The EARLY MAKERS TRADE MARKS thread... lost and partly restored.

fernando · 19th October 2017, 03:41 PM

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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19th October 2017, 03:41 PM	#11
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	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 (missing attachments) . Last edited by fernando; 21st October 2017 at 06:24 PM.