Old 29th June 2012, 09:05 PM #247
Posted by:
Matchlock
(deceased)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
In some instances, 16th c. artists were astoundingly exact in their depictions, including the representation of characteristic blade marks.
Attached please find a depiction of a cross-and-orb mark, together with a wavy serpent ornament, on the blade of a ca. 1540's Landsknecht saber, in a painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger, dated 1584, preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg.
Author's photos, 1995.
Please see also
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showt...1713#post141713
Best,
Michael
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