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Production: Unknown (Uncertain)
Rapier. Flat shield-shaped pommel, with a very prominent barrel-shaped button. Knuckle-guard, loop-guard, three outside ring-guards, and very long straight quillons, all of circular section. Back-guards of three elements. The forward quillon is badly bent. The quillons and knuckle-guards widen at the tips and the ring-guards swell at midpoint. Strong shield-shaped ecusson. The entire hilt is decorated with vaguely scrolling, floriate patterns rather roughly incised, in the style and manner of the Swedish so-called 'Sinclair' sword-hilts. Rather long grip of oval section bound with steel wire of alternating double strands of fine plain wire and thicker twisted wire. Long blade of flat hexagonal section (much worn) with a stout ricasso, and short fullers on each side edged with incised lines. Illegible marks, an ecusson engraved with a crown. The crowns are visible, but no trace remains of what was once within the ecussons. In the fullers the name PIETRO HERNANDES.
Norman type.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Length: 121.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century#
Circa
1625
CE
-
1640
CE
Sword
composed of
steel
Blade
Length 104.3 cm
Hilt
Length 23.4 cm
Blade At Hilt
Width 2.2 cm
Quillons
Width 27.5 cm
Decoration
Accession number: HEN.M.220-1933
Primary reference Number: 18950
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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