Card/Transcription No.: 582d

582, D. SWORD-STICK
(See 619, B)

Sword-stick, the guard of which has been wrenched off.

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hand & haft - sheathed with sheet gold
18.5 cents 
bark decoration
wood with bark resembling cherry
silver ferrule
diam. 1.4
diam 1.8 cents
gold wire attachment passed through haft
total length 66.0 cents.

The shape of the guard (wrenched off) is unknown; there were
sufficient fragments adhering to the haft to suggest that it was
made of thick hide, strengthened with gold wire, and that it was
probably ornamented with the gold open-work guard piece 619, B.