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A Rare English Hunting Sword, A Sword In Excavated Condition, An English Rapier, A Sword-Blade, A Spearhead, And A Crossbow BoltThe First Early 17th Century, The Second 16th Century, Probably English, The Third Mid-17th Century, The Fourth 17th Century, The Fifth 16th/17th Century, And The Last Late 15th/Early 16th Century
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Find your local specialistA Rare English Hunting Sword, A Sword In Excavated Condition, An English Rapier, A Sword-Blade, A Spearhead, And A Crossbow Bolt
The First Early 17th Century, The Second 16th Century, Probably English, The Third Mid-17th Century, The Fourth 17th Century, The Fifth 16th/17th Century, And The Last Late 15th/Early 16th Century
The First Early 17th Century, The Second 16th Century, Probably English, The Third Mid-17th Century, The Fourth 17th Century, The Fifth 16th/17th Century, And The Last Late 15th/Early 16th Century
The first 52 cm. blade
Footnotes
Literature:
The first, Claude Blair, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddeson Manor, Arms, Armour and Base-Metalwork, 1974, p. 76
A.V.B. Norman, 'Some Hanger Hilts of the Early Seventeenth Century', Edged Weapons, 1982, p. 79, pl. 1
The first (of which a related example is in the Royal Armouries, Leeds, inv. no. IX-1424) offered with typed correspondence and notes regarding the sword and its probable find site 'by some yob-de-hoys about 1956 in what used to be an old graveyard. This was in Rotherhithe'. A handwritten note by Blair states 'The graveyard is presumably that of Rotherhithe Parish Church, St. Mary's begun in 1714 presumably to replace an earlier church as it contains a monument to Capt. Anthony Wood (d. 1625) & 17th century plate'
The second, Wallis & Wallis, Sussex in or about 1969