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Dress Sword

ca. 1790 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cut steel hilt set with Wedgwood plaques

Object details

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Object type
Brief description
Dress sword, English, late 18th
Physical description
Cut steel hilt set with Wedgwood plaques
Dimensions
  • Hilt length: 16.9cm
  • Blade length: 83.1cm
  • Guard width: 10.0cm
  • Guard depth: 8.0cm
  • Whole length: 99.8cm
  • Grip length: 8.4cm
Bibliographic references
  • Hayward, J.F. Swords and Daggers, HMSO, London, 1963, cat. 34a
  • Stemp, Sinty, "Ornamental or Useful: A Cut Steel Chatelaine by Boulton and Wedgwood", The Journal of the Antique Metalware Society, Vol. 17, June 2009, ISSN. 1359124X, p. 12, ill.
Collection
Accession number
1735-1888

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Record createdNovember 4, 2002
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