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Short sword, English c.1450.
Height: 2.5 cm
Length: 70.0 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
Mid 15th century
Production date:
circa
AD 1450
Casting (process) : Sword, cast
Accession number: HEN.M.191-1933
Primary reference Number: 18848
Old object number: PB 98
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Short sword" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18848 Accessed: 2023-02-07 17:54:08
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: HEN.M.202-1933
Accession Number: GR.210a.1892
Accession Number: HEN.M.264-1933
Accession Number: GR.87.1901
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