IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158309
accession number:	O.4-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: This fragment comprises the wooden stock and short fore-end of a toradar. The butt is five-sided, pierced with a hole for the match with a lobed washer at either side, fitted with a lock with a fretted trigger and simple sprung linkage to the serpentine. The lock pivots have small lobed washers, and more of these retain long fretted iron sock reinforces, now bent and partially detached. Near the front of the fore-end is a sling swivel, and on the outside a faceted finial and loop for the missing vent pricker chain. The bone breech cap is missing, the butt cracked and chipped, the whole in a gloomy state of disrepair.
title:	matchlock musket

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation: Elgood 2004)


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Robert Taylor
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158309





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century?#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 72

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 740



CITATIONS
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Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865
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