IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18923 accession number: HEN.M.210-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 19 April 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Mushroom-shaped pommel, with some diagonally depressed vertical depressions, the spaces between the depressions bubbled. Large well-formed tang button. Guard of late landsbracelet type incorporating an S-shaped insert. The ends of the guards are formed in small knobs. Knuckle-guard terminates in a larger knob, to match those on the ends of the quillons, which are slightly inched towards the blade. A forward side-ring encloses very carefully forged scrolls. One is a small single branch on the outside, linked to its extremity with a single back guard. Grip of wood, of oval section, bound with cord and covered with thin leather. This appears to be original. The whole hilt is blackened, which again may be the original colours. Very long back-edged blade with a long ricasso. There is a fuller narrow and shallow, running just over 1/3 of the length of the blade. The blade bears some engraved markings in its upper half, long lines and oval shaped features, on each side. On one side a wolf-mask inlaid in copper, with the letters A N N. On the reverse, no letters but the figures widely spaced 1 5 9 1. There is a similar record in a Swiss private collection. title: sword NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before testator, Abbotsford, Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18923 SUBJECTS ------------------- wolf wolf CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1591 - 1591 creation date earliest: 1591 creation date latest: 1591 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 117.5 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.31