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EARLY 17TH CENTURY
细节
A Swept-Hilt Rapier
Early 17th Century
With tapering double-edged blade (some pitting) of flattened hexagonal section changing to flattened oval section, the iron hilt with guard of slender bars, reeded except for those on the inside, comprising vertically recurved quillons, arms, the tips linked on the outside by three concentric rings, the innermost fitted with a pierced plate, and the outermost linked by a bar to the knuckle-guard, corresponding inner trifurcated guard similarly linked to the knuckle-guard, globular reeded pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip
45in. (114.9cm.) blade
Early 17th Century
With tapering double-edged blade (some pitting) of flattened hexagonal section changing to flattened oval section, the iron hilt with guard of slender bars, reeded except for those on the inside, comprising vertically recurved quillons, arms, the tips linked on the outside by three concentric rings, the innermost fitted with a pierced plate, and the outermost linked by a bar to the knuckle-guard, corresponding inner trifurcated guard similarly linked to the knuckle-guard, globular reeded pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip
45in. (114.9cm.) blade