The blade was forged between 1550 and 1575. Flamberge basket-hilted sword from Portugal. When this basket-hilted flamberge sword was made between 1625 and 1650, its inscription read, “I fight for the ...

Mameluke swords are a cross-hilted, curved, scimitar-like sword historically used by Egyptian Mamluk ... The hilt has a nickel-plated steel bowl guard decorated on the outside with a scroll design and ...