattened rounded bars comprising vertically recurved quillons, the forward one forming a knuckle-guard, quillon-block with incised line border, two kidney-shaped upper and lower side-rings each with recessed central oval, the smaller lower one linking the tips of the arms, the inner trifurcated guard linked to the knuckle-guard above, flattened barrel-shaped pommel with button, and wooden grip bound with twisted wire forming a diamond pattern between Turk's heads
102.8 cm. blade

Footnotes

Rapiers of this type supplied for the use of the soldiers of the Electoral guard remain in the armoury of the Electors of Saxony (now Historisches Museum), Dresden

See A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword, 1980, p. 117; and C. Otto v. Kienbusch, The Kretzschmar von Kienbusch Collection, 1963, pp. 173-174, cat. no. 369, pl. CIII

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