with broad tapering blade stamped with a star mark ahead of a short slender central fuller on each face, iron hilt including basket-guard formed of a trellis arrangement fluted bars, forward canted quillon, thumb-ring, characteristic shield-shaped pommel with a low domed boss front and back and connected to the guard by a later wire loop, and fishskin-covered grip (binding missing), 92.7 cm blade

Provenance

Joe Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), thence by descent

Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.