Composite Hand-and-a-Half Sword
Culture
European
Dateblade: 1500s; hilt: 1800s
Mediumsteel, iron and cord
Dimensions130 × 4 × 26.5 cm (51 3/16 × 1 9/16 × 10 7/16 in.), 3 lb, (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.692
ProvenanceWm. H. Riggs
Collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art (#14.25.1099)
Purchased by the Museum from Parke-Bernet Galleries (NYC) on November 15, 1956, sale #1708, lot #134.
Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.On View
Not on view
Northern German
1540–1560
late 1800s