IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18978 accession number: HEN.M.239-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 11 January 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Rapier. Large handsome pommel, circular in plan, in the form of three superimposed 'cushions', the middle one being considerably wider than the others. There is a well-formed, collared tang-button and an elegant neck at the underneath, where the pommel meets the grip, which is of plain and (rather thicker) twisted steel wire, with Turks' heads at top and bottom. Very plain knuckle-guards of circular section, widening at the top with a trumpet-shape. It swells to a transverse ridge at midpoint and joins straight quillons of the same section. There are forged in one piece with the knuckle-guard and a plain hemispherical cup-guard. They have no widening terminals, and appear to have been cut off short. These are neither branches nor garda polvo. Decoration consists of oval panels engraved on the outside of the cup, radiating like petals from the hole where the blade enters, and there are vaguely formed floral shapes pierced à jour at the rim. The upper end of the knuckle-guard and the pommel are engraved with a few meandering and meaningless curved lines. Blade of flat oval section, strongly and decorated at the forte with an engraved wavy line. There is a strong, hollowed ricasso. title: rapier 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/18978 CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1680 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1680 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 105.4 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_239_1933_281_29.jpg height: 467 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/mid_HEN_M_239_1933_281_29.jpg height: 307 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/HEN_M_239_1933_281_29.jpg height: 467 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa25/preview_HEN_M_239_1933_281_29.jpg height: 154 pixels width: 250 pixels 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