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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1560 - 1600; Classification(s): weapons, dagger; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.148-1879]
Description: Hilt and blade are made in one piece of steel. The blade is double edged and double curved, with a chevron of six deep fullers down most of its length and slightly reinforced point. At the forte the blade widens into bud-like wings with piercings at either side. The hilt is waisted, with a central squashed globular knop with double mouldings at either side, and has symmetrical curved winged guard and pommel, The flange between the wings of the pommel was extended into a finial now broken off. The blade is polished bright with pitting from its earlier corrosion. There are traces of incised decoration on the forte. There is a trace of copper on the pommel, and where the finial is broken off a crystalline structure suggesting the dagger was cast. | 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=late 16th Century; start=1560; end=1600 | 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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