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>>1565 Eliz. English noble
>>>rapier & dagger
Subject: nobleman, gentleman
Culture: Tudor English
Setting: late Tudor / Elizabethan period, England mid-late 16thc
Object: rapier and dagger



Royal Armouries Museum > Self Defence Gallery *
"Rapier  Possibly English, dated 1597
This rapier has a 'swept' hilt of iron and is decorated
 with chiselled ornament including the date 1597
Its long blade, of lozenge section, is engraved near the hilt
 with the maker's name, Andrea Ferara."
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Museum Replicas #501471 *​
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* Royal Armouries Museum > Self Defence Gallery
"Left-hand dagger  Probably English, about 1580
  This dagger was made to be used in conjunction with a rapier.
  Its hilt is of plain iron.  One face of its two-edged, hollow-ground
 blade bears the remains of a maker's mark inlaid in copper." ...​








* Royal Armouries Museum > Self Defence Gallery
"Rapier  Possibly English, about 1590  With a 'swept' hilt of chiselled iron.  
Preserved with the rapier are a byknife for domestic use, 
fragments of the scabbard, the lower scabbard-mount (chape) 
and two buckles and a fragment of the sword-belt." ...
​Windlass Steelcrafts *
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* Royal Armouries Museum > Self Defence Gallery
"Rapier  English, late 16th century  This rapier has a 'swept' hilt of iron.
It retains its original wire-bound grip.  The blade, of hexagonal cross-section,
is inscribed near the hilt on each side with its place of manufacture in 
Solingen, Germany." ...