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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.70-1879]
Description: The steel blade is curved and single edged with flat back. The iron hilt, of Indo-Muslim type, has short quillons with rounded terminals, long langets with stylised bud finials, an angular, faceted baluster grip, a thick, shallow dish pommel with a thick rim, petalled washer, fluted dome and oval finial. A thick double curved knucklebow runs from the lower quillon to end in a recurved ribbed acorn by the pommel. The blade and hilt have numerous spots of staining and corrosion under the grease, and the hilt has several copper brazed joins | 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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