IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18988 accession number: HEN.M.243-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rapier. Large urn-shaped pommel with button, the upper part chiselled with leaves, the lower with spiralling ridges. Grip of very fine wire, woven in basket-fashion with Turks' heads at top and bottom. Narrow, angular knuckle-guard, with a knob below the midpoint from beneath which spring single loop-guards, one on each side of the hilt, joining the upper edges of a double shell-guard; each loop-guard ends, where it touches the edges of the shells, in a strong upward scroll. Each of these loop-guards has a triple knob at its midpoint. Short quillons (the rear one missing) with a very large rectangular quillon-block, and knobbed ends. The surviving one (on the front of the hilt) turns sharply upward to meet the lower curve of the knuckle-guard. Shallow arms, supporting the double shell, turned outward in the spaces where the edges of the two shells meet. These shells, chiselled with a pattern of overlapping scales pierced with small holes have rims fashioned in the same manner as the loop-guards. Inside the hilt, the ricasso is covered by a rectangular iron sleeve, chiselled with a kind of double and motif. Narrow blade, of diamond section, the faces hollowed out. Norman hilt type 96 (variant). 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/18988 CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1640 - 1670 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1670 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 104.2 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_243_1933_281_29.jpg height: 113 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/mid_HEN_M_243_1933_281_29.jpg height: 74 pixels width: 498 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_243_1933_281_29.jpg height: 113 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/preview_HEN_M_243_1933_281_29.jpg height: 37 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: 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