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Dagger: O.164-1879

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

With two steel blades each of flattened octagonal. The steel hilt is formed of a loop, with a U-shaped langet at either end joined to each blade with two rivets, a narrow grip curved for the hand with a central moulding, and a broad guard round the outside with scalloped outer edges and an applied copper alloy central plate decorated with punched circles. At the rear is a riveted decorative finial. The whole polished bright with pitting from its earlier corrosion on the hilt

Legal notes

Given by Robert Taylor, MA

Measurements and weight

Blade Length: 14.5 cm
Overall Length: 25 cm
Weight: 144 g

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century
Circa 1700 - 1800

Note

Taylor records this as a ‘keraoli’, a term otherwise unknown, and in Cambridge 1879: no. 138 expands ‘formerly much affected by Benares Brahmins’.

Components of the work

Blade composed of steel

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 164
  • Method of creation: Inscribed
  • Type: Tag

Inscription present: adhesive

  • Text: 164
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Label

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: O.164-1879
Primary reference Number: 159948

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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