25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ A NORTH EUROPEAN RAPIER, CIRCA 1610, PROBABLY GERMAN
with broad tapering blade of flattened-diamond section with a slender fuller over its lower third on both sides, tapering ricasso struck with a mark, ‘H’ crowned, on each face, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of straight quillons swelling towards the terminals, lower ring-guard swelling in the centre, a pair of arms, C-shaped outer-guard formed of a bar en suite with the ring and rooted on one arm, knuckle-guard, trifurcated inner-guard, flattened pommel with faceted sides and chiselled with an oval front and back, and later wire-bound grip between ‘Turk’s heads’, 108.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1389
Sold for £1,700
with broad tapering blade of flattened-diamond section with a slender fuller over its lower third on both sides, tapering ricasso struck with a mark, ‘H’ crowned, on each face, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of straight quillons swelling towards the terminals, lower ring-guard swelling in the centre, a pair of arms, C-shaped outer-guard formed of a bar en suite with the ring and rooted on one arm, knuckle-guard, trifurcated inner-guard, flattened pommel with faceted sides and chiselled with an oval front and back, and later wire-bound grip between ‘Turk’s heads’, 108.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1389
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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