25th Jun, 2025 11:00

Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025

 
  Lot 73
 

73

A PORTUGUESE COLONIAL OFFICER’S CUP-HILT RAPIER, BRAZIL, CIRCA 1750-80

with tapering double-edged blade formed with a central fuller on each face, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising cup-guard with pronounced fluted brim, a pair of straight quillons with bud-shaped terminals, knuckle-guard interrupted by a central moulding, small faceted globular pommel, and horn grip with a large faceted copper alloy collar at the base, 77.7 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1118

Sold for £650


 

with tapering double-edged blade formed with a central fuller on each face, iron hilt of rounded bars, comprising cup-guard with pronounced fluted brim, a pair of straight quillons with bud-shaped terminals, knuckle-guard interrupted by a central moulding, small faceted globular pommel, and horn grip with a large faceted copper alloy collar at the base, 77.7 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1118

Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025

Auction Location:  London, UK

The Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria department run by Thomas Del Mar is now a recognised world leader in this field.

The sales offer a broad selection of objects from all over the world, from the earliest times until the Great War. Firearms from the earliest matchlock, wheel-lock, flintlock, percussion and pin-fire guns, rifles, pistols and revolvers; edged weapons from the bronze age, Viking, Medieval and Renaissance periods through to the swords of the regular armies of the 18th and 19th centuries; armour from the earliest times through the medieval and renaissance periods to the First World War; African, Australasian, Chinese, Islamic and Japanese weapons and armour; accessories including gunpowder flasks, gun locks, mechanical locks, iron work and books.

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