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Sword: O.178-1879

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

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

Legal notes

Given by Robert Taylor, MA

Measurements and weight

Blade Length: 44.6 cm
Overall Length: 57 cm
Weight: 645 g

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1800 - 1879

Note

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’.

Components of the work

Scabbard composed of wood
Hilt composed of brass (alloy)

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 178
  • Method of creation: Inscribed
  • Type: Tag

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: O.178-1879
Primary reference Number: 160106
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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