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A FRENCH SMALLSWORD

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:NA Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
A FRENCH SMALLSWORD
Auctions Imperial is pleased to announce our 2013 sale, to be held March 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Timonium, Maryland. Over 300 lots of choice antique arms and armor including armor, helmets, shields, swords, daggers, battleaxes, maces, halberds, matchlocks, flintlocks and percussion pieces will be offered. Our fine selection for 2013 includes broadswords, baskethilts, shamshirs, shashkas, palas, kindjals, khanjars, tulwars and spears, as well as chain mail and breastplates. This sale will also include important swords and daggers from the Greek War of Independence and the armor of the K...
The steel hilt well-chiseled and pierced, with bilobate guard, grip with complex copper and silver wire wrap with turksheads intact, the straight, double-edged triangular section blade etched with baroque vine and tendril motifs. Third quarter of the 18th century. Overall length 97 cm.
Condition II