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Lot 195

A Continental Gilt-Hilted Small-Sword
Mid-18th Century

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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A Continental Gilt-Hilted Small-Sword
Mid-18th Century

With slender tapering blade of flattened hexagonal section etched 'In Toledo' within the short fuller on each side of the forte, silver-gilt hilt cast and chased with rococo ornament framing figures in contemporary costume amid Classical architecture, all against stippled grounds and enriched with pricked details, comprising side-guard joined to the rear quillon and knuckle-guard, swelling grip, and globular pommel, in its blackened leather scabbard (chape replaced) with gilt locket chased with foliage en suite with the hilt
72 cm. blade

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Provenance
The Carl Beck Foundation (inv. no. 692), sold in these Rooms, 29 July 2004, lot 174

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