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Large, tall barrel-shaped pommel, oval in plan, with a well-shaped button. Knuckle-guard, loop-guard, double ring-guards. Branches and single rear quillon, all of a broad ribbon-section. The knuckle-guard terminates against the side of the pommel with a large open ring; at the midpoint it swells to a balustic-shaped feature below which is a flat disc, below which again the lower part of the guard swells to a second balustic-shape; thus the disc id clasped between these two elements. At this point the loop-guard in front of the hilt and the back-guard at the back spring out. Each of the ring-guards show the same feature of a flat disc clasped between the two balustic-like elements. The lower ring encloses an elegantly pierced plate. There is a flat, rectangular ecusson from the lower edge of which springs a short triangular element. The single rear quillon turns strongly towards the blade and terminates, slightly curled inward, in a disc. Each of these discs on the guards and quillon is decorated with a neatly chiselled double-trefoil rose pattern while each of the enclosing balustic forms has, similarly chiselled, a long acanthus leaf. The same motifs, in a diamond shape, are repeated on the pommel. These decorations only appear on the outside of the gilt, the inside being quite plain. The grip is of oval section, bound in a most complex manner with strands of thick and thin twisted wire. The back-guards are of three elements. The hilt retains all of its original blue colour. Long narrow blade of flat diamond section; at the forte, three well-marked fullers, the middle on extruding halfway down toward the point. The stout ricasso, a little narrower than the blade, has its faces slightly dished. In the middle of each face of the ricasso is a stamped, very clear maker's mark, a fleur-de-lis ensigned with a crown within an ecusson.\nNorman hilt type 57."}],"identifier":[{"accession_number":"HEN.M.217-1933","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"HEN.M.217-1933"},{"priref":"18942","type":"priref","value":"18942"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/18942","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/18942"}],"inscription":[{"description":[{"value":"fleur-de-lis ensigned with a crown within an ecusson"}],"location":"on ricasso","method":"inscribed","type":"mark"},{"transcription":[{"value":"217H"}],"type":"tag"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"legal":{"credit_line":"J.S. 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This example is marked with a crowned fleur-de-lys within a shield."},{"value":"This is an outstanding sword, in perfect condition and of the very highest quality. The mark on the ricasso is one which has a long history; first used by the late Plantagenets and the Tudors as a royal badge, it became in th 16th century a mark of denote 'appointment' of the bladesmail or cutter to a royal house, with the same meaning as have the words ESPADERO DEL REY (sword-maker to the king) engraved upon some high-quality Spanish swords."},{"value":"Western European"}],"periods":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-108566","uid":"adlib-term-108566","uuid":"93936d51-7b77-3d13-bd0b-f7bca9ef5269"},"summary_title":"16th Century-17th Century"}],"places":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-108963","uid":"adlib-term-108963","uuid":"1fe700c4-66f7-3c5f-bfb8-74069ac8fdec"},"hierarchies":[[{"@link":{"type":"literal"},"name":[{"value":"Europe"}],"summary_title":"Europe","type":"country"}]],"summary_title":"Europe"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","units":"cm","value":"130.8"}]},"name":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-87077","uid":"adlib-term-87077","uuid":"542beac5-6e9e-31e7-bfb5-70809dc3cf54"},"summary_title":"rapier"}}],"note":[{"type":"history note","value":"probably Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex"}],"owners":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"publications":[{"@link":{"notes":"Cf. See D. Hesibert Seitz of Stockholm, in his Blankwaffen, vol. I, chapter entitled 'Die Meister des Khugenschmiedkunst',pp. 340-7, in which he writes: 'Gekr\u00f6ute Libinmarke, offenbart seine stellung als 'espadero del Rey' am Koniglichen Hof'. An early example in England is on the tiles in St. Mary's Abbey, York; it appears in quantity in the Tudor decoration in the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, among the sculptured Royal badges are crowned Tudor roses and peteullises; there are also 48 examples of it in the glass of the great East Window. Henry V is known to have used it as a badge, as did all the Tudor monarchs and James I. The quantity of this sword is entirely consistent and its having been made by a Master appointed to a royal house.","page":"pp. 340-7","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"publication-1875","uid":"adlib-publication-1875","uuid":"f20f9528-d363-3ed3-a649-2648c2ef2190"},"summary_title":"Blankwaffen"}],"summary":{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-87077","uid":"adlib-term-87077","uuid":"542beac5-6e9e-31e7-bfb5-70809dc3cf54"},"summary_title":"rapier"}},"summary_title":"rapier","type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}