Sword: TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS15

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Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

Entities

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Weapons

Description

The steel blade is European, curved and single edged for most of its length, filed at the forte, point and false edge into saw-teeth with sharp cusps. The iron hilt is of Indo-Muslim type, with short quillons with rounded terminals, medium length langets with stylised bud finials, a rounded baluster grip, wide, shallow dish pommel with a dome and pierced finial. The whole hilt is covered with floral scrolls in gold koftgari. The blade has numerous areas of filiform corrosion, probably where the metal is delaminating, and much of the koftgari has been rubbed off the hilt.

Notes

History note: No provenance recorded.

Measurements and weight

Length: 885 mm
Weight: 1015 g

Dating

19th Century, Early#
1800 CE - 1850 CE

Components of the work

Blade Length 760 mm

Inscription or legends present

Text: adorsed crescents of Solingen.
Location: Left of the blade
Type: Stamp

Identification numbers

Accession number: TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS15
Primary reference Number: 162549
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 16 July 2020

Associated departments & institutions

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

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