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Source Description
Bronze mounts, wooden grip, pommel and quillons en torsade with etched inscriptions in German.
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Document identity
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10010
label
Executioner's Sword
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10010
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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
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CC0
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en
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swords
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Source extras
inscriptions
[Inscription] 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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steel, bronze, wood
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