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{
    "localId": "95935",
    "label": "Officer's Plug Bayonette",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "95935",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Officer's Plug Bayonette",
    "description": "Used increasingly in warfare during the 1600s, the plug bayonet was inserted into the muzzle of a gun to make a weapon with a long shaft.  This eventually made the use of pikemen in warfare obsolete as the new musketeer could now continue after having run out of shots.",
    "date": "c.1690",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1659",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60756074"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms and Armor"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1659/1916.1659_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1659/1916.1659_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1659/1916.1659_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 46.6 cm (18 3/8 in.); Blade: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); Quillions: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); Grip: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, 17th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.1659"
}

{
    "tec": "steel serrated blade, brass, and wood",
    "tombstone": "Officer's Plug Bayonette, c.1690. England, 17th century. Steel serrated blade, brass, and wood; overall: 46.6 cm (18 3/8 in.); blade: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); quillions: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); grip: 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1659",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "didYouKnow": "The owner's or maker's mark on this blade is unidentified.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour</em>. Vol. 4, <em>17th to 19th century and a few pieces of iron work</em>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (255) 282",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour4/page/n482"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 228, I50",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n321"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
            "page_number": "p. 104; cat. no. 172, p. 171"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 183, p. 191"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1659",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:09:45.037000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1659/1916.1659_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 95935,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "med": "steel serrated blade, brass, and wood",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1659/1916.1659_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "65ffa26b2ec41498"
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