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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 9526390, member: 20148&quot;]Quite recent modern copy I am afraid.</p><p>A sword like this with a cup as a guard would normally have the extra guard for the hand. If the guard were flater and not cup shaped, then a straight guard, or <i>quillon</i>, like this sword has would be correct. This type of sword, though still a rapier, is usually called an <i>estoc</i>, and would date to ca. 1630.</p><p>The cup hilt rapier and the estoc were both in use at the same time, though the estoc appears to have been more common in Germany.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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