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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1840; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.69-1879]
Description: The steel blade is probably European, curved and single edged for most of its length, with a flat back and a single broad fuller near the back. The iron hilt is of Indo-Muslim type, with short quillons with rounded terminals, long langets with stylised bud finials, a rounded baluster grip, a thick, shallow dish pommel with a petalled washer, dome and finial. The whole hilt is covered with floral scrolls in silver koftgari. The blade has numerous spots of staining and corrosion under the grease, and much of the koftgari has been rubbed off the hilt | 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=early 19th Century; start=1800; end=1840 | 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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