Maker: Unknown
Small straight steel triangular blade of low diamond section, two incised lines suggesting the medial ridge. The blade is brazed to a separate socket, which is long and elegant with a brazed seam down one side, a dagged lower edge, and two reinforcing rings, the upper of D section, brazed on and bordered by three sets of double incised lines above and below, the lower a slightly cog-like ring which helps secure the socket to a fragment of the original bamboo haft
History note: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004)
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 23.5 cm
Blade Width Max: 2.6 cm
Overall Length: 47.5 cm
Socket Length: 21.5 cm
Weight: 284 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
18th Century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
Compare the cog-like reinforces of 47.1879 and 45.1879, clearly from the same workshop (Richardson, Thom, 2007)
Blade composed of steel
Accession number: O.49-1879
Primary reference Number: 158357
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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