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Hanger
Production: Unknown
The entire hilt is in gilt-brass (?), gilt-bronze (?); some traces of the gilding remain. The hilt (grip and pommel in one) is formed, in Rococo style, of a small elegant hoof springing from a shell-and-sunburnt motif. Knuckle-guard and short rear quillon, which is turned inward against a downturned small pelta-shaped shell-guard, which has a deep rim decorated with acanthus. Blade curved and back-edged with a narrow fuller against the back starting 10.2 cm (4") below the hilt and ending at the sharpened portion of the back-edge. There is a broad and shallow fuller down the middle of the blade. At the forte it is nicely engraved with a standing warrior wearing a tall headdress like a Royal Artillery busby with a carbine slung slantwise across his back. Above his head is a kind of funerary-urn shaped frame enclosing the words V. PANDOUR (vivat Pandour). This is repeated on the reverse. Below the hilt is another lettered inscription, now too worn to decipher, in a longhand script.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Length: 67.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
18th Century
Circa
1750
CE
-
1770
CE
There are very many small hangers of this type and date bearing decorations, incorporating warrior figures, often mounted, and the words Vivat Pandour. This celebrates a gentlemanly unit, of light cavalry raised during the Seven Years' War, famed for its ferocity.
Sword
composed of
steel
Hilt
composed of
brass (alloy)
Width 13.4 cm
Blade
Length 53.6 cm
Width 3.2 cm
Decoration
Inscription present: on both sides
Accession number: HEN.M.289-1933
Primary reference Number: 19089
Old object number: PB 141
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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