Basic info

Collection

Military History

Object name

Basket hilted sword

Broadsword

Object category

Weapon

Object subcategory

Edged weapon

Creators

Wirsberg, Wilhem (Blade maker)

Description

Double edged blade with single fuller groove near hilt on each side, inscribed "WILLEM WIRSBURG" with an orb and cross motif.. Basket hilt of English type roughly decorated with incised lines and is attached to the large globular pommel at three points, in a groove. The inscription means the German made blade pre dates the design of the hilt by at least twenty years.

Production date start

1565

Production date end

1640

Period

Tudor

Elizabethan

Stuart

Jacobean

Charles I and Civil War