short Italian Rapier?

cornelistromp · 10th February 2023, 08:57 AM

it is not a rapier, a rapier has a minimum length of 112cm to be a rapier.
It is a beautiful silver encrusted transitional sword from between 1645-1655, maybe Dutch.
A shortened rapier blade is used for this smallsword. Many transitional (small-)swords have a shortened rapier blade. FREDERICO PICININO was often written in the fuller as a quality indication, it does not mean that Picinino manufactured this blade.
If so...... there should be his oval mark of "a tower" and the text around "Picinino" at the ricasso , ps Nice to see the encrusting over the ricasso.
May have been slightly longer initially, but need not be, a length of around 1 m was quite common.

very nice quality sword

best
Jasper

10th February 2023, 08:57 AM	#3
cornelistromp Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,057	it is not a rapier, a rapier has a minimum length of 112cm to be a rapier. It is a beautiful silver encrusted transitional sword from between 1645-1655, maybe Dutch. A shortened rapier blade is used for this smallsword. Many transitional (small-)swords have a shortened rapier blade. FREDERICO PICININO was often written in the fuller as a quality indication, it does not mean that Picinino manufactured this blade. If so...... there should be his oval mark of "a tower" and the text around "Picinino" at the ricasso , ps Nice to see the encrusting over the ricasso. May have been slightly longer initially, but need not be, a length of around 1 m was quite common. very nice quality sword best Jasper Attached Images Last edited by cornelistromp; 10th February 2023 at 02:56 PM.