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).
German Officer’s Broadsword with Scabbard, ca. 1680 
Silver Inlaid Transitional Rapier/Smallsword, Late 17th/Early 18th C 
Late 16th C Landsknecht Dagger and Scabbard, Probably German 
Exquisite Chiseled North European Rapier, ca. 1650