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Blade by Johannes Wundes the Younger | Basket-hilted Sword | hilt, British; blade, German | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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What is the purpose of the edge beveling of this 17th century piece? Is it to make it an ornamentational piece? Museum lists it a "mortuary sword" : r/ SWORDS
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