Subject: pirate
Culture: colonial English
Setting: Golden Age of Piracy, Caribbean/Atlantic 1714-1722
Object: smallsword
National Museum of Crime and Punishment > A Notorious History of American Crime *
"17TH CENTURY (SMALL) SWORD
Pirates of this age carried many assorted types of swords[;]
this particular sword with its straight blade and light weight
would have mainly been used as a thrusting weapon or for dueling."
Hanwei *
