A NORTH EUROPEAN BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD (TESSAK), SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, NORTH GERMAN OR SCANDINAVIAN with tapering blade formed in two stages, the upper half of flattened-diamond section the lower half stamped 'IANNI' between a pair of decorative marks within a short fuller framed by incised lines on each face, the reverse struck with three bladesmith's marks, iron hilt of characteristic form comprising basket-guard of rounded bars on a double shell-guard pierced with circular holes at the inner corners, a pair of vertically-recurved quillons, one with bulbous terminal chiselled with a pattern of raised dots (the other terminal missing), the basket with filed mouldings, thumb-loop, mushroom-shaped pommel chiselled en suite with the quillon (hilt loose, areas of pitting, grip missing) 92 cm; 36 ¼ in blade
A NORTH EUROPEAN BASKET-HILTED BROADSWORD (TESSAK), SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, NORTH GERMAN OR SCANDINAVIAN with tapering blade formed in two stages, the upper half of flattened-diamond section the lower half stamped 'IANNI' between a pair of decorative marks within a short fuller framed by incised lines on each face, the reverse struck with three bladesmith's marks, iron hilt of characteristic form comprising basket-guard of rounded bars on a double shell-guard pierced with circular holes at the inner corners, a pair of vertically-recurved quillons, one with bulbous terminal chiselled with a pattern of raised dots (the other terminal missing), the basket with filed mouldings, thumb-loop, mushroom-shaped pommel chiselled en suite with the quillon (hilt loose, areas of pitting, grip missing) 92 cm; 36 ¼ in blade
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