IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158379
accession number:	O.69-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 1 October 2012

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The steel blade is probably European, curved and single edged for most of its length, with a flat back and a single broad fuller near the back. The iron hilt is of Indo-Muslim type, with short quillons with rounded terminals, long langets with stylised bud finials, a rounded baluster grip, a thick, shallow dish pommel with a petalled washer, dome and finial. The whole hilt is covered with floral scrolls in silver koftgari. The blade has numerous spots of staining and corrosion under the grease, and much of the koftgari has been rubbed off the hilt
title:	sword

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
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158379





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1840
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1840
culture:	19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Blade Length
units: cm
value: 73.5

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 84.5

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 885



CITATIONS
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List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879
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