Subject: swashbuckling swordsman
Culture: late Tudor English
Setting: duelling, Elizabethan England mid 16th-early 17thc
Object: buckler hand shield
Cold Steel *
* Royal Armouries Museum > Self Defence Gallery
"Buckler English, about 1600
Small shields like this were used together with a broadsword, for defence.
They were held in the left hand to parry an opponent's blade." ...
Windlass Steelcrafts *
