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Old 9th April 2024, 03:12 AM   #5
Jim McDougall
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Looks like the 'anchor' device typically in fuller on early Spanish blades as would have been on Hernandez blades end of 16th also Tomas Aiala. It seems this one resembles one on a rapier of the Atocha wreck (1622).

Punzone is a makers stamp which usually occurs on the ricasso of Spanish rapier blades, which are recorded in a panel of these from Toledo by Palomares, who compiled these.
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