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Lot 206

An English Silver-Hilted Small-Sword
London Silver Hallmarks For 1732

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,000 - £1,200

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An English Silver-Hilted Small-Sword
London Silver Hallmarks For 1732

With sharply tapering blade (some wear and rust patination) of hollow triangular section retaining traces of etched foliate decoration on one side of the forte, and on the other with a crowned monster in an oval against a patterned ground between foliage, hilt cast and chased with profile portrait medallions between fruiting swags and demi-figures, all on punched grounds and comprising asymmetrical double shell-guard, slender arms, lobed rear quillon, knuckle-guard, globular pommel with tang button, and grip bound with two thicknesses of twisted silver wire
73.8 cm. blade

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Provenance
Christie's London, Antique Arms and Militaria, 16 December 2003, lot 64

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