Thomas Del Mar - Armour Sale

181 182181A DECORATED SPANISH CUP-HILT RAPIER, 19THCENTURYwith slender blade cut with a short fuller, steel hilt includinga pair of writhen quillons with button terminals, knuckleguardformed en suite, cup-guard with roped brim, theouter surface chiselled with crowned grotesque masksissuant with foliage terminating in further grotesques, and awreath around the base of the blade, compressed bunshapedpommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire and‘Turks’ heads’; and A CUP-HILT RAPIER IN 17TH/18THCENTURY STYLE, MODERNthe first 99cm; 39in(2)£800-1000182A SPANISH CUP-HILT RAPIER, EARLY 18TH CENTURYwith straight blade of flattened-hexagonal section, stamped‘In Solingen’ within a short fuller on each face, steel hiltincluding a pair of straight quillons with trumpet-shapedterminals, knuckle-guard formed en suite, plain cup-guard,pierced guardapolvo, compressed bun-shaped pommel,and the grip with later wire binding with ‘Turks’ heads’92cm; 36I in blade£600-80074