A Broad Side Sword With Slender Fittings In Classic Venetian Style,

A broad Side Sword with slender fittings in classic Venetian style,

OaL: 40.6 in/103.2 cm

Venice, Italy, ca. early 16th century, from Czerny's International Auction House.

A unique Storta or Falchion, England, ca 1550-1560, housed at the Self Defense Gallery in Leeds.

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German or Dutch cutlass, 17th century.

from Helios Auctions

Arming Sword

Dated: circa 1530-50

Culture: Italian or Spanish 

Measurements: Blade 94.7 cm. Overall length 107 cm

The sword has a heavy double-edged blade of flattened hexagonal section coming to a short point (associated), formed with a ricasso and cut with a group of small marks capping. There is a pair of narrow fullers on both sides at the forte, iron proto-rapier hilt formed into a pair of quillons with horizontally recurved fishtail terminals. These are cut with a prominent ridge over their respective outer sides. The weapon also features a pair of faceted arms carrying at their head an inverted U-shaped bar ridged en suite with the quillon terminals (broken at one joint).

It has a globular pommel with medial ridge and flattened centres, the outer face deeply incised with a stylised shell. Also comes with a later moulded wire-bound grip, a wooden scabbard with shaped throat covered in modern green velvet and fitted with iron chape with modern leather belt. The hilt is a variation of the Type 16 discussed in A.V.B. Norman, The Rapier and Small-Sword 1460-1820, London 1980, pp. 80-82. A sword with a very closely comparable hilt is alternatively given a Spanish late 15th century attribution by Oakeshott.

Source: © Hermann Historica

A beautiful broad bladed Longsword,

OaL: 31.3 in/79.5 cm

Width: 3 in/6.6 cm

Weight: 3.4 lbs/1.54 kg

Germany, ca. 1500-1525, housed at the Wallace Collection.