IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18547
accession number:	HEN.M.97-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 11 August 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Zischägge, for light cavalry use. Formed of a skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw, a broad neck-defence of three upward-overlapping lames and a pair of narrow pendant cheek-pieces each of three lames.  The one-piece skull is boxed in six vertical panels, decorated around its base with a broad recessed border and fitted at its apex with a  pierced finial retaining a large, circular washer.  The main edges of the peak and the neck-defence have plain inward turns, except at their centres where their acute points have been truncated and decorated with large V-shaped nicks.  The separate peak is attached to the brow of the skull by round-headed rivets.  The peak is crudely pierced at its point with a later suspension-hole.  The centre of the last lame of the neck-defence is decorated with a circular pattern of round-headed rivets.  The cheek-pieces and the nasal-bar are modern restorations.  The neck-defence is fitted with a leather lining.
title:	Zischägge

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of  'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J.S. Henderson
creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18547





TECHNIQUES
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formed of a skull, a broad flat peak, a sliding nasal-bar with a retaining staple and wing-headed locking-screw, a broad neck-defence of three upward-overlapping lames and a pair of narrow pendant cheek-pieces each of three lames; hammered, shaped, riveted, with a recessed border and decorated with V-shaped nicks
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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patinating
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1650 - 1650
creation date earliest:	1650
creation date latest:	1650
culture:	17th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 30.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 28.5

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.9

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 37.0