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A SPANISH CUP-HILT RAPIER, EARLY 18TH CENTURY<br />

with slender blade of diamond section, signed ‘Edmas<br />

Naya’ and ‘In Toledo’ within a short fuller on the<br />

respective faces, tapering ricasso incised with a line on<br />

each side, steel hilt comprising cup-guard with outwardly<br />

turned brim, fitted with a figure-of-eight bar beneath, a<br />

pair of straight swelling quillons, knuckle-guard,<br />

compressed bun-shaped pommel, and later wire-bound<br />

grip (areas of light pitting)<br />

107.5cm; 42Din blade<br />

£800-1000<br />

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234<br />

A SPANISH BROADSWORD, EARLY 18TH CENTURY<br />

with broad blade of flattened-hexagonal section, steel hilt<br />

including up-turned shell-guard front and rear, vertically<br />

recurved quillon with moulded terminals, knuckle-guard<br />

en suite and compressed spherical pommel, and the grip<br />

bound with copper wire divided by slender steel panels<br />

96cm; 37Nin blade<br />

£600-800<br />

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