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Short sword blade, complete and professionally conserved.

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Shipwreck Artifacts Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 USD
Short sword blade, complete and professionally conserved.
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Short sword blade, complete and professionally conserved. 185 grams, 19-1/2" long and 1" at its widest. This particular wrecksite from the 1681 Fleet is known for yielding dozens of long, thin rapier blades, a supply from Spain for the colonies, but this piece is a different type, much shorter and with edge on only one side, with cross-fleury maker's mark on both sides of the ricasso, steel gray in color and a bit rough from corrosion but not rusty at all, its point still sharp. With certificate. Recovered from: Chaperon, sunk in 1681 off Panama