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Helene Mayer, German fencer who won gold at the 1928 Olympic Games, undated
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Duel between the Chevalière d'Éon and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges at Carlton House, April 1787
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Sabre team fencing in the Landwehr Casino at Berlin Zoo, circa 1920
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Fencing in the Tacunium sanitatis in medicina, a Latin version of an Arabic book on the science of health, late 17th Century
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An undated photograph of a female fencer
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At the German Fencing Academy for Ladies, Berlin, circa 1925
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Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors and Robert Douglas in The Adventures of Don Juan, 1948
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Four boys play-fencing with sticks, France, 1950s
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Poster for the Concours Internationaux d'Escrime, Paris 1900
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German women's fencing academy in Berlin, circa 1925
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Épée, foil and sabre
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Politi of Italy in a display fight with Helene Mayer of Germany, circa 1930
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The men's team foil in the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin Olympics, 1936
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Dr Waterlo congratulates Jean Levasseur on his victory in a Franco-German fencing bout in Bonn, 1950
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A fencing bout in the early 1950s
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Verderber against Seligman at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics
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A duel between Philippe de Taverney and Charny from Dumas' Collier de la reine, 1850
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