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David Roentgen
ca. 1776–79

James Cox
1766

James Cox
ca. 1766–72

South Netherlandish
15th century

Bernard Salomon
ca. 1600

Hermann Achenbach
ca. 1774–75

Pierre Le Bourgeois
ca. 1620

The Kremlin Armory Workshops, Moscow
1637

Bernard II van Risenburgh
ca. 1755

hilt and scabbard, Algerian; blade, European
hilt and scabbard, late 17th or early 18th century; blade 16th or 17th century

Israel Schuech
dated 1606

German
probably ca. 1745–50

grip, Indian; guard, scabbard, and decoration on blade, Turkish; blade, Iranian
grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/1688 CE; decoration on blade, 19th century

blade, Japanese; mounting, Chinese
mounting, ca. 1750–1800

Austrian
ca. 1490

Turkish
late 18th century

John Champion
ca. 1770–72

Samuel Colt
ca. 1840

Smith & Wesson
1869

Japanese
late 16th–early 17th century

French
ca. 1600–1610

Johann Daniel Sommer II
ca. 1685

François Du Clos
ca. 1640

Brionde
1855

Western European
ca. 1775–90

Johann Michael Maucher
ca. 1685

Pierre Le Bourgeois
ca. 1610–20

Korea
ca.12th century

Johann Michael Maucher
ca. 1680–90

Jean-Baptiste Voboam
1697

Nomura Chōkei (dates unknown)
18th–19th century

Greene and Greene
1907–9

Hans Sumersperger
ca. 1500

South German
ca. 1475–85

Giacomo (Jacob) Ertel
late 17th century

Korea
19th century

John Jelliff
1868–70

Thailand
early 19th century

Herter Brothers
1879–82

Norwegian
1786