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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3540921, member: 96864&quot;]Here&#039;s an interesting piece I lucked upon a while ago. A rare late-Medieval German &quot;Wurfkreuz&quot;, or &quot;throwing cross&quot;, used as a short-distance projectile (like an armor-piercing throwing-star) or maybe a hand-to-hand melee weapon. Apparently Hungarians also sometimes deployed this weapon, and in their struggles against the Muslim Ottomans the symbolism of the cross would have been rather salient. They were used infrequently between the early 1400s-early 1600s and are rather rare today. It weighs about 495 grams, is 273mm long and 188mm wide, and has a simple bronze chevron/zig-zag inlay about 8.5-9.5cm above the bottom point. Purchased from a weapons collector in Germany who somehow didn&#039;t know what it was and listed it very inaccurately (his other medieval weapons were all properly advertised) and thus got it for 167.50 shipped, whereas it would go for closer to 1,000 if listed and described properly.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941018[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941019[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s an old circa 1515 picture of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in fight with Count Albrecht von Zollern, depicting a wurfkreuz-wielding Zollern who with the one stuck in his shield has apparently been &quot;double crossed&quot; (Hyuk hyuk <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]941037[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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