IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18972 accession number: HEN.M.235-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Button-shaped pommel, with tall tang-button with collar. Chiselled with scrolls. Knuckle-guard of circular section, chiselled with spiral fluting, swelling towards the lower curve and terminating against the side of the pommel with a little flat umbrella-shaped hoop, long, straight quillons of the same form as the knuckle-guard; wire-bound grip with a longitudinal plate along each of its four faces. Turks' heads at top and bottom. Long pointed ecusson, chiselled en suite with the pommel. Deep cup-guard, the upper rim strongly turned over outwards (a rompepuntas). This rompepuntas is chiselled with running scrolls pierced à jour. The cup itself is chiselled with conventional scrolls and loops, rather poorly executed. There is a heavy garda polvo (dust-guard) inside the cup, chiselled en suite with the rompepuntas. Long narrow blade of flat hexagonal section with a fuller pressed à jour at the forte which is flanked by little engraved flowers and tendrils. These extend nearly half-way along the blade, some of them below the fuller still retaining this original latten inlay. Norman hilt type 101. title: rapier NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of '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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18972 SUBJECTS ------------------- flowers tendrils flowers tendrils CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1640 - 1660 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1660 culture: 17th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 124.5