[midelburgo]

After what I consider the most hazardous shipment of a sword I have suffered, the sword from the opening post arrived. I paid for it at the end of September. The seller, from Tenerife, had to run to the La Palma island because her family properties were coming under the lava, without sending the sword, although she said she did. Problems with weapons in planes. Finally sent in December, later the sword arrived to the peninsula, but at my post office, for unknown reasons (Christmas mess) they sent it back to Tenerife... Just by chance, I paid online custom duties (they exist between the Peninsula and the Canary Islands) thinking they were for entry in the continent, but then they were for returning to the island. If I would not have paid, the sword probably would have remained in the customs warehouses until destroyed.

Anyway. The inscription, same on both sides, I have not been able to decipher, 6 characters, possibly.

I V A M E S, but the M could be a W, then B E W - A I ???

I just found there was at Seville a swordsmith JUANES who died in 1596.

Pommel is lightly carved and I believe original. Brutalistic knucklebow repair does not use brass welding.

I have made some comparisons of a Brescia hilt rapier (with a c1607 blade), in order to show the performed mutilations.

And how they bring this (fashion victim) sword in closer looks to two cavalry trooper 1728 models (bilboes) from c1730 and c1760 (Enrique Coel blade). This sword was probably in use from c1670 to c1750. I believe the twisting quillons thing started about the 1728 ordenanzas.