Maker: Unknown
Sword with ‘fakir’s crutch’ hilt (zufur-tukia) and scabbard. The blade is single edged and curved with a short, blunt false edge at the point, with two fullers at the back. It appears to be a cut-down British sabre blade. The hilt is of heavy cast brass in the form of a fakir’s crutch, with short quillons with squashed cylindrical terminals decorated with flowers, broad seating processes, and asymmetrical arms on the pommel, all decorated with incised and punched floral and dotted ornament. The scabbard is of wood covered with brown velvet, with a band of tape covering the seam at the inside, a brass chape and band at the throat with a suspension loop
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 44.6 cm
Overall Length: 57 cm
Weight: 645 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
19th Century
Circa
1800
-
1879
Taylor no. 176, ‘zufur-tukia, crutch sword’. Compare the form of Egerton 1880: 115, no. 470, pl. x, which he calls a khundli p’hansi, or Bhairagi crutch, from Kolapore, and more closely Egerton 1880: 110 no. 405, fig. 24, ‘taken at Lucknow’.
Scabbard
composed of
wood
Hilt
composed of
brass (alloy)
Accession number: O.178-1879
Primary reference Number: 160106
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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