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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1620 - 1630; Classification(s): weapons, rapier, casting (process), sword, cast, with spirally-fluted grip and pommel; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16 [HEN.M.215-1933]
Description: Rapier. Fig-shaped pommel, vertically fluted with eight panels, the whole cut into a reeded pattern. Large button, which shows clearly that the pommel has been removed and the hilt dismounted in recent times. The pommel does not belong to the rest of the hilt.
Spirally-fluted grip, bound with twisted wire, finished with plain steel collars at top and bottom. These may be modern. Guards, all of flat oval section, consist of a knuckle-guard and two guard-rings (the upper one joined to the knuckle-guard are flattened, widened and turned over in strong scrolls). The back of the hilt is a mirror-image of the front. Long narrow blade of strong diamond section, the faces hollowed; there is a neat shoulder at the point where the blade enters the hilt between the shells. The mid-rib of the blade is flattened below the shoulder for 2.0 cm (3/4").
Norman, type ..? 62 (variant). Pommel, type 74. | 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: | rapier Unknown weapons | Temporal: | name=mid-17th Century; start=1620; 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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