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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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* Royal Armouries Museum > War Gallery
"Sword  English, blade probably German, about 1600
The reproduction sword knot on this sword is based on
ones shown in contemporary English monumental brasses.
Functional as well as ornamental, it served to secure the sword
should it be knocked from the hand." ...