Bastard Sword
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15th Century Hand and a Half Sword
SKU: AH7042A surprisingly agile hand-and-a-half sword for its size, with a steeply angled thrusting profile paired with a blade wide enough through the main cutting section to still deliver a genuinely strong cut — the dual-purpose design that made this sword type a mainstay of 15th century swordsmanship treatises.
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The current model referencing an unusually fine late 15th century longsword on display at the Musée de Cluny — the National Museum of the Middle Ages — in Paris, a sword scholarly research attributes to Southern German workshops.
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A hand-and-a-half longsword built for use with both hands, allowing thrusts, cuts, and parries in equal measure — a design closely comparable to an original held today by the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, which holds the UK’s national collection of historic armour and military equipment.
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Aislinn Sword (based on type XV)
SKU: AH7034A gilt-bronze-hilted Type XV.9 sword held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, named ‘Aislinn’ — Irish for ‘a vision or dream’ — by a former caretaker, and the subject of genuine ongoing scholarly debate over its true age.
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Once part of the Comte de Nieuwekerke’s private collection and now held in the Wallace Collection, London — one of the world’s foremost collections of Medieval and Renaissance armour and decorative art — catalogued under accession number A.460 and dated to approximately 1350–1400.
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Castillon sword, 15th C (based on type XV.8)
SKU: AH7032One of roughly eighty swords recovered in the 1970s from a sunken barge in the River Dordogne near Castillon, Northern France — a hoard whose origin is still debated by historians, and which Ewart Oakeshott himself dated to around 1420–1450.
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A faithful recreation of Ewart Oakeshott’s Type XVa.3 classification, the quintessential knightly thrusting sword of the closing years of the Hundred Years’ War, with a form directly referenced against the famous Castillon Hoard find in the Dordogne River, France.
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A hand-and-a-half sword whose name reflects a piece of Medieval folk etymology — long popularly (if inaccurately) associated with sons of noble houses born outside marriage — carrying a fine steel blade with a half-length fuller and a spiral-wrapped hilt.
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A true hand-and-a-half sword based on a design dating to the mid-1400s, with a hybrid blade combining a half-length fuller and a diamond cross-section for genuine cut-and-thrust capability, especially effective in a half-sword grip against armoured opponents. Also known as “Grete war sword”
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A classic double-edged bastard sword with wide, shallow fullers running down both faces of the blade and a pair of distinctive twisted iron quillons forming the guard, built for a comfortable transition between one-handed and two-handed grip.
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A hand-and-a-half sword built with a short primary grip that lets the fingers of the second hand rest on the blade’s forte just above the guard, giving extra leverage exactly when a thrust or bind called for it — the exact grip ambiguity that gave the type its name.
