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Sword
  • Sword
  • Date: about 1560 - 1580
  • Medium: Iron, steel, fish-skin and steel, chiselled
  • Length: 92.6 cm, blade
  • Width: 3.5 cm
  • Width: 1.105 cm
  • Inv: A519
  • Location: Arms and Armour III
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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.