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antique arms, armour & militaria - Thomas Del Mar

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148<br />

A CUP HILT RAPIER, POSSIBLY ITALIAN CIRCA 1630<br />

with tapering blade of flattened-diamond section, stamped<br />

‘Tengo Lpo’ within a short fuller on each side, steel hilt<br />

comprising deep cup-guard formed as a flower with six<br />

petals each formed of a sprung-in plate finely pierced with<br />

trellis (one replaced), a pair of vertically recurved quillons<br />

with flattened fluted bud-shaped finials, knuckle-guard with<br />

recurved finial en suite with the quillons, joined to the cupguard<br />

by an additional arm, associated fluted ovoid<br />

pommel (acid cleaned throughout), and wooden grip<br />

reinforced with steel bands<br />

117.2cm; 46Bin blade<br />

Provenance<br />

Sotheby & Co. 16th April 1957, lot 186<br />

Eric Valentine sold Christie, Manson & Woods 29th October<br />

1986, lot 54.<br />

Robin Wigington, Poet's Arbour, Stratford-upon-Avon<br />

Literature<br />

Eric Valentine, Rapiers, Arms & Armour Press 1968, no. 25<br />

£2000-3000<br />

76<br />

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