Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - A GERMAN FIGHTING TWO HAND SWORD LATE 16 TH CENTURY

cornelistromp · 8th January 2016, 09:13 AM

@ Jim
Jim thanks you for your Always very valuable commentary, with a good track to potential sword makers of this piece

there are always questions often by collectors including myself how with these swords could be fought, more then often two-handed swords are wrongly dismissed as processional swords.

here is a good demonstration on youtube of how these two hand techniques must have looked like.

http://www.oakeshott.org/Figueiredo_...s_and_Hick.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYNy_drriXs

I believe this sword is homogeneous ( all the parts belonging together) from the third quarter of the 16th century.
I hope the marks will give more clarity at a later stage.
so 3/4 16thC! however with the note that some of the blade decoration can indeed be applied later in the 19th century.
The latin inscription seems to me from the 16thC.

for an Italian sword with similar fuller Latin inscription see pictures
and post #141

http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ght=katzbalger

8th January 2016, 09:13 AM	#19
cornelistromp Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,057	@ Jim Jim thanks you for your Always very valuable commentary, with a good track to potential sword makers of this piece there are always questions often by collectors including myself how with these swords could be fought, more then often two-handed swords are wrongly dismissed as processional swords. here is a good demonstration on youtube of how these two hand techniques must have looked like. http://www.oakeshott.org/Figueiredo_...s_and_Hick.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYNy_drriXs I believe this sword is homogeneous ( all the parts belonging together) from the third quarter of the 16th century. I hope the marks will give more clarity at a later stage. so 3/4 16thC! however with the note that some of the blade decoration can indeed be applied later in the 19th century. The latin inscription seems to me from the 16thC. for an Italian sword with similar fuller Latin inscription see pictures and post #141 http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ght=katzbalger Attached Images Last edited by cornelistromp; 8th January 2016 at 09:33 AM.