Cup-hilt Rapier
Blade maker:
Unknown
(Blade)
Production:
Unknown
Small, insignificant spherical pommel, with large button. Grip of oval section, spirally-fluted and bound with strands of alternating plain and twisted copper (?) wire. Each fluting is bound with a flat ribbon of copper (?). Very small Turks' heads. Knuckle-guard of narrow circular section, widening to a trumpet-shape against the side of the pommel, with a balustic-shaped feature a little below the midpoint. From this springs a loop-guard on each side of the hilt, each joining a ring-guard which is joined to the long straight quillons, which are (as are all the guards) of narrow circular section, widening at the tips in the same way as the end of the knuckle-guard. Each ring has the same balustic-like feature at its midpoint as the knuckle-guard. Branches spring from the underside of the quillons. These are flattened at their ends and riveted to the inside of a very deep cup-guard. This is chiselled (rather crudely) with some horizontal bands of scrolling tendrils, each band separated from its neighbour by a plain band. The upper rim of the cup is scalloped. Blade of flat hexagonal section with well-defined narrow fullers at the forte, each fuller bearing the name PIETRO HERNANDES.
Norman hilt type .
History note: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Length: 117.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century, Mid#
Circa
1650
CE
-
1660
CE
Italian (blade probably Spanish)
The grip seems to be the original one, and though the blade enters the bottom of the cup-guard some 1.27 cm (1/2") before the ricasso begins, it does not appear to be a replacement.
Grip Wire
composed of
copper
( possibly)
Cup
Depth 8.2 cm
Hilt
Length 18.3 cm
Width 2.0 cm
Blade
Length 97.3 cm
Quillons
Width 26.5 cm
Decoration
Grip
Sword
Accession number: HEN.M.233-1933
Primary reference Number: 18970
Old object number: B86
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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