This is the same sword that Del Tin replicated and calls their model DT2150. It can be seen in Chad's Collection Gallery.
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Here is the text, in Italian, describing the above photos. Please take note of the numbers in square brackets. These are measurements, in metric units, of aspects of the sword.
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And a Web translation (only marginally useful) of the same text:
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Knob to pear divided from four ribbings in as many rigonfi, that they have their overflow marked from one sgusciata list; and closed up from a rosette d'argento slap with twelve elements puttinges to day, and from a button to I add. On the faces principal! badges are alternated d'argento: that front one brings bulinate the crews of Milan (d'argento alia cross of red) and 1'altro the visconteo biscione. Streamlined, wrapped grip in golden, put thread of branch gia to trecciole; 1'elso it has the long arms to rumble section leggermente outlines to you towards the bottom; they are shrunk to the estremita one, folded all'ingiu. The cruise conserve goal of the cappetta in silver sheet, hurled and bulinata to turns them sluices from one bordura worked to treccia. Blade to section of losanga, strongly to the triangular heel and £ much heavy one in relationship to the dimensions. It comes from the tomba of Estorre.
[890 X 209; 708 X 49; 1525] One knows that the sword came recovered beside the mummificato body of a man whom it had 1'osso of the broken left leg, and that it brought also it begins them them "HV". Estorre besieged Visconti morl in Monza, for projects them of stone that broke off it the left leg, and use Latin the Hestor name, that how much with the figure is come to an agreement as well as with the conditions of the emains that appeared on the sword. This figure visible, and and not and today probable therefore that it was affected the goal of cappetta the hour passing. The treccia that it adorns 1'altra part of the cappetta and be interpreted like a test that Estorre Visconti was member of the Company of the Treccia, one consorteria instituted cavalleresca dall'arciduca Alberto III d'Austria, brother-in-law of a sorellastra of probable Estorre. £ that the coats of arms indicate the current ratio between Milan and the Visconti, and not the short personal lordship of Estorre. II knob and much similar to that one of one sword gia in the Dreger Collection to Berlin, coming from from the family Citadel of Padova. II type and widely documented in Italy, species in that Northerner, as an example in the Saint George of the Castle of Fenis, in Val d'Aosta, and on the figures of the Prodi in the Castle of the Manta, neighbor to Wedge, datable at the beginning of the 1400's, nell'Adorazione of the Magi di Gentile from Fabriano hour to the Uffizi, of 1423, in the figures of saint George ritratte from the Pisanello on the tablet of the National Gallery and sull'affresco of Anastasia Saint to Verona. |