A Good Musketeer's Rapier, Probably Saxony, ca. 1600

Matchlock · 27th July 2012, 10:32 PM

Considering illustrative sources of period artwork, the very same type of rapier featuring a plum-shaped pommel and recurved quillons was part of a caliverman's equipment of c. 1600 as well - a colored engraving from Jacob de Gheyn's Wapenhandelinghe (1608) attached.

For more information on characteristic caliverman's equipment of ca. 1600 to early-17th c. please see
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...rman%27s+flask

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27th July 2012, 10:32 PM	#5
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Considering illustrative sources of period artwork, the very same type of rapier featuring a plum-shaped pommel and recurved quillons was part of a caliverman's equipment of c. 1600 as well - a colored engraving from Jacob de Gheyn's Wapenhandelinghe (1608) attached. For more information on characteristic caliverman's equipment of ca. 1600 to early-17th c. please see http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...rman%27s+flask m Attached Images Last edited by Matchlock; 27th July 2012 at 10:45 PM.