10000,-CZK Length /Lange 98cm , weight 1,1 kg
sword of the distinctive “Walloon” type made for the Amsterdam Town Guard .
These swords are assumed to have been used by the Amsterdam Town Guard, was common in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia in the Thirty Years' War and Baroque era.The hilt is formed from a bold quillon block with a scrolled wrist guard to the rear, and knucklebow to the front, swollen in diamond form to the middle, and fixed to the pommel with a screw. To the sides the hilt is mounted with asymmetrical side rings of crescent form each filled with a plate pierced with a pattern of eight-pointed stars and more smaller circles. Seemingly the French captured a large number of these swords in 1672-73 in the Netherlands, and as a result introduced the “Epee Wallone” in the French army. Weapons of this design were also issued to the Swedish army from the time of Gustavus Adolphus.
