Subject: nobleman
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."
* Museum Replicas
