Unusual sword

[fernando]

Probably my last post on the Portuguese rapier length evolution was not so vital for the thread subject and therefore not so much considered, but still i ought to make a correction, as i have put it wrong somehow. The lengths i quoted from Mr. Rainer Daehnhardt's book, as also from another work by Eduardo Nobre As Armas e os Barões , for the legal and "off mark" rapiers, were those for the complete sword, and not for the blade alone, as i might have put it in some parts of my post.
My apologies for such lack of precision.
fernando