This sword in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is rather fondly reproduced in books which relate medieval weaponry. The Met's site puts the sword at a date of "c. 1400," yet the shape of the blade and the furniture style make me consider origins almost a hundred years prior to that.

Have other cross-examinations been made of the sword to support or discredit the 1400 date? Thanks for the feedback. Cheers!

-Gregory

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They might mean to infer the 14th century. This is Oakeshott's XIV.! and he dates it to 1325-1350. Do you have a handy link so we may compare both your interpretation and the actual description as listed?

Cheers

GC

Oh yes, I see the link is included

Having been recently to the Met I found some of there dating suspicious. For instance I saw a statue of three figures wearing armor clearly from the 1340s dated from 1380-1400. Unless it was a copy of another piece there is no way that dating was correct.

Here is my image of the piece I mention http://s728.photobucket.com/albums/ww284/Flon...010491.jpg