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Brass rapier handle.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Maritime Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:125.00 - 200.00 USD
Brass rapier handle.
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Brass rapier handle. 172 grams, 5" long and 1" in diameter. Very brassy in color, with white and green encrustation, this object was the grip of a Spanish rapier, with iron pommel at one end, the inside of it caked with encrustation around loose wooden shims, the grip-design very flat and simple and not wire-wrapped like most. Recovered from: Leocadia, sunk in 1800 off Punta Santa Elena, Ecuador. With certificate.