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Fortis
1860–65
Italian
1750–1800
European
18th century
German
1750
American
19th century
hilt and scabbard, Algerian; blade, European
hilt and scabbard, late 17th or early 18th century; blade 16th or 17th century
China
19th century
ca. 3500 B.C.
French
ca. 1840
American or European
early 20th century
French
18th century
André Charles Boulle
ca. 1700
British
late 18th century
French
17th century
Gujarat (?), with Iberian mounts
16th C, mounts ca. 1580
Chinese
18th–19th century
1775–1800
Thomas Tompion
before 1682
ca. 3500 B.C.
House of Balenciaga
spring/summer 2017
Benedito Qualzatta
1716
European
1700–1944
Joao Vieira da Silva
18th century
probably British
early 18th century
Edward Prior
19th century
Angelo Mannello
1900
Bohemian, possibly Prague
early 17th century
French Painter
ca. 1790
probably French, Paris
ca. 1820–30
French
early 19th century
Hara Yōyūsai
19th century
Wenzel Kowansky
ca. 1750
French
1880–89
China
18th century
Russian
1848–49
African (east)
19th century
Jean-Baptiste Voboam
1697
European
first quarter 18th century
French, Paris
1768–75
probably French
1920s