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Originally Posted by cornelistromp
JP puype mentioned it to me during a discussion about rapiers but I believe it is in one of his publications, his reference was some 16/17th century fencing book that mentions this minimum size.
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Jasper
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That seems a bit arbitrary and inflexible, and hardly a universal Standard set in stone & immortalized by an irridium bar kept in a vacuum at 20c.
Even Wiki (and google) mentions an 'average' length of 104cm.