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Nation : Italian
Local Price : $3995.00

Italian 6-ring Rapier, ca. 1620. In the first quarter of the 17th Century, Italian swordsmiths made a number of rapiers with multi-ringed hilts. The number of rings generally was between four and seven, with seven being the most common. The iron bars that made up the rings were generally of round, rectangular, or oval section and also comprised the knuckle guard and quillons. This example features a 6-ring hilt of rectangular-section bars, with the main guard composed of six concentric rings expanding upward and outward from the bottom of the large pas d’ane. The opening encompassed by the smallest ring is fitted with an iron clamshell plate incised with lines and pierced with rectangular openings (minor damage). Vertically recurved quillons, expanding slightly toward the terminals. The uppermost ring has bars extending outward to join the reverse quillon on one side and the knuckle guard on the other on both the obverse and reverse sides. Spherical pommel with button; grip wrapped with fine twisted iron wire, finished with Turks heads top and bottom. Slender 47 1/4” (120 cm) blade of flattened hexagonal section with short central fuller, showing remains of an inscription and an incised running wolf mark on one side. Metal with dark brown rust patina, the blade moderately pitted, with several edge nicks. Overall length 52 1/4” (133 cm).

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £3950

Late 17th Century Transitional Spanish Rapier / Smallsword With Bronze Hilt with Meso-American Symbols and SAHAGVM Blade. A late 17th century Spanish Transitional Rapier / Smallsword with a Cast and Chased Bronze Hilt featuring a rarely encountered blend of Spanish Baroque Classical and Meso-American Inca and Aztec symbols and motifs. The sword is mounted with a fine late 16th century Spanish rapier blade. The sword dates to the late 17th century. The hilt is of cast and chased bronze and is distinctive, possibly unique, due to its mix of styles and features incorporated into the hilt. The sword was most likely commissioned by a Spanish official with experience of Spain in its European context as well as its Central and South American dominions. The hilt is formed around a bold quillon block with a thick oval plug which encases the lower part of the tang nearest the ricasso. Between the plug and the ricasso two robust shell guards are joined at the tang aperture. The outer shell which protects the fingers of a right-handed user is slightly larger than the inner shell guard which protects the thumb. To the front the knuckle bow emanates from the block and curves upwards to be secured into the pommel front with an integral terminal hook. The solid slightly flattened rounded square shaped pommel has its broadest faces to the front and back with its narrowest to the sides. It has an integral button on top and flared neck beneath. A quillon projects to the rear with a solid swollen terminal. Two pas d' ane rings project from the block from underneath the knucklebow and quillon and curve downwards to terminate between the shell guards. The shell guards have thickened rims and are intricately pierced. The larger shell on both sides depicts a seated robed classical deity with a child in a panel in the middle, flanked by dancing figures wrapped in garlands on each side. This feature is obviously influenced by the Spanish Baroque architectural style. The second shell has a slightly differently poised deity and instead of dancing figures on the flanks the space is fashioned with the inward-looking profile heads of Meso-American Indians. Front and back the block and pommel feature a similar robed deity with a child inside panels. To the sides of the pommel Aztec heads in feather headdress stare back at the onlooker. The pas d' ane rings, knucklebow, shell guard rims and quillon are decorated with reeded lines. The knucklebow has a swelling in the middle shaped as a robed figure playing pipes and a swelling at the top shaped as a classical head from which the hook attachment to the pommel emerges. The swollen terminal of the canted quillon is shaped as an intimidating Inca warrior's head. The baluster shaped oval section grip is wrapped with pairs of contra-twisted brass ropes with wire spacers between. Ferrules are mounted top and bottom each decorated with similarly incised lateral lines. The stiff gently tapering blade is of flattened diamond section and of high quality. It has a short ricasso and a pronounced deep fuller on each side which extends from the hilt for 8 inches (20 cm) until it tapers to a point beyond which two small anchor-like marks are stamped into the medial ridge on each side. Clearly stamped into each fuller are the letters S A H A G V M flanked by crosses on each side. Despite the slight difference in spelling, “SAHAGVM”, is the mark of Alonso de Sahagún the Elder, an important Spanish swordsmith working in Toledo from circa 1570 to 1600. His mark, like the marks of other famous swordsmiths of the late 16th century, was copied by blademakers to follow as an emblem of quality. For example, it often appears on the blades of Dutch Walloon Swords of the mid-17th century. Whilst it is difficult to attribute this blade to the original Sahagún, it is of undoubted high quality. It is similar to a late 16th century blade mounted onto a rapier in the Wallace collection (collection ref: A669), and another in the Victoria and Albert Museum (collection ref: M.91-1921) stamped ALONZO . DE . SAHAGUN . EN . TOLEDO, both attributed to this maker. The blade is 35.75 inches (91 cm) long and overall the sword is 42.75 inches (108.5 cm).

Nation : Russian
Local Price : £3950

Click and use the code >25444 to search for this item on the dealer website Rare, Absolutely Stunning 1st Empire, Combat, ´Blue. & Gilt´ Officer´s Sabre of the Legere, Hussards, & Mounted Chasseurs. The Year IX, Circa 1810, Sabre Used by Officers of the Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard

Nation : -
Local Price : £3,950.00

Swept Hilt Rapier Circa 1640. Swept Hilt Rapier Circa 1640 the pommel cylindrical form widening towards the base, the grip braided with turks head finials. The knuckle guard in ring form the smallest one fitted with a pierced plate. Four section curved bars forming the rear guard which show an age repair at the central joint please see images. The Long double-edged blade with small, short fuller is engraved with the Passau Wolf to one side, for reference please see item 11 in Rapiers by Eric Valentine. Overall length 135cm the blade 118cm

Nation : British
Local Price : £3,950.00

Scottish 18th C Basket Hilted Back Sword. Scottish 18th Century Basket Hilted Back Sword, super original untouched condition. Full basket with dots and hearts designs, fluted pommel with raised button tang. Leather grip again original bounded with twisted wire and turks heads to top and bottom. Single edged blade with two fuller running full length and the blade becoming double edged as the fullers run out. Overall length 103cm the blade 89cm For reference British please see Basket Hilted Swords by Mazansky Page 115

Nation : British
Local Price : £3950

Rare English “Mortuary” sword, dating to the middle part of the 17th century. A rare English “Mortuary” sword, dating to the middle to third quarter parts of the 17th century and the English Civil War, Commonwealth, Protectorate and Restoration periods. The sword is a rare hybrid type with hilt features common to both contemporary English Mortuary and Walloon swords. The hilt is of typical “Mortuary” form consisting of a broad saucer-shaped guard plate from which three main curved guard bars taper upwards ending with flattened angled terminals screwed into the pommel to secure the structure. The wide back edge of the plate is tightly scrolled downwards to create a wrist guard. The grip sits on top of a flanged plug inside the guard beneath which two short langets extend through the base to secure the blade at the ricasso on either side. Whilst of “Mortuary” type, the hilt differs from the usual form. The guard plate is chiselled on the outside with the outline of two clams, one on either side of the blade, which emulate the side guard plates of English contemporary “Walloon” swords. The insides of these areas are pierced with regular patterns of diamond, circle, and figure of eight shapes, similar to the piercings in the plates of Walloon swords. The oval panel to the front of the guard plate at the base of the knuckle bow is an extension of the plate which is also pierced in the “Walloon” manner. The guard bars are narrower but thicker than the usual flat bars of mortuary hilts. The two secondary guard bars which emit downwards from the knuckle bow either side terminate in pronounced curls which fall short of reaching the side guard bars to which they are usually fixed. Instead, the bars are joined together, and the bottom bar is joined to the plate below. The upper bar is extended to create a crescent which is fixed onto the side guard bar to secure the front and side structures. The middles of the side guard bars are swollen and bisected to create knops and whilst this feature is common, but not exclusive to English Walloon swords, it is not common on mortuary hilts. The curved rear secondary guard bars which extend downwards from the side bars to the plate near the wrist guard terminate in pronounced curls like the secondary bar terminals which emit from the front knuckle bow. The onion shaped pommel is smoothly multifaceted and has an integral button on top and a pronounced flared neck beneath with a collar. It sits on top of a baluster shaped grip with iron ferrules top and bottom bound with wire. The broad, plain, double-edged, tapering blade is imposing and of robust form. It has a short ricasso. The blade was probably made in one of the German blade making centres such as Solingen. Huge numbers of blades were imported into Britain during the Civil War period from Europe to fulfill demand for swords on both Royalist and Parliamentarian sides. Two swords described as mortuary swords, very similar in form to our sword, are illustrated in Cyril Mazansky’s “British Basket Hilted Swords”, Boydell Press 2005, on pages 245 and 246. One is in the Kienbusch Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Reference 1977-167-621, and the other sold through Christies London, lot 54, 7th May 1981. Other Mortuaries with similar secondary guard arrangements are featured on pages 250 and 263. Contemporary English swords of definite Walloon type which display similar features are illustrated in Mazansky on pages 282, 283 and 284, mounted with typical teardrop wrist guards etc. Provenance: John Hardy Collection. Measurements: 34.5 inch blade (87.5 cm), 40.75 inches overall length (103.5 cm). The blade is just over 1.75 inches wide at the hilt 4.75 cm

Nation : Persian
Local Price : £3950

Click and use the code >23515 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous Bronze and Iron Archemeanid Empire Sword From the Time of the Greco-Persian Wars of Xerxes the Great Against the Spartans at Thermopylae. The Very Type of Sword Actually Used As Depicted in The Movie 300 Spartans

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £3950

Click and use the code >25370 to search for this item on the dealer website Superb, Gendaito, Japanese Traditionally Hand Made Officer´s Katana By A Famous Gendaito Sword Maker, & Signed Ichihara Ichiryushi Nagamitsu, With His Kakihan, and Silver Clan Kamon Of the Fujii