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Old 20th March 2012, 06:42 PM   #9
Matchlock
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After intense stylistic research I think that the style of the etching represents the early 17th-century taste; this may be an Austrian sword from the Trabanten-Leibgarde (body guard) of an Austrian (Salzburg?) archbishop, ca. 1620.
The crosses in the corners to me do not seem to be Templar's crosses but rather those of an archbishopry.

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