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Old 12th November 2012, 09:03 PM   #13
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Default Vasco da Gama
Ceremonial two hand sword (montante) attributed to Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator who found the maritime route to the East (India) in 1498.

Length 175 cm. Dated beg. XV century.

(Lisbon Military Museum)


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