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Well, this is a rapier.

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It was manufactured in the mid-19th century by the technology of the old masters as a gift to one high-ranking person.  Such exceptionally flexible rapiers were made in Toledo in the 16th beginning of 17th century.  In the gun shops, they were sold necessarily coiled in a circle to show its flexible properties.

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