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Dmitry Z~G
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 Posted: Mon 30 Aug, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject: Unusual cup-hilted rapier. |
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I've ruffled through my books, but didn't find anything exactly he same in terms of construction. Blade is marked Sebastiano Hernandez en Toledo, and is possibly German. The cup is unusually small, and initially I thought it was a guardapolvo.
What are your thoughts?
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Nathan Robinson
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Dmitry Z~G
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| Posted: Mon 30 Aug, 2010 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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I've fluctuated between the dish and the cup, and went with the cup, because it's not as flat and wide as most dish hilts I've looked at. Blade is certainly period. Hilt, otoh, made me scratch me head.
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E.B. Erickson
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I looked at that one myself. Good blade, but in my opinion, the guard is modern. The pommel looks OK, though.
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Dmitry Z~G
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| Posted: Tue 31 Aug, 2010 10:51 am Post subject: |
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It's an odd duck. and as Nathan wrote, is possibly and probably a composite. I don't know what to make of it...
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Isaac H.
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| Posted: Tue 31 Aug, 2010 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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Do you actually own this sword?
Wounds of flesh a surgeons skill may heal...
But wounded honor is only cured with steel.
We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
Each of us should please his neighbor for his good ,to build him up.
Romans 15:1-2
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Dmitry Z~G
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| Posted: Tue 31 Aug, 2010 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Isaac H. wrote: | | Do you actually own this sword? |
If I owned this sword, I would have taken better photos of it. 
I saw it on eBay a few days ago.
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Isaac H.
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I seen it on ebay too.It started out at $49 and I was watching it with a keen interest and a hope to add it to my collection.It then went out of my price range ....just out of curiosity I looked it up on my watch list to see the ending price.Would you believe $905?  Yep.I guess somebody wanted it.
No thanks guys,I'd rather add an Albion (or two!) to my collection instead 
Wounds of flesh a surgeons skill may heal...
But wounded honor is only cured with steel.
We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
Each of us should please his neighbor for his good ,to build him up.
Romans 15:1-2
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