Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 140
by twokneeling figures. The ends are finished with wingedcouchant lions, and four human faces. Over thefinely finished portraits are inscriptions. The gripof black sharkskin is bound spirally with silver 145 wire. The circular pommel lias two other inscribedportraits supported by cherub trophies,… … THE SO-CALLED CELLINI SHIELD. engraved near the cross-guard. The hand-guard isrichly chased with Eoman battle pieces, the pommel,en suite, with four diminutive heads. The cross-guard represents two recumbent satyrs. The wiregrip is overlaid with a large wire network. Thissword is said to have been…
