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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1700; Classification(s): weapons, dagger; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.91-1879]
Description: The steel blade is straight, double edged with a full-length medial rib and a reinforced point. The hilt has a convex guard attached to short, wide arms ending in lotus bud terminals at the rear, joined by a pair of bars swelling to their centres that form the grip. At the front of the guard are heavy katar-shaped reinforces with cusped and scalloped edges and incised lines, attached to the blade by three rivets, one with copper alloy washers corroding actively. The guard is extended on the outside of the hand into a V-section curved guard ending in an animal-headed finial. The hilt is painted black inside, the rest polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion | 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 dagger | Temporal: | name=17th Century; start=1600; end=1700 | 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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