Only one sword stick had a sheath and the one without a sheath was a Dutch rapier with the year 1747 and the V.O.C. monogram inscribed on the blade. The sword stick with a wooden sheath is very likely ...

Kobayashi said he found a similar rapier at a museum in the Philippines that was recovered from a Spanish ship that sank off Manila in 1600. A portrait of the governor-general of the Dutch East ...