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Lot 208

An English Small-Sword With Fine Silver Hilt
London Silver Hallmarks For 1758, Maker's Mark Of John Carman (II)

27 November 2019, 10:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,200 - £1,500

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An English Small-Sword With Fine Silver Hilt
London Silver Hallmarks For 1758, Maker's Mark Of John Carman (II)

With colichemarde blade (some light pitting) of tapering hollow triangular section etched on both sides of the forte with panels of symmetrical foliated strapwork framing 'Honi Soit Qui Maly Pense' in an oval, hilt cast and chased in low relief with differing satyr's masks, rocailles and foliage, comprising asymmetrical double shell-guard, arms, lobed rear quillon, knuckle-guard, globular pommel with tang button, and grip bound with silver ribbon and two thicknesses of twisted silver wire
79.7 cm. blade

Footnotes

John Carman (II) was indentured to his father on 19 June 1736 at the age of fourteen. He was elected Master of the Cutlers' Company in 1761 and died in 1764 at the age of 41. For more information on the Carman family, prominent makers of silver-hilted swords and accessories, and leading members of the Cutlers' Company of London, see Leslie Southwick, London Silver-hilted Swords..., 2001, pp. 62-64, fig. 9, and pl. 43 for a related sword in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 1991.115)

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