A parade falchion (storta) in the Milanese style, partly circa 1600. With heavy falchion blade struck with three spurious marks at the ricasso, iron hilt including vertically recurved fluted quillons cast in relief, with the tips formed as Turk's heads cast in the round, chiselled moulded fluted iron grip, and fitted with Moor's head pommel, finely chiselled in the round, with diadem and elaborately plaited hairpiece, the details picked-out in gold damascening (originally gem-set about the basal collar). Blade cm. Overall length cm. his, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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