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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
- Unknown (Blade maker)
- Description
- Single edged blade with two grooves per side, marked "IHN SOLINGEN". Basket hilt cast, pierced and chased with a feather designs. Likely to be an English hilted German blade.
- Production date start
- 1630
- Production date end
- 1670
- Period
- Stuart
- Charles I and Civil War
- Commonwealth
- Restoration
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : CA755
- Alternative number
- YORCM : T734
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 30004402
Physical Characteristics
- Dimensions
- Overall length 1,040.0 mm
- Blade length 860.0 mm
Production
- Creators
- Unknown (Blade maker)
- Location
- Solingen
- School/style
- German
