Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27350660-20160330094943/@comment-147.69.143.198-20160330114607

Well this is an actual sword guard. I'm only familiar with the Italian name which is Mantanta, it appears in several rapier manuals and in George Silver's system. I don't know that much about the guard specifically, but if the people whose lives actually depended on this art used this guard they must have had a good reason.