Sword

Description This piece is undecorated. The crossguard is restored. The grip would have been padded.

Provenance Thuringia, Germany, 1895 [said to have been found in a river bed] [mode of deposition unknown]; Spiller, London, January 30, 1901, no. 128; Harding [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1917 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1917