Pillow Sword

c. 1650 Overall: 93 cm (36 5/8 in.); Blade: 77.8 cm (30 5/8 in.); Quillions: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.) Source image
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The "pillow-sword" is so-named because of where it was kept. A sword like this one, with a straight blade and relatively simple hilt, would have been suspended above a headboard within arm's reach for bedside defense should an intruder attack while the household was asleep and...

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संस्कृति
Italy, 17th century
विधा
Arms and Armor
विभाग
Medieval Art

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