It's been a kind of Walloon-themed week for me. I've been looking to acquire one of these recently, and today by sheer coincidence I ran into one with a scabbard at the Lakenhal museum here in Leiden. It's missing one of the guard plates, but it's an impressive sword to see in person. It has sahagum and a stamp on the blade, the running wolf, and I think I saw the flower on the bottom of the quillon bulb. They even made a copy of it in glow-in-the-dark plaster! My phone/camera ran out of batteries (and is terrible in low lighting anyway) but next time I'm there I'll take a few more closeups of the markings.
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