Null ‡ A TWO HAND SWORD, EARLY 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SPANISH 

with straight do…
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‡ A TWO HAND SWORD, EARLY 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SPANISH with straight double-edged lade of flattened-hexagonal section (the last 28.0 cm restored), stamped with a brief inscription with a short slender fuller on each face at the forte, long rectangular ricasso, formed with three grooves each filled with a chiselled design of scrolls and formed with a pair of short serpentine lugs, iron hilt comprising fluted écusson, a pair of straight faceted quillons with finely filed terminals each terminating in a spirally fluted knop (one slightly bent), knop-shaped pommel chiselled with conventional leaves, and wooden grip with later leather covering, 120.0 cm blade Provenance Howard M. Curtis (no. 444) A sword with a related hilt is preserved in the Wallace Collection (inv. no. A471).

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‡ A TWO HAND SWORD, EARLY 16TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SPANISH with straight double-edged lade of flattened-hexagonal section (the last 28.0 cm restored), stamped with a brief inscription with a short slender fuller on each face at the forte, long rectangular ricasso, formed with three grooves each filled with a chiselled design of scrolls and formed with a pair of short serpentine lugs, iron hilt comprising fluted écusson, a pair of straight faceted quillons with finely filed terminals each terminating in a spirally fluted knop (one slightly bent), knop-shaped pommel chiselled with conventional leaves, and wooden grip with later leather covering, 120.0 cm blade Provenance Howard M. Curtis (no. 444) A sword with a related hilt is preserved in the Wallace Collection (inv. no. A471).

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