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AN ITALIAN FALCHION
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With curved single-edged fullered blade, possibly an Eastern European working replacement, double-edged at the point and etched over its entire length on each side with a snake, scrollwork, an arm brandishing a scimitar, a sunburst and a crescent moon, iron guard comprising broad quillon-block chiselled on the outer face with a mask and foliage on the reverse, and vertically recurved flattened quillons each with lion-head terminal, short cylinderical green-stained rayskin-covered grip bound with wire and with narrow Turk's heads, and large copper-braized iron pommel cast and chiselled in the form of a lion's head
32¼in. (82cm.) blade
LATE 16TH CENTURY
With curved single-edged fullered blade, possibly an Eastern European working replacement, double-edged at the point and etched over its entire length on each side with a snake, scrollwork, an arm brandishing a scimitar, a sunburst and a crescent moon, iron guard comprising broad quillon-block chiselled on the outer face with a mask and foliage on the reverse, and vertically recurved flattened quillons each with lion-head terminal, short cylinderical green-stained rayskin-covered grip bound with wire and with narrow Turk's heads, and large copper-braized iron pommel cast and chiselled in the form of a lion's head
32¼in. (82cm.) blade
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