Fakir's crutch
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Steel
Measurements
160 mm (Width); 610 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335159
Summary
Steel Fakir's crutch with hidden stiletto. Ribbed steel shaft with bulbous end. Square section at top from the side of which springs a curved, ribbed handle like a compressed crook. Shaft unscrews, via a coarse, left hand thread, to reveal a circular section, pointed, steel blade.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.