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171 AN ENGLISH SMALL-SWORD WITH BURNISHED STEEL HILT, RETAILED BY D. DRURY SWORD CUTLER TO HIS MAJESTY with polished slender tapering blade of hollow-triangular section, steel hilt set with numerous faceted studs in imitation of brilliants (small losses, the hilt now dismantled), comprising oval dish-guard set with a flower-shaped pattern, forward-canted flattened circular quillon, a pair of very slender arms, knuckle-guard, urn-shaped pommel and faceted grip, in its steel-mounted leather scabbard (cracked), with signed locket, and complete with an early chain for suspension 80.2 cm; 30⅝ in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 104; inv. no. JKL 169 Dru Drury II was a leading goldsmith, knife-handle maker, cutler, inventor and noted entomologist. For an account of this remarkable maker and his sons of the same name see Southwick 2001, pp. 93-6. ‡ £350-450 172 AN ENGLISH SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, LONDON MARKS FOR 1773, MAKER’S MARK OF WILLIAM KINMAN with slender tapering hollow-triangular blade etched and gilt with scrolls, a rampant lion and the maker’s details ‘’I. W. M. a Solingen’, faceted silver hilt (shell-guard missing), comprising globular quillon, outer ring-guard, knuckle-guard, tall ovoid pommel and swelling grip decorated en suite, in a German silver-mounted parchment-covered scabbard 81.5 cm; 32⅛ in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 121; inv. no. JKL 173 For a discussion of William Kinman see Southwick 2001, p. 159-160. ‡ £300-500 173 A CONTINENTAL SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, MID-18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY AUSTRIAN with tapering hollow-triangular blade blued over the lower third, silver hilt decorated with a faceted pattern over the greater part of its surface, including oval shell-guard with pierced border, down-curved quillon, knuckle-guard (repaired) struck with a mark at the top, tall ovoid pommel and silver grip decorated en suite 83 cm; 32¾ in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 119; inv. no. JKL 196 ‡ £300-500 174 A CONTINENTAL SILVER-HILTED SMALL-SWORD, CIRCA 1750, PROBABLY GERMAN with tapering blade of triangular section (shortened), inlaid with brass scrollwork on one side of the forte, silver hilt cast and chased in low relief, including double shell-guard decorated with four differing portrait profiles and scrollwork, knuckle-guard interrupted by a matching central moulding (the upper portion missing), globular pommel en suite and the grip with an early binding of silver wire between ‘Turk’s heads’ 68.5 cm; 27 in blade Literature: D. D. Hartzler 2000, fig. 97, inv. no. JKL 234 ‡ £250-350
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