A Dish Hilted Rapier, 17th Century. With long slender tapering double edged blade, of flattened diamond section, cut with a deep fuller either side and stamped with the makers name, steel hilt comprising shallow circular guard decorated with pierced holes and with leaves all around a circular panel in the centre, straight slender twisted quillons, securing the cup and each with elongated fluted finial, fluted quillon block and pommel en suite, the latter of tall ovoidal form with button, spirally fluted grip wrapped in copper wire between Turk’s heads.

Notes:
The blade inscribed with the makers name, ‘ANTONIO FRANCISCO’.

Dimensions:
Blade Length: 37.5 Inches (95.25 cm)
Overall Length: 44.5 Inches (113.00 cm)