Fourquine de mousquet dissimulant une lame... - Lot 231 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

Fourquine de mousquet dissimulant une lame de rapière, la lame Allemagne début du XVIIe siècle. A German musket-rest combined with a rapier-blade, the blade early 17th century. The blade very slender, of flattened hexagonal section, stamped with the inscription "EN TOLEDO" within the short fuller on both sides at the forte and the ricasso struck with bladesmith's mark, a walking figure in profile, modern iron head chiselled in low relief, including U-shaped rest with scrolling monsters' head terminals, turned baluster neck and the base cut with flowers and fitted with a pair of small transverse spikes, short wooden grip carved with a Biblical scene in rustic style, The Creation of Eve, the wooden staff hollowed for the blade and similarly carved over its length with The Temptation of Adam and a further series of segmented panels filled with animals and figures, and fitted with modern iron shoe. L. overall: 145 cm - L. blade: 105 cm.