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13th June 2012, 03:14 PM
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(deceased)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking
Posts: 4,310
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A Grosses Messer, Excavated Together With its Bodkin, Late 15th Century
The lot, comprising two items, failed to sell at auction at the Dorotheum, Vienna, yesterday.
Although the pommel is missing from the sword we may analogously assume that it was shaped to match that of the bodkin. The latter, of course, was part of the 'byknives' originally contained in separate compartments of the sheath. m |
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