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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1879; Classification(s): weapons, knife; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.161-1879]
Description: The steel blade is forward curved and slender, the flat back at the forte accompanied by two fullers, and with a double nick at the forte on the forward edge. The hilt is of red wood, with a short iron ferrule at the blade end, shaped with a central raised rib with two double grooves, and with a flaring pommel. The blade is bright with much staining and lamination, the edge damaged with a whole series of indentations from use or abuse. The hilt has numerous old chips around the pommel, and large cracks running up to the blade on the underside and right side | 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 knife | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1800; end=1879 | 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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