Rapier
c. 1620–30
Overall: 111.1 cm (43 3/4 in.); Blade: 89.2 cm (35 1/8 in.); Quillions: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.)
Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.697
This weapon has an especially handsome configuration of hilt, pommel, quillons, and guard. The blade is also very finely wrought and bears the mark (a unicorn head) of the German swordsmith, Clemens Horn, of Solingen, a town near Düsseldorf. The Latin inscription on the blade...
Artifact
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1916.697
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Terms
Culture
Germany, Solingen, 17th century
Technique
steel, blued and gilded
Medium
steel, blued and gilded
Genre
Arms and Armor
Department
Medieval Art
Relations
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