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| inventarisnummer | WPN1320
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| collectie | Edged Weapons
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| museum | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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| datum | circa 1905
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| omschrijving | Chilean dress sword. The hilt has a gilt- solid half basket guard with raised bars. The oval-shape- which on a British sword would contain a crown and anchor badge- contains an anchor surmounted by a five-pointed star (or mullet); the folding flap on the reverse has a hole to engage stud on top locket of scabbard and there is a small up-turned quillion with disc terminal. The guard is pierced only at the bottom- near the pommel for a sword knot. There is an eagle's head pommel and back-piece- the neck feathers extending three fifths of the way up to ferrule at the top of the grip. The ferrule has two lines of beads seperated by a spray of laurel. The white fish-skin grip is bound with three gilt wires.
The blade is very slightly curved- flat-backed with a single- broad fuller running along each side from the 0.8 inch deep shoulder to within 8.5 inches of the point. Engraved for little more than half its length- it is probably of German manufacture. On the obverse is engraved within the Shield of David- a proof-mark bearing a Fleur de Lys and the word 'PROVED'; scrolls and foliage; bow view of a full-rigged sailing ship; trident and rammer in saltire; heavily enfoliated; foul anchor surmounted by a mullet; heavily enfoliated tropy of a drum- flag- gun- rammers- sword and military helmet. On the reverse are scrolls and foliage- bow view of sailing ship- the ball obscured by a spray of foliage; scrolls and foliage; foul anchor surmounted by a mullet; a foliated tropy of two guns (in saltire)- swords- a rammer and a guidon (or swallow-tailed pendant). The scabbard is missing.
The general appearance of this sword is very like that of a British naval officer's sword of the period of 1880 to about 1937. The attribution to Chile is based on the following considerations: 1. The mullet with 'ribs' connecting each point to the centre of the gap between the two opposite points- is the most important feature of the Arms- National Flag and Jack of Chile.
2. The bird on the pommel- although it resembles an eagle more than the Chilean condor- could be the Chilean Eagle even though it does not appear on the National Arms. This is a bird found in the Andes from Venezuela to the Straight of Magellan.
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| afmetingen | Overall: 749 x 25 mm
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