Jack Loomes
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Post by Jack Loomes on Sept 9, 2014 3:24:05 GMT
Editor's Note: Below translated by Google from Italian.18th Century Straight blade with two wires of lenticular section, nearly flat to weak, equipped with a rounded toe, shelled the fort, engraved with a scroll bearing inscriptions: on one side the words "Ich Dich Thue Richten Schnelle" surmounted by a wheel and above a deep punch marked at the base, on the other side "Dich Gott Gewähr For Der Halle", below a scaffold. Hilt bronze hilt with straight arms cone-shaped pommel spheroid in bronze, buttoned; handle with winding copper braids and heads with brown, always in copper. Length 111.5 cm 3000.00 € | € 3,500.00 For more information on Oakeshott Type XIIIa Swords see this extract from Ewart Oakeshott's Records of the Medieval Sword: sword-site.com/thread/152/oakeshott-xiiib-records-medieval-swordSource: www.czernys.com/auctions_lot.php?oggetto=53081&asta=47
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