Description
Featuring 10” diamond-section blade with long hollow-ground ricasso stamped with a maker’s mark. Straight hexagonal quillons with spirally chiseled acorn-shaped finials. Small single side ring chiseled ensuite. The original grip wrapped with two sizes of twisted iron wire and finished with Turks heads top and bottom. Ball-shaped pommel with button, chiseled ensuite. Overall length 14 7/8”. Pitted overall, heavier on the blade (probably from long storage in a leather scabbard, now absent).
Silver Inlaid Transitional Rapier/Smallsword, Late 17th/Early 18th C 
Silver Inlaid Transitional Rapier/Smallsword, ca. 1700 
Exceptional Gilded Pappenheimer Rapier, ca. 1630 
Thirty Years War Swedish Officer’s Broadsword, ca. 1630