IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18655
accession number:	HEN.M.153-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Codpiece, for infantry use. Made from a single piece of metal of sub-cylindrical form that expands slightly to its domed front end and is flanged outwards at its rear.  The upper edge of the flange is pierced with a suspension-hole.  The lower edge of the flange curves backwards to a rounded point.
The codpiece is decorated medially with an etched band of arabesques on a blackened ground.
title:	codpiece

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Down 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/18655





TECHNIQUES
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made from a single piece of metal of sub-cylindrical form that expands slightly to its domed front end and is flanged outwards at its rear; hammered, shaped, riveted, with etched decoration on a blackened ground
hammered
TECHNIQUES
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formed

CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 8.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 23.8

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 0.55

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 10