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89 3/4 length. Heavy forged iron head with opened socket, fastened to the heavy wood haft with two spikes. Surface shows glossy black patina from forging and age.
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18" s.e. heavy wedge section blade slightly curved with long false edge. Included in the rare features for this example are the iron grip side plate terminals which extend at the heel and wrap around touching beneath the pommel, the rolled edge of the she
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Iron blade, 5 1/8 length with double pivot holes and original forged suspension ring. Showing Mediterranean influence and styling. Grips perished and surface rusted as above.
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This example bears a chiseled iron hilt modeled as a man with the body of a boy in an awkward stance and speculative duel gesture.
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This dagger was made en suite with a swept hilt rapier of equally fine quality. The iron hilt with its straight cross guard and forward ring guard elegantly present the finest fully developed form for these. The blade is recessed at the forte to accommoda
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The hilt is heavily encrusted in high relief silver foliage and classical portrait heads. The grip is wrapped in silver wire. The result is a lovely weapon which, in hands schooled to it, was the match of any on the street. Blade length: 28
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This is an example of a purely English rapier of the English Civil Wars period and the years which led to them. Its boat form guard is decorated with portrait heads including a crowned central caricature of King Charles flanked by Henrietta and facing a p
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The blade etched first quarter with scrolling foliage, thistle and lattice motifs. Basket weave form hilt with large central hand engraved badge of a crowned thistle in a heart. The Campbells were loyal to the crown through the Scottish Rebellion and form
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37 double edged blade with broad central fuller at the forte etched each side with Prudentia et Constantia, and crowned Georgian royal cipher with the GR obliterated both sides.
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The grip is wrapped with copper wire. An earlier rapier blade is utilized as is virtually always the case. It is 35, diamond section with deep fullers marked with an indistinguishable motto. In well preserved condition for the period with a little scaly
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The Ricasso provides a thumb rest on the reverse and blade catching apertures and flutes. The Grip is characteristically Spanish with vertical bars over wire wrap. Daggers of this type were used throughout the Spanish empire including north Italy which wa
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This rapier is an early example of the response to the mid 17th century movement toward greater agility in combat, the benefit of which was learned at great cost from the Ottoman Turks.
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Ring pommel daggers were first used by the Celts and evolved in southern Europe to the form seen here. Its form with a slightly..
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The stiff asymmetrical blade served equally well for slashing and thrusting and would have been very formidable in its period before the evolution of full plate armor.
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It is a basket hilt cavalry sword. The blade is German, marked MEFECIT SOLINGEN each side with double cross and orb marks. Blade length: 35 3/4
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The blade is German and bears the Passau wolf mark inlaid in copper, as well as a makers mark at the forte, each side. Double edged blades are far less common than single edged examples. Blade length: 34 1/2
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This example is based in form on the previous two, but utilizes a hilt simplified and undecorated. The radially fluted guard supports a hilt basket of swelled medial bars.
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This rapier dates precisely to the period leading up to the English Civil War of 1642. It was a time of polarization and expression of political opinions and loyalties.
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27 1/4" curved blade chiseled with the running wolf mark. Two swords with very similar hilts are recorded. The first is illustrated in Arms & Armour in Stuart and Tudor London, Holmes Pl. XVIII (Museum of London Coll.) and the second in Swords & Daggers,
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9 blade, belongs to a group of daggers with similar blades and guards, decorated in silver as is this one, many of which bear Jacobite mottos. They have spatulate profile reeded bog oak grips.
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