Production: Unknown
Long sword. (Reitchwert). Very large spherical pommel; long grip spirally grooved and bound with fine wire horizontally with a thicker twisted wire following the grooves. Long quillons of circular section horizontally recurved and knobbed at the tips. Cusped ecusson. There are two ring-guards on the outside, of circular section swelling at midpoint; two branches and back-guards of three bars, with thumb-ring. Long slender blade of flat horizontal section with a stout ricasso and a short strong fuller at the forte. On each side of the fuller, in the ricasso, is a twig mark.
History note: Probably from Schloss Ambras
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Length: 132.1 cm
Weight: 1.25 kg
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century
Circa
1575
CE
-
1600
CE
The extra guards on the hilt of this sword protected the hand from sword blows and from the opponent’s blade sliding along your blade. The hilt has a wire bound handle very characteristic of swords of the period.
There are many surviving examples of almost identical swords. Many of these are in the town armoury at Braz in Austria. A good one is in the Royal Armouries, (.IX 1029), illustrated in 'European Swords and Daggers in the Tower of London, plate 21d.
Sword
composed of
steel
Blade
Length 113.7 cm
Blade At Hilt
Width 2.5 cm
Quillon
Width 27.9 cm
Inscription present: maker's mark
Accession number: HEN.M.208-1933
Primary reference Number: 18911
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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