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>>1593 English swashbuckler
>>>sword
Subject: 'swashbuckler' swordsman
Culture: late Tudor English
Setting: duelling, social violence, Elizabethan England mid 16th-early 17thc
Object: sword






Royal Armouries Museum > Self-Defence Gallery *
"Sword  Probably English, about 1530  With an early form of basket hilt.  The top of its single-edged blade is missing.  The grip is restored." ...
"Sword  English, about 1560  This sword has an early form of basket hilt.  Its single-edged blade is struck with crescent-shaped marks on each side, near the hilt.  The grip and the terminal of the rear quillon are restored." ...


* Jamestown Settlement










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