| Julien M wrote: |
| Hi Guys,
Another likely candidate: late german hilt type, combined with a type XVIII hollow ground blade. |
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| Arms & Armor wrote: |
| Circa 1500 German, provenance unknown, pictured in Arms and Armour, Blackmore, p.32 |
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| Mark T wrote: |
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| JG Elmslie wrote: |
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just to throw another interesting one into the mix... |
| Christie's wrote: |
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A GERMAN MILITARY HAND-AND-A-HALF BROADSWORD CIRCA 1560-90 Price Realized £3,750 ($5,944) Sale Information Sale 5477 Antique Arms and Armour and Collectors Firearms 30 September 2010 London, South Kensington Lot Description A GERMAN MILITARY HAND-AND-A-HALF BROADSWORD CIRCA 1560-90 With long double-edged spear-point blade of flattened hexagonal section struck on each side with a series of marks and letters within a narrow fuller, the fullers each decorated with punched and incised borders and struck with further marks on each side of the ricasso, iron hilt of flattened triangular bars comprising a pair of long straight quillons widening towards the tips and each with button finial, a pair of arms joined to the ring-guard by a pair of bars forming an inverted 'V', thumb-ring joined by slender bars to both the rear quillon and rear arm, faceted plummet-shaped pommel, and grip retaining its original leather covering 42¾ in (108.6cm) blade Lot Notes The hilt would appear to have been deliberately altered by the removal of the original half-basket guard, almost certainly within its working life An example with a very similar blade bearing an identical series of marks is illustrated in Ewart Oakeshott, 'Bastard Swords', The Catalogue of The Seventh Park Lane Arm Fair, February 1990, No.6, pp. 15-16 |
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The hilt would appear to have been deliberately altered by the removal of the original half-basket guard, almost certainly within its working life |
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Attachment: 197.77 KB Attachment: 55.11 KB| Federico Tyrawskyj wrote: |
| I HAVE to revive this thread. I'm a horrible lurker here, but I can't let this thread full of insane swords go down the drain!
As a curiosity, do you guys know how much these hilts would weigh on average? The only complex hilted sword I own is a Windlass Late European Bastard sword, and I've got the feeling that its hilt is way heavier than his historicals counterparts. I mean, the thing feels clunky as hell (it weighs a couple of ounces over a pounds, I weighed it a while ago, but I can measure it again if you guys are interested.) |
| Aleksei Sosnovski wrote: | ||
I haven't weighted any originals but judging by my own creations I would say that anything between 150 and 400 grams, 200-300 grams being the safest bet. Swords themselves varied in weight and so did the crossguards. Also there are very different crossguards in this thread, starting from simple ones with a single sidering or none at all to some complex "baskets". |