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Lot 1014
TWO SPANISH/PORTUGUESE CUP HILT BROADSWORDS.late 17th/early 18th century.
3 – 13 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$1,880 inc. premium
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TWO SPANISH/PORTUGUESE CUP HILT BROADSWORDS.
late 17th/early 18th century.
late 17th/early 18th century.
The hilts with forged iron cross guards and knuckle bows, deep cup guards, faceted pommels, turned horn and wood grips and straight double edge blades, the blades with etched inscriptions "EL SANTISSIMO CRUCIFIGIO" and "MIN SINAL HES."
Overall lg. to 38 7/8 in.
Overall lg. to 38 7/8 in.
Footnotes
Provenance
Auctions Imperial, Arms & Armor Auction, June 27, 2020, Lots 258, 262.
Literature
The sword with the turned wood and brass grip is illustrated and described in Rodney Hilton Brown, Treasures of the Caribbean (Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2023), p. 288.




