25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
47
‡ A RAPIER, SECOND QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY, ITALIAN OR SPANISH
with slender tapering blade of flattened rounded section formed with a slender fuller stamped by the bladesmith’s name (indistinct, perhaps Toledo), rectangular ricasso struck with bladesmith's mark on both sides, iron hilt of slender rounded bars comprising straight quillons swelling towards the terminals, fluted écusson, lower ring-guard fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate (chipped), ring-guard joined the knuckle-guard by a further bar, knuckle-guard with recurved finial formed as a stylised serpent, a pair of arms, inner-guard formed of a scalloped plate rising to a pair of bifurcated bars and a thumb-loop, slender barrel-shaped pommel, and writhen grip with later plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 113.0 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1076
Sold for £2,000
with slender tapering blade of flattened rounded section formed with a slender fuller stamped by the bladesmith’s name (indistinct, perhaps Toledo), rectangular ricasso struck with bladesmith's mark on both sides, iron hilt of slender rounded bars comprising straight quillons swelling towards the terminals, fluted écusson, lower ring-guard fitted with a pierced sprung-in plate (chipped), ring-guard joined the knuckle-guard by a further bar, knuckle-guard with recurved finial formed as a stylised serpent, a pair of arms, inner-guard formed of a scalloped plate rising to a pair of bifurcated bars and a thumb-loop, slender barrel-shaped pommel, and writhen grip with later plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, 113.0 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1076
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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