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North Italian, middle of the XVIth century The Rothschild bequest, British Museum

Andreas Münsten was brother of the more famous Peter—both of these blade-*smiths worked at Solingen and later at Toledo. This sword was obtained some forty years ago in Castile, where the tradition of its having belonged to Don Philip of Austria was associated with it. Those simply proportioned sword hilts, simple only from the paucity of their protective qualities, but ultra elaborate in respect to their enrichment, of which we find designs in the original drawings of Hans Holbein the younger, must have been works of