A Swept-Hilt Rapier, German or Flemish, Circa 1620-40, with slender blade of flattened-diamond section struck with bladesmith’s mark, a reversed S, on both sides of the ricasso, iron hilt symmetrical inside and out, constructed of faceted bars, with a pair of acutely recurved quillons with swelling tips, knuckle-guard joined at its middle by a pair of diagonal branches joined centrally in turn to an upwardly canted pair of upper loop-guards, matching lower loop-guards each filled with a sprung-in plate pierced with patterns of circular holes, joined to the upper loops by a pair of C-shaped short bars, the four loops joined at their base to a pair of arms flanking the écussons, gadrooned pommel, and the grip bound with patterned iron and brass wire with “Turk’s heads”, perhaps the original, 105.5cm blade,123cm overall. See A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820, London 1980, hilt 66, pp. 138-9. The hilt resembles the so-called Pappenheimer type, classified by Norman as type 67.
A Swept-Hilt Rapier, German or Flemish, Circa 1620-40, with slender blade of flattened-diamond section struck with bladesmith’s mark, a reversed S, on both sides of the ricasso, iron hilt symmetrical inside and out, constructed of faceted bars, with a pair of acutely recurved quillons with swelling tips, knuckle-guard joined at its middle by a pair of diagonal branches joined centrally in turn to an upwardly canted pair of upper loop-guards, matching lower loop-guards each filled with a sprung-in plate pierced with patterns of circular holes, joined to the upper loops by a pair of C-shaped short bars, the four loops joined at their base to a pair of arms flanking the écussons, gadrooned pommel, and the grip bound with patterned iron and brass wire with “Turk’s heads”, perhaps the original, 105.5cm blade,123cm overall. See A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820, London 1980, hilt 66, pp. 138-9. The hilt resembles the so-called Pappenheimer type, classified by Norman as type 67.
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