IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 159939 accession number: O.160-1879 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 May 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The steel blade is single-edged, flat at the back with a dip towards the point and widening slightly to the point. It is decorated at the back with a series of punched crescents and an incised line. It has a short ricasso and a small, facetted block decorated at the back with Xs in double incised lines, and inlaid silver stripes on the broad tang, visible above and below the grip for half its length. The hilt has a pistol grip of silver alloy, attached with three silver rivets along the grip and another, with large ornate washers, at the pommel. The tang button has a similar but smaller washer. The scabbard is of wood, with silver alloy throat and chape, and copper alloy bands down front and rear joints and round the middle. At the end is an onion-shaped finial filed into lobes. There are applied bands punched with rows of fine dots, at the top of the chape and three on the throat. At the top front of the throat is a silver hook, and at the outside centre is a polyhedral knop with a short section of heavy twisted silver chain, joined by a silver bell with pendant corals on silver chains, to two longer sections of finer chain with a half moon at the end with a set of five implements (tweezers, a spike, an iron file and two spatulate ear-wax removers). The blade is deeply pitted at the point, the copper alloy bands on the scabbard oxidising title: knife LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Robert Taylor creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/159939 CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1879 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1879 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Blade Length units: cm value: 18.2 dimension: Overall Length units: cm value: 29.8 dimension: Weight units: g value: 346 CITATIONS -------- List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879 ---