IDENTIFIERS
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id:	18911
accession number:	HEN.M.208-1933

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Long sword. (Reitchwert). Very large spherical pommel; long grip spirally grooved and bound with fine wire horizontally with a thicker twisted wire following the grooves. Long quillons of circular section horizontally recurved and knobbed at the tips. Cusped ecusson. There are two ring-guards on the outside, of circular section swelling at midpoint; two branches and back-guards of three bars, with thumb-ring. Long slender blade of flat horizontal section with a stout ricasso and a short strong fuller at the forte. On each side of the fuller, in the ricasso, is a twig mark.
title:	sword

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably from Schloss Ambras


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/18911





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1575 - 1600
creation date earliest:	1575
creation date latest:	1600
culture:	16th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 132.1

dimension: Weight
units: kg
value: 1.25



CITATIONS
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European Swords and Daggers in the Tower of London
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