Rapier for coments

[fernando]

Thank you Gentlemen for keeping this discussion going on.
Interesting to read your honest, though diverse, currents of opinion.

Thanks a lot Cornelis, for your input and for the pictures of your beautiful rapier by Clemens. There realy are close similarities between your example and mine.
I am rather intrigued that, being the seller of my sword a German, with a significant knowledge of antique weapons, did not hesitate to classify it as an estoc bladed rapier of the Milanese fencing school.
However reading your considerations supported by your Clemens example, i am about to digest the possibility of my piece being also German.

Herewith a couple close up pictures of the grip wire wrapping, to help try and discern its possible age.

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