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Sword. Blackened hilt. Long pod-shaped pommel, fluted. No button. Knuckle-guard of vaguely oval section, the top flattened, turned up through a right-angle and screwed into the side of the pommel; it widens at midpoint, where a loop-guard springs from it on each side to join the top of a shallow cup-guard. The ends of the loop-guards are scrolled towards the forward quillon. Short quillons, curled over towards the blade in tight spirals. The back of the hilt is a mirror image of the front. There is a massive quillon-block bluntly joined and incised with lines rotating from that point. The cup-guard is coarsely decorated with overlapping scale-shaped motifs, each pieced à jour with circular holes. The upper edge is decorated with a scalloped frill, and pressed à jour. The grip which is original has lost all its binding except for Turks' heads at top and bottom; it is of dark wood, swelling in the middle and facetted vertically with eight faces.
Long tapering blade of flattened diamond section, the faces hollowed with a strong shoulder below the hilt. There are traces of engraved decorative motifs along the forte, but these are too worn to be identified except for a small floral piece just below the guard.
Norman, hilt type 87.
History note: Unknown before testator, 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex,
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Length: 110.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century, Mid#
Circa
1640
CE
-
1660
CE
A similar sword is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Reg. no. M2774-1931). Another similar one is in the church at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, said to have belonged to Colonel Billingslay, who was killed in the churchyard in 1646.
Grip
composed of
wood (plant material)
Blade
Length 96.5 cm
Below Hilt
Width 3.0 cm
Decoration
Hilt
Pommel
Quillon-block
Sword
Accession number: HEN.M.236-1933
Primary reference Number: 18974
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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