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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1879; Classification(s): weapons, sword; Acquisition: given by Taylor, Robert, MA, 1879, Given by Robert Taylor, MA [O.178-1879]
Description: Sword with ‘fakir’s crutch’ hilt (zufur-tukia) and scabbard. The blade is single edged and curved with a short, blunt false edge at the point, with two fullers at the back. It appears to be a cut-down British sabre blade. The hilt is of heavy cast brass in the form of a fakir’s crutch, with short quillons with squashed cylindrical terminals decorated with flowers, broad seating processes, and asymmetrical arms on the pommel, all decorated with incised and punched floral and dotted ornament. The scabbard is of wood covered with brown velvet, with a band of tape covering the seam at the inside, a brass chape and band at the throat with a suspension loop | 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 sword | 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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