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Collection Item: Basket Hilted Sword
Basic info
- Collection
- Military History
- Object name
- Basket hilted sword
- Sword-rapier
- Object category
- Weapon
- Object subcategory
- Edged weapon
- Creators
- Unknown (Swordsmith)
- Description
- Narrow single edged blade bears a now illegible inscription, possibly in Latin. Hilt pierced and chased including decoration with masks although the type is not a 'mortuary sword'. May be a re-bladed hilt.
- Production date start
- 1620
- Production date end
- 1650
- Period
- Stuart
- Jacobean
- Charles I and Civil War
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : CA748
- Alternative number
- YORCM : T68
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 30004395
Physical Characteristics
- Dimensions
- Whole length 104.0 cm
- Blade length 88.0 cm
- Blade width 2.0 cm
Production
- Creators
- Unknown (Swordsmith)
- Location
- Unknown
