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Fig. 635. Sword (bastard type)
German, late XVth century
Collection: Baron de Cosson
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Fig. 636. Sword (bastard type)
German, late XVth or early XVIth century
No. 33, Wallace Collection
the blade of this sword, but unfortunately they cannot be seen in the illustration.
These figures bear, however, no reference to the year 1415, but merely
prove that the hilt was rebladed early in the XVIIth century by the Austrian
bladesmith Steyen. It was his common practice to engrave either this group of
figures or "1414" or even "1515" in combination with the running wolf mark
upon blades of his make in order that his work might not be mistaken for that
of the city of Passau, which had already adopted the running wolf mark as its
stamp. In the National Bavarian Museum of Munich are some remarkable
bastard swords, very Gothic in their general sentiment, but mostly of late XVth
century date. We illustrate six of them. The first (Fig. 637A) shows the
flattened pear-shaped pommel and plain drooping quillons. Unscrupulous
foreign dealers have palmed off on armour collectors hundreds of copies of this
type; and this particular sword is probably the original which served as the
model of the forgeries. The moulded grip is of cuir bouilli, extending over
the centre of the quillons, almost in an inverted cup form, and fitting over the
top of the scabbard; a grip formation popular in the latter part of the
