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A French Silver-Hilted Small-SwordIndistinct French Silver Marks And Maker's Mark, Circa 1725
30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £812.50 inc. premium
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Indistinct French Silver Marks And Maker's Mark, Circa 1725
Indistinct French Silver Marks And Maker's Mark, Circa 1725
With tapering double-edged blade (some pitting) of flattened hexagonal section, the forte etched 'Guyon Fainé au Roy De La Chine Sur Le Pont St. Michel à Paris' along both sides between foliage, cast and chased hilt comprising asymmetrical double shell-guard decorated on both sides with a bust of Mars above an arrangement of elongated lobes between caduceus, framed by foliage involving scallop shells and against a finely punched ground, plain reeded arms, knuckle-guard, lobed rear quillon, and globular pommel with button all decorated en suite, and grip bound with two thicknesses of silver wire between Turk's heads
76 cm. blade
76 cm. blade
Footnotes
For a similar small-sword with hilt decorated in the Bérainesque style, in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. 730-1888), see A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword, 1460-1820, 1980, pp. 205-206, pl. 121








