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Description: | Sword, Counterguard is a pierced shell with four large fleur-de-lis around rim, points toward the blade, and a six petalled rose (?) around the blade, One quillon becomes the knuckleguard with spirally knurled knob in the centre, Rear quillon terminates in a similar knob, Pommel, of onion shape, knurled in same fashion, with tang button apparently made in one piece with the pommel, Top of pommel and under next to grip, decorated with conventional roses (?) 'arms of the hilt' curl into spaces for fingers, so are non-functional Quillon block carved in conventional leaves with lines en suite with knurls, Grip, deep spiral, wound with silver (?) wire, both 'Turk's heads', Blade, a 'back-rapier' blade, with false edge at point, .See letters from A.V.B. Norman, Master of the Armouries, Tower of London, and from J.P. Reverseau, Conservateur, Musee de l'Armee, Paris. Hilt and blade and consistent with reign of Louis XIV, although no way of determining whether the blade is the original, 'Arms of the hilt' which curl into the finger loops apparently date from the middle of the l7th century
Field collector: Gordon, Alexander | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1643-1715 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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