AN ENGLISH TRANSITIONAL RAPIER, the straight double-edged blade with narrow double fuller on each face of the forte, iron hilt of early small-sword type with double shells pierced with conventional leaf sprays and linked by side-bars to the slender knuckle-guard, the latter and the edges of the shells with central foliated mouldings, globular pommel chiselled with masks and scrolls in relief, and cord-bound wooden grip (binding later, light pitting overall), mid-17th Century 32in. blade
AN ENGLISH TRANSITIONAL RAPIER, the straight double-edged blade with narrow double fuller on each face of the forte, iron hilt of early small-sword type with double shells pierced with conventional leaf sprays and linked by side-bars to the slender knuckle-guard, the latter and the edges of the shells with central foliated mouldings, globular pommel chiselled with masks and scrolls in relief, and cord-bound wooden grip (binding later, light pitting overall), mid-17th Century 32in. blade
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