IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18897 accession number: HEN.M.204-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sword. Hilt of bright steel. Large conical pommel, without a tang-button, circular in plan with an elegant neck below the base. The front and back are each decorated with a triangular patch of chiselling, of vague floriate design. Grip (in original condition) of oval section, strongly shouldered about 2.5 cm from the top, where it meets the neck of the pommel, covered in fishskin, with leather on the upper part. The guards, all of well-shaped hexagonal section consist of quillons and branches. The long forward and rear quillons are horizontally recurved and widen to a slight balbosity at the tips. The branches support a large upper ring-guard forward of the ecusson, and a smaller one joining the lower elements. The upper ring-guard supports a thumb-ring set at right angles to the plane of the blade. The blade is long and very slightly tapering, of flat hexagonal section, decorated for 24.1 cm (9 ½") below the ricasso with a waved pattern. The strong ricasso is stamped with a maker's mark on one side. Below it, the centre of the blade is decorated with engraved straight lines along each 'edge' of the flat piece against the chamfer towards each edge of the blade; between these lines, a long zigzag line. title: sword NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before testator, 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Hendeson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18897 TECHNIQUES ---------- sword, cast, with chiselled and engraved decoration casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1540 - 1550 creation date earliest: 1540 creation date latest: 1550 culture: 16th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 126.3 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_204_1933_281_29.jpg height: 159 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/mid_HEN_M_204_1933_281_29.jpg height: 105 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_204_1933_281_29.jpg height: 159 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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