ITALIAN CITY RAPIER, KNOWN AS THE ‘SPADA DA LATO’.

Iron hilt with a taza.
Fluted, pear-shaped pommel.
One-piece wrought-iron guard, with multiple branches and a taza. Double straight quillons and a connecting arch; openwork taza decorated with gadroons and florets. It is elegantly adorned with a dragon whose tail emerges from a quillon and whose head is coiled around one of the secondary branches. Wooden tang covered with alternating double filigree (at the rear).
Blade by ‘CLAUDIO BRANCINI’, with a ricasso, fuller at the fifth, signed on the inside.
In its original length.
Made circa 1600.
Total length: 117 cm