25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ A NORTH EUROPEAN PAPPENHEIM RAPIER, CIRCA 1630
with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, rectangular ricasso stamped with the bladesmith's mark within a large oval frame on each side, symmetrical russet steel hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of vertically-recurved quillons with moulded spatulate terminals, fluted écusson, knuckle-guard en suite with the quillons, inner and outer ring-guards each fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate (one replaced), an additional lower figure-of-eight ring-guard, upper ring-guard joined to the knuckle-guard and to the main ring by two further curved bars, faceted pommel formed with a ridge on each side (patinated brown throughout), and grip with later plaited copper alloy wire binding between 'Turks' heads', 103.0 cm blade
Provenance
Sold in this room, 27th June 2012, lot 140
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1386
Sold for £1,300
with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, rectangular ricasso stamped with the bladesmith's mark within a large oval frame on each side, symmetrical russet steel hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of vertically-recurved quillons with moulded spatulate terminals, fluted écusson, knuckle-guard en suite with the quillons, inner and outer ring-guards each fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate (one replaced), an additional lower figure-of-eight ring-guard, upper ring-guard joined to the knuckle-guard and to the main ring by two further curved bars, faceted pommel formed with a ridge on each side (patinated brown throughout), and grip with later plaited copper alloy wire binding between 'Turks' heads', 103.0 cm blade
Provenance
Sold in this room, 27th June 2012, lot 140
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1386
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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