Thomas Del Mar - Arms & Armour

156
A GERMAN RAPIER, THIRD QUARTER OF THE 16TH
CENTURY
with long blade of flattened-hexagonal section, stamped
with the sacred monogram ‘IHS’ between a series of
decorative marks within a short fuller on each face,
rectangular ricasso stamped with the letter S and a mullet
on each side, steel hilt of faceted rounded bars, comprising
a pair of horizontally recurved quillons swelling towards the
terminals, upper and lower ring-guards each swelling in the
centre and joined by a pair of arms, trifurcated inner-guard
joined to the quillon-block by a thumb-loop, faceted
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spherical pommel, and early grip bound with plaited wire
and ‘Turk’s heads’
109cm; 42P in blade
This form of hilt is frequently encountered on estocs and is
the same type as lot 153. An almost identical sword signed
‘Maillant’ and stamped with the same marks on the ricasso
is preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds. See A. R. Dufty
1974, p. 18, plate 21d.
£5000-6000