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- Sword
- Unknown Artist / Maker
- c. 1560 - c. 1580
- Iron, steel, fish-skin and steel, chiselled
- Length: 92.6 cm, blade
Width: 3.5 cm
Width: 1.105 cm - Maker's mark
- A519
- European Armoury II
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- Sword, the hilt made up of a pear-shaped pommel with button, chiselled with acanthus leaves and showing traces of gilding; oval grip bound with fish-skin, and steel collars at either end; crossguard of oval section curving towards the point, with a single side-ring, similarly decorated and ending in acanthus leaves chiselled and gilt; tapering, double-edged blade of diamond section with a maker's mark on both sides. It has no ricasso.
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