{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O71768"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O71768/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MP9959/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MP9959/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2020MP9959","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O71768/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O71768","accessionNumber":"3252(IS)","objectType":"Sword and sheath","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[{"text":"forging (metal forming)","id":"AAT54033"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Arms & Armour","id":"THES48992"},{"text":"Islam","id":"THES48932"},{"text":"India Museum","id":"THES286062"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2020MP9959"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES390063"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES390063"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Sheath","id":""}],[{"text":"swords","id":"AAT37048"}],[{"text":"Shamshir","id":"x38677"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Lahore","id":"x30874"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"before 1873","earliest":null,"latest":"1872-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":" ","type":"","note":""},{"content":" ","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Watered steel blade (shamshir) with a chiselled fuller, two cartouches, one calligraphic, the other a royal lion. Sheath for shamshir, black embossed Moroccan leather sheath with steel mounts. Lahore, C19, Arms and armour","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lord Egerton of Tatton, Indian and Oriental Armour, London, 1896, p. 132, Cat. No. 655 or 656"},{"reference":{"text":"Egerton, Wilbraham, <i>An illustrated handbook of Indian arms; being a classified and descriptive catalogue of the arms exhibited at the India museum: with an introductory sketch of the military history of India</i>, London, 1880","id":"AUTH353483"},"details":"p.132","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["3252:2/(IS)","3252:1/(IS)"],"accessionNumberNum":"3252","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":null,"otherNumbers":[{"type":{"text":"Egerton catalogue Number","id":"THES50387"},"number":"655 or 656"},{"type":{"text":"India Museum Slip Book","id":"THES50388"},"number":"11,910"},{"type":{"text":"Incorrect number","id":"THES54053"},"number":"M.87-1949"}],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Sheath","Sword"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-09-16","recordCreationDate":"2002-12-10","availableToBook":true}}