IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18959 accession number: HEN.M.223-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 11 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Sword. Hilt of blackened steel; cushion-shaped pommel, with a very tall button, rather crudely chiselled with a band of fleur-de-lis of alternating plain and twisted wire of varying thickness, with eight bands of thicker twisted wire. Turks' heads at top and bottom. Knuckle-guard of diamond section, chiselled into a lightly reeded pattern with large opposed acanthus elements at midpoint, the top screwed into the side of the pommel. Quillons of the same section arched towards the blade, the rear one bent inwards, finished with elaborated and delicately fashioned little acanthus loops, en suite with the decoration of the knuckle-guard. Large ring-guard on the outside of the hilt, with opposed acanthus elements at midpoint to match those on the knuckle-guard. There is a large rectangular quillon-block, from which, inside the ring on the outside of the hilt, springs a small shall-guard whose edge is scalloped in the middle, half of which is repeated on each side leaving the next of the surface reeded like the rest of the hilt. The pommel, though of the right shape, is clearly of a totally different style and quality of decoration from the rest of the hilt, though it does appear to be contemporary association. Blade of vague flat diamond section, engraved at the forte with a panel containing: a laurel wreath, below which is an oval cartouche within an impression; a smiling feminine face enclosed by a riband containing the legend 'NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR'. Below this is a second panel with a laurel wreath against a black background (?), below which is an engraved fleur-de-lis. The reverse of the blade is engraved with similar panels, but they are merely outlined and not filled in. Norman hilt type 108 (variant). 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. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18959 PEOPLE ------------------- woman SUBJECTS ------------------- foliage acanthus fleur-de-lis foliage acanthus fleur-de-lis CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1650 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1650 culture: 17th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 116.2 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_223_1933_281_29.jpg height: 149 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/mid_HEN_M_223_1933_281_29.jpg height: 98 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_223_1933_281_29.jpg height: 149 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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