25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
45
‡ AN ITALIAN MULTI-RING RAPIER, CIRCA 1630-40
with long tapering blade of flattened-diamond section struck with the sacred trigram ‘IHS’ in a short fuller on each face, rectangular ricasso, symmetrical iron hilt of slender rounded bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons, inner and outer ring-guards each of seven bars, the uppermost joined to the knuckle-guard by an additional bar, fitted with a pierced fluted plate at the base, compressed ovoid pommel, and leather-covered grip (binding missing) with ‘Turk’s heads’, 113.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1129
Sold for £2,500
with long tapering blade of flattened-diamond section struck with the sacred trigram ‘IHS’ in a short fuller on each face, rectangular ricasso, symmetrical iron hilt of slender rounded bars, comprising a pair of vertically recurved quillons, inner and outer ring-guards each of seven bars, the uppermost joined to the knuckle-guard by an additional bar, fitted with a pierced fluted plate at the base, compressed ovoid pommel, and leather-covered grip (binding missing) with ‘Turk’s heads’, 113.5 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1129
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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