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Fig. 1358. Chain-pattern rapier hilt
Probably French, third quarter of the XVIth century Collection: Mr. D. M. Currie
- Alteneck included some original drawings by Hans Mielich, doubtless part
of the Munich Standebras series to which we have referred, representing the more famous objects of art in the treasury of Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria, among which was a set of three plates showing respectively a gold and enamelled sword hilt, a dagger hilt similarly enriched, and designs for the mounts of a sword belt. The two former called to mind the sword and dagger hilt of La Valette; but they represented hilts of sounder construction and are conceived in better taste (Fig. 1355). Far more beautiful and more elaborate in construction, owing to the addition of a knuckle-guard, is that most wonderful gold and enamelled hilt on the rapier in the Imperial Armoury of Vienna, which is always known as that of Charles V (Fig. 1356); though,
