15th century
Excavated. Condition indicates a water find. Wooden handle with integral wooden guard. Studs (probably for the attachment of inset bands now lost) and inlaid silver. Blade 6" long. Illustrated in Laking "European Armour and Arms" vol. 3 page 35 fig. 804 (described as " of the Flemish type with silver enrichments which was recovered some years ago fom the Rhine." and dated to 1470), Dean "A Catalog of a Load Exhibition of Arms and Armor", Met. Museum of Art, 1911, No. 144. Formerly in the Keasbey collection. Sold as lot 184 of the Dec. 6, 1924 sale of the collection of Henry Griffith Keasbey held at the American Art Galleries by auctioneers Parke and Bernet where it is described as "German c. 1400 found in the Rhine".
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