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M. Adair Orr
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 Posted: Wed 21 Apr, 2021 1:45 pm Post subject: Longsword in the Stevens Institute of Technology |
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Has anyone set eyes on the longsword in the collection of the Library at the Stevens Institute of Technology? It looks like a cool specimen, I'd love to see better photos.
https://library.stevens.edu/news/not-valyrian-we-have-swords
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Victor R.
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The library needs some additional research. I suspect the one on the right to be early 16th and of Germanic origins, though the blade is narrower than I'd expect - I wonder how much corrosion loss there has been. The one on the left gives me a late 16th Italian/Venetian feel.
Hopefully an actual expert takes a look and can provide better assessments.
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Chris Dayton
Location: Austin, TX Joined: 29 Oct 2017
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OP, thanks for posting! Very interesting. I'd never heard of this school before now.
Victor, I agree on your assessment of the smaller piece as 16th- century Italian. Here's a similar one with a date estimate by E.B. Erickson, who knows complex hilts better than most:
https://sbg-sword-forum.forums.net/thread/58675/antique-italian-broadsword-1550
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This is a standard topic