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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1760 - 1800; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.68-1879]
Description: The steel blade is probably European, curved and single edged for most of its length, with a flat back accompanied by two fullers. The iron hilt, of Indo-Muslim type, with short quillons with rounded terminals, short langets with stylised bud finials, a rounded baluster grip, a thick, shallow dish pommel with a dome and pierced finial. The hilt was originally covered with tiger stripes, bubri, probably in koftgari; only their outlines can now be seen. The blade and hilt have numerous spots of staining and corrosion under the grease | 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=late 18th century; start=1760; end=1800 | 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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