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120 AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON, CIRCA 1785 with hollow-triangular blade etched with scrolls over the forte, silver hilt cast and chased with faceted beads in imitation of brilliants, comprising oval openwork dish-guard decorated with a radiating design of foliage (date mark unclear), a pair of quillons with rounded terminals, a pair of slender arms, quillonblock centring on a star, knuckle-guard, and ovoid pommel, and the grip bound with plaited wire and ribband between chased silver collars 82.5 cm; 32 ½ in blade
122 AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON 1728 with hollow-triangular blade, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief on a finely matted ground, comprising asymmetrical shell-guard decorated with trophies-of-artillery beneath a canopy supported by classical figures on the outside and further canopied trophies on the inside, globular quillon, knuckle-guard decorated with scrollwork and ovoid pommel en suite with the shell, and associated grip bound with plaited wire between silver collars 69.2 cm; 27 ¼ in blade
A similar hilt, marked for London 1785-6, is illustrated Southwick 2001, colour plate 10.
£450-550
£600-800 121 A FRENCH SMALL-SWORD WITH CHISELLED AND GILT IRON HILT, CIRCA 1750 with tapering hollow-triangular blade etched with scrolls over the forte (light surface rust), iron hilt chiselled with scrolls and trophies-of-arms in low relief, comprising asymmetrical shellguard, a pair of arms, quillon with globular terminal, knuckle-guard, ovoid pommel and the grip bound with plaited wire between ‘Turk’s Heads’ 73.0 cm; 28 ¾ in blade £400-600
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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE DOWAGER COUNTESS CAWDOR 123 A CHISELLED AND GILT IRON BODKIN AND TWO PARTIAL SMALL-SWORD HILTS, FRENCH, MID-18TH CENTURY the first with tapering spike threaded at the base, ovoid pommel decorated with frames filled with trophies surrounded by garlands, all on a matted and gilt ground; the second and third comprising the quillon, knuckle-guard, quillon-block and arms, one decorated with rococo shells, garlands and foliage and the other with foliage and figures in classical garb, on a punched gilt ground the first: 8.0 cm; 3 ⅛ in £300-400
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