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Rapier. Large urn-shaped pommel with button, the upper part chiselled with leaves, the lower with spiralling ridges. Grip of very fine wire, woven in basket-fashion with Turks' heads at top and bottom. Narrow, angular knuckle-guard, with a knob below the midpoint from beneath which spring single loop-guards, one on each side of the hilt, joining the upper edges of a double shell-guard; each loop-guard ends, where it touches the edges of the shells, in a strong upward scroll. Each of these loop-guards has a triple knob at its midpoint. Short quillons (the rear one missing) with a very large rectangular quillon-block, and knobbed ends. The surviving one (on the front of the hilt) turns sharply upward to meet the lower curve of the knuckle-guard. Shallow arms, supporting the double shell, turned outward in the spaces where the edges of the two shells meet. These shells, chiselled with a pattern of overlapping scales pierced with small holes have rims fashioned in the same manner as the loop-guards. Inside the hilt, the ricasso is covered by a rectangular iron sleeve, chiselled with a kind of double and motif.
Narrow blade, of diamond section, the faces hollowed out.
Norman hilt type 96 (variant).
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Length: 104.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century#
Circa
1640
CE
-
1670
CE
There is a band of quite heavy corrosion along the blade about 1/3 of the way below thehilt, and the grip's wooden core has entirely perished, leaving the copper wire binding like an empty husk.
Grip Core
composed of
wood (plant material)
( almost perished)
Grip Binding
composed of
copper
( wire)
Ricasso Sleeve
composed of
iron (metal)
Hilt
Length 17.0 cm
Blade
Length 86.3 cm
Decoration
Sword
Accession number: HEN.M.243-1933
Primary reference Number: 18988
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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