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The arts and crafts of older Spain (1907)

Williams, Leonard, b. 1871 · London [etc.] : T.N. Foulis · leaf 344

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o the National Museumof Artillery. The smaller or gineta sword 2 is handsomer and 1 Las Pinturas de la Alhambra, p. 15. 2 The Count of Valencia de Don Juan states that seven Hispano-Moresque gtneta swords are known to exist to-day : the one whichis here described, and those belonging to the… … MOORISH SWORD i Hill ami upfn • part oj theath) ARMS more important than the large estoque. The crossbars, as we find so often in weapons of this character and date, are bent abruptly down, and then curve up in a design of dragons heads-—the well-known emblem of the Nasrite sultans of Granada. Part…

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