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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.149-1879]
Description: Hilt and blade are made in one piece of steel. The blade is double edged and double curved, with a long chevron of six fullers running down most of the blade. At the forte the blade widens into bud-like wings with cusps 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 thick flange between the wings of the pommel is extended into a finial with an onion-shaped terminal. The hilt and forte of the blade are covered with cross hatching, and the whole was covered originally in silver koftgari with floral ornament. The blade polished bright with pitting from its 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=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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