German steel calendar sword

An image of Weapons. Calendar sword. Back edged blade etched with a calendar and a list of saints' days for the year. Unknown production, Germany. Steel sword, cast with etched decoration, length, blade, 70.12 cm, width, blade, 4.0 cm, circa 1540-1550.

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Weapons. Calendar sword. Back edged blade etched with a calendar and a list of saints' days for the year. Unknown production, Germany. Steel sword, cast with etched decoration, length, blade, 70.12 cm, width, blade, 4.0 cm, circa 1540-1550.

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Accession Number: M.9-1947
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Image Library
Image height: 282 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 32.47kB
Exposure time: 1/20
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 11/1

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16th Century blade calendar calendar sword cast edged weapon etched etching Fitz_AA German hilt inscribed metalwork Renaissance saints saints' days scabbard steel sword sword guard swords weapon weaponry weapons

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