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Hanger or Hunting Sword
Maker: Unknown
Hilt mounts of lines (once gilded); grip of brown polished wood, spirally fluted in alternating wide and narrow grooves, finished with a cap and tang button of brass. There is a small pelta-shaped guard in front, cast in one piece like a small ring-guard enclosing a plate, below the short, thick, scroll-ended quillons. Blade broad, curved, back-edged, with hollowed faces. The back-edge is sharpened for some 15 cm (6") up from the point. At the forte, it is engraved on each side in a kind of copperplate script with the opening verses of the Gospel according to St. John, in German: 'Am angang was das wort, wud das wort was bei Gott, und Gott was das Wort...…'.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Length: 81.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
18th Century
Circa
1720
CE
-
1740
CE
This very typical hunting hanger has an inscription of the first verses of St John’s Gospel, beginning on one side: Am anfang war das wort… (In the beginning was the word), and continuing on the other side: Es war in der welt… (he was in the world).
Hilt
composed of
gilt
Width 15 cm
Grip
composed of
wood (plant material)
Sword
composed of
steel
Cap
composed of
brass (alloy)
Tang Button
composed of
brass (alloy)
Blade
Length 66.5 cm
Width 3.7 cm
Quillons
Width 8.7 cm
Forte
Inscription present: the opening verses of St. John's Gospel
Accession number: HEN.M.283-1933
Primary reference Number: 19074
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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