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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1879; Classification(s): weapons, knife; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.64-1879]
Description: Huge, with a straight steel blade, of T-section with a slightly curved single edge The hilt is beaked, formed of two panels of wood, secured by three rivets to a full-width tang which ends in a small pierced pommel finial. At the junction with the hilt is a iron ferrule covering the transition from the narrow hilt to the broad blade, with double incised lines bordering the notched front edge | 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 knife | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1800; end=1879 | 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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