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Collection Item: Sword-rapier

Basic info

Collection
Military History
Object name
Sword-rapier
Object category
Weapon
Object subcategory
Edged weapon
Creators
Unknown (Swordsmith)
Description
With steel basket hilt, large spherical pommel, knucklebow, straight quillons, and pierced side shells, brass spiral grip. Blade 34" and marked "ME FECIT SOLINGEN". Crude repair inside cup guard.
Production date start
1600
Production date end
1650
Period
Tudor
Elizabethan
Stuart
Jacobean
Charles I and Civil War

More info

Identification

Object number
YORCM : CA777
Alternative number
YORCM : T777
Number of objects
1
ID
30004217

Physical Characteristics

Materials
Steel (Sword)

Production

Creators
Unknown (Swordsmith)
Location
Solingen
School/style
German