Jost Amman has a lot of pictures of basket-hilted swords from the 1560s and 1570s eg. https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-21.325 or https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-21.407 or https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-21.402
Meanwhile this camp peddler has a rapier blade on a hilt with cross, knuckle-bow, and siderings like Meyer’s Rapier https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-21.427(V)
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