1260-1325 AD. An iron sword of Oakeshott's Type XVI.2, cross style 7, pommel style I1, showing a slender triangular blade with shallow fullers and acute point; narrow lower guard with flared ends; strong signs of battle nicks along the edges; long grip with the tang inserted inside a pommel of disc or 'wheel' form cut into a hexagonal or octagonal shape by facetting. See Oakeshott, E., The sword in the Age of the Chivalry, Woodbridge, 1964 (1994); Dufty, A.R., European swords and daggers at the tower of London, London, 1974; Oakeshott, E. Records of the Medieval Sword, Woodbridge, 1991; Aleksi?, M., Mediaeval Swords from Southeastern Europe, materials from 12th to 15th century, Beograd, 2007; substantially identical to a sword of second half of 13th century found in Lucera Castle (waiting for publication by the author of the report); another very similar specimen is the sword preserved in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Oakeshott, 1991, p.153); further similar cutting and thrusting blades in Dufty, 1974, pl.4a. and Aleksi? (2007, cat. 10, r. Hron, site Kalna nad Hronom, county of Levice, southwestern Slovakia, Tekovian Museum, Levice, inv.nr. 2976) all from 14th century AD. 848 grams, 88cm (34 1/2"). Property of a European gentleman living in London; from his grandfather's collection by descent in 1989; formerly in the family collection since at least the 1970s; accompanied by an academic report by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato. The characteristic pommel and the presence of the socket in the tang of this specimen allow this sword to be paralleled by the description of French swords at the battle of Benevento (AD 1266) between Charles I d’Anjou and King Manfred of Sicily, in which the technological innovation brought by the Angevins on the field was the presence of estoc swords. [No Reserve]