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North Italian, about 1520-40 Collection: H.M. the King, Windsor Castle

Bronze gilt hilt. North Italian, about 1520 Metropolitan Museum, New York

critic. Moreover, the "blueing" on the field of the blade is unpleasantly "Georgian" in the intensity of its colour, and has not that fine blue-black patina usually associated with true XVth and XVIth century work. Such doubts are difficult to explain away; but let it be remembered, on the other