Original rapiers?

[erlikhan]

hello.I hope all members have been very well and happy since the last time i had chance to log into the forum,which has been quiet long time.

May I please learn your opinion about the attached pictures? Could any of these rapiers have possibility to be original 300-400 years old or so?(The first picture especially)
According to me impossible because i cant feel even a least degree of material aging expected to occur on almost half a thousand years aged swords even if they have been kept very carefully since the day of their production. But a good internet buyer of me insists they are original, and requests me to find rapiers like them for him. :confused:

regards

[David]

I know very, very little about rapiers, but even i can see that these are obvious modern repros. Your good buyer friend has had someone pull the woll over his eyes, me thinks. ;) :)

[fernando]

This is not real.You just have to look at the logo in the back of the pictures. A known site for sword reproductions :D .

[erlikhan]

Yes although I dont know that brand or website whatever, they are obviously new reproductions. I hoped a very little possibility just in the 1st picture only because he says he is about to buy that one!! and doesnt like some real antique rapiers which I offer him, because of their 'poor' condition :p . Perhaps as the last hope I will try to convince him showing this thread so that he will keep his money and buy some more stuff from me instead :)

[fernando]

Here
http://www.by-the-sword.com/
You can see the same logo at the top left of the page.

[erlikhan]

lol thank you. I hope him to be very grateful to me. or perhaps he will hate me because he is so proud with his 16-17th century rapier collection :D .

[Marc]

And the first one is a Darkwood Armory "ringhilt" rapier. They make modern repro, of course. Their products are rather good, if one obviates some weight issues in a few of their models.

The one shown here is Catalog Number AVBN #58. Go HERE (http://www.darkwoodarmory.com/catalog.shtml) for Darkwood's general catalog and HERE (http://www.darkwoodarmory.com/ringhilts.shtml) for what they call the "ringhilt" rapiers.

No way one is going to find an original rapier at these prices, I'm afraid.