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    "localId": "10010",
    "label": "Executioner's Sword",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1407"
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    "id": "10010",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1407",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Executioner's Sword",
    "description": "Bronze mounts, wooden grip, pommel and quillons en torsade with etched inscriptions in German.",
    "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": "mid 17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1407",
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    "language": "en",
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{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] The world steers toward mischief",
        "and I execute judgement. / When I lift up my sword",
        "God give the poor sinner eternity."
    ],
    "med": "steel, bronze, wood",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
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