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>>1593 English swashbuckler
>>>shield
Subject: swashbuckling swordsman
Culture: late Tudor English
Setting: duelling, Elizabethan England mid 16th-early 17thc
Object: buckler hand shield

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* Royal Armouries Museum > Self Defence Gallery
"Buckler  English, about 1600  Small shields like this were used together with a broadsword, 
for defence.  They were held in the left hand to parry an opponent's blade." ...
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​* Folger Shakespeare Library > Now Thrive the Armorers: Arms and Armor in Shakespeare

​Armory Replicas *
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Armory Replicas *
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