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Local Price : $2995.00

Silver Inlaid Transitional Rapier/Smallsword, Late 17th/Early 18th C. The second half of the 17th C and early 18th C brought significant changes to the swords worn by European gentlemen. During the first half of the 17th C blade lengths gradually increased, as it was thought the extra length would give a reach advantage in a duel. Hilts also had to be larger and heavier to balance the longer blades. It became such a problem at the English court that Queen Elizabeth decreed that sword blades could not exceed 36”. However, in most countries the blade lengths continued to increase until about the mid-17th C, with some blades nearing 5 feet in length. At some point, it was determined that a shorter, lighter sword could get inside the reach of a long rapier and defeat it. This caused blade lengths to start shortening, with hilt sizes decreasing as well. However, many of the features of the earlier rapiers remained, gradually transitioning to the smallsword most typically associated with the 2nd half of the 18th C. The sword offered here is of the late transitional period, having a smaller hilt with pas d’ane, asymmetrical shell guard, knuckle bow, and small ovoid pommel. It has a grip wrapped with alternating strands of twisted silver and brass wire, with matching Turks heads top and bottom, a feature found mostly on 17th C pieces, but continued into the early 18th C as well. The double-edged 29 5/8” (75 cm) blade has a long lens-section ricasso, the balance of hexagonal section. The upper third is engraved with foliage and sun faces, filled with gold. The feature most associated with the transitional period is the manner of hilt decoration. Rather than the cast brass and silver hilts, sometimes gilded, of the later 18th C smallswords, this example is of blackened chiseled steel, with chiseled grooves into which solid silver was pounded and shaped to form the design. The striking contrast between the blackened background and the raised silver decoration produced a very attractive hilt. It was a much more time-consuming method than later examples and that is why it gradually gave way to later methods. It retains its original black leather-covered wood scabbard (drag and one carry ring missing), with high quality black steel mounts decorated with silver; the throat depicting a drummer in uniform with castle in the background, reverse with stand of arms and vacant oval escutcheon. Blade very good, with mostly crisp engraving and areas of light pitting. The hilt with small silver losses, greater on the pommel. Overall length 36” (91 cm).

Nation : British
Local Price : £2995

Click and use the code >24960 to search for this item on the dealer website Magnificent 18th Century Anglo French Indian War To Revolution Period All Silver Hilted Small Sword with Colichmarde Blade. Probably By William Kinman. A Stunning Museum Piece, A Near Pair to General George Washington´s Sword in Amazing Condition

Nation : Japanese
Local Price : £2995

Click and use the code >25720 to search for this item on the dealer website Fabulous, French, Napoleonic Wars, &#acute;Year 13&#acute; Cuirassier Sword, Manufactured at Versailles in the Grand Armee Period, Circa 1805. AP, Blade Stamped With L´Atelier Precision Paris, & Fasces, Paris Blade Workshop. Battle of Austerlitz Up

Nation : British
Local Price : £2995

Click and use the code >24766 to search for this item on the dealer website Beautiful & Massive Ancient Bronze Age Long Sword Circa 1200 to 800 BC. As Used From Before and Including the Greco-Persian Wars, Such as the Battles of Marathon & Thermopylae. As Used in Hand To Hand Combat Between Xerxes´ Immortals, and The Hoplit

Nation : American
Local Price : £2975

Click and use the code >24952 to search for this item on the dealer website Magnificent 18th Century Silver Hilted Small Sword, Dated 1758, with Colichmarde Blade. This Is One Of The Most Beautiful To Be Seen

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,950.00

Scottish 18th Century Half Basket Cavalry Sword. 18th Century Half Basket Cavalry Sword c 1750 – 60 The basket made of flattened bars in rectangular sections complete with leather grip secured by twisted wire and pommel with line decoration and large tang button. The broad sword blade with small central fuller and engraved with what looks to be the sun with crested moon below to each side. The width of the blade at the hilt is 4.7cm an identical sword is detailed in the book British Basket Hilted Swords by Mazansky Page 229 and similar noted as in the York castle Museum Information: Reference: British Basket Hilted Swords by Mazansky Page 229 Blade Length: 87cm Overall Length: 104cm

Nation : Spanish
Local Price : £2950

Click and use the code >25373 to search for this item on the dealer website Simply Captivating & Outstanding Solid Silver Mounted &#acute;Mermaid&#acute; Shell Guard Hilted Sword, Likely of of an Admiral or Vice Admiral, Such as Admiral Lord Nelson&#acute;s Walpole-Suckling Silver Hunting Hanger Sword

Nation : British
Local Price : £2,950.00

Left-Hand Dagger, Late 16th Century.. A Left-Hand Dagger, Late 16th Century. Probably German or Italian. With tapering pointed double-edged blade of flattened diamond section, concave ricasso, hilt comprising slender arched quillons widening towards the tips, decorated with crucifix decoration, circular side-ring, faceted barrel shaped pommel with button and twisted wire bound grip between Turk's heads.