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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1800; Classification(s): weapons, dagger; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Taylor, Robert, MA [O.138-1879]
Description: The steel blade is double edged and double curved, with two fullers along most of its length. At the forte the blade widens into pierced and cusped wings with incised geometrical ornament. 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 scalloped edges, a curved knucklebow ending in a stylised dragon-head finial. The grip is bent, and formed of two pieces of pale wood riveted with iron rivets and copper alloy washers to the tang. The pommel is made of two pieces of wood, of angular lunate form riveted with iron rivets and copper alloy washers 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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