IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18948 accession number: HEN.M.219-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 12 May 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rapier. Massive pommel, rectangular in plan with an elegant neck of two collars against the grip. It is vase-shaped with the top scooped out into a deep hollow. Grip of oval section, swelling vigorously in the middle, covered with dark brown (perhaps once red) leather, embellished with steel studs. The guards are of diamond section, consisting of knuckle-guards, two loop-guards, quillons, branches and large outer ring-guards enclosing big secondary rings, which are filled with steel plates neatly pierced with star-shaped and circular holes. A Pappenheimer style hilt. The quillons are strongly recurved vertically, in the plane of the blade, the tips widening, flattened and turned over in scrolls, with a small hump at the midpoint of each scroll and little peaked horns at each end of the scrolls. The top of the knuckle-guard and the upper rings widen to transverse ridges at their midpoints; the upper ring-guards are joined to the lower plate, enclosing rings with small D-shaped elements supported by double swags which are forged in one with lower small rings. The back-guards are mirror-image of the forward ones. There is no decoration. Blade of flat hexagonal section with a strong fuller at the forte, engraved with DE PEDRO DE VAL (on the outside), MONTE EN TOLEDO (on the inside). Norman hilt type 67. Pommel 64. title: rapier 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. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18948 CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1630 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1630 culture: 17th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 133.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Third Park Lane Arms Fair --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_219_1933_281_29.jpg height: 154 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/mid_HEN_M_219_1933_281_29.jpg height: 101 pixels width: 498 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_219_1933_281_29.jpg height: 154 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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