My wife asked what I would do with the blade if I could afford it. I
told her I'd wear it and make everyone else beg to be able to touch
it.

Charles

On Jan 2, 2008 7:36 PM, Shoiel ben Yisrael of Poznan'
<shoiel@...> wrote:
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> Out of my price range too but I could take out a second mortgagee . . .
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> I could buy the itallian and this one too! . . .
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Scarce-Military-Rapier-Counts-of-Liechtenstein-ca1600_W0QQit\
emZ370010490752QQihZ024QQcategoryZ1552QQcmdZViewItem
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> Shalom,
> Shoiel
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> p.s. Tivar: It figures the first thing you would do is analyze the design
> :-)
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> To: serapier@yahoogroups.com
> From: osipmand@...
> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 08:07:57 -0500
> Subject: Re: [serapier] Blades on ebay
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> Tis a nice blade, just a bit out of my price range. I have not seen that
> type of secondary quillions either, but from the picture I do not see any
> markings where a bell guard would have been attached. Is also a 37 inch
> blade, I would have expected a bit shorter blade length. I guess I am going
> to save those pictures and see what how close I can get to making one
> similar to it out in the workshop.
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> YIS,
> Feodor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Zakes <DonTivar@...>
> To: serapier@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 10:23 pm
> Subject: RE: [serapier] Blades on ebay
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> At 09:32 PM 1/1/2008, you wrote:
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> Here's the one I want:
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Unusual-Italian-Rapier-ca-1640_W0QQitemZ190176562776QQihZ009\
QQcategoryZ1552QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m118#ebayphot\
ohosting
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> That *is* unusual. Those curly secondary quillons are--at least in this
> configuration--unique in my experience. I wonder if they were some sort of
> pas d'ane supporting a bell guard that has been lost over the years? That'd
> make some sense if it's dated to 1640, but I've never seen a smallsword
> where the quillons and pas d'ane are separated like that.
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> -Tivar Moondragon
> Ansteorra
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