- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Iron sword with double-edged grooved blade, ring guard, loop guard (broken), S-shaped quillons and round pommel with incised shell design. A fringed leather strap is looped around the hilt plate. [LM 24/10/2007]
- Cultural groups
- French
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1939?, uncertain
- Date collected
- ?By 1939
- Acquisition information
- Donated: Donated, uncertain Found unentered: 1945
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Forged (Metal), Process Grooved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 880 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1945.11.98
1945.11.98
Iron sword with double-edged grooved blade, ring guard, loop guard (broken), S-shaped quillons and round pommel with incised shell design. A fringed leather strap is looped around the hilt plate. [LM 24/10/2007]
1945.11.98
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