with slender blade formed with a pair of short fullers on each face, iron hilt including cup-guard decorated with a large scallop design front and back, the sides pierced with looped openwork, a pair of straight quillons with moulded terminals, knuckle-guard en suite, and associated pommel (guardapolvo and screws missing), and wire-bound grip between iron collars, 95.0 cm blade

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.