A German Dussäge ( Tesack ) Late 16th Century With broad curved single-edged blade with a back-edge towards the point, stamped on one face with three crosses and a maker's mark (?) involving crosses, and on both faces, bordering the back, repeated 'sickle' marks, iron hilt comprising flat vertically recurved quillons with triangular ends, a half-basket guard on the outside involving a kuckle-guard, an S-shaped bar and a solid triangular plate pierced with circles, hearts and a four-pointed star and with narrow borders of incised conventional foliage, forward arm linked to an inner side-loop and thumb-ring, pommel of truncated pyramidal form, and later wooden grip with incised herringbone pattern 26¾in. (68cm.) blade This belongs to a well-known group of swords, often called Sinclairsäbel, of which many examples were imported into Norway in the late 16th century by King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway for arming the peasantry. See H. Seitz, Blankwaffen , I, pp. 359-63; Claude Blair, European and American Arms , p. 10, fig. 172
A German Dussäge ( Tesack ) Late 16th Century With broad curved single-edged blade with a back-edge towards the point, stamped on one face with three crosses and a maker's mark (?) involving crosses, and on both faces, bordering the back, repeated 'sickle' marks, iron hilt comprising flat vertically recurved quillons with triangular ends, a half-basket guard on the outside involving a kuckle-guard, an S-shaped bar and a solid triangular plate pierced with circles, hearts and a four-pointed star and with narrow borders of incised conventional foliage, forward arm linked to an inner side-loop and thumb-ring, pommel of truncated pyramidal form, and later wooden grip with incised herringbone pattern 26¾in. (68cm.) blade This belongs to a well-known group of swords, often called Sinclairsäbel, of which many examples were imported into Norway in the late 16th century by King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway for arming the peasantry. See H. Seitz, Blankwaffen , I, pp. 359-63; Claude Blair, European and American Arms , p. 10, fig. 172
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