I was curious if someone (anyone) has any information or pictures of Rapiers' with blades of five to six feet in length?

The longest blades that I've seen are from about 45" - 48" in length.

I don't think even Tuck's, which were two-handed weapon that also was a dedicated thruster, were that long.

Royal Armouries/Tower of London Reference 9/75 from http://www.musketeer.org/Garrick/Blade_spec_article.html I think this works out at about a 52" blade. Long enough?

I did some number crunching a few years back and from a sample of 70 blades I could get enough detail on I worked out that the median total length was about 48.3" long, with a median blade length of about 41.4". The variation is small, but noticable with most rapiers in the sample falling in a 3" spread of the total length and 2" spread of the blade length. [/url]