Cleveland Museum of Art

Hand-and-a-Half Sword

Date

c. 1500

Medium

steel, wood, leather; quillions and spirally fluted pommel of blackened steel

Culture

South Germany, early 16th Century

Department

Medieval Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This sword came to be called a hand-and-a-half, because it could either be used with both hands or just one.

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