Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - A Good Musketeer's Rapier, Probably Saxony, ca. 1600

fernando · 1st August 2012, 10:28 PM

Amazing how even specialists are influenced by the charismatic term.
The following is a video link posted by cannonmm in this recent thread .
Despite the background noise, we can clearly hear Mr. Hoover telling the little girl that, the sword he picked up to show her, a typical wide fuelered double edged cuphilt sword is: a Spanish or Italian rapier !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo8TRPNTvLM

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1st August 2012, 10:28 PM	#12
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	Rapiers for ever Amazing how even specialists are influenced by the charismatic term. The following is a video link posted by cannonmm in this recent thread . Despite the background noise, we can clearly hear Mr. Hoover telling the little girl that, the sword he picked up to show her, a typical wide fuelered double edged cuphilt sword is: a Spanish or Italian rapier ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo8TRPNTvLM . Last edited by fernando; 1st August 2012 at 10:39 PM.