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Axes (tools): O.128-1879

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

Blade only. Straight steel blade with a curved edge narrowing into a socket section reinforced with stepped mouldings, pierced with a square hole for the haft, and a rectangular hammer head at the back with a domed face. The surface is polished bright pitted from earlier corrosion and has several cracks

Legal notes

Given by Robert Taylor, MA

Measurements and weight

Length: 12.8 cm
Weight: 414 g
Width: 7.8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1800 CE - 1879 CE

Note

This is comparable to an axe head from Bikanir with the usual inscription, private collection, London, unpublished, According to Taylor it belongs to a pistol, O.73-1879. Printed Taylor list Cambridge 1879: no 36.

Components of the work

Blade composed of steel

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 128
  • Method of creation: Inscribed
  • Type: Tag

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: O.128-1879
Primary reference Number: 159897

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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