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Nation : British
Local Price : £4,750.00

Fine Cup Hilt Rapier. Ref X3378. A Fine Cup Hilt Rapier. 51&157; overall, 41&157; slender flattened diamond section blade with deeply struck bladesmith´s mark of The Lion of St. Mark in a square on the ricasso. Steel hilt comprising deep cup guard, the outer face pierced & chiselled with a symmetrical arrangement of tight scrolls of foliage, boldly flanged brim pierced with a running pattern of foliage & mythical beast heads, a pair of tapering scroll chiselled straight steel quillons with fluted moulded terminals,&194;&160; knuckle-guard en suit, solid pommel of flattered oval form deeply chiselled with a hunting scene or cavalry battle. The grip bound with plaited wire between Turks heads. Circa 1600-20&194;&160; Very fine Spanish rapier in good condition.&194;&160; See Wallace Collection Nos A589 & A619 for similar pommel and A647, A651& A653 for similar pierced bowl.&194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; &194;&160; Images courtesy of West Street Antiques (https://antiquearmsandarmour.com/)

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4750

Click and use the code >24556 to search for this item on the dealer website Wonderful 500 Year Old Koto Period Samurai ´Dragon´ Wakizashi Samurai Short Sword, Another Absolute Beauty From Our latest collection

Nation : Chinese
Local Price : £4750

Click and use the code >24840 to search for this item on the dealer website Rare, Archaic Chinese Warrior´s Bronze Jian Sword, Engraved with Seal Script, Around 2,300 to 2,800 Years Old, From the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, Including the Period of the Great Military Doctrine ´The Art of War´ by General Sun-

Nation : ?
Local Price : £4,650.00

Continental 17th Century Horse Whip Flintlock Pistol. Continental 17th Century Horse Whip Flintlock Pistol with two stage barrel leading to a decorative enlarged muzzle to which the leather plaited whip is attached, please note this is a later replacement. The exposed flintlock action is in working order and is engraved with the word TONTAINE. The grip is brass with floral and line decoration which reduces in diameter towards the flintlock action, overall length 21.75 inch For reference please see Firearms Curiosa by Lewis Winant.

Nation : Italian
Local Price : £4,650.00

Venetian Broadsword Schiavona c 1720. Venetian Broadsword Schiavona c 1720 super quality with Austrian broadsword blade engraved with crown double headed eagle and script, large central fuller extending to the point. The iron basket-guard of characteristic type incorporating thumb-ring and forward-swept rear quillon, brass shield-shaped pommel decorated on both sides and the grip with wire binding. Overall length 111cm the blade 95cm

Nation : British
Local Price : £4650

Scottish Basket Hilted Sword of “Irish” type dating to the second quarter of the 17th century. The original scabbard mouthpiece has a moulded brim at the top and a fretted base. The chape is decorated with lines and scallops at the edge. The scabbard is stitched along the middle of the inner side and retains its two scalloped iron suspension mounts on the outer side which are of early form. The scabbard tip has been reinforced at its join with the chape. The scabbard retains remnants of its original lined decoration. The double-edged blade is of lenticular section and gently tapers to its tip. It has a double fuller which extends for 8 inches (20 cm) from the hilt each containing the armourers’ marks of ANDRIA FARARA separated and flanked by crosses now deep in the patination and unclear. An incised running wolf mark is present just beyond the fuller terminals on each side. The shoulders of the blade slot into a shallow aperture purposely cut to secure the blade underneath the cross hilt. The hilt resembles the basket guards of a number of Scottish swords illustrated in Cyril Mazansky's “British Basket-Hilted Swords” (Boydell Press 2005), and in particular references D9, D10, D10a and D10b on pages 80 to 82. These swords have similar hilt structures and engraved line patterns to the frontal guard panels and side guards. These swords are housed in various important collections including Blair Castle in Perthshire, the Marischall Museum in Aberdeen, and The Royal Armouries. Two further similar swords housed in the National Museums of Scotland, are illustrated in John Wallace, Scottish Swords & Dirks, 1970, Arms and Armour Press, figs 23 and 25. For a further in depth examination of this sword type see: Stuart C Mowbray, “British Military Swords”, Mowbray Publishers, 2013, section 10 entitled “The So-Called Irish Hilt Sword, pages 110 to 126, for examples similar to our sword, particularly that shown on pages 114 and 115. The blade is just over 33.5 inches (85 cm) long and the overall length of the sword is 39.25 inches (99.5 cm).

Nation : British
Local Price : £4500

English Silver Hilted Officer’s Sabre by John Carman (II) of London with hallmarks for 1754 / 1755.. This fine officer’s sabre was once part of the Lattimer Collection and is published in Daniel D Hartzler “Silver Mounted Swords – The Lattimer Family Collection”, 2000, Josten's Printing Company, fig 130, page 68. An old collection reference number is painted in white on the blade near the hilt. See also the same sabre illustrated in Daniel D Hartzler, American Silver-Hilted and Early Federal Swords According to Their Geographical Areas of Mounting, Volume II, 2015, in the section on “Imported Swords”, fig 625, page 690. The hilt and curved fullered blade are of British mid-18th century individual proto-military / regulation type. The hilt is formed from a base made as a convex heart shaped dish with a strengthened brim from which the knuckle bow rises to a swollen hook terminal which fixes into the pommel front. The knucklebow is supported by a single scrolling secondary guard bar which protects the outside of the right hand of the user. The globose pommel has an integral button on top and a pronounced neck beneath. The baluster shaped grip is covered with a decorous binding consisting of different thicknesses of straight and roped silver wire. The grip has a cone-shaped ferrule at its base. The dish guard has a wristguard with a swollen downward facing terminal. The knucklebow is clearly stamped with London hallmarks and the stamp of John Carman. The curved blade has a short ricasso and a broad central fuller extending for most of the blade length with a narrower fuller underneath the spine of the blade for almost the same length. The John Carman that made this hilt was the second cutler and silversmith of that name working in London in the first half of the 18th century. His father was the first who died in 1741. John Carman (II) was born in 1721 / 2 and was indentured to his father for seven years from 1736. He was sworn free by servitude of the Cutlers’ Company in 1743 and registered his first maker’s mark at Goldsmith’s Hall in London in 1748. John Carman (II) was a successful businessman and sword maker. He rose through the ranks of the Cutlers’ Company to become Master for 1761-2. He died in 1764. The length of the blade is 31.25 inches (79.5 cm). The overall length is: 37.25 inches (94.5 cm). The hilt of this sabre is somewhat similar in structure to a more complex and decorous silver spadroon hilt by the same maker hallmarked for 1755 / 1756 which sold at Bruneau Auctions in their sale of April 9th, 2022 lot, 82 (hammer price $10,000).

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £4450

Click and use the code >24184 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful Antique Edo Period Wakizashi Samurai Short Sword, With a Fabulous Quality Botanical Shakudo Gold and Silver Takebori Mounts & Tsuba