Your thoughts on this rapier?

toaster5sqn · 24th May 2022, 08:47 PM

The Green Man is a human face, or sometimes a full figure with leaves for hair and often wrapped in vines and foliage. It's very common in church carvings from the middle ages and a Victorian era author used it as the basis for a theory of hidden pagan cults hiding within the medieval church. The truth is we have no idea what it symbolized to people of that time.

Robert

werecow · 25th May 2022, 03:25 AM

By sheer coincidence I was watching this youtube clip and noticed a rapier with an almost identical hilt in the display case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjDVE06x_A0

ulfberth · 25th May 2022, 08:34 AM

yes it is the same type of rapier and of the same period in the Metropolitan Museum.

24th May 2022, 08:47 PM	#1
toaster5sqn Member Join Date: Jul 2021 Location: New Zealand Posts: 75	The Green Man is a human face, or sometimes a full figure with leaves for hair and often wrapped in vines and foliage. It's very common in church carvings from the middle ages and a Victorian era author used it as the basis for a theory of hidden pagan cults hiding within the medieval church. The truth is we have no idea what it symbolized to people of that time. Robert

25th May 2022, 03:25 AM	#2
werecow Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Leiden, NL Posts: 585	By sheer coincidence I was watching this youtube clip and noticed a rapier with an almost identical hilt in the display case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjDVE06x_A0

25th May 2022, 08:34 AM	#3
ulfberth Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 428	yes it is the same type of rapier and of the same period in the Metropolitan Museum.