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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1575 - 1600; Classification(s): weapons, sword, casting (process), sword, cast; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.208-1933]
Description: Long sword. (Reitchwert). Very large spherical pommel; long grip spirally grooved and bound with fine wire horizontally with a thicker twisted wire following the grooves. Long quillons of circular section horizontally recurved and knobbed at the tips. Cusped ecusson. There are two ring-guards on the outside, of circular section swelling at midpoint; two branches and back-guards of three bars, with thumb-ring. Long slender blade of flat horizontal section with a stout ricasso and a short strong fuller at the forte. On each side of the fuller, in the ricasso, is a twig mark. | 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 weapons sword | Temporal: | name=16th century; start=1575; end=1600 | 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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