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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): crica 1500 - 1600; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.17-1879]
Description: The leaf-shaped steel blade is straight and double edged, flaring towards the point. The hilt comprises a figure-8 guard, angled across the centre, with cusped wings and long reinforces, the edges serrated for part of their length, with lotus bud terminals, bordered by double incised lines towards the hilt and incised panels of floral ornament. They are attached by three rivets. Round the junction of the wings and reinforces is a band of iron. The thin grip is bound with string, and there is a small, deep dish pommel lacking its dome. The hilt is covered with black paint, the blade polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion. The dome pommel is battered and gashed | 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=1500; 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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