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Originally Posted by werecow
Yeah, this one is quite interesting. Re: 
Are there any closeups of the sword, and particularly the hilt? |
Yes, online, in museum it is positioned in that way that it is imppsible to take picture of the sword....
And description of the sword, translaten from Croatian.
"That sword belonged to Dragon - Fire Wolf, a descendant of the despotic Branković family, and with the marriage of Katarina Branković, it became the property of the Zrinski family. According to this tradition, Petar Zrinski gave a sword to the people of Peraštan on 05/23/1654. year after the great victory of Peraštan over the Turks.
However, it is also assumed that the sword was made by craftsmen in one of the workshops in the Boka Kotorska area. This is corroborated by the coat of arms of the Rajković family of Perasca on the blade, to which the Stjepanović family also belonged, and according to some sources it belonged to Vukša Stjepanović from Perast."
I saw those style handles across italy museums, not many.
Sword has text on latin, and old church slavic language.