‡ A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER WITH 17TH CENTURY BLADE, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

‡ A SWEPT-HILT RAPIER WITH 17TH CENTURY BLADE, 19TH/20TH CENTURY with tapering blade signed ‘Ioanis Bragh’ in a short fuller, recessed ricasso, iron hilt of very slender near square-section bars, including a pair of up-turned frontal arms, recurved quillons, tall early ovoid pommel cut with a mark, and wooden grip, 103.5 cm blade Provenance Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.