with broad straight double-edged blade of flattened-diamond section over the upper portion, and flattened-hexagonal over its lower third, the latter cut with a broad shallow fuller over its surface and struck with a mark, in a shield the letters ‘CD’ above a Maltese cross, iron hilt comprising a pair of flat sharply down-turned quillons swelling towards the terminals and lightly engraved with foliage over the lower portion, circular outer-guard with up-turned brim at the front and integral small inner guard with down turned edge at the back, fluted plummet-shaped pommel engraved with foliage, and leather-bound grip, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with iron mounts comprising openwork chape (detached), four further mounts each formed of three slender rivetted bands, and the upper two with a pair of rings for suspension, 92.2 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S266

One hundred and twelve so-called ‘Hungarian Pallasch’ are listed in the Graz Zeughaus inventories of 1594 and 1598. Approximately thirty related examples remain extant there. See Pichler 1880, p. 72.