Another cup hilt rapier for id

mariusgmioc · 2nd November 2016, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Cerjak

I will post extra pictures later ASAP .
"The blade was probably a shortened a little." I don't think and also there is no sign who could confirm this possibility .
What make you think that it could be the case ?
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CERJAK

I think the average blade length of this type of rapiers normally exceeded 100 cm (sometimes by as much as 30 cm, but probably most of them were in range of 105-115 cm). So 92 cm is rather short for a Rapier.

But as I said before, I am definitely not very knowledgeable on the subject.