antique arms, armour & militaria - Thomas Del Mar

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AN ITALIAN MULTI-RING RAPIER, CIRCA 1630-40
with associated tapering blade, rectangular ricasso
stamped with the bladesmith's name ‘Franc..’ and
‘C.Mastio’ on the respective sides, symmetrical steel hilt of
slender faceted bars, including a pair of vertically recurved
quillons, deep guard of six concentric rings, fitted at the
base with a figure-of-eight shaped plate pierced and
chiselled with a green man mask on each side, knuckleguard
joined to the guard by an additional bar and fluted
barrel-shaped pommel (probably associated), and later
wire-bound grip with ‘Turk's heads'
94.7cm; 37Din blade
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet, 22nd April 1980, lot 124
£3000-5000
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AN ITALIAN SWEPT-HILT RAPIER, CIRCA 1630
with associated blade of diamond section, tapering ricasso
signed ‘Marson’ one side, symmetrical steel hilt of slender
moulded bars, comprising vertically recurved quillons with
globular terminals (one repaired), three outer ring-guards of
diminishing size and each interrupted by a central
moulding, fitted with a scalloped double shell-guard,
knuckle-guard joined to the upper ring-guard by a diagonal
bar, and associated tapering barrel-shaped pommel (the
grip replaced)
119.5cm; 47in blade
Provenance
Sotheby & Co., London, 12th October 1970, lot 192
£2000-3000
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