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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1750 - 1775; Classification(s): weapons, backsword, casting (process), sword, cast, with basket hilt and grooved grip; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16 [HEN.M.295-1933]
Description: Backsword. Highland basket hilt of Glasgow form. Pommel formed as a truncated cone, with a very flat button and a deep collar like a shallower cone below. Grip of oval section, spirally grooved and covered in fishskin. A strand of twisted wire runs through the groove, finished at top and bottom with Turks' heads of brown wire. Back-edged blade with a shallow, narrow fuller inside the back-edge, with a very short matching one on the true edge, extending below the quardo. In the fuller on each side the engraved inscription 'X ANDRIA X FARARA X rather unevenly applied. | 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: | backsword Unknown weapons | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1750; end=1775 | 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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