Maker: Unknown
Kyber knife. Straight steel blade, of T-section with a slightly curved single edge The hilt is beaked, formed of two panels of bone, pale on the left, very dark as if stained on the right, secured by three rivets to a full-width tang which ends in a small pommel finial. At the junction with the hilt is an iron ferrule covering the transition from the narrow hilt to the broad blade
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 33.5 cm
Blade Width Max: 4.5 cm
Overall Length: 47 cm
Weight: 404 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1879
CE
Blade composed of steel
Accession number: O.75-1879
Primary reference Number: 158385
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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