An English Basket-Hilt Rapier, 17th Century. With slender tapering double edged blade, stamped in the shallow central fuller, ‘RITHER BRAS VONN MEIGEN IZ I4’ one one side and ‘RITHER BRAS VONN MEIGEN  ANNO’ on the other side, with iron hilt comprising pierced basket guard connected to the recurving quillons with scrolling terminals, scrolled knuckle guard, fluted pommel and original horn grip bound with iron wire. 

Dimensions:

Blade Length: 34.5 Inches (87.63 cm)

Overall Length: 42 Inches (106.68 cm)