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Executioner's Sword
Bronze mounts, wooden grip, pommel and quillons en torsade with etched inscriptions in German.
Inscription
Provenance
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Exhibited in the Royal Castle of Nuremberg (owner: private antiquarian and entrepreneur, Geuter); Eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, 1890, by purchase (negotiated by dealer Julius D. Ichenhauser); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase (negotiated by dealer Julius D. Ichenhauser); Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Ansbach (Place of Origin)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1905
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
51.1407