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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1800; Classification(s): weapons, dagger; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.132-1879]
Description: The steel blade is double edged and double curved, with four incised lines forming a chevron along most of its length. At the forte the blade widens slightly into pierced wings, where there is some crude incised decoration. The hilt comprises a steel guard and knucklebow, and grip and pommel of wood. The guard is a narrow oval, with a finial at the top and a quite crude knucklebow ending in a turned-back lotus bud. The grip is bent, and formed of two pieces of wood riveted to the tang. The pommel is made in one piece of wood, of large lunate form with a groove down the centre, and riveted to the tang | 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=18th century; start=1700; 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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