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    "localId": "21014",
    "label": "Hand and a Half Sword",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.479"
}

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    "id": "21014",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.479",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Hand and a Half Sword",
    "description": "The grip on this sword is long enough to permit the man to steady the hand holding the heavy sword with the other hand.  The sword has been reassembled with parts replaced.",
    "provenance": "Baron de Léry, Paris; American Art Association Sale, November 14, 1921, no. 242; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921, by purchase; Wal;ters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 15th century (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.479",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "swords"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21.8,
            "height": 119.4,
            "depth": 3.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 9/16 x 47 x 1 3/8 in. (21.8 x 119.4 x 3.5 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Renaissance",
    "inscriptions": "On pommel the letters Z O and S",
    "med": "steel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994"
    ]
}

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