Description:
Spanish Colonial blade with many stamp marks in the indentation. Digital image.
Collected by Geoffrey Wingfield.
Court sword authenticated by Alan Ferg of the Arizona State Museum and date-tested to 1690-1705.
Similar to an image of Spanish court swords and scabbards, ca 1790 from the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History as published in The Leather Jacket Soldier: Spanish Military Equipment and Institutions of the late 18th Century by Odie B. Faulk, Socio-Technical Publications, Pasadena, CA 1971, image 8.
Collected by Geoffrey Wingfield.
Court sword authenticated by Alan Ferg of the Arizona State Museum and date-tested to 1690-1705.
Similar to an image of Spanish court swords and scabbards, ca 1790 from the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History as published in The Leather Jacket Soldier: Spanish Military Equipment and Institutions of the late 18th Century by Odie B. Faulk, Socio-Technical Publications, Pasadena, CA 1971, image 8.
Material:
Metal
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Court Sword blade found by Geoffrey Wingfield
Examples of Spanish Colonial Period court swords
Detail of blade found by Geoffrey Wingfield
Court Sword blade found by Geoffrey Wingfield
Examples of Spanish Colonial Period court swords
Detail of blade found by Geoffrey Wingfield