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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1640 - 1670; Classification(s): weapons, rapier, casting (process), sword, cast, with chiselled and pierced decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16 [HEN.M.243-1933]
Description: Rapier. Large urn-shaped pommel with button, the upper part chiselled with leaves, the lower with spiralling ridges. Grip of very fine wire, woven in basket-fashion with Turks' heads at top and bottom. Narrow, angular knuckle-guard, with a knob below the midpoint from beneath which spring single loop-guards, one on each side of the hilt, joining the upper edges of a double shell-guard; each loop-guard ends, where it touches the edges of the shells, in a strong upward scroll. Each of these loop-guards has a triple knob at its midpoint. Short quillons (the rear one missing) with a very large rectangular quillon-block, and knobbed ends. The surviving one (on the front of the hilt) turns sharply upward to meet the lower curve of the knuckle-guard. Shallow arms, supporting the double shell, turned outward in the spaces where the edges of the two shells meet. These shells, chiselled with a pattern of overlapping scales pierced with small holes have rims fashioned in the same manner as the loop-guards. Inside the hilt, the ricasso is covered by a rectangular iron sleeve, chiselled with a kind of double and motif.
Narrow blade, of diamond section, the faces hollowed out.
Norman hilt type 96 (variant). | 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=17th Century; start=1640; end=1670 | 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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