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A French Silver-Hilted Small-Sword
Indistinct French Silver Marks And Maker's Mark, Circa 1725

30 November 2016, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A French Silver-Hilted Small-Sword
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

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

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