Maker: Unknown
All steel. Long square section point, with a mounding and round section shaft with a central hexagonal grip, round section butt spike with ovoid knop. The head is decorated with triple incised lines and sections of brass inlay, the shaft with bands of brass inlay the grip with incised zigzags at either side of a double incised line. The knop and butt spike are damaged, and any decoration lost
History note: From Ganjam
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Head Length: 64 cm
Overall Length: 177 cm
Weight: 2270 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
19th Century
Circa
1800
-
1900
Note from Robert Taylor no. 15 ‘Used. I believe, by courtiers; the rattle of the rings scaring wild beasts’
Accession number: O.26-1879
Primary reference Number: 158333
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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