with broad straight flat double-edged blade, signed ‘Clemens’ and ‘ NNBDIBW’ between a pair of decorative cross marks in a slender central fuller framed by a pair of further fullers enclosed by lightly engraved border, grooved ricasso struck with the bladesmith’s mark, perhaps a scorpion, symmetrical iron hilt of flattened rounded bars, comprising down-curved quillon incised with a pair of lines at the terminal, upper and lower ring-guards, the latter with a pair of up-turned arms en suite with the quillon and knuckle-guard, tall ovoid pommel, and spirally-moulded grip with plaited wire between ‘Turk’s heads, probably the original, 92.2 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S500

Ten further examples are preserved in the Tøjhusmuseet Copenhagen. See Askgaard 1988, pp. 200-203, nos 44-53. The form of the hilt is closely related to the gold-and enamel-hilted sword of Christian IV, preserved in the Royal Collection at Rosenborg Slot, Copenhagen, see Schepelern and Boesen 1956, pp. 32-33 plate 8.