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DOI Artikel:Clephan, Robert Coltman: The Wallace Collection of Arms and Armour, [1]
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Zeitschrift für historische Waffenkunde.
being any intention to deceive; but they rather,
in course of time, came to represent a certain
Standard of quality. Solingen smiths adopted the
running wolf of Passau; and the mark was used
by sword-smiths near Newcastle-upon-Tyne as late
typical of its dass, and it bears some historic data on
its face, which is always valuable. Sir Samuel Rush
Meyrick F. S. A. describes it as having been pre-
sented to Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine 'of
as the end of the eighteenth Century. Several sword-
smiths were brought from Bavaria for these works
— I had a descendant of one of them named
Rupertsberg in my Service.
No. 160 (Fig. 6 u. 7) is a sword in Case 1 decidedly
Fig. 7. Sword Nr. 160. Reverse Side.
the Rhine, by Philip III, of Spain. It is figured
by Mr. Joseph Skelton F. S. A. in his Illu-
strations of the Arms and Armour, at Goodrich
Court, Hertfordshire, Vol. n, plate CVI. The pom-
mel (Knauf) is somewhat oviform, and decorated
Zeitschrift für historische Waffenkunde.
being any intention to deceive; but they rather,
in course of time, came to represent a certain
Standard of quality. Solingen smiths adopted the
running wolf of Passau; and the mark was used
by sword-smiths near Newcastle-upon-Tyne as late
typical of its dass, and it bears some historic data on
its face, which is always valuable. Sir Samuel Rush
Meyrick F. S. A. describes it as having been pre-
sented to Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine 'of
as the end of the eighteenth Century. Several sword-
smiths were brought from Bavaria for these works
— I had a descendant of one of them named
Rupertsberg in my Service.
No. 160 (Fig. 6 u. 7) is a sword in Case 1 decidedly
Fig. 7. Sword Nr. 160. Reverse Side.
the Rhine, by Philip III, of Spain. It is figured
by Mr. Joseph Skelton F. S. A. in his Illu-
strations of the Arms and Armour, at Goodrich
Court, Hertfordshire, Vol. n, plate CVI. The pom-
mel (Knauf) is somewhat oviform, and decorated