MAKE A MEME View Large Image Marson - Basket-Hilt Rapier - Walters 51506.jpg The basket shape of the hilt completely encloses the hand in a system of connected curving bars that extend from the guard to the pommel The blade is exceptionally long with a flattened ...
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Keywords: Marson - Basket-Hilt Rapier - Walters 51506.jpg The basket shape of the hilt completely encloses the hand in a system of connected curving bars that extend from the guard to the pommel The blade is exceptionally long with a flattened diamond section that turns to a hexagonal section and is deeply grooved at the hilt The blade is marked Marson presumably the maker The same mark was found on a rapier carried by Gustav II Adolph king of Sweden during the Thirty Years War 1618-48 between 1625 1650 steel cm 136 3 accession number 51 506 19505 Duca d'Aosta Henry Griffith Keasbey New York date and mode of acquisition unknown Sale American Art Association New York November 27-28 1925 no 104 Henry Walters Baltimore 1925 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 place of origin Germany Walters Art Museum license Baroque art in the Walters Art Museum Weapons in the Walters Art Museum Bladesmiths Swept-Hilt Rapiers
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