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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1616 - 1630; Classification(s): weapons, executioner's sword, casting (process), sword, cast with etched decoration and an engraved and silvered hilt; Acquisition: given by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1947 [M.10-1947]
Description: Executioner's sword, broad blade with rounded point. Etched with a gallows and three wheels inscribed 'Si Deus pro hoblis i (q)uis contranos'. Stamped with king's head mark of Johannes Wundes of Solingen. Engraved and silvered tilt. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Unknown executioner's sword weapons | Temporal: | name=early 17th Century; start=1616; end=1630 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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