Maker: Unknown
Blade only. Straight steel blade with a curved edge narrowing into a socket section reinforced with stepped mouldings, pierced with a square hole for the haft, and a rectangular hammer head at the back with a domed face. The surface is polished bright pitted from earlier corrosion and has several cracks
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Length: 12.8 cm
Weight: 414 g
Width: 7.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1879
CE
This is comparable to an axe head from Bikanir with the usual inscription, private collection, London, unpublished, According to Taylor it belongs to a pistol, O.73-1879. Printed Taylor list Cambridge 1879: no 36.
Blade composed of steel
Accession number: O.128-1879
Primary reference Number: 159897
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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