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Backsword
Production: Unknown
Highland basket hilt of Glasgow form. Pommel formed as a truncated cone, with a very flat button and a deep collar like a shallower cone below. Grip of oval section, spirally grooved and covered in fishskin. A strand of twisted wire runs through the groove, finished at top and bottom with Turks' heads of brown wire. Back-edged blade with a shallow, narrow fuller inside the back-edge, with a very short matching one on the true edge, extending below the quardo. In the fuller on each side the engraved inscription 'X ANDRIA X FARARA X rather unevenly applied.
History note: Fenton ticket
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Length: 97.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
18th Century
Circa
1750
CE
-
1775
CE
Turks' Heads
composed of
wire
( brown)
Grip
composed of
fish skin
Sword
composed of
steel
Hilt
Length 17.7 cm
Blade
Length 82.4 cm
Blade At Hilt
Width 3.3 cm
Accession number: HEN.M.295-1933
Primary reference Number: 19120
Old object number: PB 111
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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