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Title	Staff Weapon
Date	dated 1741 18th century
Medium	Steel, wood, gold, copper alloy, textile, metallic thread
Classification	Shafted Weapons
Origin	German German
Holding institution	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit line	Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929
Rights	Public domain (CC0)

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