Champion Of The Sun.

Basket hilted sword. Hilt is English, blade is from Solingen, Germany. Circa 1610

from The Burrell Collection, Glasgow

The Legend of Rabenstein: Deserted (1877) - Samuel Read

Two Thousand Years Ago (1878) by John Atkinson Grimshaw

Claude Paradin, Devises Heroïques, 1567

A beautiful black and gilt Cup-hilt Rapier,

OaL: 44.6 in/113.3 cm

Blade Length: 36.8 in/93.5 cm

Width: 11.1 in/28.3 cm

Depth: 5 in/12.7 cm

Weight: 2.1 lbs/963.9 g

Italy, ca. 1650, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Simply angelic.

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Duomo Milán

Ceremonial dagger, Turkey, Ottoman Empire, 16th century,

Given to Gábor Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania.

Ebony, emerald, ruby, silver, steel, turquoise,

length: 38,5 cm, width: 6,8 cm.

Courtesy: Iparművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Applied Arts) Budapest

Marguerite Churchill, photographed by Max Munn Autrey, 1930.

Church of Saint Gengoult le Cloitre, Toul France (1900s) - Unknown Photographer