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COMPOSITE DISH HILT RAPIER WITH BLADE BY YVONNE MARTINEZ, CIRCA 1600-1620 FROM KINDIG COLL.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Firearms & Armory Start Price:3,500.00 USD Estimated At:7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD
COMPOSITE DISH HILT RAPIER WITH BLADE BY YVONNE MARTINEZ, CIRCA 1600-1620 FROM KINDIG COLL.
NSN. Dish is cast and chased with birds, grotesque masks and everted rim. Guard is chiseled with pineapple finials and scales. Grip is bound in copper chain and twisted copper wire with twisted copper turks heads. Pommel is cast and chiseled en suite with the guard in the form of a pineapple. Long lozenge-shaped rapier blade with fullers extending one-third of its length. PROVENANCE: Joe Kindig Jr. Original tag "Italian court sword with chisel hilt, 1650". CONDITION: Good overall with some pitting to dish. Grip is intact. Pommel and guard are preserved in good condition. Blade is in fine condition with only very minor pitting mostly towards the point. A most attractive dish hilt rapier with a distinguished provenance. 4-49156 MRZ76