IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18860
accession number:	HEN.M.193-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 19 April 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Sword. Fig-shaped pommel. No button. Long shaped grip of wood covered with thin leather. Long, arched quillons of circular section, narrowing toward the tips and ending in wider knobs en suite with the pommel. Large, D-shaped outer ring-guard; two short branches form the ends of each of which springs a counter-guard curving outward and then back to join the ring-guard. Back-guard of one bar. Back-edged blade of very flat triangular section.
The blade has no marks, and is in poor (though not excavated) condition. The hilt is effective but crudely made, much corroded. The (original) grip consists of a wooden core, bound with fine cord over which is a covering of thin leather. This leather covering once extended downwards over the ecusson to form a rain-guard over the top of the scabbard. Some traces of this rain-guard survive.
title:	sword

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Unknown before testator,  '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/18860





TECHNIQUES
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sword, cast
casting (process)

CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1530 - 1530
creation date earliest:	1530
creation date latest:	1530
culture:	16th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 125.5

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.27



CITATIONS
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Griffwaffen
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