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Collection Item: Basket Hilted Sword
Basic info
- Collection
- Military History
- Object name
- Basket hilted sword
- Mortuary sword
- Object category
- Weapon
- Object subcategory
- Edged weapon
- Creators
- Keisser, Herman (Manufacturer)
- Description
- Single edged blade with two grooves marked 'xx HERMAN xx KEISSER xx' it had been blued. Basket hilt pierced with foliate designs and contemporary masks. Probably a German blade with an English hilt.
- Production date start
- 1630
- Production date end
- 1670
- Period
- Stuart
- Charles I and Civil War
- Commonwealth
- Restoration
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : CA766
- Alternative number
- YORCM : T310
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 30004394
Production
- Creators
- Keisser, Herman (Manufacturer)
- Location
- Germany
- School/style
- German
