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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1600 - 1700; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.93-1879]
Description: The steel blade is straight and single edged, narrowing towards the point, with a flat back accompanied by three fullers. The hilt, of old Hindu basket form, comprises a figure-8 guard with cusps at the waist, angled across the centre, with cusped wings secured by heavy staples to the guard, and heavy reinforces almost the full width of the blade and secured by a single rivets in flower-bud terminals. The guard is extended into a wide knucklebow decorated with a single groove at either side. The thin grip is swells to the centre, and retains fragments of its original leather binding. There is a broad, shallow dish pommel inside which is a broad low dome with a long spike finial, slightly curved, enabling the sword to be used with two hands. The hilt is covered with black paint, the blade 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 sword | 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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