Foil
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Metal
Measurements
90 mm (Width); 1105 mm (Length)
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Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 885468
Summary
Sword - French fencing foil with fine metal chain wound round handle. Leather padding to hand guard. On one side of the blade is inscribed SOUZY-PARIS, and on the other SOUZY-PARIS 5.
Provenance
Found in attics so probably acquired during transfer of the house when it was given to the National Trust by Gerald Agar-Robartes, 7th Viscount Clifden.
Marks and inscriptions
SOUZY-PARIS 5