**A SWEPT HILT RAPIER IN EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY with long slender blade of flattened-diamond section, iron hilt of rounded bars, including straight quillons, outer ring-guards, knuckle-guard, trifurcated inner-guard, tapering cylindrical pommel, and wire-bound grip 106.5 cm; 42 in blade Provenance Ernst Schmidt, Munich, 9 December 1930, no. 574 JWHA Inv. No. 1374 Exhibited Beaumont Art Museum, Texas, 5 December 1977 - 23 January 1978 Monmouth Museum, New Jersey, 27 February - 6 May 1978