Description
GERMAN RAPIER WITH PIERCED STEEL HILT AND DROOPING QUILLONS
CIRCA 1690
cross over ring guard of flat half round section with a spiral and writhen tapering pommel, the fine double-edged rapier blade with central fuller for one third of the blade, struck with blade-smith’s name “ZETER N HENCKELE”. “ME FECIT SOLINGEN”
47in. (119cm) long