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Collection Item: Broadsword
Basic info
- Collection
- Military History
- Object name
- Broadsword
- Crab-claw hilt sword
- Object category
- Weapon
- Object subcategory
- Edged weapon
- Description
- Lozenge section double edged blade. Pierced shell guards with four up curved guards. Leather covered bulbous grip with fluted oval pommel. The blade is marked with an orb and cross. Name is a collector's term referring to the guards appearance similar to crabs legs.
- Production date start
- 1600
- Production date end
- 1640
- Period
- Tudor
- Elizabethan
- Stuart
- Jacobean
- Charles I and Civil War
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : CA801
- Alternative number
- YORCM : T112.a
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 30004388
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Steel (Sword)
- Dimensions
- Overall length 108.0 cm
- Blade length 91.0 cm
- Blade width 4.0 cm
Production
- Location
- Italy
- School/style
- Italian
