**A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, NORTH
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**A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, NORTH EUROPEAN OR ITALIAN
with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, stamped with a bladesmith's inscription (rubbed) within a short fuller continuing into a rebated ricasso on each face, iron hilt of rounded bars comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons with flattened spatulate terminals, outer ring-guard joined to the knuckle-guard by a further bar, the former with terminal en suite with the quillons, lower ring-guard, a pair of arms, trifurcated inner-guard and barrel-shaped pommel, and spirally-moulded grip with later wire binding101.7 cm; 40 in blade
Provenance
Giulia P. Morosini, sold American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, 10-15 October 1932, part of lot 503
JWHA Inv. No. 1785
Exhibited
Charleston Art Gallery of Sunrise, West Virginia, January - 1 May 1975
Museum of Our National Heritage, Massachusetts, 20 January - 20 May 1979
£800-1000
with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, stamped with a bladesmith's inscription (rubbed) within a short fuller continuing into a rebated ricasso on each face, iron hilt of rounded bars comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons with flattened spatulate terminals, outer ring-guard joined to the knuckle-guard by a further bar, the former with terminal en suite with the quillons, lower ring-guard, a pair of arms, trifurcated inner-guard and barrel-shaped pommel, and spirally-moulded grip with later wire binding101.7 cm; 40 in blade
Provenance
Giulia P. Morosini, sold American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, 10-15 October 1932, part of lot 503
JWHA Inv. No. 1785
Exhibited
Charleston Art Gallery of Sunrise, West Virginia, January - 1 May 1975
Museum of Our National Heritage, Massachusetts, 20 January - 20 May 1979
£800-1000
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**A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY, NORTH
Estimate £800 - £1,000
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