example is to be seen in the Salting Collection, bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Fig. 1506. Sword hilt
In the manner of Gottfried Leigebe of Berlin, about 1670. Collection: Mr. Frank G. Macomber, U.S.A.
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Fig. 1507. Sword hilt
The workmanship is ascribed by Herr Boeheim to Gottfried Leigebe of Berlin. Imperial Armoury, Vienna
Eccentricities in respect of form and in the medium worked upon are frequently encountered in the second half of the XVIIth century. They are, perhaps, individual fancies; but they are by no means uncommon. Take for instance the case of the sword hilt in the collection of Mr. Frank G. Macomber of Boston, U.S.A. (Fig. 1506), in which a stork, or crane, lowering its long neck, and holding in its beak a snake, the extremity of which is coiled round the quillons, constitutes the knuckle-guard. This may be a clever and well-chiselled example of workmanship; but it is a poor and weak design for a sword hilt. We have very good reason to believe that it is a school work of Gottfried Leigebe, a metal worker of Berlin of about 1670, to whom we shall refer later on. It is certainly of the school of that sword-hilt
