AN ENGLISH CUP HILT RAPIER C.1640
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Pre 1700 item# 955006 (stock# 08-422)
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This rapier dates precisely to the period leading up to the English Civil War of 1642. It was a time of polarization and expression of political opinions and loyalties. The cup is deeply chiseled with faces, twelve in all. The forward and back pair are probably intended to represent Charles I and Henrietta, though are ambiguous enough to avoid attention. The decoration, popularized at the time, was also used on military swords. The cup provides a fine defense for the hand without the cumbersome ...click for details
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SPANISH LEFT HAND DAGGER C.1570-85
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Pre 1700 item# 954974 (stock# 08-113)
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This dagger was made en suite with a rapier with which it served. In dueling, a number of structured maneuvers utilizing the two together comprised the defense and offense. Primarily used to engage an opponent's blade, the dagger had the capability of delivering a fatal thrust even to an opponent wearing a brigandine. It is the rapiers, particularly dated examples, which provide us with the typology for the daggers. This example may be compared to a rapier by Thomas de Aiala of Toledo in the ...click for details
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NORTH EUROPEAN BROADSWORD C.1620
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Pre 1700 item# 954971 (stock# 08-126)
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This fine sword comes from a group which has been misidentified since the 19th century when collectors called them Sinclair hilt swords in an attempt to link them to the Scottish mercenary Colonel George Sinclair. In fact, it is a broadsword of heavy rapier type with blade of thick diamond section, tapering uniformly through its length which is equally suitable for slashing and thrusting. Its recurved cross guard and large ring guard surrounding a pierced plate and thumb ring opposite. It is rig ...click for details
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A RARE ENGLISH CUP-HILT RAPIER C.1630-45
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Pre 1700 item# 954962 (stock# 08-687)
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This is an example of a purely English rapier of the English Civil Wars period and the years which led to them. Its boat form guard is decorated with portrait heads including a crowned central caricature of King Charles flanked by Henrietta and facing a particularly grotesque allegorical countenance. Its form is identified by Norman as hilt form 91 which he discusses in its variations. This variation corresponds to the last described and specifically accords with Two with forward quillons pierci ...click for details
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RARE ENGLISH CUPHILT RAPIER C.1630-45
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Pre 1700 item# 954953 (stock# 08-119)
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Distinct variation with fully developed cup of forged iron as contrasted with the skeletal cups comprised of joined bars most usually encountered. Additionally, the forward portion of the cup rises with the knuckle bow. Norman refers to this as boat form, hilt 91 and few enough examples exist that he must rely on portraits and two excavated hilt elements for information. Of the few actual examples known, it appears that only one, in the Museum of London accords with this example and the Norman p ...click for details
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A SPANISH CUP-HILT RAPIER C.1660-80
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Pre 1700 item# 954912 (stock# 09-917)
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This fine rapier is an exact companion to the noted example in the Tower of London Collection, inventory number IX-793, illustrated in Swords and Daggers in the Tower of London, plate 34c, clearly a product of the same workshop and perhaps both made as part of a specific order, matching in all details and measurements. The cup guard and long straight cross guard represent the ultimate fighting form for the period. In contrast to its plain exterior, the lovely interior guarda polvo would be rev ...click for details
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AN ENGLISH CUP HILT RAPIER C.1630
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Pre 1700 item# 954905 (stock# 08-275)
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This is a fine example of an English cup hilt rapier in its evolutionary form. The hilt has a deep cup decorated with six pierced concentric panels. Some examples responded to the political unrest leading to the English Civil Wars with decoration which expressed the conviction of the owner, often portraits of Charles and Henrietta. Unlike most, the knuckle bow stands free of the pommel. The blade is imported from Germany as nearly all were, and bears an inscription DE AIALA, spuriously referring ...click for details
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A NORTH ITALIAN RAPIER C.1620
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Pre 1700 item# 954893 (stock# 09-590)
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This elegant sword was made for civilian use in accordance with the evolving fencing styles of the day which originated in Italy. The large well balanced hilt provides protection on both sides with pierced plates. While similar in proportions to the large military rapiers used by cavalry, this example has a slender blade designed for thrusting and the blood duel. The blade is by the Spanish maker, TOMAS AIALA and so marked in the fullers. The slender blades used in civilian dueling could bre ...click for details
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AN ENGLISH CUP-HILT RAPIER C. 1625-40
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Pre 1700 item# 954878 (stock# 09-918)
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From a well known group identified by Norman as hilt form 85 and conforming bar for bar to that standard with three ranks of alternate pierced panels and bar ovals over a pierced “saucer” shaped base. The elongated reeded pommel is specific to this group and the slender diamond section blade also is typical for these. Sword evolution was accelerated during this time by the conflict of, first, the Thirty Years War then the English Civil Wars. This sword represents a transition from the swept h ...click for details
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GERMAN ARMING SWORD C.1580
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Pre 1700 item# 954869 (stock# 09-730)
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This classic example is from a well known group including those in the Tower of London IX-125, IX-160 and IX-888, all illustrated in Swords and Daggers in the Tower of London. They are hand and a half swords, designed to be used with one hand or two with the left hand gripping the extended pommel. Arming swords are designed to inflict maximum damage to an armored opponent. The term specifically means a sword worn with armor. The heavy double edged blade of this example is capable of cutting ...click for details
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A RARE ITALIAN BROADSWORD C.1550
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Pre 1700 item# 954863 (stock# 09-599)
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This sword’s blade derives directly from the cinquenda popular in the 15th century. The preference for a short blade is further demonstrated in the falchion which achieved great popularity in the 16th and 17th centuries and may derive from the Roman gladius. The hilt form with classical head guard terminals and black moor head pommel identify it to Northern Italy, probably Milan where those motifs were used on swords of wealthy and powerful owners. ...click for details
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A SPANISH MAIN GAUCHE C.1650
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Pre 1700 item# 954849 (stock# 08-122)
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This is a fine example of the Spanish left hand dagger at it zenith. The folded over edge of the sail form guard is finely pierced in scrolling foliage and clusters of grapes which makes an elegant decorative presentation, and is intended to capture to point of an opponents rapier. The diamond section blade is capable of penetrating the heavy padded doublets of the period and the back of the blade is cut with decorative flutes which serve to engage and control an opponents blade. The Ricasso pro ...click for details
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