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Probably Italian, but produced under German influence. Middle of XVth century

Collection: Mr. Henry G. Keasby

Italian weapon, but designed on German lines, and dates from about the third quarter of the XVth century (Fig. 634). A sword not unlike it, but assuredly German and of smaller proportions, is in the collection of the Baron de Cosson. This weapon we are also bound to place at a fairly late date in the XVth century (Fig. 635); while a similar sword, in the Wallace Collection (No. 33, Gallery VII) is so late as to exhibit Maximilian influences (Fig. 636). The numerals 1415 are engraved upon the ricasso of