Your thoughts on this rapier?

werecow · 25th May 2022, 04:25 AM

By sheer coincidence I was watching this youtube clip and noticed a rapier with an almost identical hilt in the display case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjDVE06x_A0

ulfberth · 25th May 2022, 09:34 AM

yes it is the same type of rapier and of the same period in the Metropolitan Museum.

25th May 2022, 04:25 AM	#1
werecow Member Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Leiden, NL Posts: 629	By sheer coincidence I was watching this youtube clip and noticed a rapier with an almost identical hilt in the display case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjDVE06x_A0

25th May 2022, 09:34 AM	#2
ulfberth Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 444	yes it is the same type of rapier and of the same period in the Metropolitan Museum.