This fine armor was intended to be equally suitable for war or the tournament. For the tournament, it is designed for foot combat in which two adversaries fought armed with poleax or broadsword.
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With an iron basket hilt and bronze pommel with high relief contorted face motif. The typology of the Schiavona is best set forth by Oakeshott who identifies this form as Type 2.
Blade length: 36 7/8”
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Among Cossacks, the hetman was the military commander. The title was used from the end of the 16th to the mid 18th centuries by the Ukrainian Cossacks.
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This sword is distinguished by its particularly finely chiseled and pierced iron hilt.
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Provenance: The Boston Museum of Fine Art
Exhibited: The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester Massachusetts, 1974-92
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This sword is from a well known group studied by A. V. B. Norman. Evidently all were made in Munich and among others, served the the Munich Town Guard.
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This dagger was used to parry with a rapier in the right hand.
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This example is from the same group as #CG.145 above and displays the same characteristics of form and construction.
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This example, of fine flamboyant form, is from a distinctly identifiable group, showing superior quality. The deep domed skull has a high broad "white" crest with roped edge.
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The balance of the field is blackened, the transversely stippled brim polished in the "white" as well. The curved brim upturned in fine sweeping terminals. Black and white armor was produced in Germany and used both domestically and exported.
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Rolled edge neck guard pierced for hanging and hinged cheek pieces pierced with a cluster of holes for hearing. The surface finely hammer finished and blued.
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The brim, etched in strapwork filled with scrolling foliage is struck with a makers mark. The burgonet was the helmet of choice for military use throughout Germany.
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Its high rounded upper hilt bar dates this rapier to the first quarter of the 17th century.
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This is a cutting sword designed to be most effective against leather or partial plate armor.
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The heavy one piece iron skull is large enough to accommodate the internal padding needed for the tilt. The roped comb provides a cushion against a blow or cut.
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This example epitomizes the morion at its zenith in Northern Italy with its two piece skull surmounted by an exceptionally high elegant roped edge comb.
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This is an example of a purely English rapier of the English Civil Wars period and the years which led to them.
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37 double edged blade with broad central fuller at the forte etched each side with Prudentia et Constantia, and crowned Georgian royal cipher with the GR obliterated both sides.
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This fine breastplate represents a group produced in Western Europe and Italy.
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The Ricasso provides a thumb rest on the reverse and blade catching apertures and flutes. The Grip is characteristically Spanish with vertical bars over wire wrap.
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This rapier is an early example of the response to the mid 17th century movement toward greater agility in combat, the benefit of which was learned at great cost from the Ottoman Turks.
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Original blackened haft. With no comparables known, this example has puzzled experts for decades. The suggestion that it was used to lead the procession of aristocrats to the gallows is very plausible.
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It is a basket hilt cavalry sword. The blade is German, marked MEFECIT SOLINGEN each side with double cross and orb marks. Blade length: 35 3/4
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The blade is German and bears the Passau wolf mark inlaid in copper, as well as a makers mark at the forte, each side. Double edged blades are far less common than single edged examples. Blade length: 34 1/2
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This rapier dates precisely to the period leading up to the English Civil War of 1642. It was a time of polarization and expression of political opinions and loyalties.
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9 blade, belongs to a group of daggers with similar blades and guards, decorated in silver as is this one, many of which bear Jacobite mottos. They have spatulate profile reeded bog oak grips.
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This charming dagger incorporates a fluted shell guard above the conventional ring guard in a deceptively pleasing arrangement.
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This left hand fighting dagger is representative in form of its type but distinguished by its particularly fine inner guard guarda polvo which would show prominently when the dagger was worn sheathed.
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The blade is in three stages with rounded hexagonal ricasso stepped to a flattened diamond section with a further step reducing the section slightly.
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