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 #501471 *
