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Of French workmanship, about 1620. Collection: H.M. the King, Windsor Castle

some form of shell guard is now missing. However, there is a sword much like it, and certainly from the same hand, in the Imperial Armoury, Vienna (Fig. 1505). In the past, when the pommel (of which there are many similar ones in existence) has been met with without the remainder of the hilt either in iron or in bronze or bronze gilt, it has been ascribed to no less an artist