Subject: Trabantengarde noble bodyguard
Culture: German Saxon
Setting: Reformation, Germany late 16th-17thc
Object: rapier & dagger
Windlass Steelcrafts *
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* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Arms from the Saxon Court at Dresden"
"Rapier Steel, copper wire German, about 1580-1600"
"Rapier Steel, silver German, about 1600-1610"
"Rapier Steel, silver wire German, about 1575-1600"
"Rapier Steel, gold, brass wire German, about 1600-1625"
"Rapier Steel, copper wire German, about 1600-1610"
"Rapier Steel, brass wire German, about 1600-1610"
"Dagger with Scabbard Steel, silver, ray skin, leather Wolf Paller (silversmith, died 1583) German (Dresden), about 1575"
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
Israel Schuech (active about 1590-1610) German (Dresden), dated 1606
This hilt is the only recorded work of the Dresden sword-cutler Israel Schuech. The decoration of strapwork and allegorical figures,
set with paste jewels, is parallel to contemporary goldsmiths' work at the opulent Saxon Court."
"Rapier Steel, damascened with gold and silver; iron wire German (possibly Saxony), about 1600"
Hanwei *
* National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall
* Hanwei
Deepeeka *
Royal Armouries Museum > Tournament *
"Dagger Made in the German 16th century style and given to the museum as genuine,
this left hand dagger is now recognised as a fake.
"FAKE! The skills of the 19th century decorator are clear in the engraving of the blade in silver,
but is has also been inlaid and overlaid with military scenes that are not true to the Renaissance." ....
[NOTE: This description is identical to that of the dagger opposite]
* Royal Armouries Museum > Tournament
"Dagger Made in the German 16th century style and given to the museum as genuine,
this left hand dagger is now recognised as a fake.
"FAKE! The skills of the 19th century decorator are clear in the engraving of the blade in silver,
but is has also been inlaid and overlaid with military scenes that are not true to the Renaissance." ....
[NOTE: This description is identical to that of the dagger opposite]
