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Old 28th September 2023, 07:19 PM   #8
Jim McDougall
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That is a 17th c blade !
There you are!!!! We needed ya in on this!!! Totally agree of course, but are these rather crude inscribed markings added later?

Seventeenth century rapier blades were still being shipped to the colonies in 1690s as one I have from a shipwreck off Panama then.
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