1592970250000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-18942 1747160050719 1714398857000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-18942 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18942 c89c45b6-29f3-363e-be0f-aeabfb3f4747 6 reference term-86575 adlib-term-86575 5649d0d3-83e1-34de-a436-f231b1f04c9b weapons reference term-108941 adlib-term-108941 bda2218a-91c2-3b79-99c1-49e47cc3aff1 J.S. Henderson reference term-33522 adlib-term-33522 d2a924aa-f118-3a9e-b2bc-10e6f461aee6 wire Grip reference term-40136 adlib-term-40136 28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5 steel Sword sword, cast, with blued hilt and chiselled decoration reference term-26699 adlib-term-26699 a385eebb-7834-3204-a17f-d9c3cd15d9b8 casting (process) Length cm 107.3 Blade Width cm 2.5 Blade At Hilt Decoration reference term-109057 adlib-term-109057 daa6a12c-28f6-35e1-b6c0-8f22bc8b9452 chiselled Hilt reference term-109230 adlib-term-109230 dd1cdd32-4b7b-3b0b-aa53-471a3b8176d8 blued Applied Arts Rapier. 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. Norman hilt type 57. HEN.M.217-1933 1 accession number HEN.M.217-1933 18942 priref 18942 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18942 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18942 fleur-de-lis ensigned with a crown within an ecusson on ricasso inscribed mark 217H tag reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum J.S. Henderson Bequest reference agent-154334 adlib-agent-154334 28c0c8e2-3ec7-3d3a-9e13-b60fa3a6b434 Henderson, James Stewart 1933 1933 1933-03-16 bequeathed Probably part of the Henderson Bequest 1580 1580 CE 1580 circa 1580 1620 1 1620 CE 1620 1620 uncertain reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown The rapier developed in the late 16th century and remained popular for the next century. With a long, narrow, tapering blade, a hilt with bars to protect the hand and a large pommel which helped to balance the blade, it was the fighting sword par excellence and which every man worth his salt strived to master. This example is marked with a crowned fleur-de-lys within a shield. 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. Western European reference term-108566 adlib-term-108566 93936d51-7b77-3d13-bd0b-f7bca9ef5269 16th Century-17th Century reference term-108963 adlib-term-108963 1fe700c4-66f7-3c5f-bfb8-74069ac8fdec literal Europe Europe country Europe Length cm 130.8 reference term-87077 adlib-term-87077 542beac5-6e9e-31e7-bfb5-70809dc3cf54 rapier history note probably Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 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: 'Gekröute 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. pp. 340-7 reference publication-1875 adlib-publication-1875 f20f9528-d363-3ed3-a649-2648c2ef2190 Blankwaffen

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