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Source Description
Shark skin grip , iron mounts, etched blade with St. George and the executioner.
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Document identity
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4124
label
Executioner's Sword
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object
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Source metadata
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4124
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object
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normalized
title
Executioner's Sword
description
Shark skin grip , iron mounts, etched blade with St. George and the executioner.
provenance
Exhibited in the Royal Castle of Nuremberg (owner: private antiquarian and entrepreneur, Geuter); Eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, 1890, by purchase (negotiated by dealer Julius D. Ichenhauser); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase (negotiated by dealer Julius D. Ichenhauser); Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
late 17th century
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CC0
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en
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swords
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Source extras
inscriptions
[Inscription translation from German] The world steers toward mischief and I execute judgement. / When I lift up my sword
God give the poor sinner eternity.
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iron, shark skin
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6211
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none
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none
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1
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photo
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