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VARIOUS OWNERS 100 A FRENCH SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1760 with hollow-ground triangular blade etched with scrollwork at the forte, steel hilt cast, pierced and chiselled with scrolling foliage, including double-shell-guard decorated with bouquets and a band of strapwork, globular quillon, knuckle-guard, quillon-block and pommel the latter two each en suite with the shell-guard, and the grip bound with plaited silver wire and copper ribband (small areas of light pitting) 72.5 cm; 28 ⅝ in blade
102 A GERMAN SMALL-SWORD, MID-18TH CENTURY with hollow-ground triangular blade decorated with gilt foliage, trophies and the bladesmith’s initials ‘I.G.B.’ on a blued panel over the lower portion, steel hilt comprising double shell-guard pierced with differing trophies-of-arms within a scrolling frame, globular quillon, knuckle-guard, and ovoid pommel pierced with foliage, and retaining an early grip of plaited wire and ‘Turks’ heads’ 84.5 cm; 33 in blade
Provenance The Bodmer Collection, Schloss Kyburg, Switzerland circa 1920
£250-300
£500-600 101 A FRENCH SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1780 with hollow-triangular blade etched with strapwork and rococo ornament at the forte, steel hilt comprising double shell-guard pierced with an alternating arrangement of flowers and foliage framed within roped strapwork borders, globular quillon and knuckle-guard each pierced with a trellis pattern, and quillonblock and ovoid pommel each en suite with the shell, and wooden grip retaining an early binding of plaited silver wire, ribband and ‘Turk’s heads’ (the ribband with areas of wear) 79.5 cm; 31⅜ in blade Provenance The Bodmer Collection, Schloss Kyburg, Switzerland circa 1920 £400-600
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103 A TRANSITIONAL SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1680 with associated blade of flattened-rounded section stamped ‘Inini’ on each side at the forte and cut with a very short fuller, steel hilt of moulded bars including down-curved quillon with fluted barrel-shaped terminal, inner and outer shell-guards each fitted with a sprung-in plate pierced with a panel of holes within a foliate frame, moulded knuckle-guard joined by a pair of scrolling bars at the base, and associated fluted pommel en suite with the quillon (later grip) 74.2 cm; 29 in blade £400-500