Hand and a Half Sword

Unknown

ca. 1500–1525 · Steel, leather, wood · Arms and Armor

The blade is incised with the mark of the Ottoman arsenal in Istanbul, indicating that the Turks probably took this sword from a European soldier as war booty.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1500–1525

Medium

Steel, leather, wood

Culture

German

Department

Arms and Armor

Credit line

Purchase, The Sulzberger Foundation Inc. and Helmut Nickel Gifts, Rogers Fund, Bequest of Stephen V. Grancsay, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 1988