Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Maker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Sword with ‘fakir’s crutch’ hilt (zufur-tukia) and scabbard. The blade is single edged and curved with a short, blunt false edge at the point, with two fullers at the back. It appears to be a cut-down British sabre blade. The hilt is of heavy cast brass in the form of a fakir’s crutch, with short quillons with squashed cylindrical terminals decorated with flowers, broad seating processes, and asymmetrical arms on the pommel, all decorated with incised and punched floral and dotted ornament. The scabbard is of wood covered with brown velvet, with a band of tape covering the seam at the inside, a brass chape and band at the throat with a suspension loop
Legal notes
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Measurements and weight
Blade Length: 44.6 cm
Overall Length: 57 cm
Weight: 645 g
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1879)
by
Taylor, Robert, MA
Dating
19th Century
Circa
1800
-
1879
Note
Taylor no. 176, ‘zufur-tukia, crutch sword’. Compare the form of Egerton 1880: 115, no. 470, pl. x, which he calls a khundli p’hansi, or Bhairagi crutch, from Kolapore, and more closely Egerton 1880: 110 no. 405, fig. 24, ‘taken at Lucknow’.
Components of the work
Scabbard
composed of
wood
Hilt
composed of
brass (alloy)
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 178
- Method of creation: Inscribed
- Type: Tag
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: O.178-1879
Primary reference Number: 160106
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
