Espadín De Cazoleta: Elegance And History Of The 18th Century

CAZOLETA SMALL SWORD BY MY LAW AND BY MY KING. Author: Vicente Toledo Momparler (sword expert)

Reference	2-1790-C
Name	Cazoletta Small Sword
Period	18th Century
Guard	Entirely made of polished iron. Truncoconical pommel on a base shaped like a urn, crowned with a high finial and decorated with a pearled design. Beautiful tapered grip with a covering piece, finely faceted with a burin, featuring added pearling in the same style and connected by beautiful copper metallic threads. Straight quillons ending in circles, small tabs in an open arc, and a dish-shaped cazoleta with an elliptical perimeter, slightly concave, decorated to match the rest of the mentioned elements. Absence of a fixed handguard or chain.
Blade	Straight, with three fullers and two edges. The decoration stands out with legends and alchemical symbols.
Inscription	BY MY LAW AND BY MY KING
Total Length 1	970 mm
Total Length 2	7803 mm
Description	This small sword, with a distinct courtly design, presents an archaic, palatial, and distinctly civil form compared to its 19th-century descendants. The pommel is the same as that of the previous two examples, which is numbered 92 in Norman’s book and states that it was used around 1790.
Museum Inventory	V.N. Collection

Espadín De Cazoleta: Elegance and History of the 18th Century