PARTLY 16TH CENTURY
Details
A Composite Broadsword
Partly 16th Century
With tapering blade with central fuller on each face of the forte, stamped 'JJ Runkel Solingen', iron guard with slender straight quillons with mushroom-shaped terminals and arms linked by an inner forked diagonal guard, faceted fig-shaped pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip
32in. (81.4cm.) blade
J.J. Runkel (1705-1808) was a German swordsmith (?) and merchant who exported blades to Britain and is recorded in London from 1795, becoming a naturalised British subject in the following year. See W.E. May & P.G.W. Annis, Swords for Sea Service, 1970, II, p. 302
Partly 16th Century
With tapering blade with central fuller on each face of the forte, stamped 'JJ Runkel Solingen', iron guard with slender straight quillons with mushroom-shaped terminals and arms linked by an inner forked diagonal guard, faceted fig-shaped pommel, and wire-bound wooden grip
32in. (81.4cm.) blade
J.J. Runkel (1705-1808) was a German swordsmith (?) and merchant who exported blades to Britain and is recorded in London from 1795, becoming a naturalised British subject in the following year. See W.E. May & P.G.W. Annis, Swords for Sea Service, 1970, II, p. 302