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1884.24.82

?Sapper's sword with broad, straight, square-topped blade with saw edge on one side. Cast brass cruciform hilt. [LM 30/10/2007]

1884.24.82

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Collection type
Object
Description
?Sapper's sword with broad, straight, square-topped blade with saw edge on one side. Cast brass cruciform hilt. [LM 30/10/2007]
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1853
Date collected
[1853-56] Prior to 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Steel Metal, Material Brass Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Cast
Dimensions
Length: max 850 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.24.82
Research and responses

Possibly collected by Pitt Rivers during his service in the Crimea War [1853-56] in 1854. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Search terms: Weapon, Tool, Sword, Saw

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