Posts: 3 Location: San Antonio Texas
Sat 16 Mar, 2013 6:16 am
How do you find information on antique rapiers?
A few years ago I bought an old rapier from a private collector. He had bought the sword previously in the 1980's at a Christie's auction. As Christie's does not keep records past 1998 and the previous owner lost the auction documents, I have been unable to determine much information about it. The hilt is a tapered full tang, though in its past the original hilt was replaced with a simple primitive wooden hilt carved with some sort of picture of an Aztec God, - info. per the seller. It does show battle damage (?) as the blade has a couple of obvious hit marks and the tip is slightly turned, though obviously with little knowledge that could be from anything. It does have the Christie's auction number tag on it, D3326 with an 8.8 next to it.
So, my question is how does someone find out information concerning a sword like this?
Overall length: 34.5"
width: 1"
Any idea's or help would be appreciated. If nothing else, it would be nice to find info concerning this.
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