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Lot 1044
AN 18TH CENTURY SPANISH/SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER HILTED BROADSWORD.
3 – 13 August 2025, 12:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, MassachusettsSold for US$3,525 inc. premium
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AN 18TH CENTURY SPANISH/SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER HILTED BROADSWORD.
The silver hilt with openwork guard featuring a small mask with scrolling tendrils, tapering knuckle bow connecting to a figural pommel and grip; straight double-edge blade with single wide fuller etched "NO ME SAQUES SIN RASON" and "NO ME ENBAINES SIN HONOR."
Overall lg. 36 1/2 in.
Overall lg. 36 1/2 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), p. 281.




