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Production: Unknown
Sword. Hilt of bright steel. Large conical pommel, without a tang-button, circular in plan with an elegant neck below the base. The front and back are each decorated with a triangular patch of chiselling, of vague floriate design. Grip (in original condition) of oval section, strongly shouldered about 2.5 cm from the top, where it meets the neck of the pommel, covered in fishskin, with leather on the upper part. The guards, all of well-shaped hexagonal section consist of quillons and branches. The long forward and rear quillons are horizontally recurved and widen to a slight balbosity at the tips. The branches support a large upper ring-guard forward of the ecusson, and a smaller one joining the lower elements. The upper ring-guard supports a thumb-ring set at right angles to the plane of the blade. The blade is long and very slightly tapering, of flat hexagonal section, decorated for 24.1 cm (9 ½") below the ricasso with a waved pattern. The strong ricasso is stamped with a maker's mark on one side. Below it, the centre of the blade is decorated with engraved straight lines along each 'edge' of the flat piece against the chamfer towards each edge of the blade; between these lines, a long zigzag line.
History note: Unknown before testator, 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex
J.S. Hendeson Bequest
Length: 126.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century, Mid#
Circa
1540
CE
-
1550
CE
Grip
composed of
fish skin
leather
Blade
Length 106.7 cm
Width 4.2 cm
Hilt
Length 25.4 cm
Quillons
Width 25.4 cm
Decoration
Casting (process) : Sword, cast, with chiselled and engraved decoration
Accession number: HEN.M.204-1933
Primary reference Number: 18897
Old object number: PB 104
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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