Sword, with straight single-edged blade with fuller, inscribed on both sides with '1531' and the wolf mark of Solingen blade makers.

Collection type: Object
Description: Sword, with straight single-edged blade with fuller, inscribed on both sides with '1531' and the wolf mark of Solingen blade makers.
Long description: With straight single-edged blade with fuller, inscribed on both sides with '1531' and the wolf mark of Solingen blade makers. The shell guard, quillon, knucklebow and pommel are of silver with raised foliate patterns, and the wooden grip is bound with shagreen and silver wire. [LM 24/10/2007]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Hubert John Aloysius Berkeley; PRM source Wolstan Edward Francis Berkeley
Date / Period: Date made: 1531?, uncertain
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 1945
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal, Material Iron Metal, Material Steel Metal, Material Shagreen Skin Fish, Material Wood Plant, Process Inscribed, Process Forged (Metal), Process Grooved, Process Incised, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 665 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1945.6.17
Research and responses: Solingen is a place in Ruhr, Germany [AP 06/12/2007]

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