Assertion: sword's hilt | /r/HasProperty | fitted to old blade
Facets:
value: in the 16th or 17th centuries
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: A new hilt may have been fitted to an old blade or vice-versa in the 16th or 17th centuries; alternatively, the blade may have been changed by a collector in the course of the last hundred and fifty years-that is, in the period in which old swords have been collector items.