Sorry Andreas but the museum has no information on the provenance of their sword. In fact until I corrected them they had it labelled as a rapier!
Basically any swords older than 200 years in NZ were brought into the country by a collector and then dumped on the museum by their descendants when no one wanted it. Our ability to improve their knowledge is one of the reasons the museum is so happy to allow the Auckland swords & shields society access to the collection, but it does highlight just how dreadful their knowledge base is.
Robert
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