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Old 21st October 2009, 02:18 PM   #11
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Any chance to know the weights?

Unfortunately not for these but we do know from various documented specimens of two hand swords that they varied in both length and weight from ca. 150-170 cm and 2.300 to 3.200 kg (ca. 1500-1550) and from ca. 170-220 cm, their weight reaching more than 4.5 kg in the later years of the 16th and the first quarter of the 17th centuries.

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