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Sword: HEN.M.205-1933

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Production: Unknown

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Sword: 'Reitsehswerb'. Hilt of bright steel. Elongated oval pommel decorated with a horizontal band across its equator; diagonally grooved. Tang-button of fine form. Grip of oval section, riveted in the middle, bound with twisted iron/steel wire and finished with a steel collar top and bottom. Guards, of flat diamond section, rather broad, consist of forward and rear quillons, vertically recurved widening towards spear-shaped tips. Elaborated cusped ecusson; outside ring-guard which springs from the root of the forward quillon and crosses diagonally across the ecusson and ricasso, to meet the lower end of the rear side branch. From the lower end of the outside branch, a short peg-guard juts forward and curls slightly upward. The diagonal ring-guard widens at midpoint to an elongated diamond shape, nicked at the top and bottom with a small boss in the centre. There is a strongly marked and elegantly formed ecusson. Long, tapering blade of flat hexagonal section, with a stout ricasso rather longer than the depth of the branches, with a narrow fuller running through the middle of it to extend 27.9 cm (11") down the blade. There is a trace of a mark at the lower end of the fuller; and another on each side of the ricasso.

Notes

History note: Unknown before testator, 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex

Legal notes

J.S. Hendeson Bequest

Measurements and weight

Length: 120.6 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart

Dating

16th Century-17th Century#
Circa 1590 CE - 1620 CE

Components of the work

Grip composed of wire ( iron/steel)
Blade Length 101.7 cm
Hilt Length 21.6 cm
Quillons Width 15.0 cm
Blade At Hilt Width 2.7 cm
Decoration

Materials used in production

Steel

Techniques used in production

Casting (process) : Sword, cast with grooved decoration

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: P.B.106
  • Type: Tag

Identification numbers

Accession number: HEN.M.205-1933
Primary reference Number: 18899
Old object number: PB 106
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 18 September 2012 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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