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- Rapier, the blued hilt composed of an oviform pommel with button; wire-bound grip; straight crossguard of circular section, trumpet-shaped at the ends; hilt arms, two side-rings, and the bars at the back crossed in saltire. The narrow double-edged blade of hexagonal section, the central fuller inscribed:–
SEBASTIAN HERNIE
on the one side and
HERNIE SEBASTIAN
on the other, the letters separated by small stars. There are traces of a maker's mark on one side of the ricasso.
Norman and Barne, 1980, p. 113. The inscription is a German corruption of the name of a 'Sebastian' of the Hernandez family in Toledo. For the marks of the various members of the Hernandez family called Sebastian see A532. (None are recorded as using a wildman holding a club as stated in the 1962 Catalogue). For other rapiers by members of the Hernandez family, see A532, 572, 586, 611. Cf. also A549.
- Rapier, the blued hilt composed of an oviform pommel with button; wire-bound grip; straight crossguard of circular section, trumpet-shaped at the ends; hilt arms, two side-rings, and the bars at the back crossed in saltire. The narrow double-edged blade of hexagonal section, the central fuller inscribed:–