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Lot 1008

TWO SPANISH/SPANISH COLONIAL CUP HILT RAPIERS,
first half of the 18th century.

3 – 13 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

Sold for US$2,115 inc. premium

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TWO SPANISH/SPANISH COLONIAL CUP HILT RAPIERS,
first half of the 18th century.

The hilts with forged iron cross guards and knuckle bows, deep cup guards, round pommels, turned/carved wood grips and straight double-edge blades, one with skull and crossed bones engraved into the ricasso.

Overall lg. to 31 in.

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Literature
Swords are illustrated and described in Rodney Hilton Brown, Treasures of the Caribbean (Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2023), p. 258.

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