Grosse Messer circa 1500

Length: 1340 mm
Width: 255 mm
Length: 955 mm blade
width: blade 34 mm
Weight: 1390 g [after substantial corrosion and loss of hilt elements]

Attachment of steel. Button transverse, discoid and extended oval with abruptly cut ändar.Pareranordning consisting of flat, bent down parerstänger with palmettformigt dilated distal ends and a round oval cross bracket. Parera scheme outside with sparse ornamentation of punched straight line ornaments. Kavel missing. Blade type saber blade, slightly curved, single-edged, with the tip eggsidan curved upward toward the dorsal side. On both sides along the back edge of a shallow fillets.

Source: emuseumplus.lsh.se