Maker: Unknown
With two steel blades each of flattened octagonal. The steel hilt is formed of a loop, with a U-shaped langet at either end joined to each blade with two rivets, a narrow grip curved for the hand with a central moulding, and a broad guard round the outside with scalloped outer edges and an applied copper alloy central plate decorated with punched circles. At the rear is a riveted decorative finial. The whole polished bright with pitting from its earlier corrosion on the hilt
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 14.5 cm
Overall Length: 25 cm
Weight: 144 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
18th Century
Circa
1700
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1800
Taylor records this as a ‘keraoli’, a term otherwise unknown, and in Cambridge 1879: no. 138 expands ‘formerly much affected by Benares Brahmins’.
Blade composed of steel
Inscription present: adhesive
Accession number: O.164-1879
Primary reference Number: 159948
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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