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Lot 89

A Fine French Small-Sword With Chiselled And Gilt Hilt
Circa 1760

24 May 2023, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Fine French Small-Sword With Chiselled And Gilt Hilt
Circa 1760

With slender sharply tapering blade of hollow triangular section bright over most of its length to the point, the forte etched and gilt against a blued ground on one side with a trophy of arms between foliage above a gilt oval panel inscribed 'Me Fecit Solingen', the other side inscribed en suite and with a differing trophy of arms between a wreath and crossed palms, the foliage inhabited by a bird, hilt of characteristic form (one shell with minute hole) chiselled in low relief against a finely punched and tooled gilt ground with differing trophies of arms within wreaths, surrounded by C-scrolls and with borders of garlands, grip bound with finely twisted steel wire between Turk's heads, and retaining most of it original gilding
83 cm. blade

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