Basic info

Collection

Military History

Object name

Riding sword

Sword-rapier

Object category

Weapon

Object subcategory

Edged weapon

Creators

Unknown (Swordsmith)

Description

With steel hilt, large spherical pommel, knucklebow, flat section flared quillons with disc terminals, ring guard with supporting bar to the knucklebow. Leather (?) covering over wire bound grip. Double edged diamond section blade with ricasso. latter stamped both sides with a pair of crescent with their concave aspect facing outwards, the inner face is serrated, between the two is an illegible stamp.

Production date start

1540

Production date end

1620

Period

Tudor

Elizabethan

Stuart

Jacobean