Smallsword
Unknown
hallmarked 1689–90; blade dated 1674 · Steel, silver, wood · Arms and Armor
This hilt displays, in an early form, the basic features that continued to characterize English and American smallswords throughout the eighteenth century.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- hallmarked 1689–90; blade dated 1674
- Medium
- Steel, silver, wood
- Culture
- British, London
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Gift of Jean Jacques Reubell, in memory of his mother, Julia C. Coster, and of his wife, Adeline E. Post, both of New York City, 1926
