Maker: Unknown
The steel blade of the knife (pichangatti) 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 and single incised lines, and inlaid copper alloy stripes on the broad tang, visible above and below the grip for half its length. The hilt has a pistol grip of copper 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 copper alloy throat, chape and 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 brass hook, and at the outside centre is a polyhedral knop with a short section of heavy twisted brass chain, joined 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).
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Blade Length: 18 cm
Overall Length: 29 cm
Weight: 294 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1879
CE
Compare Royal Armouries xxvid.46 and even closer, xxvid.???.ADD
Scabbard
composed of
wood
( with copper alloy throat)
Blade
composed of
steel
Accession number: O.202-1879
Primary reference Number: 160152
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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