Subject: Ritter knight
Culture: Imperial German / Austrian
Setting: French, Turkish wars, Europe early-mid 15thc
Object: Schwert longsword
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Hand and a Half Sword
German, ca. 1500-1525
Steel, leather, weight 4 lbs.
The blade is incised with the mark of the Ottoman arsenal in Istanbul, indicating that the Turks probably took this sword from a European knight as war booty." ...
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