hello

Just curious what style of sword this is? what year? culture?
my goal is to create the right scabbard and suspension for this sword/

Please advise


Cheers

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Tinker sword

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I am not that experienced. But from what I know.

This look like single edged straight sword that would appear around 15 century, I could be wrong through.

From what I can tell the guard has an Irish look about it. The pommel seems a bit Crusader-like. And with the blade fuller, we have a hybrid piece perhaps.

Regards, Jon

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It is quite hard to tell where does the Tinker sword´s S-shaped guard originate. However, I have never seen any medieval swords with such guard.

That kind of S-curved guard was fairly popular towards the end of the 15th century. The single-edged blade and the pommel don't look wrong for the second half of the 15th century either.

I would consider the piece to have something of an Italian influence, personally. More extremely curved examples of the guard style can be seen on 'schiavonesca' swords, and there is a particularly fancy example of a similar pommel on an Italian piece with a relief sculpture on each side.