Sword handle, 14th century. With cross of St. Andrew pressed into the leather of the handle, iron counterweight at top. Poignee d'Epee, XIVe siecle. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from Jacques Joseph van Beveren’s Costume du Moyen Age, Medieval Costume, Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1847.

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