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 work has been credited to several artists and to a French provenance; but in our opinion it is wholly a German production. It is an interesting fact, worthy of record, that this sabre figures in the catalogue of the collection of a Monsieur Picard, which was sold in Paris in 1779, together with "Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Gaulish and Gothic Antiquities and other curiosities of various kinds."

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Worn by Nicholas de Coville, jester to the Court of Henri II of France German, middle of the XVIth century

(a) The hilt and upper part of the blade. (b) The lower part of the blade

Ressman Collection, Bargello Museum, Florence

Of that class of hilt which is found on the half-sword half-rapier type, two examples with which we are acquainted are pre-eminent from the stand{{peh}}