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Lot 1039
A SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER HILTED OFFICER'S SWORD,19th century.
3 – 13 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$2,585 inc. premium
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A SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER HILTED OFFICER'S SWORD,
19th century.
19th century.
Silver hilt with narrow counter-guard mounting five intertwined branches, three with applied flaming bomb emblems, knuckle bow with foliate decoration where it joins the pommel cap above a spiral carved wood grip with twisted iron wire; straight double-edge blade with two narrow fuller and etched inscription "ME SENAL ES EL CAVISCO DEL VOY/[---] EN ALEMANIA SOLICE ANO 1720."
Overall lg. 39 in.
Overall lg. 39 in.
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Literature
Sword is illustrated and described in Rodney Hilton Brown, Treasures of the Caribbean (Fairhaven, MA: The War Museum Press, 2023), pp. 2279-280.




