with tapering blade double-edged and of flattened-hexagonal section for its upper three quarters, stamped ‘IANNI’ and with a series of decorative star-shaped marks within a short central fuller on the respective faces, stamped with a series of four further marks on the reverse at the forte, iron basket-hilt of rounded bars, comprising a pair of straight quillons with vertically recurved tips with pronounced globular terminals each chiselled with a finely chequered design, symmetrical basket-guard formed on each face with a saltire joining the knuckle-guard to the front and rear guards, figure-of-eight shaped basal plate pierced with four trefoils (small chips) and joined front and back by an s-shaped bar to the guard, thumb-loop, mushroom-shaped pommel cut with a band of chequering en suite with the quillons, and leather-covered wooden grip, 100.0 cm blade

Provenance

Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S315

Hilts of this form are associated with North Germany and Scandinavia. See Norman 1980, p. 149.