- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Heavy sword-axe, with short, single-edged curved blade hafted on an iron rod. Indo-Muslim hilt with knucklebow and saucer pommel. [LM 19/11/2007]
- Geographical reference
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1850?, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1850 ?
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1969
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal, Material Steel Metal, Process Forged (Metal)
- Dimensions
- Length: max 745 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1969.29.43
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