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Cup-Hilted Rapier and Matching Parrying Dagger
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Steel iron, Italian possibly Naples
Rights: Public Domain
Arms and Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant 1951
Title: Cup-Hilted Rapier and Matching Parrying Dagger
Description:
Steel iron, Italian possibly Naples.
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