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Small sword

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The smallsword is a sword intermediate in historical period between the rapier and the classical épée, ancestor to the modern sporting épée.

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Steel smallsword (with Ivory hilt) wielded by Capt. John Paul Schott.
Typical smallsword of the 1740s. It is approximately one metre in length.