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Production: Unknown
Sword: 'Reitsehswerb'. Hilt of bright steel. Elongated oval pommel decorated with a horizontal band across its equator; diagonally grooved. Tang-button of fine form. Grip of oval section, riveted in the middle, bound with twisted iron/steel wire and finished with a steel collar top and bottom. Guards, of flat diamond section, rather broad, consist of forward and rear quillons, vertically recurved widening towards spear-shaped tips. Elaborated cusped ecusson; outside ring-guard which springs from the root of the forward quillon and crosses diagonally across the ecusson and ricasso, to meet the lower end of the rear side branch. From the lower end of the outside branch, a short peg-guard juts forward and curls slightly upward. The diagonal ring-guard widens at midpoint to an elongated diamond shape, nicked at the top and bottom with a small boss in the centre. There is a strongly marked and elegantly formed ecusson. Long, tapering blade of flat hexagonal section, with a stout ricasso rather longer than the depth of the branches, with a narrow fuller running through the middle of it to extend 27.9 cm (11") down the blade. There is a trace of a mark at the lower end of the fuller; and another on each side of the ricasso.
History note: Unknown before testator, 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex
J.S. Hendeson Bequest
Length: 120.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century-17th Century#
Circa
1590
CE
-
1620
CE
Grip
composed of
wire
( iron/steel)
Blade
Length 101.7 cm
Hilt
Length 21.6 cm
Quillons
Width 15.0 cm
Blade At Hilt
Width 2.7 cm
Decoration
Casting (process) : Sword, cast with grooved decoration
Accession number: HEN.M.205-1933
Primary reference Number: 18899
Old object number: PB 106
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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