Basket-Hilted Broadsword

Cleveland Museum of Art

Basket-Hilted Broadsword

Date
Hilt: c. 1720, Blade: early 1700s
Medium
steel; liner of buff leather; grip of wood, copper wire and fishskin (ray?)
Culture
hilt: Scotland; blade: Germany, Solingen, hilt: 18th Century
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

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