That's from the Vorarlberg Museum. I just hope the collection was not put together by some eccentric with a weird sword pommel fetish, butchering swords to pile these up! There are some wonderful pieces there.
An impressive collection- there must be a lot of widow swords now, sadly. The one I have circled in the cropped photo below- what sort of age/origin would this be? To me it looks like a heavily fluted ball shape. I don't know of any Oakeshott type that it matches to. Attachment: 106.28 KB
Collector of original 16th-17th century European arms and armour. Would like to collect earlier, but budget doesn't allow- yet!
I'd say that's 1525-1550. Oakeshott blade/pommel/guard typologies don't really extend beyond about 1500. He does offer classification of complex longsword hilts of the 16th century, but I don't recall how much separate attention, if any, he gives those pommels.
AVB Norman provides a better pommel typology for the later period.-Sean
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