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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker;
Production Place: North India; Date(s): 1800 - 1850; Classification(s): weapons, sword [TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS16]
Description: The steel blade is probably European, curved and single edged, with a flat back. The iron hilt is of Indo-Muslim type, with short quillons with rounded terminals, short langets with stylised bud finials, a rounded baluster grip, a thick, shallow dish pommel with a petalled washer, dome and finial. From the lower quillon comes a double curved knucklebow with a recurved acorn finial. The whole hilt is black from the hammer, and has a single rivet with copper alloy washers, corroding, passing through the quillon block. The blade is stained and mottled. | 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=early 19th Century; start=1800; end=1850 | 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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