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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 : ?
Local Price : £3950.00

Scarce and Unusual Cased Pair of Pistols.. A Scarce and Unusual Pair of Coopers Patent Officers Pistols. With sighted octagonal barrels, signed ‘THOMSON CALCUTTA' along the top flats, retaining some original colour, with foliate engraved breeches, foliate engraved tangs fitted with standing rear-sights, extremely rare internal locks, with side-mounted hammers, half-stocked in walnut (some old cracks and bruising), cut with a band of chequering at the grips, tutaneg mounts, comprising ovoid engraved butt caps, engraved trigger guards, decorated with foliage on the bows and pineapple finals, turned ramrod pipes and fore-end caps. Original ramrods: in a contemporary blue velvet lined case, decorated with gilt flashes, the inside of the lid signed, ‘BY APPOINTMENT R.B. RODDA & Co. GUN MAKERS LONDON & CALCUTTA' with gilt oil bottle and spring clamp. A good honest pair of cased pistols. Dimensions: Bore: 18 Bore Barrel Length: 9.5 Inches (24.13 cm) Overall Length: 14 Inches (35.56 cm)

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

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 : British
Local Price : £3,950.00

English Heavy Cavalry Basket Hilted Broadsword. English Heavy Cavalry Basket Hilted Broadsword c 1740 Super basket formed from flattered bars with the large shield and plated with basic pierced heart design and oval ring to rear. Leather age ribbed grip with cone shaped pommel with lined decoration and engraved with a 24 over 2. The wide broadsword blade with three central fullers which are engraved with SOLINGEN to one side the reverse with ME FECIT spaced with crosses. Overall length 99cm the blade 85cm and 4cm in width and the hilt

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 : 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 : British
Local Price : £3900

Scarce Royal Horse Guards Basket Hilted Back Sword circa 1750 to 1780. A fine example of a British Horseman’s Basket Hilted Back Sword made for an officer in The Royal Horse Guards as is evidenced by the subjects in surviving contemporary portraits of officers in that regiment. Whilst the hilt type is distinctive in terms of its stylistic features, a further aspect which is not conveyed by the photographs featured below, is its large size. The hilt type is one of a group of surviving swords with similar distinctive hilts which was once an Ordnance Pattern at the higher end of the quality range for British military swords. Its issue coincided with the outbreak of the Seven Years War in Europe (1756 to 1763). Simultaneously this conflict also spread to North America where it is referred to as the French and Indian War fought there between Britain and France. The sword type would have seen service in both theatres and most likely in the American Revolutionary War (1775 to 1783). The basket guard is particularly well constructed from thick robust iron bars. The form of hilt decoration is the same style as that developed earlier in the century by the leading Scottish sword makers working in Glasgow such as John Simpson (I) and Thomas Gemmill who were both Kings Armourers. These makers developed the “Glasgow” style of Scottish hilt consisting of bold, flattened, rectangular structural bars, decorated on the outside with long shallow central grooves flanked by narrower incised lines either side. The style of our sword is the same but it was probably made by Harvey in Birmingham having adopted the Glasgow style for this particular pattern of hilt. The fully formed basket retains its pleasing oval shape and is pierced with triangles and circles in the main front and side guard panels which are also finely fretted at the edges with symmetrical chevrons and merlons. One of the main frontal guard plates in traditional basket hilt design has been replaced with a “horseman’s” oval ring. An additional elaboration by Harvey to the hilt design was to apply an extra transverse bar underneath the main guard plate just above the frontal loop guard. The arms of the guard are forged onto a circle of iron into which the base of the bun shaped pommel sits. The pronounced button is integral with the pommel and not of separate manufacture. The pommel is decorated with three sets of lines, similar in form to those present on the main bars of the hilt, formed as crescents. The grip is of wood covered leather bound with brass wire with iron ferrules top and bottom. Unusually this sword retains its full length single edged blade of 39.25 inches (99.5 cm). It has a short ricasso and a deep fuller running underneath the blunt back edge on each side for 22.5 inches (57 cm) after which the blade is double edged. A shallower broader fuller commences an inch or so from the hilt, runs along the middle of the blade, and tapers in proportion with the overall taper of the blade to the tip. The sword is in good condition overall with some blackened patination and age related staining. The parts of the hilt are tight together. See Robert Brooker, “British Military Pistols and Associated Edged Weapons”, Colorcraft Ltd, 2016 page 96, Figure 67 for a very similar example. Also see Richard Bezdek, “Swords and Sword Makers of England and Scotland”, Paladin Press, 2003, page 285 for another similar sword.